Dan Cathy, the bird-brain

"I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage...We are very much supportive of the family—the biblical definition of the family unit" -Dan Cathy

Dan Cathy is either dumb, lying or he doesn't read his Bible as much as he claims to.

If I could ask Mr. Cathy or any of the people, who will spend August 1st scarfing down nuggets and sandwiches to prove a point, one thing it would be this. Which biblical defininition of marriage do you support?

I'll give you some choices below:

Polygynous Marriage
Probably the most common form of marriage in the bible, it is where a man has more than one wife.

Levirate Marriage
When a woman was widowed without a son, it became the responsibility of the brother-in-law or a close male relative to take her in and impregnate her. If the resulting child was a son, he would be considered the heir of her late husband. See Ruth, and the story of Onan (Gen. 38:6-10).

A man, a woman and her property — a female slave
The famous “handmaiden” sketch, as preformed by Abraham (Gen. 16:1-6) and Jacob (Gen. 30:4-5).

A man, one or more wives, and some concubines
The definition of a concubine varies from culture to culture, but they tended to be live-in mistresses. Concubines were tied to their “husband,” but had a lower status than a wife. Their children were not usually heirs, so they were safe outlets for sex without risking the line of succession. To see how badly a concubine could be treated, see the famous story of the Levite and his concubine (Judges 19:1-30).

A male soldier and a female prisoner of war
Women could be taken as booty from a successful campaign and forced to become wives or concubines. Deuteronomy 21:11-14 describes the process.

A male rapist and his victim
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 describes how an unmarried woman who had been raped must marry her attacker.

A male and female slave
A female slave could be married to a male slave without consent, presumably to produce more slaves.

Monogamous, heterosexual marriage
What you might think of as the standard form of marriage, provided you think of arranged marriages as the standard. Also remember that inter-faith or cross-ethnic marriage were forbidden for large chunks of biblical history.

Now, I won't eat Chick-fil-a ever again. That's my prerogative just as much as it is yours to continue to go. I just cannot see spending money to support a place where there might be any small inkling of a chance that my dollars might go to spread hate and fear of something that should be neither hated or feared.

Truth is, the God and Jesus I have come to know, probably would feel the same way.

The only people who Jesus railed against were the self-righteous and the hypocritical. Dan Cathy probably falls into that category somewhere. He obviously doesn't know much about the bible, or its definition of marriage.

But poll after poll shows that with each passing day the number of Americans who support marriage equality grows. And just a few months ago a poll confirmed that more Americans now support marriage equality than oppose it.

In a few scant years -- if it even takes that long -- history will judge those who sought to deny basic civil rights to people who are gay just as harshly as it does those who sought to deny basic civil rights to members of other minority groups in the past.

Hate like that leaves a nasty aftertaste that can last for decades.

When it comes to businesses sticking their neck out across the proverbial chopping block to join the fray of political discussion all the while ignoring the actual words of the book they love to thump....well, Dan Cathy and Chick-fil-a rule the roost.

Mitt Romney: Open for bids, not a candidacy

Willard Mitt Romney doesn't care about the Presidency. He just wants it.

If he weren't running, he'd probably be just another guy who couldn't tell you who his Senator or Congressman was. Mitt cares about three things: his faith, his family and his business. Right now, his business is running for President and that is the sole reason why he's interested.

It's his business to be interested.

It's painful to watch Romney in interview after interview where he's served up softball questions that his handlers have gone over with him time after time. Through all of that coaching, Romney finds a way to uncomfortably botch the answer or he just seems stunned. Why? The questions don't fit his interests. He doesn’t think about much outside of his zone of interests: his faith, his family and his business. And that’s the most dangerous thing about a Mitt Romney Presidency:

Since he doesn't have a foreign policy he sings the song of his neo-conservative chorus of advisors. What those advisors are, of course, are the same people who advocated the point of view in the Bush administration; a blood thirsty need for a new war with each Republican President. They need a President who speaks their language. So they write his speeches. They want a war with Iran? Simple, put it in the next speech.

We've had experience not too long ago with a President who had an empty head on foreign policy. Dubbya bought the pitch of the neo-con warmongers hook, line and sinker. The result was the one war in this country's history that truly deserves a dunce cap.

Romney won't say a word about taxes or spending that the Republican puppeteer Grover Norquist won't approve. Grover says "jump", Mitt says "how high?”

The same goes for the almighty "religious right", Romney won't utter a word that Pat Robertson and Franklin Graham haven't stamped their approval on for their political prayer book. Sometime in May I watched highlights of Mitt Romney getting an honorary degree from Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. It was probably a Doctorate of Pandering.

It should be clear to any voter paying attention that Mitt Romney is open for bids. He's sold his soul to every right wing faction that exists: the neo-cons on foreign policy, the religious right on social issues and Grover on taxes.

Why have a brain if you don't need to think for yourself?

With this cast of characters around him his only job is to do what he's told. To be bent like a pretzel into whatever political position the right wing wants him in. Watch Mitt Romney next time. His every response and every word is pitch perfect right wing talking points. He spouts the exact words the pressure groups are telling him to say.

Mitt Romney is only a candidate for president because it's his business to do so. It's been his business since his father lost his bid for the White House. Now that he's finally gotten the chance to defend the loss, he's not even a candidate. He's a speaker system.