Left totalitarianism will not brook any dissent …
Chick-fil-A’s reputation as an opponent of same-sex marriage has imperiled the fast-food chain’s potential return to Denver International Airport, with several City Council members this week passionately questioning a proposed concession agreement.
Councilman Paul Lopez called opposition to the chain at DIA “really, truly a moral issue on the city.”
His position comes despite ardent assurances from the concessionaires — who have operated other DIA restaurants — that strict nondiscrimination policies will include protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Robin Kniech, the council’s first openly gay member, said she was most worried about a local franchise generating “corporate profits used to fund and fuel discrimination.” She was first to raise Chick-fil-A leaders’ politics during a Tuesday committee hearing.
The normally routine process of approving an airport concession deal has taken a rare political turn. The Business Development Committee on Tuesday stalled the seven-year deal with a new franchisee of the popular chain for two weeks.
It doesn’t matter that Chick-fil-a has never engaged in any discrimination – in hiring, in customer service — NOTHING
Its founders expressed the opinion that natural marriage should not be radically redefined. THOUGHTCRIME!!
[L]egal scholars often have come to the company’s defense, raising company leaders’ First Amendment rights.
The Left is working on that icky First Amendment thing …
As practical matter, city councils should not be running the airport. An independent airport board should be running things.
Just like Obama’s “joke” about an Indiana pizza parlor denying service to gay customers (which is, at best, a *gross* distortion of highly politicized events), it’s *never* about what happened, it’s always about what they can use to get more power.
Thus, selected not elected, no WMDs, mission accomplished, oil money denying science, Koch money (only, not Steyer or Soros or Slim money), keep your doctor, scandal-free, ad nauseam.
In a fundamentally honest society, shameless liars do have an advantage, sadly, especially in large groups.
More like having the airport independently – and privately – owned.
lotta that going around these days.
Good point, eCurmudgeon.
Many states set up ‘Independent’ Authorities for their airports and they’ve all become (1) like another branch of state government and (2) the landing strip for Hacks, issuing bond after bond without displaying any concern for the Taxpayer.
Robert Moses stirs uneasily in his grave.
**** During the Depression, Moses, along with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, was responsible for the construction of ten gigantic swimming pools under the WPA Program. Combined, they could accommodate 66,000 swimmers. ****
Heh.
yes, agree eCurmudgeon.
Denver seems to have an private company running the airport but, they let the city council dictate a lot of the policy on vendors and tenants and the mayor pick the CEO.
If they want city oversight that’s fine, it is just it should be people elected to specifically put the operation of the airport first, not the usually bunch of city SJWs.
Gotta leave the door open for patronage, bgbear. No point in running for mayor if you can’t help your friends make a little scratch and maybe get some kickback for yourself, you know.