Opinion

Emanuel: punishment for your thoughts?

Posted August 03, 2012 4:21 am

The most disturbing aspect of the Chick-fil-a/gay marriage controversy has nothing to do with either Chick-fil-a or gay marriage. The most disturbing aspect is that a mayor of a major American city (there are actually two others besides Rahm Emanuel) would think it appropriate to punish someone for their thoughts.

This is extremely dangerous, un-American, and Stalinistic. The constitution guarantees the right to free speech, and therefore free thought. To my knowledge, no one is accusing Chick-fil-a of discrimination in service or employment.

So it starts with your thoughts on gay marriage, then what? Do you have to have the proper view of tax policy, imigration, public employee pensions and who decides? What if Richard Nixon came back from the dead, became mayor of Chicago and he decided what the people of Chicago should think?

Our country should be a place where someone’s comments on an issue stirs debate not government sanction, and a place where politicians who suggest government sanction for ones thoughts are swiftly voted out of office.

Mark Bodett

Wheaton

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