Remember how liberals pounced on Chick-Fil-A’s owner/president for saying more or less what Barack Obama said in his 2008 campaign for president? That marriage was between a man and a woman?
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel declared “Chick-Fil-A’s values are not Chicago values.” Boston Mayor Thomas Menino vowed to block the chain from coming to Beantown. Gotham’s then-City Council speaker, Christine Quinn, demanded Chick-Fil-A’s one New York store be sent packing.
Well, this week Chick-Fil-A values were back in the news. When the deep South was paralyzed by snow that stranded motorists for hours and forced others to abandon cars, Chick-Fil-A moved in.
In Birmingham, Ala., a Chick-Fil-A store began cooking hundreds of chicken sandwiches and handing them out for free to stranded motorists along the highway. Anyone who needed a warm place to sleep was invited to do so at Chick-Fil-A for as long as needed. The next morning, workers prepared fresh chicken biscuits — which, again, they distributed free.
Why would Chick-Fil-A not capitalize on being the only locally available food source and turn a quick profit? Because, says store manager Audrey Pitt, “this company is based on taking care of people and loving people before you’re worried about money or profit.” Indeed, company CEO Dan Cathy makes no bones about running a family-owned business based “on values rooted in the Bible.”
No, we sure wouldn’t want to have companies with values like those Chick-Fil-A demonstrated in Birmingham opening in our neighborhoods, would we?