A few interesting articles form the Sep 21st issue of National Review, might be a little dated but whatever...
The Denver City Council is delaying the opening of a Chick-fil-A at the city's international airport--on the grounds that the political views of the chain's owner, Dan Cathy, are undesirable. Cathy, who is a committed Christian, remains opposed to same-sex marriage, and has in the past donated to organizations committed to that view. A majority of the council disagrees with this position, and has in consequence elected to throw a roadblock before the seven-year deal. Typically, approval of the airport concessions is routine, even pro forma. Not in this case. "We can do better than this brand in Denver at our airport, in my estimation," one member of the board supposed. Another councilman, Paul Lopez, described the issue as a "moral one". We can only hope that the city's leadership reacquaints itself with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, lest the contretemps become a legal matter too.
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... Flanagan was unbalanced: A self-hating gay man who had been canned from a string of TV jobs because of his volatile temper, and who thought Jehovah told him to murder. But he was also a black racist, who specialized in false claims of workplace discrimination(e.g., saying that a reporter was "in the field" was an allusion to "cotton fields") He also claimed that the Charleston church killings pushed him over the top. Criminals are responsible for their own actions, and the actions of the mad are often over-determined. Society, however, should strive not to provide them with extra rationales for mayhem.
