Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 27, 2012

After the president of the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain expressed opposition to the peculiar social artifact called ?same-sex marriage,? homosexual pressure groups announced their intention to boycott the business. Withholding business is a form of political activism compatible with property rights and the non-aggression principle.  Attacking the property rights of someone with whom you disagree is not.

Chicago Alderman Proco Moreno, who was born in the wrong time zone to be a Communist Chinese functionary, has announced that he would use zoning ordinances to block Chick-fil-A?s plans to establish a second store in the city. That action has the approval of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who has displayed greater tolerance for urban street gangs than he has for Christian business owners.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino made a similar announcement. He reversed his decision, however, after it dawned on him that in the current economy gestures of this kind might be the equivalent of political suicide.

Left--leaning pundit Adam Serwer of Mother Jones magazine notes that ?The government blocking a business from opening based on the owner's political views is a clear threat to everyone's freedom of speech?.? Serwer neglected to mention that it is also lethal to the very concept of property rights.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.