A so-called “journalist” with the Houston Chronicle argued Tuesday on social media that it’s conservatives, not anti-Christian liberal bigots, who’ve turned Chick-fil-A into a political issue.
“Journalist” Erica Grieder’s bizarre and factually incorrect arguments were posited shortly after the Texas House finally passed the “Save Chick-fil-A” bill, a piece of legislation designed to protect private businesses from being punished by local officials for their religious or moral beliefs.
After news of the bill’s passage began spreading on social media, a random Twitter user from San Francisco posted a comment about how he or she has never been pestered about his or her religious beliefs or “sins” while eating at the uber-popular restaurant chain.
Grieder responded to this post by writing, “Seriously, though: @ChickfilA really isn’t political, it seems that way of course but that’s bc Republicans keep white-knighting them #txlege.”
Look:
Seriously, though: @ChickfilA really isn’t political, it seems that way of course but that’s bc Republicans keep white-knighting them #txlege https://t.co/Mom0lPTYOj
— EricaGrieder (@EricaGrieder) May 21, 2019
This prompted annoyance from Christian conservatives. Why? Because as they dutifully pointed out to the “journalist,” liberal Democrats have been actively campaigning against Chick-fil-A nonstop ever since CEO Dan Cathy revealed in 2012 that he supports traditional marriage.
Just two months ago local officials in San Antonio banned the restaurant chain from the San Antonio International Airport over its allegedly “anti-LGBTQ behavior.”
This “anti-LGBTQ behavior” included donating $1.8 million in 2017 to three charitable Christian ministries that abide by the Christian beliefs outlined in the Bible. That Christian organizations would abide by Christian beliefs is unfathomable to the left for reasons that remain unclear.
Look at some of the clapback Grieder received below, and take note of how she tried to rebut it:
Have you heard of San Antonio?
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) May 21, 2019
I’m from San Antonio, Tim. Do you have a question about it?
— EricaGrieder (@EricaGrieder) May 21, 2019
Did conservatives make Chick FilA an issue there? Or maybe it was the intolerant liberals in government?
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) May 21, 2019
Conservatives made @ChickfilA an issue *everywhere*. Are Republicans objecting to my point here incapable of observing that its owners have a different approach to the political fray than the owners of @HobbyLobby, or are they just annoyed that I’m pointing that out? https://t.co/WRkfDKMDx3
— EricaGrieder (@EricaGrieder) May 21, 2019
It’s as if she lives in an alternate reality — one teeming with alternative facts. The facts show that it’s Democrats who’ve made Chick-fil-A an issue literally “everywhere.”
Last month the New Yorker ran a lengthy piece complaining about the chain’s “creepy infiltration” of New York City. To be clear, there are only four of the restaurant in the city …
Was it a conservative who made the left-wing magazine complain about the restaurant showing up in NYC? Nope. Was it a conservative who made NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio call for a Chick-fil-A boycott in 2016? Nope. Was it a conservative who made officials in New York scrap plans to construct a a Chick-fil-A at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport? Nope.
Was it a conservative who vandalized a Maryland-based Chick-fil-A with anti-Christian spray paint last year? Nope. Was it a conservative who harassed a cashier at a a Chick-fil-A in Tucson, Arizona, way back in 2012? Nope.
As noted by Grieder’s critics, all conservatives have done is, one, eat Chick-fil-A’s delicious food, and two, push back against the left’s repeated, relentless attempts to destroy the restaurant chain over its owner’s proud Christian beliefs.
NARRATOR: Actually, conservatives just went to Chick Fil A like they always did. https://t.co/pjFqY1kSNo
— RBe (@RBPundit) May 21, 2019
So conservatives rallying to defend CFA from getting banned from universities and airports just sprang up out of nowhere? https://t.co/uUtmjcZFLZ
— Josh (@ncpack2010) May 21, 2019
That’s not a thing that’s true. We were content just eating delicious chicken.
Then the Left started calling for boycotts (which is your right; but it was the start of politicization).
Then the Left started unconstitutional bans.
THEN Conservatives took up the political torch. https://t.co/egJhj1V5Yf
— Eric Spencer (@JustEric) May 21, 2019
Can you give me an example of conservatives making @ChickfilA an issue?
— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) May 21, 2019
Yet the “Houston Chronicle” journalist chose to double, triple and quadruple down.
First she argued that the Texas House’s legislation is proof that Republicans made Chick-fil-A an issue (WRONG). Then she tried to cite a Bible verse (FAIL). Then she blamed Dan Cathy for her side’s anti-Christian zealotry (WRONG). It just continued on and on and on.
She even claimed that she herself is a Christian.
Look, and be prepared to facepalm repeatedly:
Can you give me an example of conservatives making @ChickfilA an issue?
— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) May 21, 2019
Who wants to explain to him that he’s literally taking umbrage at a tweet inspired by the passage of what Republicans in #txlege have repeatedly described as a #SaveChickFilA bill https://t.co/LTwNXvz1i5
— EricaGrieder (@EricaGrieder) May 21, 2019
so let me get this straight: San Antonio Dems ban ChickFilA, then Texas GOP protects ChickFilA, then liberal reporter blames GOP for politicizing ChickFilA. and then liberals wonder why the media has no credibility. https://t.co/F5pPGaxdDw
— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) May 21, 2019
Let me spell this out for @conncarroll, although he’s free to continue casting aspersions against me while proclaiming himself to be righteous: Christians are saved by the blood of the Lamb, not, ie, the tender ministrations of the Texas Legislature https://t.co/BeC89NeBVy
— EricaGrieder (@EricaGrieder) May 21, 2019
This isn’t even remotely true. Cathy’s statement came out and liberals boycotted. Remember the man who got fired for harassing a CFA worker. Then liberal cities started deciding CFA didn’t belong in their cities. https://t.co/uHRZsnA4TU
— GOP Pouncer (@Mellecon) May 21, 2019
Right, but by 2014 Cathy had made it clear that he regretted having made those comments (in 2012) because he wasn’t trying to impose his beliefs on everyone else and had caused the company to be embroiled in a political debate: https://t.co/kFFSPBbpIN https://t.co/ZzCAjQAJIj
— EricaGrieder (@EricaGrieder) May 21, 2019
Yes it’s Republicans fault that Democrats keep banning them from airports and college campuses.
— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) May 21, 2019
Honestly I hear this sort of backwards line in the culture wars all the time. It’s Orwellian. “Why are Republicans making contraception an issue” when Obama forces nuns to cover it.
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) May 21, 2019
Have you heard this sort of line from me all the time, Tim, or are you hearing me make a specific point about a specific business owned by an individual whose actions I’m explicitly differentiating from those of other individuals in a comparable position?
— EricaGrieder (@EricaGrieder) May 21, 2019
This is the first time I recall it from you. But I’ve been hearing it forever. It’s so clearly backwards, unless you can lay out a timeline suggesting the San Antonio govt was spurred to action by Chick FilA defenders rather than by their own animus.
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) May 21, 2019
March 4, 2019: https://t.co/PGnUrpO86D
March 21, 2019: https://t.co/m3mzwiJmRq
Does that help, or do you need me to do more research on your behalf?
— EricaGrieder (@EricaGrieder) May 21, 2019
Hold up.
Serving Chick Fil A in the White House = Conservatives making Chick Fil A an issue?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL https://t.co/HGE9rKXE5a
— RBe (@RBPundit) May 21, 2019
Define “make an issue.” Conservatives only started rallying for Chick-Fil-A after liberal localities/campuses started punishing them, often illegally https://t.co/SLda2bXuVg
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) May 21, 2019
The irony here is that Dan Cathy is actually behaving in accordance with sincerely held religious convictions (you can tell by his actions (Matthew 7:20)) https://t.co/Vr8z4PUIBV
— EricaGrieder (@EricaGrieder) May 21, 2019
Serving Chik-Fil-A to visitors is not politicizing it in any way, shape or form even *remotely* of comparable magnitude to BANNING A BUSINESS!
And the Republican’s bill was in response to the Democrat’s ban.
— Sometimes Softly (@SometimesSoftly) May 21, 2019
For context, @ChickfilA wasn’t banned from the city of San Antonio. It was excluded from an ordinance issuing concessions agreements to various businesses seeking to do business at SAT, which is a public airport. https://t.co/0yhnaFALay
— EricaGrieder (@EricaGrieder) May 21, 2019
This is why Americans hate the press…. https://t.co/FkyuiKoHAM
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) May 21, 2019
Because it’s sometimes our unpleasant duty to tell you things that don’t suit your preferred political narrative? https://t.co/mCJnW8MA41
— EricaGrieder (@EricaGrieder) May 21, 2019
An Arizona website paper puts Chick Fil-A in a headline about a McDonalds-and-Chick Fil-A meal served to a North Dakota football team, and you think that influenced San Antonio’s city council?
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) May 21, 2019
Look if you wanna be disingenuous, that’s up to you.
— EricaGrieder (@EricaGrieder) May 21, 2019
Erica, I have no idea what you’re talking about. The crusade against Chick Fil-A is quite obviously a liberal crusade, started by the Left and perpetuated by the Left, and all the facts point in that direction. I think you’re smart and try to be fair. Here you are way off.
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) May 21, 2019
My view–as a Christian, not a partisan–is that what San Antonio City Council did was silly but it’s grotesque to claim that being excluded from a concession agreement due to a fit of wokeness on the part of San Antonio City Council is tantamount to persecution. YMMV.
— EricaGrieder (@EricaGrieder) May 21, 2019
The debate is not over the word “persecution,” but over who politicized Chick Fil A. That seems pretty obvious.
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) May 21, 2019
so let me get this straight: San Antonio Dems ban ChickFilA, then Texas GOP protects ChickFilA, then liberal reporter blames GOP for politicizing ChickFilA. and then liberals wonder why the media has no credibility. https://t.co/F5pPGaxdDw
— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) May 21, 2019
This is beautiful. A journalist working and living in a city where Democrats have been enacting bans on a restaurant wherever their power allows it blames Republicans for making said restaurant a political issue.
The bubble isn’t around a region, it’s around an ideology. https://t.co/w7dBSk9Ujw
— Will (@Oil_Guns_Merica) May 21, 2019
“It’s Republicans’ fault the left hates Chick-fil-A” is just the sort of analysis you expect from someone who spent all of 2018 insisting Democrats were going to win either the Senate or governor’s races in Texas last year.
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) May 21, 2019
This person is paid to tell people what things are true and what things are false. https://t.co/7okinOXDnW
— Pete Kaliner (@PeteKaliner) May 21, 2019
Just like Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, Grieder appears to be a self-identified Christian who, despite purporting to be a woman of faith, seemingly doesn’t mind throwing her alleged religious beliefs (and the truth) under the bus if it means scoring points against Republicans. Sad.
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