Do You Boycott?

[UGAalum94]

Do you think the bluster and social network righteousness ends up being a win or a lose for same sex marriage and GLBT equal protection (or protected class?) advocates?

I feel like one of the things that sort of becomes hard to ignore in this discussion is that people are drawing direct equivalence between Cathy's "support for traditional marriage" or conservative groups and homophobia or hate.

If you are already firmly in the same sex marriage supporting camp, this connection may seem to make perfect sense.

But if you are friends with a lot of traditional marriage fans who accept and love individual gay people and/or you are familiar with a lot of the positive community support Chick-fil-a and Winshape provide in other areas, then the push back against Chick-fil-a seems overplayed.

If seemingly forced to choose sides, I think some otherwise weak supporters of same-sex marriage will throw in with the traditional "Christian" IceDream and illiterate cow loving side.

If the main plan/hope to advance same-sex marriage remains a state-by-state initiative, then I think this mini-culture war may end up being a set back in a lot of more moderate to conservative states and the faster it dies out, maybe the better for the same-sex marriage cause. Chick-fil-a isn't probably likely enough to suffer from the boycott in these states anyway.

If the overall same-sex marriage advocacy momentum shifts to one based more on a civil rights challenge in the courts, then it doesn't matter so much.

But this Chick-fil-a tempest-in-a-sweet-tea glass is making facebook a whole lot less interesting.