Chick-fil-a Support Day and Free Speech

[AOII Angel]

Raising Cain's has much better chicken, is open on Sundays and has Cain's sauce. One Love!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by sigmadiva

It has been a while since I had to take a US history and US government class, but as far as I remember, I never read or came across any moment in US history from the early - mid 1600's to today, where gays were forced into servitude just because they were gay.

No, there weren't laws forcing them into servitude. That would have been silly, since there were laws imposing the death penalty for sodomy, at least in Virginia. Thomas Jefferson tried to liberalize that by drafting a law that would instead punish sodomy by castration, but that didn't pass the Virginia legislature. Until the 1960s, sodomy was a felony in every state in the Union.

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Raising Cain's has much better chicken, is open on Sundays and has Cain's sauce. One Love!

I've never heard of them, and there don't seem to be any of them around here.

I will say, though, that having grown up in a family that did have some "rules" about what could and couldn't be done on Sunday, I like that Chik-Fil-A sticks to their principles about being closed on Sundays.

[sigmadiva]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

No, there weren't laws forcing them into servitude. That would have been silly, since there were laws imposing the death penalty for sodomy, at least in Virginia. Thomas Jefferson tried to liberalize that by drafting a law that would instead punish sodomy by castration, but that didn't pass the Virginia legislature. Until the 1960s, sodomy was a felony in every state in the Union.

Yes, but not unless that man told what he was doing and/or, some one knew and turned him in, then the likelihood of that man, or men, suffering the death penalty was not very likely. In essence, someone would have to know what was going on in the privacy of your home.

That is still not the same. I can't hide the fact that I am Black. Without even knowing one thing about how I am as a person, the very first thing you will notice about me is my skin color. My ancestors were forced into servitude and kept there by their skin color. An aspect of a person that can not be hidden.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by sigmadiva

That is still not the same. I can't hide the fact that I am Black.

Are you still chasing yourself over this elementary concept that was tackled pages ago? LOL.

Yes...yes...we know that some things can be hidden more than other things. People should not have to hide them but the ability to do so can be considered a relative privilege in some contexts.

No...no...it is not the exact same thing. It does not have to be.

Now onto more important things: Bojangles or KFC?

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

No, there weren't laws forcing them into servitude. That would have been silly, since there were laws imposing the death penalty for sodomy, at least in Virginia. Thomas Jefferson tried to liberalize that by drafting a law that would instead punish sodomy by castration, but that didn't pass the Virginia legislature. Until the 1960s, sodomy was a felony in every state in the Union.

I've never heard of them, and there don't seem to be any of them around here.

I will say, though, that having grown up in a family that did have some "rules" about what could and couldn't be done on Sunday, I like that Chik-Fil-A sticks to their principles about being closed on Sundays.

Raising Cain's is another small, southern based fast food restaurant that started in Baton Rouge, LA on the LSU campus. They specialize in chicken fingers and "Cain's sauce" and are growing very rapidly. They have two, soon to be three, locations here in the Phoenix area already. There food is fresh and never frozen. Glad I have that option.