Dan Cathy, Chick-fil-A, and the Love of Jesus
I hate to interrupt our Paradise Lost series right as it gets started, but I wanted to touch on a current event in national news. Just over a week ago, nationally recognized LGBT leader Shane L. Windmeyer wrote a stunning piece for Huffington Post , entitled, “ Dan and Me: My Coming Out as a Friend of Dan Cathy and Chick-fil-A . ” As a champion for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights, Mr. Windmeyer has led protests against Chick-fil-A and what he saw as the bigotry of the Christian-owned company. All that started to change on August 10 of last year, when he got a personal call from Chick-fil-A founder Dan Cathy. Windmeyer writes, “ He was going to tear me apart, right? Give me a piece of his mind? Turn his lawyers on me?” Instead, what he found was a man filled with love and compassion. Their first conversation lasted over an hour, and they continued to interact over the phone. Then they started meeting privately for more dialogue. In the process, som...