Chick-fil-A became embroiled in controversy over comments by Dan Cathy, the company’s CEO. In a nutshell, he didn’t just provide his opinion on same-sex marriage but indicated his company took an anti-same-sex marriage position based on its Christian values. Of course, they immediately became a poster child business for ardent Christians But the issue went further as some municipalities made public statements against the business for its inflammatory stance. This led to a rather interesting turnabout of additional protesters (that the religious right are incorrectly assuming take their side) that are simply arguing a government entity cannot punish a business for First Amendment rights. (After all, Romney made the news for declaring corporations are people too). The issue is now both anti/pro same-sex marriage AND first amendment rights for businesses against political opinions.

I suppose that’s a testament to how little Americans really have to worry about in the big picture of things globally.