Lovers keep on lovin’
Believers keep on believin’
Sleepers just stop sleepin’
‘Cause it won’t be too long…
— Stevie Wonder, ‘Higher Ground’
It’s a good thing, usually, for lovers to keep on loving. And for sleepers to finally wake up.
Many of us have stopped sleeping, and have awakened to a ‘woke’ nightmare. The nightmare looks different, of course, depending on if you’re a lover or a believer.
About 30% of Americans now call themselves ‘nones’. Not to be confused with ‘nuns’, although the two words sound very similar.
‘Nuns’ are extremely religious, and I guess in the Catholic tradition, consider themselves brides of the Savior Jesus Christ. But living separately.
‘Nones’ are people who, when you ask what religion they embrace, will answer: ‘None’. Many of the ‘nones’ were raised attending Christian churches, but are now free to do other things on Sunday. Bowling, maybe. Watching football.
Eating out, at a fast food restaurant?
Apparently, a corporation can also lose its religion. Like, for example, Chick-fil-A… a place the ‘nones’ are not able to patronize, on Sunday, because — despite all the topsy-turvy changes in the world — Chick-fil-A is still closed on Sunday.
Back in 2012, the notoriously conservation Chick-fil-A fast food franchise was in the news. People on the political left were boycotting the company for making large charitable donations to homophobic organizations like the Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy had weighed in on same-sex marriage, saying his company backs the traditional family unit.
But in 2019, the company quietly stopped donating to socially-conservative charities, and even more quietly began contributing to organizations like Covenant House (a facility for homeless youth, some of whom, we will mention, are LGBTQ) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (an organization about which nothing more need be said.)
Three years ago, Chick-fil-A did something very un-Christian. They hired a gentleman named Erick McReynolds as their new vice president of DEI. “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion”. These are not Christian principles. Quite the opposite. These are ‘woke’ principles.
Just because something is good for business, doesn’t make it right. Or biblical.
As Susanne Bowdey wrote in a Christian Post op-ed last week:
The defection cut deep for families, millions of whom had driven out of their way to support Chick-fil-A — not because the chicken was good, but because their conviction was better.
Those of us who are Christians are well aware that words like ‘diversity’ and ‘equity’ and ‘inclusion’ do not appear in the Holy Bible. When Our Savior spoke to the gathered Hebrew multitudes and said, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied…” (and a few other interesting things), everyone understood — and still understands — who He was talking about. Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness are the same folks (like me) who want to make America great again. We definitely not interested in diversity or equity. Or, heaven forbid, inclusion.
Many Christians have now ex-communicated the Chick-fil-A corporation, now that we know what they truly believe in.
I’m personally grateful, however, that at least they are still closed on Sunday. Some of us wish they were closed the other six days of the week.
And I will agree with Ms. Bowdey. Christians were not eating at Chick-fil-A because the chicken was good, although at least one Daily Post reader (who will remain anonymous) claims they serve the best tasting fast-food chicken sandwich on the planet.
But I also want to agree with Stevie Wonder. Not because I’m woke (I’m definitely not woke) nor because I’m a big fan of diversity and inclusion. And not because Stevie Wonder is one of the most diverse, included people in the music industry.
But he was right on the money when he sang:
Lovers keep on loving… ’cause it won’t be too long…
That’s something Our Savior also might have said, had He played electric piano like Stevie Wonder.
Hopefully the lovers are not same-sex.
But even if they are, it won’t be too long…
Underrated writer Louis Cannon grew up in the vast American West, although his ex-wife, given the slightest opportunity, will deny that he ever grew up at all.