Did you know that the Muppet Corporation has a position on gay marriage?

Mark Steyn is a fount of interesting observations and information.  Whenever I read him he tells me something I did not know, and does it with wit and grace.  For example, I did not know that Miss Piggy and the Swedish Chef had a position on gay marriage ... but they do.

In The Tolerance Enforcers subtitled, They’re ever more intolerant of anything less than total ideological homogeneity, Steyn informs us

The Muppets, for example, have reacted to Mr. Cathy’s observations by announcing that they’re severing all ties with Chick-fil-A. Did you know that the Muppet Corporation has a position on gay marriage? Well, they do. But Miss Piggy and the Swedish Chef would be permitted to open a business in the First Ward of Chicago because their opinion on gay marriage happens to coincide with Alderman Moreno’s. It’s his ward, you just live in it. When it comes to lunch options, he’s the chicken supremo and don’t you forget it.

And of course he's right, as reported in the ajc: Muppet company cuts ties with Chick-fil-A

Back to Steyn:

Meanwhile, fellow mayor Tom Menino announced that Chick-fil-A would not be opening in his burg anytime soon. “If they need licenses in the city, it will be very difficult,” said His Honor. If you’ve just wandered in in the middle of the column, this guy Menino isn’t the mayor of Soviet Novosibirsk or Kampong Cham under the Khmer Rouge, but of Boston, Massachusetts. Nevertheless, he shares the commissars’ view that in order to operate even a modest and politically inconsequential business it is necessary to demonstrate that one is in full ideological compliance with party orthodoxy. “There is no place for discrimination on Boston’s Freedom Trail,” Mayor Menino thundered in his letter to Mr. Cathy, “and no place for your company alongside it.” No, sir. On Boston’s Freedom Trail, you’re free to march in ideological lockstep with the city authorities — or else. Hard as it is to believe, there was a time when Massachusetts was a beacon of liberty: the shot heard round the world, and all that. Now it fires Bureau of Compliance permit-rejection letters round the world. ...

As the Boston Herald’s Michael Graham pointed out, Menino is happy to hand out municipal licenses to groups whose most prominent figures call for gays to be put to death. The mayor couldn’t have been more accommodating (including giving them $1.8 million of municipal land) of the new mosque of the Islamic Society of Boston, whose IRS returns listed as one of their seven trustees Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Like President Obama, Imam Qaradawi’s position on gays is in a state of “evolution”: He can’t decide whether to burn them or toss ’em off a cliff. “Some say we should throw them from a high place,” he told Al Jazeera.

For reasons that I can't quite figure out, Daryl Lease and the gays guys and gals at the Virginian Pilot have never, as far as I can tell, written editorials condemning the very violent anti-homosexual postions of Muslims here in America and throughout the world.  They have come out swinging when Christians defend their faith, not with murder but by asking for God's forgiveness. Oh, all right, I can figure it out. Daryl and the boys are physical and moral cowards. And They Lie.