The media loves violence and hates good deeds

Chicken In A Blizzard

Two years ago Chick-fil-A made national headlines when company president
Dan Cathy spoke out in support of traditional marriage. Liberals and gays
came unglued and launched massive protests against the restaurant chain.
Several mayors spoke out saying they would not allow any more Chick-fil-As
to be built in their cities.

They tried boycotting the Christian owned company, but that backfired.
Instead, Chick-fil-A had a world record day with many locations selling out
of food to the hundreds of thousands of supporters. Is it any surprise that
the only news the liberal mainstream media has reported concerning
Chick-fil-A has only been the negative?

Remember a couple of weeks ago when the ice storm hit the south? The
mainstream media showed footage of miles of cars stranded on the frozen
interstates. Several national news broadcasts that I saw reported about
school kids trapped on busses for almost 24 hours because of all of the ice
and parents going frantic wondering where their kids were.

In all of the icy gloom and doom, I bet you didn't hear about the heroic
and generous actions of a Chick-fil-A along Highway 280 in Birmingham,
Alabama, did you?

Mark Meadows, owner of the Chick-fil-A closed early the day of the storm
and sent all of his employees home. However, the employees and Meadows
soon discovered that they were not going to be able to get home with all of
the stranded motorists stuck on the roads. Some of the cars near the
restaurant had been stranded for up to 7 hours.

Meadows and his employees fired up the kitchen and began preparing chicken
sandwiches as fast as they could. They prepared several hundred sandwiches
and then Meadows and his staff headed out and began distributing the hot
meals to the stranded motorists on both sides of Highway 280.

Some of the drivers tried to pay them for the sandwiches, but Meadows and
his employees refused to take a single penny. Audrey Pitt, manager of the
Chick-fil-A, explained why: "This company is based on taking care of people
and loving people before you're worried about money or profit. We were just
trying to follow the model that we've all worked under for so long and the
model that we've come to love. There was really nothing else we could have
done but try to help people any way we could."

However, Meadows and Pitt were not through with their Good Samaritan
efforts. They helped push cars off the roads, up inclines and whatever else
they could do to help. Then they kept the restaurant open overnight so that
stranded motorists could have a warm place to be. A number of motorists
slept in booths or on the benches.

Then in the morning, they again fired up the kitchen and prepared chicken
biscuits for their overnight guests and once again they refused to accept
any payment. During that 24 hour period, this Chick-fil-A restaurant
opened their kitchen, their doors and their hearts to hundreds of stranded
motorists and they did so refusing to accept any payment. As one source put
it, Meadows and his staff lived up to the words Jesus spoke in Matthew
25:35 which states:

"For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you
gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in…"

Their actions were truly generous and heroic as they also braved the frigid
temperatures to hand out hundreds of hot meals to complete strangers. And I
bet you never heard anything about this from the mainstream media. Their
liberal bias and intolerance would never allow them to report on a
Christian company doing something so positive for so many.

We need to support this and other Christian companies that are trying to
spread the Good News of the Gospel through their daily work.

Pass this along and bypass the ah media! And ask your local paper
editor why he failed to report this.