Cruci-fried Chicken
Has Chick-fil-A been closing on the wrong day for the Sabbath? A federal lawsuit is putting a Texas franchisee of this famously pious chicken chain on the grill.
This Week In Blunders – May 10-16
“For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” – Exodus 20:11 (NIV)
The U.S. government has sued a Chick-fil-A franchisee for not giving a Christian a day off on the Sabbath.
Oh, my Lord. Isn’t this a Christian chicken chain that has always been closed on Sundays?
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit this week on behalf of a Church of God member. She belongs to a denomination that observes the Sabbath on Saturday … so there.
The agency has a point under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits religious discrimination. But there’s also a point to be made based on the Bible itself.
Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy and plenty of other Old Testament books identify the Sabbath as the seventh day – the day on which God rested – which is not Sunday. That, for anyone still keeping count, is the first day.
Then there’s the New Testament which shows the earliest Christians were Jews who always observed the Sabbath on Saturdays and still do to this day. (Shabbat Shalom, by the way.)
