What exactly did Dan Cathy, the...

...CEO of Chick-fil-A, say two weeks ago that started this current brouhaha over gay rights? (My emphasis.)

We are inviting God's judgement on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, "We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage." I pray God's mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what a marriage is about.

We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives.

As someone who is also married to his "first" wife (for over 25 years), I would just like to ask Mr. Cathy (and others) where he got such a "prideful, arrogant attitude" to assume he has "the audacity to define" how God feels about marriage.

It brings me back to one of my favorite questions about religious people: How, exactly, do they purport to know the mind of God?

And doesn't everyone claim to have God on his side? Have you ever heard someone say, "God wants me to do X, but I'm going to do Y anyway?"

Take this belt buckle, for instance, worn by German soldiers during World War II. It says "Gott mit uns," or "God with us."

Even the Nazis thought God was on their side!

And then there's this bumper sticker you see so often nowadays, GOD BLESS AMERICA. 

What is that supposed to mean, anyway? "Please, God, bless America?"

Hasn't he done that already? If not, does he really need reminding? Is there any reason to think that he wouldn't bless America?

Or does it mean "Favor us over all those other countries?" Or, "Favor us in our war against all those nasty Commies Muslims?"

Or, should it be read as "Please approve of all that we are doing," or "God approves of all that we are doing!"

Seriously, what are people trying to say with those bumper stickers?

P. S. I prefer the ones that say, GOD BLESS EVERYONE, NO EXCEPTIONS.