{"id":2539,"date":"2012-08-06T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T14:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2012-08-06T10:20:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T14:20:49","slug":"chick-fil-a-update-adam-smith-learns-a-positive-lesson-words-of-wisdom-from-antoine-dodson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2012\/08\/chick-fil-a-update-adam-smith-learns-a-positive-lesson-words-of-wisdom-from-antoine-dodson.html","title":{"rendered":"Chick-fil-A update: Adam Smith learns a positive lesson + words of wisdom from Antoine Dodson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are today&#8217;s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maybe we can all get along, after all.<\/strong> The Chick-fil-A\/gay marriage flap (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/faithmediaandculture\/2012\/08\/a-cultural-game-of-chicken.html\">discussed here Friday<\/a>) has certainly yielded its share of nastiness.\u00a0 But here&#8217;s some hope that we can learn to move forward and discuss these issues in freedom &#8212; with the wisdom to realize that people of goodwill can, in fact, disagree about important issues without counter-productively demonizing one another.<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Apologies and Clarifications\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nmP9Shki6_I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_YN3u39e7mA\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_YN3u39e7mA<\/a>\n<p><em>Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 <\/em>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are today&#8217;s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 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