Assault On Free Speech

[A Theist]

Yeah...actually they do. It's precisely why their office exists in the first place. It's called writing/engforcing policy......wtf? I'm gonna go out on a limb here, this probably only bothers you when you don't share their party platform, eh?

That's not what they were doing. They're elected to write and enforce legislation, not to use the authority of their office to dictate their own personal and political views. Otherwise, Menino and Emmanuel would not have backed off their threats to ban Chick-fil-A from Boston and Chicago.

http://bostonherald.com/business/general...1061148712

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino repeated today that he doesn’t want Chick-fil-A in Boston, but he backed away from a threat to actively block the fast-food chain from setting up shop in the city.
“I can’t do that. That would be interference to his rights to go there,” Menino said, referring to company president Dan Cathy, who drew the mayor’s wrath by going public with his views against same-sex marriage.
The mayor added: “I make mistakes all the time. That’s a Menino-ism.”

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/July/...ick-fil-A/

...the ACLU warned other government leaders not to join in the type of threats the mayors made.
"The government can regulate discrimination in employment or against customers, but what the government cannot do is to punish someone for their words," said Adam Schwartz, senior attorney for the ACLU of Illinois.
He added that the ACLU "strongly supports" same-sex marriage, but explained that "if a government can exclude a business for being against same-sex marriage, it can also exclude a business for being in support of same-sex marriage."