Well, that wasn’t so hard now, was it? A Denver City Council committee that had stalled a Chick-fil-A lease two weeks ago turned around Tuesday and sent it to the full council in a unanimous vote — where it will probably also get unanimous approval, as it should.
Council members who had been skeptical of the lease said they just wanted to verify that Chick-fil-A abided by all nondiscrimination laws in its workplace. But that’s not how they sounded when their objections were first voiced. They sounded like politicians who were considering imposing a political speech test on an airport concession — an atrocious precedent that would have raised questions about free speech and respect for political diversity.
Fortunately, the brief spell of bad publicity that the delay gave Denver is over.
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