Huffington Magazine Issue 21 | Page 24

AP PHOTO/GRANT HINDSLEY Enter nity. You have others that are adamant, others that come out when the president came out. Eventually other civil rights groups have come out. But we’ve been there a long time. You cannot be a civil rights activist and not be for civil rights for everybody. Q&A What would you say to the Chick-Fil-A CEO? I would say that you have the right to your beliefs, but you don’t have the right to impose those beliefs. That good ministers convert people, they don’t force them. Even God gives you a choice. So why do we remove the choice from people? In what name do we say that by law, we’re going to make people do things? HUFFINGTON 11.04.12 Al Sharpton speaks to reporters before the memorial service for Rodney King this past June.