Backhanded by the Good Hands Folks
3 Aug 2005
It’s time to renew my car insurance. Of all the bills I have to pay, I hate paying insurance premiums the most. Insurance is the only business I know that carefully screens its clientele so as to assure itself of the unlikelihood of ever having to provide services to its paying customers. Well, what do you expect from an industry that got started when some guy name Bugsy sent out his “boys” Lefty and Rocky to sell fire insurance to scared shopkeepers?
Whenever my policy’s renewal time rolls around, I call every insurance company I know for a quote. Over the years, I’ve saved a lot of money doing so. However, there’s one company I’m not calling this time—Allstate. According to the American Family Association, J. Matt Barber, a manager at Allstate’s Corporate Security Division, was fired from his position for writing an editorial against same-sex marriage that appeared on conservative websites. Despite the fact that Mr. Barber wrote the article on his own time and did not identify himself as an Allstate employee, he was summarily fired and “ushered off company property” (he was in goon’s hands with Allstate) as soon as a homosexual group complained about his column.
It may be that homosexuals and their supporters are in good hands with Allstate, but Christians who disagree with the homosexual agenda are more likely to get a backhand than a fair hand from the good hands folks. For this reason, Allstate is unlikely to ever get another dollar from me.
Don Walton
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