What’s behind the recent effort to jackboot Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy into renouncing his devotion to his Christian faith and embracing gay marriage? It’s neo-McCarthyism. There is simply no other word for it.

The latest to hop on the “bust-Dan-Cathy’s-hump” bandwagon is New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who got in her two cents’ worth late last week.