National Same Sex Kiss Day at Chick Fil A

[Townhallsavoy]

This should excite some of you.

https://www.facebook.com/events/444598242237116

[GH2001]

   at humanity.

I find the Boston ban of Chick Fil A ironic. They are banning CFA from Boston because of the CEO's view on gays. The very people preaching for tolerance? They none. Other views? They don't want to hear em. Serious irony.

[AUTiger1]

A few things here. 

#1) Why is this shocking?  A company based in the south that closes on Sunday's for worship, that is openly Christian doesn't support gay marriage!!!  Who would have thunk it?

#2) Why all the outrage?  It's not like the dude said they should die in a lake of fire, he just said that they don't support gay marriage.  I think he even said something about praying for them and stuff.

#3)  The boycotts, I for one welcome them.  Not enough gays eat there anyways and all that means is a shorter line for me when I want some of that gay hating spicy chicken goodness with peperjack.   

[dallaswareagle]

A few things here. 

#1) Why is this shocking?  A company based in the south that closes on Sunday's for worship, that is openly Christian doesn't support gay marriage!!!  Who would have thunk it?

#2) Why all the outrage?  It's not like the dude said they should die in a lake of fire, he just said that they don't support gay marriage.  I think he even said something about praying for them and stuff.

#3)  The boycotts, I for one welcome them.  Not enough gays eat there anyways and all that means is a shorter line for me when I want some of that gay hating spicy chicken goodness with peperjack.

Of course the gay doesn't eat chicken-They like the beef.

[Tarheel]

This should excite some of you.

https://www.facebook.com/events/444598242237116

Well ain't that sweet.


Seriously, this CFA chatter in the media has to be the most non-news news story I've heard...at least in months anyway.

[Snaggletiger]

This looks like a great opportunity to pick up hot dudes....I mean a #3 with coke.

[GH2001]

Well ain't that sweet.


Seriously, this CFA chatter in the media has to be the most non-news news story I've heard...at least in months anyway.

Another distraction TH, by the MSM.

[Tarheel]

Another distraction TH, by the MSM.

Because they can't talk about the economy, it'd look bad for The Pharaoh
Because they can't talk about world affairs and the Middle East, it'd look bad for The Pharaoh
Because they can't talk about gun control, it'd be bad for Democrats, they want it but they don't want to loose the election.
Because they can't talk about high unemployment, it'd look bad for The Pharaoh
Because they can't talk about high gas prices, it'd look bad for The Pharaoh
Because they can't talk about inflation, it'd look bad for The Pharaoh's economic plans
Because they can't talk about housing prices still going down, it'd look bad for The Pharaoh
Because they can't talk about the stock market, it'd look bad for The Pharaoh's lack of economic leadership
...

[Buzz Killington]

I think I'll go enjoy a delicious chicken, egg and cheese bagel.

[Saniflush]

I think I'll go enjoy a delicious chicken, egg and cheese bagel.

and some man saliva.

[Vandy Vol]

I think I'll go enjoy a delicious chicken, egg and cheese bagel.

My hate bagel was delicious this morning.

[AUChizad]

A few things here. 

#1) Why is this shocking?  A company based in the south that closes on Sunday's for worship, that is openly Christian doesn't support gay marriage!!!  Who would have thunk it?

#2) Why all the outrage?  It's not like the dude said they should die in a lake of fire, he just said that they don't support gay marriage.  I think he even said something about praying for them and stuff.

#3)  The boycotts, I for one welcome them.  Not enough gays eat there anyways and all that means is a shorter line for me when I want some of that gay hating spicy chicken goodness with peperjack.

I agree with all of this, and will also add that this is ridiculous, especially considering where their priorities are in Chicago.

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/cities-move-to-ban-chick-fil-a-supporters-launch-day-of-support.html

Rahm: “Chick-fil-A Values Are Not Chicago Values”
Posted in Top Stories | 1,973 comments
 
Jul 25, 2012
By Todd Starnes

Officials in at least three cities have vowed to block efforts to open Chick-fil-A restaurants after the company’s president told reporters that he supported the traditional definition of marriage – and warned that redefining marriage might bring God’s judgment on the nation.

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“Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values,” said Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a statement to the Chicago Tribune. “They disrespect our fellow neighbors and residents.”

Emanuel was vowing his support for Alderman Proco Moreno’s announcement that he would block construction of a Chick-fil-A restaurant in his district.

“If you are discriminating against a segment of the community, I don’t want you in the First Ward,” he told the newspaper.

Chick-fil-A is privately owned by the Cathy family. The company president, Dan Cathy, drew the wrath of gay rights advocates and supporters when he made recent statements that some have alleged are anti-gay.

Cathy told Baptist Press that the company was unapologetically in favor of traditional marriage.

“Guilty as charged,” he said. “We are very much supportive of the family – the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that.”

In a separate interview on the Ken Coleman Show — Cathy suggested that the nation could face God’s wrath over the redefinition of marriage.

 â€œI think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage,’” Cathy said. “I pray God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we would have the audacity to try to redefine what marriage is all about.”

Alderman Moreno called Cathy’s comments “bigoted” and “homophobic.”

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“Because of this man’s ignorance, I will now be denying Chick-fil-A’s permit to open a restaurant in the First Ward,” he announced.

Boston Mayor Tom Menino was the first to announce that the Atlanta-based company would not be welcomed in his city.

“You can’t have a business in the City of Boston that discriminates against a population,” he told the Boston Globe. “We’re an open city. We’re a city that’s at the forefront of inclusion.”

And Mountain View, Calif, a bedroom community of San Francisco, has temporarily blocked the chicken chain from opening.

A homosexual couple spearheaded an effort to launch a zoning challenge.

“It could be Mother Teresa that owns it and it would be a bad place,” resident David Speakman told SFGate.com. “But because it was a bunch of bigots, it gave us an extra nudge.”

With the help of friends, a gay South Bay couple has at least temporarily blocked the very Christian-minded Chick-fil-A

The company’s position on traditional marriage notwithstanding, threats to ban the company have drawn fire from editorial pages across the nation.

The Los Angeles Times condemned the decision, calling it far more troubling than Chick-fil-A’s support of traditional marriage.

“Public officials have a responsibility to carry out their ministerial tasks fairly and evenhandedly – and to uphold the principle of free speech – whether or not they like a business executive’s social or political stances,” the Times opined.

The Boston Globe wondered “which part of the First Amendment does Menino not understand? A business owner’s political or religious beliefs should not be a test for the worthiness of his or her application for a business license.

Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin said “Boston’s Founding Fathers must be steaming in their graves.”

“When an elected public official wields the club of government against a Christian business in the name of “tolerance,” it’s not harmless kid stuff,” Malkin wrote. “It’s chilling.”

Meanwhile, thousands of Christians are mobilizing efforts to support Chick-fil-A – led by Fox News Channel host and former Ark. Governor Mike Huckabee.

Huckabee has declared August 1st as Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day.

“Let’s affirm a business that operates on Christian principles and whose executives are willing to take a stand for the Godly values we espouse by simply showing up and eating at Chick-fil-A on Wednesday, August 1,” Huckabee said.

Huckabee said the company has come under attack from militant homosexuals and is being “smeared by vicious hate speech and intolerant bigotry from the left.”

 â€œThe militant homosexual advocates have launched an all out assault on Dan Cathy and Chick-fil-A,” he said. “The attempts to hurt or destroy Chick-fil-A are nothing short of economic bullying.”

Donald Wildmon, the founder of the American Family Association, is backing Huckabee’s efforts saying he hoped it would generate the largest one-day sales in the company’s history.

“I have been incensed at the vitriolic assaults on the Chick-fil-A company,” Wildmon wrote in an email. “It’s a great American story that is being smeared by vicious hate speech and intolerant bigotry from the left.”

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, was especially disturbed by the actions of Boston’s mayor.

“This is really outrageous when you see this is the train that follows same sex marriage,” Perkins told Fox News. “This idea of the loss of religious freedom – the freedom of speech — and it’s on perfect display in Boston with the intolerance of this mayor.”

Perkins noted that Americans have overwhelmingly endorsed the traditional definition of marriage – 32 times in 32 states.

“Chick-fil-A is in the mainstream, he said. “The mayor of Boston is in the minority.”

“It’s about forcing Americans who do not agree with this agenda to comply and if a business dare step outside of the PC lines they will be attacked just as we are seeing Chick-fil-A being attacked,” Perkins added.

All that being said (and you knew there'd be a "but"), it seems like a weird thing for a business to come out and straight-up eliminate a group of people from their customer base like that. Let alone the multitude of people who will just boycott in support of that group. Seems like bad business to me. I won't get into the general moral discussion on being against gay marriage for religious reasons, because it's been discussed before. All I'll say is that the "Bible's definition of marriage" says that if you die your wife has to marry your brother, you can never divorce, polygamy and concubines are cool, and if you get raped you have to marry your attacker.

But again, I'm still eating Chick-Fil-A, and I'm cool with the smaller lines as long as it doesn't end up raising the price on my #1 combo.

[Shug Dye]

My hate bagel was delicious this morning.

I bet someone liked your Chick n Mini too.

[wesfau2]

I bet someone liked your Chick n Mini too.

I think you meant this for Buzzzzzzzzzz.

Cheep cheep.

[Vandy Vol]

I bet someone liked your Chick n Mini too.

Not until August 3.  Then some poor chap is getting it behind the Chick-Fil-A dumpster.

[AUTiger1]

on my #1 combo.

You are doing Chick-fil-A wrong!

#3, with a slice of pepperjack.

This article.  Read it. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/in-defense-of-eating-at-chick-fil-a/260139/

The Atlantic Home
Thursday, July 26, 2012
      
Jonathan Merritt   - Jonathan Merritt is author of A Faith of Our Own: Following Jesus Beyond the Culture Wars (2012). He's published more than 300 columns in outlets such as USA Today, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and CNN.com.

In Defense of Eating at Chick-fil-A
By Jonathan Merritt

Jul 20 2012, 5:30 PM ET 1255

Do we really want a country where people won't do commerce with those who have beliefs different than their own?

Dan Cathy, president of one of America's largest express fast food chains, has been frying more than chicken filets this week. The Chick-fil-A executive infuriated gay and lesbian groups when he again defended his company's anti-gay marriage position in an interview this week with a Christian news outlet.

"We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit," he said. "We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that."

Not surprisingly, his comments were met with fury by those who support same-sex marriage. The company was labeled a "hate group" by many on Twitter and in the blogosphere, and drew promises of boycotts from notables including The Office star Ed Helms. Meanwhile, Americans who patronize the chain's 1,600 locations were left wondering what to do.

Should they swear off the legendary chicken sandwiches to support gay rights? Or could they eat one of the filets anyway, knowing their dollars would be but a drop in the bucket for a chain that has more than $4 billion in annual sales and donated a pittance to groups they may disagree with?

I'd argue the latter -- and this has nothing to do with my views on gay marriage. It's because Chick-fil-A is a laudable organization on balance, and because I refuse to contribute to the ineffective boycott culture that's springing up across America.

First of all, Chick-fil-A is not a hate group. In a statement released yesterday, company leaders made their commitment to equal service clear, "The Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect -- regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender."

As a native Atlantan, I've dined at the chicken chain more than I'd like to admit over more than two decades and even interacted with its leadership team. I've never witnessed any customer refused service or even treated differently. On the contrary, Chick-fil-A is known for offering world-class customer service to each person that walks through one of the restaurant's doors.

Additionally, the organization gives millions of dollars each year to charitable causes -- and not just to "pro-family" groups. It funds a large foster care program, several schools of a higher learning, and a children's camp. It has provided thousands of scholarships for Chick-fil-A employees to attend college and grow past the service sector where they got their workplace start. (On Friday, the company provided free meals for Aurora, Colo., policemen.)

And the company's leaders claim to do all of this out of convictions rooted in the Christian faith. Anyone who has even a cursory knowledge of the company should know that it does not hide its commitment to biblical values. Its corporate statement of purpose since 1982 has begun, "To glorify God..."

Given this, that anyone was surprised by Cathy's statements is, well, surprising. Like many conservative Christians, he does not support gay marriage.

I'm flummoxed that so many consumers are so quick these days to call for boycotts of any company that deviates from their personal or political views. For one thing, boycotts rarely cause actual pocketbook - rather than PR -- damage. Most consumers don't care enough to drive an extra mile to get the same product from someone else. And that's especially the case for companies as large as Chick-fil-A, which has prime locations on many college campuses where there is little head-to-head competition.

But my bigger question is this: In a nation that's as divided as ours is, do we really want our commercial lives and our political lives to be so wholly intermeshed? And is this really the kind of culture we want to create? Culture war boycotts cut both ways and are much more likely to meet with success when prosecuted by large groups of people, such as Christian activists, who are more numerous than gays and lesbians and their more activist supporters.

Gay and lesbian groups were famously rankled when pro-family activists reacted against Kraft for posting a photo of an Oreo cookie with rainbow-hued filling last month in honor of Gay Pride Month, and also when similar groups protested JCPenney for announcing lesbian talk show host Ellen DeGeneres would be its next spokesperson.

So should the 45 percent of Americans who oppose gay marriage opt for Chips Ahoy! instead of Oreos? Should they begin shopping at Belk instead of JC Penny? If they did, it wouldn't make any more sense than the endless failed calls for liberal consumers to boycott Urban Outfitters, because its owner is a conservative and Rick Santorum donor, or to not order from Domino's Pizza, because it was founded by a Catholic conservative who helped fund anti-abortion causes.

On both sides of our latest culture war divide, we must learn to have level-headed disagreements without resorting to accusations of hate speech and boycotts. As Josh Ozersky argued on TIME Thursday, "businesses should be judged by their products and their practices, not by their politics."

I agree: I don't care how my dry cleaner votes. I just want to know if he/she can press my Oxfords without burning my sleeves. I find no compelling reason to treat sandwiches differently than shirts.

From a business standpoint, some might say Cathy's comments were imprudent if not downright dumb. But in a society that desperately needs healthy public dialogue, we must resist creating a culture where consumers sort through all their purchases (fast food and otherwise) for an underlying politics not even expressed in the nature of the product itself.

If white meat's not your thing, try the Golden Arches. But if you want a perfectly fried chicken sandwich, Chick-fil-A, will be happy to serve you -- gay or straight. In this case, those who boycott are the ones missing out.

[Buzz Killington]

I think you meant this for Buzzzzzzzzzz.

Cheep cheep.

et tu weste?

[wesfau2]

et tu weste?

I go for the easy laugh.

We have to get maximum mileage out of that joke before the next outing.

[Buzz Killington]

I go for the easy laugh.

We have to get maximum mileage out of that joke before the next outing.

I get it...going for the low-hanging fruit.

[wesfau2]

I get it...going for the low-hanging fruit.

Which obviously disqualifies Snags from being a target.