Campaign against Chick-fil-A doesn't fly

Let's keep the two topics clear:

1. A customer boycott of Chick-fil-A.

2. A politician withholding permits for Chick-fil-A.

 

There is nothing wrong with a boycott.  Shop anywhere you want and don't shop anywhere you don't.

 

Discriminating permits based on the beliefs of a company's owner is evil and illegal.

 

I mildly disagree with Cathy's stand on non-heterosexual marriage, but I'm outraged by public officials using the government to harass an organization based on a disagreement with the opinion of someone in that corporation.  Because of the latter, I had my first meal at Chick-fil-A last night.

 

 

I like how gays hate to be judged yet judge those with different beliefs. Who cares if chick fil' a doesnt agree with same sex marriage. They can believe in whatever they want. Not everyone is for gay marriage and not everyone is against gay marriage. Thats just the way it is. Gays rage when people try and shove their conservative beliefs down their throats yet they do the exact same thing by telling people they're wrong and have no place here. Well gays. Last time I checked... this was the United States of America. Meaning... we dont have to support gay marriage if we dont want to. We can have moral values and be conservatives. Deal with it. Kthnxbi! <3

Don't piss off a homo!  You might get glitterbombed!!!

 

Or worse,  they might tell you that you shoes don't match the rest of your outfit! 

No self respecting GLBT person would ever be caught dead in a chick fil A! With that said, just as the CEO has a right to express his biogtry so too does the consumer have a right to boycot his crappy restaurants- the poster said it below, you can't have it both ways. In the interest of business mixing it up with religion, perhaps Mr. Chick fil A missed the part about it being easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter heaven...or even better judge lest ye be judged- These so called christians who approach religion from a  cafteria style perpective...picking​ & choosing which beliefs they can adhere to make me sick- seeing it in the business sector, makes me laugh- I hope chick fil a feels the fire from smart consumers, gay or straight who smell not chicken, but a rat!

Just thought i would post this about Chick-Fil-A .Next time someone tells you that boycotting them is wrong

You argue that Freedom of Speech is involved and it is! People have the right to say "don't patronize that business because it advocates discrimination."

You argue that Religious Freedom is involved and it is! It's a suppression of Religious Freedom. Why? Because there are Christian churches that would perform same-sex marriages except that they are not legally allowed to under their state's laws. They are being prohibited by the state that seems to favor one type of Christianity over another EVEN if the are the same sect.

In 2009 alone Chick-Fil-A (as a corporation) donated $2,000,000 to anti-gay marriage groups. In spite of the Citizens United case, corporations do not worship at churches. This was direct corporate sponsorships to religion based organizations to advocate for "legal inequality under the law" and suppression of Religious Freedom of a selected group of individuals.

This is also about the separation of Church and State. No one religion or "favored sect" has the legal standing or right to decide what secular laws are. The United States does not operate under Sharia Law. Nor will it operate under exclusively strict Jewish, nor Buddhist, nor Hindi, nor Christian laws.

Since this is a situation where folks are speaking out about protecting the civil rights of individuals, your point about this being a "Socialist path" is clearly mistaken. Further you are mistaken in the assumption that this is an effort to silence people. Rather, it's an effort to hold corporations accountable for what they advocate.

Let me ask you this if Corporations are people too, should they not be treated just like one?. If i went on the news and said i was throwing my money and what power i have behind a group that hates and wants to keep rights away from other good Americans from having the SAME rights as others i would be hated and protested against. So all we are really doing is treating a Corporation just like we would a person. Remember what those on the right love to say " Corporations are people too " . They can't have it both ways

Also, it's NOT hate based politics when you argue for inclusion. Hate based is when you argue to exclude
Nuff said!!!! Game,set,and match !!! Please pass this post on and repost it

We are all entitled to our beliefs. However, I don't think that necessarily has anything to do with either shopping or avoiding a business . I was once going to very self-righteously boycott some place or other, and a person much wiser than I told me that to boycott it did not hurt the owner/executives at all, but if business dropped off considerably it meant lower paid employees losing their jobs. And what does that accomplish? So now I just go on about shopping, etc. where I've done it all along.

What is worse is how politicians are threatening Chick-fil-A. A politician does not have the right to stop a restaurant because they disagree with the owners' political view. And if you support those idiot politicians, be prepared when someone on the other side of the isle is elected and stops a company from opening. Can you imagine what the Liberals would be doing right now if a politician come out and said they wouldn't allow any pro-gay restaurants to open in "their" cities??? Yet somehow they justify the reverse discrimination. It is called an opinion and Freedom of Speech. Get over it. I don't like everything I hear but such is life in a FREE COUNTRY.

I love me some Chik Fil A. Even more now.

When will people stop classification and just see us all as Americans in this country? LGBT? NAACP? La Raza?

Why can't we just stop divisiveness, and be one people?

Remember the melting pot our coutry once was?

People came to America to be an American. They never came here and wanted America to be Ireland, or Italy, or France. People came here to be American.

I'm thankful for this article.  This whole thing bothers me.  In our society, aparently the only people or companies it's 'policically correct' to discriminate against are the Christian ones.   Chick fil and Truitt Cathy deserve the same rights as the GLBT supporters.  Chick fil a strives to provide a superior product and great customer service, in which they've succeeded.  They have NEVER discriminated against GLBTs (ie, refusing to serve, making malicious statements, etc); Mr. Cathy believes the bible's guidelines for a marriage and he upholds his values.  This has been misconstrued by the media to make the general public think otherwise.  HORSE HOCKEY!  Long live Chick fil a!! 

The AFA and other Religious Right activists boycott companies for things as silly as their X-mas marketing campaigns and names of ice cream flavors. Now it's crossing the line when Chic-Fil-A is boycotted when their direct financial contributions are questioned? Give me a break.