Wed Aug 1, 2012, 06:27 PM

cali (80,243 posts)

So it appears there was quite the turnout for Chick-fil-a

all across the country. According to what I've read, there were long lines their stores from MA to CA.

ugh.

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57 replies	Author	Time	Post
So it appears there was quite the turnout for Chick-fil-a (Original post)	cali	Aug 2012	OP
yeah hate, it's popular nt	mucifer	Aug 2012	#1
Hate based marketing	underpants	Aug 2012	#7
Today would have been a good day for a Rapture.	nc4bo	Aug 2012	#2
If there turned out to be such an event	R. Daneel Olivaw	Aug 2012	#27
Same Fundie bigot a-holes are looking forward to Rapture. I say, let them go	nc4bo	Aug 2012	#32
It comes from the beatitudes.	R. Daneel Olivaw	Aug 2012	#43
I say to them: "Why wait for the Rapture? Leave now!" But, of course,	coalition_unwilling	Aug 2012	#51
Megadittos.	Mika	Aug 2012	#3
Standing in line to eat fast food	Bluzmann57	Aug 2012	#4
Slow mesquite BBQ chicken with a side of support of gay marriage sounds better than fried death	R. Daneel Olivaw	Aug 2012	#29
And I think tomorrow their business will suck	johnnie	Aug 2012	#5
I doubt it	Travis_0004	Aug 2012	#6
There is not one store in my entire State, which is Oregon	Bluenorthwest	Aug 2012	#13
If they want to clog their arteries I'm not going to try to stop them.	NYC Liberal	Aug 2012	#48
I think a lot of people are just too dumb to understand the situatuon.	redqueen	Aug 2012	#8
I saw someone saying they thought it was "wrong to force churches to perform same-sex marriages."	NYC Liberal	Aug 2012	#49
It's sad that people are so proud to show their hate. n/t	BeeBee	Aug 2012	#9
Well that's not surprising for the lines to be long. There aren't that many stores.	alphafemale	Aug 2012	#10
+1 n/t	lunatica	Aug 2012	#55
In MA the ever disgusting Michael Graham and his minions were hyping the place	Marrah_G	Aug 2012	#11
No stores in Oregon, but then again, Oregon is not all that churchy.	Bluenorthwest	Aug 2012	#12
Some here didn't like my opinion about the backfire. I felt this was going to happen.	nanabugg	Aug 2012	#14
they may be busy today but they lost a lot of customers	dembotoz	Aug 2012	#15
always been haters	n2doc	Aug 2012	#16
Oh, but some of them still do.	Bake	Aug 2012	#25
That's okay. August 3rd is same-sex kiss day in front of your local Chick-Fil-A.	Fire Walk With Me	Aug 2012	#17
It does not matter.	randome	Aug 2012	#18
In a location by my office (Chicago burbs) I was stuck in traffic for a good ten minutes	tritsofme	Aug 2012	#19
Come clog your arteries for Jesus, or the gay liberal	LuvNewcastle	Aug 2012	#20
no place is 100 percent liberal	JI7	Aug 2012	#21
Religion based hate. It's what's for lunch.	piratefish08	Aug 2012	#22
Chick-fil-a-holes.	Warren Stupidity	Aug 2012	#23
What I am gathering	Texasgal	Aug 2012	#24
Actually I think Chik-Fil-A will be going bye bye before long.	Lint Head	Aug 2012	#26
if you believe that you are sadly deluded...	ProdigalJunkMail	Aug 2012	#31
I love it. Sounds like a personal attack. We'll see how sadly deluded I am.	Lint Head	Aug 2012	#35
saying you are deluded is NOT a personal attack	ProdigalJunkMail	Aug 2012	#53
Instead of saying I was seriously deluded you could have said you did not 'like' or 'agree'	Lint Head	Aug 2012	#57
Yeah. Hate is strong in the American spirit.	BlueCaliDem	Aug 2012	#52
I doubt that.	emilyg	Aug 2012	#34
Think positive.	Lint Head	Aug 2012	#40
I agree.	girl gone mad	Aug 2012	#42
Spite dining	Tom Ripley	Aug 2012	#28
It's not a cheap place to eat -	TBF	Aug 2012	#30
Facebook: I support "the gays"	Nevernose	Aug 2012	#33
I love the "I stand with Christ" mouth-breathers! Ask any of these assclowns	bullwinkle428	Aug 2012	#39
"He only meant turn the other cheek..."	Nevernose	Aug 2012	#47
I bet in the long run,	sadbear	Aug 2012	#36
A Disgusta, GA store ran out of food and closed early.	GoCubsGo	Aug 2012	#37
There was a long line in Athens, GA when I drove by as well. We're also in Broun's district. Lots of	Erose999	Aug 2012	#45
This is why I don't base my purchasing decisions on a persons political or religious beliefs	badtoworse	Aug 2012	#38
It's not about what he said.	sadbear	Aug 2012	#41
Yes - but he didn't force us to	emilyg	Aug 2012	#44
I hope those twats	complain jane	Aug 2012	#46
They are the minority which is why they had to desperately try make	EmeraldCityGrl	Aug 2012	#50
SAD	Mr Dixon	Aug 2012	#54
Somewhere there's a group of marketing executives racking their brains ...	Ganja Ninja	Aug 2012	#56

Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 06:28 PM

mucifer (8,505 posts)

1. yeah hate, it's popular nt

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Response to mucifer (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 06:50 PM

underpants (105,621 posts)

7. Hate based marketing

you are right

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 06:29 PM

nc4bo (13,355 posts)

2. Today would have been a good day for a Rapture.

Take all these selfish bigots straight up to the clouds.

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Response to nc4bo (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 08:56 PM

R. Daneel Olivaw (2,928 posts)

27. If there turned out to be such an event

do you believe that all the bigoted Chik-Fil-Aholes would be the raptured?

My bet is on the meek: the poor, the forgotten, the innocent and the good.

My bet is that the leftovers will all be angry adults with high cholesterol from eating fried death.

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Response to R. Daneel Olivaw (Reply #27)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 09:06 PM

nc4bo (13,355 posts)

32. Same Fundie bigot a-holes are looking forward to Rapture. I say, let them go

don't want to share the same space with 'em. Their god is not my God. My God never said to hate gays or deny them their civil rights.

Perhaps they have it all wrong. Wasn't it said that the meek shall inherit the earth?

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Response to nc4bo (Reply #32)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 11:06 PM

R. Daneel Olivaw (2,928 posts)

43. It comes from the beatitudes.

Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

I don't believe that the fried-death eating a-holes understand that line or its subtext.

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Response to nc4bo (Reply #32)

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 03:23 AM

coalition_unwilling (14,180 posts)

51. I say to them: "Why wait for the Rapture? Leave now!" But, of course,

they don't. They're like a fucking toothache that no amount of Sensodyne can chase away for good.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 06:29 PM

Mika (15,017 posts)

3. Megadittos.

Megadickheads.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 06:33 PM

Bluzmann57 (11,578 posts)

4. Standing in line to eat fast food

Just what is the world coming to?
"Hey I know what we can do today! Let's all go out and support chickfila (whatever spellingwise). After all, that guy don't like gays!"
Or here's my alternative. "Hey I know what we can do today! Let's go about our daily lives and then have some chicken on the grill! Yum! Sounds good and I support gay marriage."
But then, what do I know? I'm just a Midwestern simpleton who must not have been raised right. Someone actually said that to me once, but that's another story for another time.

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Response to Bluzmann57 (Reply #4)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 09:00 PM

R. Daneel Olivaw (2,928 posts)

29. Slow mesquite BBQ chicken with a side of support of gay marriage sounds better than fried death

and irrational hatreds.

My parents used to say that "We raised our children wrong. We raised you not to be assholes in a world filled with them."

Mon, dad. We're happy that you didn't.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 06:34 PM

johnnie (23,600 posts)

5. And I think tomorrow their business will suck

Unless all these people that ate chicken for God keep going back every day.

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Response to johnnie (Reply #5)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 06:48 PM

Travis_0004 (940 posts)

6. I doubt it

Chic-fil-a is always the busiest fast food place here.

At lunch, their drive through lane is 2 lanes wide, and they are the only business I've seen that does that.

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Response to Travis_0004 (Reply #6)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 07:06 PM

Bluenorthwest (24,185 posts)

13. There is not one store in my entire State, which is Oregon

I always love posts that speak of 'here' without actually saying where because no point is actually made by such a post.

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Response to johnnie (Reply #5)

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 01:37 AM

NYC Liberal (15,600 posts)

48. If they want to clog their arteries I'm not going to try to stop them.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 06:51 PM

redqueen (102,456 posts)

8. I think a lot of people are just too dumb to understand the situatuon.

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I saw one comment that we should support the company because we should "live and let live".

Here it is: " I know the story, the disturbances, but I do NOT understand what all the hoop-la is about? In my opinion it doesn't matter. Enjoy your chicken, and live and let live ... in peace."

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Response to redqueen (Reply #8)

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 01:42 AM

NYC Liberal (15,600 posts)

49. I saw someone saying they thought it was "wrong to force churches to perform same-sex marriages."

I can't think of a single example of even the most ardent supporter of marriage equality saying churches should be forced to perform same-sex marriages.

I swear, I think some of these people really, truly believe that they'll be forcibly divorced from their spouse and entered into a same-sex marriage.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 06:51 PM

BeeBee (671 posts)

9. It's sad that people are so proud to show their hate. n/t

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 06:51 PM

alphafemale (13,268 posts)

10. Well that's not surprising for the lines to be long. There aren't that many stores.

If people organized church trips around it, which is what I imagine some of those mega-churches did., it would be an easy thing to do.

I think there is just one chick-fil-a in all of Savannah, GA.

People with nothing better to do drove upwards of 50 miles because their pastor or some other nut job told them to do so.

Just when they overwhelmed theaters with attendance of that piece of torture porn Mel Gibson made a few years back. Look. The support for Mel and his traditional godly values are off the chart in America.

Yeah, right.
Didn't change the fact that Mel Gibson was rapidly being recognized as a hateful, violent lunatic.

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Response to alphafemale (Reply #10)

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 07:43 AM

lunatica (28,852 posts)

55. +1 n/t

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 06:53 PM

Marrah_G (22,443 posts)

11. In MA the ever disgusting Michael Graham and his minions were hyping the place

Anything they can find to promote their racist, bigoted, misogynist ways they jump all over.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 06:59 PM

Bluenorthwest (24,185 posts)

12. No stores in Oregon, but then again, Oregon is not all that churchy.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 07:08 PM

nanabugg (2,198 posts)

14. Some here didn't like my opinion about the backfire. I felt this was going to happen.

I just hate to fatten the coffers of the RW. nt

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 07:09 PM

dembotoz (4,565 posts)

15. they may be busy today but they lost a lot of customers

fast food is sort of an impulse decision
and a lot of folks who might have eaten there will eat somewhere else

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 07:26 PM

n2doc (26,118 posts)

16. always been haters

They just don't have to wear robes nowadays.

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Response to n2doc (Reply #16)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 08:49 PM

Bake (21,701 posts)

25. Oh, but some of them still do.

And some of them wear ecclesiastical robes ...

Haters gonna hate.

Bake

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 07:28 PM

Fire Walk With Me (37,070 posts)

17. That's okay. August 3rd is same-sex kiss day in front of your local Chick-Fil-A.

Get your NOM on.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 07:30 PM

randome (12,739 posts)

18. It does not matter.

More and more corporations are 'coming out' to support gay rights. The tide has turned on this and no amount of bullshit from Conservatives will stop it.

They have already lost this 'issue'. The momentum cannot be turned back.

Romney has already lost the election.

This is the start of a new Progressive era. The GOP is fading into the sunset.

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Wed Aug 1, 2012, 07:32 PM

tritsofme (10,079 posts)

19. In a location by my office (Chicago burbs) I was stuck in traffic for a good ten minutes

at lunch time trying to get past. There were hundreds of people, media, news helicopters ect.

I assumed it was a protest, I was surprised to hear they were supporters.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 07:38 PM

LuvNewcastle (3,286 posts)

20. Come clog your arteries for Jesus, or the gay liberal

terrorists will win.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 07:41 PM

JI7 (40,106 posts)

21. no place is 100 percent liberal

the problem for chick fila would be whether they can sustain this in the future. it's one thing for people to come out and make an effort to go there to show support.

but how about long term. i don't think mostp eople who go there eat there every day . they rely on many different people to come in each day. and if many of those people stop going there it wouldhurt them.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 07:42 PM

piratefish08 (3,031 posts)

22. Religion based hate. It's what's for lunch.

well that and really shitty chicken.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 08:01 PM

Warren Stupidity (31,939 posts)

23. Chick-fil-a-holes.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 08:05 PM

Texasgal (13,194 posts)

24. What I am gathering

is that there are some very confused people out there.

I'm seeing people saying go because they are protesting the right to free speech. Ofcourse, that's not the REAL issue.. but anyway.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 08:54 PM

Lint Head (10,442 posts)

26. Actually I think Chik-Fil-A will be going bye bye before long.

This is just one day and the collective I.Q. of the right wing masses is so low they will not be able to focus on the subject for long. I predict bankruptcy in their future.

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Response to Lint Head (Reply #26)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 09:05 PM

ProdigalJunkMail (10,065 posts)

31. if you believe that you are sadly deluded...

Chick fil a will suffer little to no long term ill effects from this...mark this thread and come back to it in five years when their sales are up year over year...

sP

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Response to ProdigalJunkMail (Reply #31)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 10:20 PM

Lint Head (10,442 posts)

35. I love it. Sounds like a personal attack. We'll see how sadly deluded I am.

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But I am old enough to have seen many major corporations and chicken joints come and go. Some are names you would know but obviously have forgotten. Society has a short memory. I will make a note of this just to see how far the personal attacks go.

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Response to Lint Head (Reply #35)

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 06:53 AM

ProdigalJunkMail (10,065 posts)

53. saying you are deluded is NOT a personal attack

good, god! it simply means (and you know this) that your conclusion about what is coming is based on emotions and opinions that are simply not based in fact.

i am glad you have been around the block...i am no spring chicken either. but chick-fil-a has been around for about 60 years and is growing faster now (and thanks to this dust up will find a new group of ardent supporters) than it ever has.

'just how far the personal attacks go'...yeah, it wasn't an attack. you just didn't like it...

sP

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Response to ProdigalJunkMail (Reply #53)

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 11:09 AM

Lint Head (10,442 posts)

57. Instead of saying I was seriously deluded you could have said you did not 'like' or 'agree'

with my opinion. Saying I am sadly deluded is condescending and personal because you are aiming it at me. You know nothing about me and I will remain civil and not insult you.

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Response to ProdigalJunkMail (Reply #31)

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 03:56 AM

BlueCaliDem (5,283 posts)

52. Yeah. Hate is strong in the American spirit.

It's doing the right thing that appears to be difficult in this country. And that's a fact.

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Response to Lint Head (Reply #26)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 09:16 PM

emilyg (22,742 posts)

34. I doubt that.

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Response to emilyg (Reply #34)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 10:31 PM

Lint Head (10,442 posts)

40. Think positive.

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Response to Lint Head (Reply #26)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 10:38 PM

girl gone mad (20,634 posts)

42. I agree.

It's a terrible idea to allow your nationally competitive mainstream brand become associated with any political ideology, but especially an insular and bigoted ideology.

Just ask the founder of Urban Outfitters, Richard Hayne, who is extremely conservative but has gone to great lengths to keep his identity and views separate from the corporation he started.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 08:56 PM

Tom Ripley (2,645 posts)

28. Spite dining

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 09:03 PM

TBF (18,403 posts)

30. It's not a cheap place to eat -

and that is what will do it in. I'm sure the Fundies found that out when they lined up today .... (and here in Texas it was ridiculous - the lines were long all day). It has alienated at least some of the country and they are not going to be able to bring in that crowd on a daily basis when dinner for 4 is $25.

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Wed Aug 1, 2012, 09:11 PM

Nevernose (8,852 posts)

33. Facebook: I support "the gays"

But I support freedom of speech, too.". That and a lot more "the gays are trying to take away our freedom of speech."

Also quite a bit of "I stand with Christ, and being gay is against the bible."

Of course, none of these assholes are MY friends, but friends of a childhood buddy of mine that all still live in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.

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Response to Nevernose (Reply #33)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 10:29 PM

bullwinkle428 (11,384 posts)

39. I love the "I stand with Christ" mouth-breathers! Ask any of these assclowns

what Jesus ever said about gay people, and they can respond with nothing other than the dull stare of a dairy cow - he never uttered a word on the subject!

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Response to bullwinkle428 (Reply #39)

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 01:34 AM

Nevernose (8,852 posts)

47. "He only meant turn the other cheek..."

"...in certain circumstances." Heard that one just the other day, after arguing with an acquaintance briefly.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 10:23 PM

sadbear (4,219 posts)

36. I bet in the long run,

they've lost A LOT more customers than they've gained.

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Wed Aug 1, 2012, 10:28 PM

GoCubsGo (13,018 posts)

37. A Disgusta, GA store ran out of food and closed early.

Not surprising. This part of the city is the district that elected that nutbag, Paul Broun. Augusta is where the Southern Baptist Convention was born, after splitting with the national Baptist church because they didn't want to give up slavery. And, it's home to the Augusta National Golf Course, which still refuses to admit women as members. And, most people here are fine with that. So, no surprise they hate gay people, too. No surprise, whatsoever.

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Response to GoCubsGo (Reply #37)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 11:48 PM

Erose999 (4,403 posts)

45. There was a long line in Athens, GA when I drove by as well. We're also in Broun's district. Lots of

haters here.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 10:29 PM

badtoworse (3,253 posts)

38. This is why I don't base my purchasing decisions on a persons political or religious beliefs

It was one man's personal beliefs and it gets escalated into a national referendum on same sex marriage? Ridiculous.

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Response to badtoworse (Reply #38)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 10:34 PM

sadbear (4,219 posts)

41. It's not about what he said.

It never was. It's about who he gave money to, money that he got selling chicken sandwiches to people like you and me.

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Response to sadbear (Reply #41)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 11:42 PM

emilyg (22,742 posts)

44. Yes - but he didn't force us to

eat those sandwiches.

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Response to cali (Original post)

Wed Aug 1, 2012, 11:49 PM

complain jane (3,584 posts)

46. I hope those twats

understand that their support for Chick-fil-a means that they support the fast food chain's viewpoint that they should be able to hire only married people (no unwed straights, only married straights) and fires anyone who sins and/or causes pain to their spouse.

The media keep saying Chick-fil-A has never discriminated, but the truth is that Chick-fil-A has been sued over a dozen times for employment discrimination. That's what a leading business publication, Forbes, stated in 2007, when they also called Chick-fil-A a "cult" and reported that Chick-fil-A's founder and CEO Truett Cathy said he wanted to hire married people because they are more industrious and productive. Truett Cathy has also said he would probably fire someone who "has been sinful or done something harmful to their family members."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-badash/chick-fil-a-5-reasons-it-isnt-what-you-think_b_1725237.html

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Response to cali (Original post)

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 03:17 AM

EmeraldCityGrl (4,308 posts)

50. They are the minority which is why they had to desperately try make

the country think otherwise by showing up at some fast food
joint that wasn't on most of our radar until very recently. I've
never eaten at a Chick Shit stand in my life but, I have a gay
SIL, a gay nephew, niece and my best friends son is gay. You can
believe our very large extended family and friends will never eat
at one again if they have in the past.

Wonder how all those companies felt about their employees taking
a two hour lunch to stand in line for a lousy sandwich. What a bunch
of losers.

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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 07:37 AM

Mr Dixon (526 posts)

54. SAD

Sad my wife told me she had chick-shit yesterday for lunch, SMDH; she asked what the problem was?? I really have to realize that a lot of people are not into politics or daily Corporate BS, failing in job to keep her informed but I will not quit.

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Thu Aug 2, 2012, 08:08 AM

Ganja Ninja (15,714 posts)

56. Somewhere there's a group of marketing executives racking their brains ...

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trying to figure out how to work bigotry into their next ad campaign without being too obvious. So don't be surprised when you see laundry soap that claims to "wash away the gay" or a pickup truck with the rebel flag paint job on the hood or tailgate. Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, Bigotry and Chevrolet it doesn't get any more American than that.

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