Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
So Chick-fil-A holds an appreciation intolerance day and all the gay haters come out to buy one of their over-priced sandwiches at the direction of Rick Warren and Mike Huckabee. Suckers, Carl's Jr. chicken sandwich is way better, and it's on the dollar menu! Of course, the "lamestream" media took their cues from FAUX News Fraudcasting and covered this PR event like it actually mattered.
Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy may want to check with his spokescows.
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Interesting reading…http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2007/0723/080.html The Cult of Chick-fil-A
And this:http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/07/30/chick-fil-a/
from this story…Within the court briefing, it is revealed that Brenda Honeycutt, the store’s General Manager with 21 years of service under her belt, found herself frozen out of management meetings and eventually replaced in that role with a male hired by her store’s owner, Jeff Howard, earlier this year. This came after 5 other female employees found themselves demoted or terminated in the past year despite high performance metrics. The owner allegedly made it clear to Ms Honeycutt as well as others that the termination was a move designed to force Ms Honeycutt into a role as a stay-at-home mother.
Hate AND discrimination….
The American attention span is miniscule. Too busy with their own self-interests, bread and circus. Shiny objects are interchangeable.
Scares me to death that my country and my state have been hijacked by illiterates.
They claim that recognizing equal rights for gays is against their “Christian” values. Hmmm, where have I heard this tune before? Oh, right, during the Civil Rights Movement. . . it was against their “Christian” values to recognize equal rights for African-Americans, and later for women.
WWJD? I don’t find anywhere in the New Testament where Jesus said anything at all about homosexuals. And it certainly would be against his teachings to preach hatred for gays or for any other group or individual. Whatever they are selling, it’s not “Christian” values.
And it is certainly not the American creed of “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Simply a taste test recommendation.
🙂 Because you and I NEVER agree on much of anything…this truly does thrill me. It’s early, but when it’s time for my gin and tonic tonight…I’ll raise my glass to our agreement today. This is progress!
Me too Cheri!
Awesome:) We can finally agree on something! I’m glad
I will tolerate it Cheri.
Great! So when the Kiss In happens, you’ll support that, right?
So I read a comment on another website that Chick-fil-A has been losing money since 2010 and the CEO needed a way to increase profits. So he looks around, sees all the hate being spewed, Chick-fil-A already has a reputation as a “Christian” company (closed on Sundays), so he does an interview, makes some ridiculous comments, then sits back and waits for the backlash followed by hordes of clueless conservatives to jump on the bandwagon and ride in on a (chicken) wing & a prayer to Chick-fil-A’s rescue.
Doesn’t sound so far-fecthed, does it? Especially with all the ridiculous “news” coverage on local networks this week.
So then I see all sorts of RWNJs saying “we won” and blah, blah, blah. because Chick-fil-A franchises all over the country were reporting double and triple their sales.
My question is, what is it exactly that they think they won? So a corporation managed to create a buzz in a way that even people who had never eaten at Chick-fil-A went. Once. Big deal.
Support for gay marriage is still above 50% and has not decreased at all since this “controversy” exploded. Gay couples still exist, they’re still out and they’re still proud. They’re still raising families. No progress has been wiped out, no rights taken away. No children stripped from their loving parents. No huge upswelling of support for persecuting or criminalizing or executing “teh gays”. No return to the stone age.
I do really think, though, that LGBT organizations need to rethink the whole “marriage” moniker. Yes I agree that it’s through marriage that same sex couples receive the most protections and benefits for their spouses and children under the law, but they should consider re-packaging (for lack of a better word while writing this off the cuff) this fight into what it is really a fight for… equal rights for same sex couples and their familiies. Avoid the mention of “marriage”, because that’s basically what it boils down to for the religious right. Marriage is sancrosanct (to some), but basic human rights, couple rights and family rights would, IMO, make it that much harder for these rabid homophobes to get any sort of reaction like Cathy did this week.
If looked at from an issue of rights and protections under the US Constitution without the limiting “marriage” attached, it would be that much harder for the right to talk about “traditional” marriage and the blessings of marriage, blah, blah, blah. They use the Bible to justify their hatred of LGBT people and scare people into thinking that it’s their own marriage that will suffer for LGBT couples’ right to marry. Take away the marriage aspect (at least the word) and they now have to convince their followers that LGBT human rights are wrong, not just “gay marriage”. They would have to justify their desire to tear apart LGBT families, pull children from the only home they’ve ever known, strip LGBT couples of their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
If they are forced to argue, not against gay marriage, but against basic human rights and protections under our Constitution for LGBT families, how much less influence do you think they might have in this whole debate? How much harder would it be to justify their hatred of a fellow human being? How much harder to use the Bible to spew their hate, if forced to defend their words and actions within the context of our Founding Fathers’ words?
Thoughts?
“intolerance day”
If might help if you understood the difference between tolerance and acceptence. In a free, open, and pluralistic society, there are all sorts of behaviors that we may have to tolerate, even though we don’t approve of those activities. Yet you choose to berate and belittle those how hold a different view, dare I say, an extremely intolerant way to behave.
“gay haters”
Are you attaching this label to people that do not approve of gay marriage? Are you attempting to rant against “hate” and “intolerance” in your post Blue? If so, I fear that the irony is completely lost on you.
Don’t think you want a Carl’s Jr. either.
http://www.alternet.org/story/156405
“Carl’s Jr. founder Carl Karcher, who died in 2008, had been a supporter of anti-abortion causes for decades. In particular, Karcher was fond of funding the anti-choice group Operation Rescue. He also had a mean anti-gay streak as well. From the AP story that followed his death:
He was reviled by abortion rights activists for his contributions to anti-abortion groups and his oft-repeated story about talking a Carl’s Jr. employee out of an abortion. Gay rights groups dubbed his hamburgers “bigot burgers” after Karcher supported a 1978 proposition that would have allowed school boards to fire teachers who were gay or advocated homosexuality.”