Chick-Fil-A is "Guilty as charged!" - Page 7
Chick-Fil-A is "Guilty as charged!"
#150Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/27/12 at 12:46pm
I've found it useful in discussions like this to ask "If you found out that McDonalds [Olive Garden, Wendy's, etc.] gave a portion of their profits to the KKK, would you still patronize them?"
It's worked so far, though of course I don't hang around genuinely crazy or bigoted people (as far as I know). I'm sure lots of folks would pull out the "skin color is not the same as sexual orientation" card--but only if they're already full-on homophobes.
#151Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/27/12 at 12:54pm
"I mean, I get that not everyone stays informed about EVERYTHING, but I'm so tired of people framing this as being about what Cathy said and not what Cathy (and his company's money) does."
Same here! I responded to someone from high school who posted Huckabee's response...so had to let her have it. Not another "like" or post after I wrote what I wrote. Not that I've changed small minds, however. I did stop short of the KKK comparison, though Reg. I wasnt able to frame it as well as you, as usual!
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"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#152Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/27/12 at 1:49pm
I think a lot of people think the issue is just "Chick-Fil-A is a Christian organization and the gays have a problem with that."
Unless they're gay (and sometimes even then--I'm looking at you, Antoine), they don't really understand what these organizations like Focus on the Family actually do. They think "Hmm, they support the traditional family. Sorry, gays, but what's wrong with that?"
And when I explain that they exist solely to work toward denying rights to a group of Americans, they start to get it.
#153Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/27/12 at 3:00pm
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#154Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/27/12 at 3:13pm
In my best Diana Morales, "I mean, it's not like I wanted him to die or anything."
Condolences to the family. Chick Fil and the Cathy family still suck.
#155Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/27/12 at 3:23pm... Well, he was probably under a lot of pressure lately.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#156Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/27/12 at 3:24pm
If this were reversed (and we lived in a bizarro world where the reverse was possible) and the PR person from an outspokenly pro-gay company had died we'd hear this was God's wrath.
I live in a bizarro world where God hates straight people, so I think it is God's wrath!
#157Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/27/12 at 3:27pmThe heart attck was caused when he discovered that he had been found out about posing as a teenage girl on Twitter!
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
#158Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/27/12 at 4:09pmThey will blame the gays for this. Frankly,I'm surprised they had any sort of PR director. Judging by the events over the past 2 weeks you would never know it.
'There are three sides to every story. My side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently'
-Robert Evans-
#159Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/27/12 at 4:11pmI'm still curious if Jim Henson Co. Is going to sue them for those libelous signs they put up about their toys.
ChanceEncounter
Stand-by Joined: 7/7/12
#160Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/27/12 at 4:15pmI lol'd when i first heard about the PR guy. It wasn't as satisfying as the day Jerry Falwell finally dropped dead, but the little things do count for something.
#161Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/27/12 at 4:17pm
Really? You laughed? Like, out loud?
Sick.
#162Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/27/12 at 4:28pmWell at least he got it in for Heterosexual Awareness month, by a hair!
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ChanceEncounter
Stand-by Joined: 7/7/12
#163Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/27/12 at 4:34pmYes, I guffawed, in the middle of my office. Then made a joke about it.
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#164Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/27/12 at 4:42pmI have already heard his timely demise called "Pulling a Paterno." I think that phrase will enter my lexicon.
#165Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/27/12 at 4:43pm
...that is a good phrase.
When you're stuck in such an increasingly nightmarish situation the only way out is to die.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#167Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/27/12 at 6:22pm^ love it
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#168Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/28/12 at 1:35am
Stephen Colbert Rips Santorum, Huckabee For Supporting Chick-Fil-A
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/stephen-colbert-chick-fil-a-video_n_1711160.html
'There are three sides to every story. My side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently'
-Robert Evans-
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#169Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/28/12 at 1:55amThis fracas has just made me hate the world. I don't think anyone has posted it yet, but there's a picture of Sarah Palin and Todd loading up at Chik Fil A. F*CK all this noise.
#170Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/28/12 at 2:14am
My point is that all the hate and intolerance has to be put in perspective. This stuff that is obviously hateful has always been around. When my father, from Brooklyn, fought in WW2 he ended up transfered to a company from Texas, the nicest guys he'd ever met. They risked their lives for one another.
A few years later at a reunion in Texas he and my mom. who is very dark complected after a week in the sun, are asked to leave a restaurant because she looks black and it's 1954.
Things do change. It's just agonizingly slow and frustrating.
Somewhere out there is someone we call a terrorist. He doesn't care whether you're straight and a bigot or gay. And he would never understand this thread and the fact we can have it.
We need to be very careful how we judge people. And we need to remember that people can change.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#171Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/28/12 at 2:20am
your dog is so cute.
Holding bigoted views is one thing. Actively supporting view that further those causes, which come at the expense of others, is another. That's the point I think you're overlooking. Who cares what he believes? No one is telling him he can't believe any way he wants. But he contributes money to hate groups.
#172Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/28/12 at 2:58am
Honestly Phyllis I do understand and I recognize the difference. He's using his vast resources to hurt people. Yet, in the process, he shines a light on ignorance. And most people sit back and watch and listen and are not vocal. But they really do see it for what it is.
If the same restaurant that asked my mother to leave was still around today they would probably place a photo of Obama on the wall if he were to visit.
#173Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/28/12 at 2:59am
Will Swenson posted this on twitter...
?@thewillswenson
“@SarahPalinUSA: Stopped by Chick-fil-A in The Woodlands to support a great business. http://fb.me/KM9ogGda ” Haters unite.
Very true about haters uniting to spread hatred together. I hope the Chic-fil-A is still standing after that much idiocy being in one place at the same time.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
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#174Chick-Fil-A is introducing a new sandwich!
Posted: 7/28/12 at 10:18am
"Things do change. It's just agonizingly slow and frustrating."
Yes, it is agonizingly slow and frustrating, but that doesn't mean we should sit back on our heels and watch it crawl by at a snail's pace.
