Chick-Fil-A Says It Plans to Stop Giving Donations to Anti-Gay Groups: Beautiful or Being Bullied?
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2012/09/20 19:00:00
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Chick-Fil-A dealt with a storm of bad press a short while ago because of a statement by Dan Cathy, the president of the fast-food chain, saying he was "guilty as charged" when asked about his opposition to gay marriage. His comments, along with Chick-Fil-A's monetary donations to anti-gay organizations, led to a media frenzy.
But times have changed. Now, a Chick-Fil-A executive has confirmed that the chicken-loving, fast-food chain will stop donating to such anti-gay groups like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council, according to The Civil Rights Agenda. Do you think this news is a great step for the fast-food company? Or do you feel that Chick-Fil-A was bullied into making this decision?
NYDAILYNEWS.COM reports:
But times have changed. Now, a Chick-Fil-A executive has confirmed that the chicken-loving, fast-food chain will stop donating to such anti-gay groups like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council, according to The Civil Rights Agenda. Do you think this news is a great step for the fast-food company? Or do you feel that Chick-Fil-A was bullied into making this decision?
NYDAILYNEWS.COM reports:
Chick-Fil-A had plenty of support for its anti-gay-marriage stance, but in the end, the restaurant chain chickened out.
Read More: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/chick-fil...
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American Nate 2012/09/20 20:43:06
I never made any attempt to infringe upon their civil rights. I agreed right from the beginning that Cathy has the right to say what he wants. My response was to spend my money where I wanted, and that was anywhere other than Chic-Fil-A. This is bullying?
Despite my feeling on this matter, "Being Bullied" sounds to me like a more rational response than "Beautiful." I doubt the decision to stop those donations was done with smiles and laughter. I find it more likely that, as a corporation, the mounting losses were causing stockholders to lose confidence in the company's financial growth.
I hope I'm wrong. I hope they simply realized what a horrible thing it is to discriminate against against others, and that no major loss (or threat of major loss) provided the fuel for this change.
If I'm right then let's face it: There's nothing beautiful about that, and it doesn't inspire a need for waffle fries.
If you don't agree with them then they are totally intolerant!!! Only how they feel is right not yours. From now on I'm pushing back, because our country is going down hill because of this type of thinking politically correct BS!!! Tell it like it is, say it like it is...don't like it...get out of my way!
I don't eat at those places anyway so, let the bigots get disgustingly fat and unhealthy.
Unfortunately, we now know that Dan Cathy has stated Chick-Fil-A was doing no such thing.
Only a fool would make such a foolish statement.
How about Jeff Bezos the founder and president of Amazon.com donating $2.5 million to hate groups.
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In fact, I'd love to hear you explain why YOUR definition of "marriage" should be oppressing a man who wants to marry his dog. Have at it.
LGBT activists and supporters cannot have it both ways ...
Yep, when the smoke clears and the state of the intellectual battlefield is revealed, many strawmen will lay dead on this thread. This is one of them. ;-)
Kenny T. said: " ... false[ly] equivocate ... "
So, in other words, you missed my point and went after another strawman.
Oh well, I guess that is par for the course in heated discussions like these.
Anyways, onward to other comment threads ...
We are talking about the integrity of a social institution, a right, "... endowed by our Creator" (to quote our founding document). Marriage, like all rights, do not emanate from the State, as they do in communist and tyrannical systems. The State is not over the individual, but the individual is over the State, and God is over all (again, please read the Declaration of Independence).
I could even somewhat understand arguments for "gay marriage" if there were any science to it at all. But one is not born gay. There is no genetic component to sexual orientation like there is for race and gender. You are formed into it by choice, trauma, etc ... There is no more "genetic evidence" for sexual orientation than for any other human appetite, such as eating, drinking, musical preference, etc ... Should we legalize rape and beastiality as "legitimate" forms of sexual expression in "marriage"? For you to be consistent, you would have to answer that question in the affirmative.
Therefore, the State has no place altering the definition of marriage. It exists, unlike taxes and traffic regulations, et al ..., apart from the State. ...
We are talking about the integrity of a social institution, a right, "... endowed by our Creator" (to quote our founding document). Marriage, like all rights, do not emanate from the State, as they do in communist and tyrannical systems. The State is not over the individual, but the individual is over the State, and God is over all (again, please read the Declaration of Independence).
I could even somewhat understand arguments for "gay marriage" if there were any science to it at all. But one is not born gay. There is no genetic component to sexual orientation like there is for race and gender. You are formed into it by choice, trauma, etc ... There is no more "genetic evidence" for sexual orientation than for any other human appetite, such as eating, drinking, musical preference, etc ... Should we legalize rape and beastiality as "legitimate" forms of sexual expression in "marriage"? For you to be consistent, you would have to answer that question in the affirmative.
Therefore, the State has no place altering the definition of marriage. It exists, unlike taxes and traffic regulations, et al ..., apart from the State. What is the real agenda behind "gay marriage"? It is the legal ramifications that will be unleashed from a legal recognition of unions to be "marriage" that are nothing more than simply non-marriage legal unions. Churches will be forced to "marry" gay people or be shut down/sued, etc ... Public AND PRIVATE schools will be mandated to teach forms of perversion, such as homosexuality, beastiality, rape, etc ... as "normal".
Again, the goal is the elimination of God from society and the suppression of mankind by the State.
No matter how hard you try, you're never going to convince most of the nation that we can do a Marcus Bachman "PRAY THE GAY AWAY" rain dance and expect gay people to give their lives to Jesus.
You need to go back to school to learn the meaning of the SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.
If you continue your backwards thinking, you'll go the way of the Puritans and Salem Witch trials. The rest of the nation will just progress without you.
Mark my words.
So you dumb as dirt right wing trash didn't know one of the REASONS for playing hardball with this cheesy fast food joint was all along they were funding anti-gay campaigns. Kind of twists their preceived pretence for free speech now doesn't it.
The right wing view on "free speech" is they get to babble whatever they fund, fund scum outfits under the table, all under the cover of its free speech. But if somebody objects to their obviously biased views they get all bend out of shape and try to rally with the retard squad (right wingers) to their cause.
Nearly every issue seen on Soadhead one way or another usually ends up exposing how utterly stupid and uneducated conservative actually are. This is just another example.
Press suckered by Chick-fil-A fairytale
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/ga...
The joke is on you fool.
You spew those lies and rhetoric and claim to be a Christian?
Do the world a favor and jump off the edge of the earth to never be seen or heard again.
You're the one that accepted the lie as truth and you're telling me to grow a brain?
It's not the first nor the last time you've accepted the lie as truth as you are too foolish to see the errors of your ways and will continue to do so.