Is Chick-fil-A anti-gay marriage? 'Guilty as charged,' leader says
source: http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-chick-fil-a-gay-20120718,0,3020372.story
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Chick-fil-A is “very much supportive of the family,” according to Dan Cathy, president of the popular fast food chain. That is, “the biblical definition of the family unit,” he said.And that doesn’t include Adam and Steve, suggests Cathy, whose father S. Truett Cathy founded the Atlanta-based company.
In a new interview with Baptist Press, Cathy puts on the record what critics say his company’s actions have indicated for years. “Well, guilty as charged,” he said in the interview when asked about Chick-fil-A’s backing of families led by a man and a woman.
“We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives,” Cathy said.
The chain, according to the report, has 1,608 restaurants, sales of more than $4 billion and employees who are trained “to focus on values rooted in the Bible.” Chick-fil-A's across the country shut down on Sundays.
“We don’t claim to be a Christian business," Cathy said. "But as an organization we can operate on biblical principles.”
Last year, protesters accused Chick-fil-A of supporting an anti-gay agenda with donations, which the company has steadily denied. The company could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.
Full Story: http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-chick-fil-a-gay-20120718,0,302037...
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Radical_Centrist
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Like I said before I do not believe I have the right to shove my Religious beliefs down other peoples throats, so I support Marriage Equality. That being said I do not believe the Mayor of a City has the authority to make a Business persona non grata because he does not agree with the political views of it's owner either.
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Radical_Centrist
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Varex_Sythe
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Uh, did someone actually ask this guy for his opinion, or did he just whip it out there to cause a reaction?
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Varex_Sythe
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Varex_Sythe:
So, no one is going to answer my question, just going to vote it down...
So I guess that means nobody like the question, which implies that nobody likes the answer.
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BobHorning
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Why does anybody care about this? Either buy their chicken or don't. It's nobody's business what they believe, they don't hurt one single person except if you count all those people buying soda at their stores. Drink mo waata. Personally I like when people speak for good and what's right regardless of the backlash. I still watch a movie once and a while even though the producers, directors and actors all seem to believe differently than I.
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BobHorning:
Excellent! For Left-wingers, however, EVERYTHING is political. They coined the phrase, "the politics of meaning." This means that there is NOTHING outside of politics. One's work, one's friends, one's romantic relationships, one's method of childrearing, the movies one watches, the material one reads, even how one has sex has some kind of political meaning for Left-wingers.
Heck, even the history books and literature in school become political: The Left-wingers have pressured textbook publishers for quotas: The precise number of Liberal "chosen ones" must appear in the right proportion, or the wrath of the Left is upon the school system and publishers.
Nothing escapes politics with Left-wingers. Nothing.
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BobHorning
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Mishima:
I prefer to leave labels in my drawer. There is an agenda in our country to totally rework the whole fabric of our being. It isn't new, just louder now since media is available to every single brain cell out there. Secondly, if you read the man's comments in the original interview in the context, he says not one thing derogatory nor demeaning to anyone whatsoever. He's a loving man and Chick-fil-A is very successful to the point that they do more business in 6 days than their competitors do in 7... that always makes you a target. Thx for the reply.
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BobHorning:
You make excellent sense!
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I thought I was going to miss Chick-fil-A:
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Gordon_Shumway
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maasanova
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Why would a chicken restaurant have to be either for or against gay marriage?
They are in the business of selling fast food not marriage licenses.
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maasanova
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OlBlue
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maasanova:
Chicken Nazis.
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OlBlue
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MedinaDad
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maasanova:
Why would Walt Disney come out in support of gay rights? People do it for their belief systems which are one of the many rights established by the Constitution.
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MedinaDad:
Left-wingers are incredibly intolerant. They proclaim that they are "tolerant," but their spurious tolerance is only one thing: That one values and adheres to the values that THEY think are important and should be valued.
If a person has beliefs that do not align with the Leftist dogma, then that person's beliefs are labeled "intolerant." Theirs is the worst intolerance of all: Intolerance for different beliefs.
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MedinaDad
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Mishima:
AMEN! Oh, wait is that offensive? Perhaps I should say something the LIberals would understand. Ain't no thing!
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maasanova:
Why does Office Max collect money to support Gay marriages in their stores? They advertise Lady Ga-Ga's foundation for gay marriage and have gaurenteed $1Million.
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MedinaDad
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Mishima:
...so laughably ridiculous the propaganda that spews directly from the right-wing-corproate-FASCIST-party idealogy.
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MSII
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MedinaDad:
"Why does Radio Shack ask for your phone number to buy batteries?"
Who the fuck knows!
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OlBlue:
Ha!!
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Mishima:
Ahhh. So you see Progressives as intolerant of intolerance, therefore we are the intolerant. Projection again. You do the same thing with other civil rights issues as will. Then there are the rights that you like to call "entitlements". Projection. (Yawn)
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rerushg:
No, Leftists are intolerant of beliefs that do not align with theirs. I was clear. Don't ask me to repeat it again and again. Read the sentence. It is clear, it is short.
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Mishima:
"It is clear, it is short."
Yes. It is again revealing. - 10 months ago
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rerushg:
Truth! Well said! Nothing more then the same ol blah, blah, blah from her.
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MSII
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MSII
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rerushg:
it is clear, it is short, and it is LIES.
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MSII
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OlBlue
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Mishima:
Clear and short. WTF? An invisible dachshund crapping on my yard is clear and short but that don't make it right.
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OlBlue
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BobHorning
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maasanova:
Read the original interview. Not one mention of gay marriage. So what is wrong with a traditional marriage and staying married to one woman? Not to mention, he was just answering the questions put before him.
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BobHorning
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Corporate Christian hate - more proof of the corrosive and oppressive nature of religious superstition.
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unimatrix0:
So if we don't agree with you and are Christian, we are haters? Perhaps the guy understands what is good for society and spoke his mind. Notice how he referenced his leadership team is still with their first spouses. I would hope that pro-values isn't anti-gay.
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Last time I checked in the Bible, Adam gave birth to Eve........Now thats pretty weird isn't it!? This unbelievable fable of a rib from Adam to make Eve has always bothered me for some reason, oh thats it.... REASON!
And while we are at it, this ones for you chick filet....
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kennymotown:
Where do you think McRibs came from? Divinely inspired? Maybe.........
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OlBlue:
Possibly! LOL
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Truthitswhatsfordinner:
I have. many of times! :)
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Paratus
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I don't eat there but certainly not for this reason. This would not stop me from having a chicken sandwich at their counter.
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freecrack
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the biblical defenition?
so they are all for married men having multiple wives and concubines from wich they just reproduce to a rate well beyong their ability to handle thus requiring social services?of course they are anti-gay marraige, they are a fervent religious entity.as is also dominos pizza who gives more to religious based cuases than would seem resonable by any standard.shit by me they spent literally hundreds of millions of dollars to build a town based on their christian values.while all other developement halted, they keep going as pizza money is what is funding their real estate venture.
they even call the town "ave maria"
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cw9000:
No idea about the prices haven't eaten at 1 of them in a couple years. So called "fast food" might be fast, but it aint food! I don't touch the stuff myself in general only on the -very- rarest of occasions some french fries for instance.
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JanforGore:
Another great reason to stay away from them all!
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JanforGore:
Yeah but thats not going to happen.
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OlBlue:
I agree
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JanforGore:
As a rule I do not eat fast food nor do i allow my Daughter to eat it, but Chick-Fil-A is our occasional guilty pleasure.
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jackhole
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He Ain't no thing but a chicken wing!
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It bums me out to know that I will never patronize this company again. I like their food, but they will never get another penny from my wife or me. Unless this stance changes and more publicity is given to the change than this receives, I'm done with em.
Cows... look out!
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5 food companies run by radical right wingers: Here's the list.
http://www.alternet.org/story/156405/5_food_companies_run_by_radical_right-winge...
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Leen61:
Wow Sis -- great minds really do even read alike :-)! I was just over there reading that exact article (I thought that was the article that was posted here)! I trust Alternet to write the truth so I have no reason to doubt that chick-fil-a is a rightwing organization.
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wolfess:
"Wow Sis -- great minds really do even read alike :-)!" How about that, hey?! :)
I trust Alternet was well, Sis.
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wolfess:
They are so far to the right that they don't sell left chicken wings.
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Leen61:
The other four companies:
White Castle
Domino’s Pizza
Carl’s Jr
Waffle House
Thank you for the information.
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Leen61:
Do you post on Alternet? I do as "HeretoSpeak." Let me know please.
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Leen61:
AWESOME. Now I know who to support. Much thanks to you
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I haven't been to a Chick-fil-A in a long time. Now, knowing this, I never have to go back to one.
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Leen61:
Same!
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Well Chick-Fil-A, there are lots of choices out there, and your decision to support limiting the choices of some, will result in many people no longer choosing your establishment.
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OlBlue
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Reason number 88 to be a vegetarian.
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OlBlue:
second that....
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Do you hear that a National Same-Sex Kiss Day at Chick-Fil-A will be held for August 3?
Check the FB event for more details: https://www.facebook.com/events/444598242237116/
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rluz:
Priceless!
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rluz:
Excellent!
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rluz:
It will be held at every restaurant across the country. I just checked the site.
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I also am boycotting chick fil-A and Domino's pizza, another big right wing contributor. Have not patronized either of them for decades.
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mrpuma2u:
FYI - Domino's was founded by a hardcore pro-lifer, but the company was sold about a decade ago and no longer makes political contributions. (I really love their cinna-stix, but I love being pro-choice even more, so I made a personal inquiry on this matter.) You can order pizza from them guilt-free!
(if anyone has evidence to the contrary, please let me know and I will certainly stop ordering from them.)
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JessMag:
Check the list I just posted here.
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Leen61:
That list backs me up -- the company was founded by a hardcore pro-lifer, but he sold it a while ago. So if you buy pizza from them now, you aren't funding pro-life organizations. I understand boycotting it in terms of ideology, but as long as my dollars aren't funding that stuff, I'll eat their pizza.
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JessMag:
I'm happy the list backed you up, JessMag. It was good for you to know that. :)
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JessMag:
I appreciate the Dominos update, but I have nice locally owned pizza joint I patronize, local businesses put their $$$ back into their communities.
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JessMag:
While that is your right, you are definately on the fringe.
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MedinaDad:
"you are definately on the fringe."
that's rich, it really is coming from someone obviously preaching the right-wing agenda, which -IS- the very definition of extreme fringe.
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MedinaDad:
On the fringe of what? Pizza-researching technology?
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I used to like them, and those cute french fries of theirs, but after this revelation they're BOYCOTTED by me.
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Fil-A-Chick is what I think when I drive past these "restaurants."
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I just read that The Jim Henson Company cut ties to Chick-fil-A because of it's anti-gay policies: http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/07/23/563571/muppets-abandon-chick-fil-a-beca...
Team Miss Piggy.
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rluz:
Image if a company had cut ties with one of the many anti-Christian organizations. The outrage wouldn't be heard.
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MedinaDad:
Exactly!
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rluz:
More like National Spread STD Day.
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Chick-fil-A is the only Fast Food place I eat at on a semi-regular basis. I do not agree with their stand on Gay Marriage, but their Grilled Chicken Sandwich is the bomb.
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Radical_Centrist:
that's the reason I don't eat at chik-fil-a, their grilled chicken sandwich gave me food poisoning.
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cw9000:
Maybe they figured you to be a heathen (liberal) and they put a little powder from the Lord (arsenic) on your fil-a.
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OlBlue:
You probably right (LOL)
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