Chick-fil-A, the tasty and delicious fast food chain famous for its Christian values, has come under attack once again for being anti-gay. It’s no secret that the company operates with biblical influence -- heck, it even closes up shop on Sundays to observe the Sabbath.
In an interview with the Baptist Press on Monday, company President Dan Cathy reasserted the family-values culture the company tries to embody. He said:
We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that.
Oh my gosh, alert the presses that there is a company that espouses family values! How dare they, as a private company, stand up for their beliefs? I mean, what has this county come to? How dare they stay married to their first wives!
Side note: Do you know who else believes that marriage is between one man and one woman? Barack Obama, circa 2011.
People need to take a chill pill. If I boycotted every restaurant, clothing line, and entertainment provider, whose political ideology I disagreed with, I’d be hungry, naked, and bored. How does one’s stance on gay marriage affect chicken sandwiches and waffle fries? It doesn’t.
Chick-fil-A has gotten some seriously undeserved feedback for simply stating that they’re supportive of traditional marriage. Who cares? What does that have to do with chicken? Are they refusing to serve people based on their sexual orientation or their stance on gay marriage? Maybe that would be a story worth reporting.
Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno is even threatening to block the restaurant chain from opening a second store in the “increasingly trendy” Northwest Side ward. Why does Mr. Moreno want to deprive his constituents of flaky biscuits? Furthermore, is he going to go around to every business in his district and ask if they support gay marriage, and shut them down if they don’t? Yeah, that’ll be good for the economy.
This whole thing is silly. This is a private company, and the personal views of Dan Cathy have nothing to do with the product they provide or the service they offer. They’re not refusing to serve anyone based on their sexual orientation, race, or gender.
Give Chick-fil-A a break, and as the cows say: “Eat Mor Chikin.”
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They are free to have whatever policy they like. I am free to boycott them because of hteir policy or their support for homophobic campaigns.
On what do you base your claim that Chick-fil-A is getting all "butt-hurt" over this latest liberal PC-hate campaign?
Also... Nah, too easy...
I'm going to say this again...It is not hate to disagree with an action. I am not homophobic for disagreeing with the choice to act on homosexual desires. I neither hate nor fear nor mistreat people who are gay. I do not support nor condone the choice to act on homosexual desires. I do not hate gays. Hate, however, is the perfect word to describe the treatment by gay advocates towards those who disagree with them. Hate, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is "intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury". How this perfectly describes everyone here slinging the term homophobe around, swearing at, or otherwise insulting and/or attacking those who disagree with them.
Instead, Autumnleaves, you'll waste your time making inane, weak insults that just show your inability to engage intelligently.
Floridamom96 - I will answer your question. Same-sex couples are not reconized under the law. They are denied social security benefits(spousal surviror benefits, spousal retirement benefits, lump sum death benefits) and tax benefits(filing joint income returns with the IRS, creating a "family partnership") as well as many other benefits under federal law. I read there are over one thousand federal laws in which marriage status is a factor.
Great answer, CPN322. I would also add that gay military service members are denied the same benefits that straight service members receive. I know a couple that's dealing with this personally, and it doesn't matter that one partner is risking her life to serve her country (she's actually deployed in Afghanistan right now)--because they are gay, they do not receive the same rights and recognition that heterosexual couples do.
CPN322, thank you for answering. Gay people have the exact same access to government recognized marriage that heterosexual people have. No difference whatsoever. What homosexuals, and their advocates, seek is, in fact, special legal privileges not allowed other people, government recognition of a union between two people of the same gender. Right now any person in the United States who has reached the age of legal consent and is not already married to someone else may marry any willing person of the opposite sex who has reached the age of legal consent and is not already married to another person. Homosexuals, and their advocates, are further demanding societal acceptance of their union as exactly the same as a heterosexual marriage. Marriage, though legally recognized as beneficial to society at large, is neither created nor defined by government. As such the government cannot redefine it.
Floridamom96, you're right that hate is not synonymous with disagreeing with an action. I have many family members who do not support or condone homosexuality, and most of them don't "hate" gays and lesbians.
However, Chick-fil-A is not simply disagreeing with marriage equality; they are actively working to undermine it. Knowing that a portion of their proceeds goes to organizations that seek to keep gays and lesbians from enjoying equal rights, I choose not to support them. This is not to say that Chick-fil-A doesn't have the right to hold whatever views it wants--but I don't have to support it.
If you agree with Chick-fil-A's stance, you can eat there all you want. The beauty of living in a free country is that we can all choose which messages and agendas we want to endorse.