Posted on 08/06/2012 12:39:12 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On Wednesday, Chick-fil-A restaurants around the country turned into mob scenes, as customers turned out for what Mike Huckabee termed “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day.” The company says it was their best sales day ever. At some locations, customers waited in line for hours for food.
I hope Tom Menino is happy. Because this controversy has hurt, not helped, the cause of gay marriage. And it is largely Menino’s fault.
A couple of weeks ago, the company was desperate to get out of the spotlight. CEO Dan Cathy’s remarks against gay marriage had sparked consumer outrage and threatened to damage the company’s brand.
But then came Menino — and after him, a parade of other municipal officials — threatening to punish Chick-fil-A for the comments of its CEO and the political activities of its owners. Express policy views we disagree with? We’ll block you from doing business in our city.
Under pressure, Menino walked back his comments, saying he can’t actually keep Chick-fil-A out of Boston. Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno hasn’t been so circumspect, as he continues to make demands about what the company must do before he’ll allow them a permit to build in his ward.
Chick-fil-A no longer has to answer for its CEOs’ position on gay marriage.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Washington Mayor Vincent Gray, and New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn also added their unhelpful voices to the chorus. Gray took to Twitter to say that “#hatechicken” should stay out of the District of Columbia. In doing so, these city officials changed the subject, and not in a good way for advocates of gay marriage. Chick-fil-A no longer has to answer for its CEO’s position on gay marriage and its owners’ support of organizations that oppose gay rights...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
I live thousands of miles away from the closest CFA store. Yet after reading all these threads I’ve got a major hankerin’ for some sweet tea - and waffle fries, whatever they are. Preferably, served by the lovely Rachel, in the drive-through.
I notice that Ny state only has one listed and it’s in ny city. Western Ny could use a few. Our KFC’s and Popeyes are terrible, and our veiws are not nycities.
I stopped in Chick-Fil-A yesterday afternoon for a sandwich. I love the original regular chicken sandwich smeared with the original regular Chick-Fil-A sauce. Delicious. I parked and walked inside because the drive-thru line was pretty long.
I have a feeling the people working at Chick-Fil-A have been cautioned not to engage in any conversation with the customers that isn’t food related. I asked if they had been busy lately and got only a quick, “Yep.” “Good”, I replied, and left with my delicious sandwich.
I enjoy reading the whining of simple faggots like Josh Barro.
Makes me chuckle.
“Cathy's remarks AGAINST gay marriage?!?!”
He did no such damn thing!!!
His remarks were IN FAVOR of the Biblical definition of marriage—if the homos have to twist that into a negative then they are so consumed with an evil deranged phobia for Christians it should be called not “gay” but “Hate Marriage!”
When are San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Washington Mayor Vincent Gray, and New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn going to do something about the hate from muslims, La Raza, and the New Black Pampers?
Crickets chirping.
...”Is this the Soviet Union or Saudi Arabia?”...
Not yet..We’ll see what the verdict is in November.
Best Comment Award for this day goes to you.
Regarding your sig:
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I was really bothered by the language used in this article. I’m pro traditional marriage—not anti anything. To me there’s nothing “gay” about my definition except in the original meaning of the word.
BUT that is just it. Liberals NEVER learn when not to push it or to cross the line.
It is in their genes. Give them an inch, they will demand another 12 yards.
And when push comes to shove, Libs always double down on stooopid.
You got that right.
We can safely conclude these haters hold the same vile contempt for the rest of us that hate-filled La Raza has no compunction about demonstrating. Read on.
AN EXAMINATION OF RAZA STUDIES SCHOOL CURRICULUM FINANCED BY TAXPAYERS: Textbook titled “Occupied America,” by Rodolfo Acuña, includes a speech given by university professor Jose Angel Gutierrez: “We have got to eliminate the gringo, and if worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him,” (pg. 323). The book also talks about the need for the govt of Mexico to re-take seven states in SW United States.
These shocking quotes are taken directly from Occupied America (pg. 167): “Supporters would execute all white males over age 16,” (also known as the Plan of San Diego). “Southwest USA would become a Chicano nation.”
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LA RAZA AND VOTE-CRAZED POLITICIANS ARE COLLUDING TO FORCE TAX-FINANCED VIOLENCE AGAINST AMERICANS IN EXCHANGE FOR LATINO VOTES
In 2005 alone, $7.9 million in taxpayer funding was given to La Raza charter schools in the form of US Dept of Education grants. These schools stress Latino culture, the Spanish language, the re-conquest of the American Southwest, the establishment of the mythical Atzlan on US soil, and even Aztec math.
In addition to using taxpayer funds to enforce the teaching of murder and violence in US public schools, the federally-funded La Raza organization operates 100 charter schools across America. A selection:
Academia Semillas del Pueblo (Los Angeles)
Atzlan Academy (Tucson, AZ)
Mexicayotl Academy (Nogales, AZ)
The Dolores Huerta Prepatory High School (Pueblo, CO)
Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School (St. Paul, MN)
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NOTE "Raza Studies" had been taught in Arizona public schools for a decade......until AZ lawmakers recently passed a law against it and it's violent America-hating agenda.
Huh?????????????????????????????????????????????
Thanks for posting this! I got to:
“Because this controversy has hurt, not helped, the cause of gay marriage.” And then I LOL’d!
>> Why should Chick-fil-A have to “answer” for it’s CEOs religious beliefs?
Well, he must answer to the LORD — and I think Mr. Cathy has a righteous and pleasing answer ready for Him.
The real question is, when will the *sodomites* answer for *their* perverted beliefs? Will Bible-believing Christians gain back enough “critical mass” to call them to repentence before it’s too late? Or will they remain stiffnecked until judgment day?
All things are possible with God. Pray for revival.
“mob scene”.
Hardly. People calmly and patiently standing in line is not a mob scene. How condescending can the media become.......
Occupy protesters, clad in bandanas, defecating on police cars, now that is a mob scene. Families calmly standing in line to buy chicken isn’t.
The whole Chick-fil-A thing has driven the media mad. Good.
In effect YES. We have established Humanism as our state religion, and Cathy committed heresy against that religion.
All who do not bend their knee shall be punished.
DON'T JUST STAND THERE EATING A
LUSCIOUS DELUXE CHICK-Fil-A SANDWICH.
DO SOMETHING.
OUR NEXT MOVE: We demand Chick-Fil- A stores be opened in those areas that vocally oppose them.
AND in our own locations, we call local govt to demand Chick-Fil-A stores be opened as a sign that we affirm free speech---(AND love their sandwiches).
Might also suggest that the lack of Chick-Fil-A stores might even be construed as a denial of our consitutional rights (/snick).
No way Ohaha's gonna touch that issue.
Mmmmmmm.....remember the goofy, dorky look Obama had on his face after he came out for SSM....knowing his sucking up to gays had shot Romney's numbers into the stratosphere? That was a memorable Ohaha campaign flop....one of Team Ohaha's many flops.
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Walking it back.
"Duh, when I said I was for same sex marriage,
I certainly did not mean SSM for humans."
Washington’s Gray is having enough trouble staying out of jail for his corruption, Maybe he should just keep his mouth shut.
Get it yet lib lurkers? Ring ring, this is you're wake up call. The only intolerance, hate, and discrimination here is all coming from the allegedly "enlightened" left. You guys have become a sick caricature of that which you supposedly fight against.
Its Iced Tea...no milk...
Its not a hot cuppa...
Mayor Thomas (ANYTHING FOR A VOTE) Menino, hater of Christians, morality, modesty, and lover of indecency, immorality and sodomy. One thing I do thank Menino for is he is bringing the Lord one step closer to the Second Coming.
with the left I have just relied on the old tried and true——ya can’t cure stupid
I love all of the photos of Mitt Romney eating the Chik-fil-A sandwiches. Oh, you haven’t seen any? Well neither has anyone else. PLEASE tell me there is SOME way we can avoid nominating him at the convention.
The difference betweent the left and right is you don’t see any mayors on the right trying to prevent Target or General Mills,etc from being in “their” city.
See who’s “tolerant” ?
To a member of the news media, a Democrat or a Democrat voter, a Communist the truth means nothing. They merely ignore it and continue with their lies. Only their fellow fools believe them, but their numbers are many.
I don't think he's simple. A quick search produced a number of common sense articles on economics.
Barro's misapplication of "bullies" to the free market Chick-Fil-A and not the abusers of political power leans toward the rest of your phrase.
Conservaterian, Romney WILL be nominated at the republican convention and Obama WILL be nominated at the democratic convention.
A question for you. Which of the two will you vote for in November?
Heh, heh, heh——maybe Mitty prefers eating “fudge.”
Its Chicago. Like Africa, but the machetes are more subtle.
While in line at CFA, Wednesday, I made the point that
“I hope there’s this much passion and turnout in November!”
I said it more than once, hoping to have the attention of varying crowds as the line snaked around the building.
Each time I received multiple, positive replies.
Keep in mind, the CFA lines weren’t “Republican lines”.
And then, after ‘gay marriage is the norm everywhere’, we can move on to sanctioned bigamy, marrying animals, small children, etc., etc. Just prove how totally idiotic we can be!
And then, after ‘gay marriage is the norm everywhere’, we can move on to sanctioned bigamy, marrying animals, small children, etc., etc. Just prove how totally idiotic we can be!
Christian derangement syndrome on display; looks like the “kiss-in” was a dismal failure compared to Chick-fil-A Day. You notice the only hate on display nowadays is from the homosexual lobby and their silly liberal friends.
Sorry to hijack your conversation. I will not vote for Romney. I will probably write in Palin. I would prefer Obama win and the Tea Party capture the Senate. That will insure a trial of Obama on impeachment charges. For the sake of our country liberalism must be destroyed. Romney only postpones that eventuality.
If the homos had shut down Chik-fil-A this same reporter would have been ecstatic that it worked, and written a story on how 'activism' was so wonderful
(On Wednesday, Chick-fil-A restaurants around the country turned into mob scenes,)
I SAW NO MOB SCENES AND I WAS AT A CHICK-FIL-A!
(The company says it was their best sales day ever.)
THAT IS VERY LIKELY THE WORLDS BIGGEST UNDERSTATEMENT.
(Because this controversy has hurt, not helped, the cause of gay marriage. And it is largely Menino’s fault.)
WHILE IT DID NOT HELP WHAT HURTS HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE THE MOST IS HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISM
(Chick-fil-A no longer has to answer for its CEOs’ position on gay marriage.)
IT NEVER HAD TO. THIS ISSUE WAS FLAMED BY THE MEDIA IN THEIR ATTEMPT TO PUSH THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA. THE COMPANY COULD AS EASILY SAID PISS OFF.........
No one on this thread is qualified to to interpret maymenina's remarcations subjeck withou he ceive Howie Carr Screw '0' Execution Sefticate.
For all you people know, Maymeninoff was pusilating that the chikens use inna Chickalay are queer an he doan wan'em bost.
So back offa Mayameninit.
Get the people on this anti-boston thread ping
Nonsense! Typical leftist drivel, coming from the Boston Globe. The only people outraged by Mr. Cathy's remarks were the leftists who would never go to a CFA to begin with, and they worked themselves into a lather over the nerve of a Christian to say he believes in the traditional definition of marriage. They're an echo chamber, and it's reminiscent of the story of how some leftist journalist couldn't believe that President Reagan had won by a landslide, because "he didn't know anyone who voted for Reagan!"
Mark
“I would prefer Obama win and the Tea Party capture the Senate. That will insure a trial of Obama on impeachment charges.”
RIIIIIIIGHT.
Earth to Louis Foxwell ... return to base.
Any other fantasies you’d like to share with us?
Yes. The same one that drove Nixon from office.
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