Posted on 09/22/2012 12:10:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
DALLAS — Until Wednesday, SMU’s SPECTRUM was planning on launching a 13-week boycott of the on-campus Chick-fil-A. As a member, I intended on participating in the boycott.
However, on Wednesday morning, the company announced that it has stopped donating money to anti-gay hate groups, such as the Family Research Council and Exodus International. The donations were the cause of the LGBT community’s ire this summer.
Chick-fil-A also issued a “Who We Are” internal memo declaring that its company tradition “is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect – regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender.”
Obviously, this means that we succeeded. The LGBT community won this particular battle against institutionalized corporate bigotry by taking a firm and public stand against it. We won by educating our friends, recruiting our allies, and raising awareness. The nation-wide boycott of Chick-fil-A was a good idea, and it worked.
Now, in the wake of these events, we must reflect and consider how – and if – history will remember the past few months.
I fully supported the boycott effort. When Dan Cathy’s statements about marriage equality went public, I didn’t think much of it; in fact I thought, of course – they’re a “Christian” company. Although soon after, the fact that Chick-fil-a donated millions to hate groups who support conversion therapy and the criminalization of homosexuality was publicized, and I was overcome with anger.
“Who died and made Chick-fil-A arbiter of the will of the Almighty?” I asked myself.
I was further enraged when conservative hotheads Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin downplayed the issue at hand as a free speech debate and launched the infamous Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day.
How demeaning, indeed, to obfuscate the facts of the issue, and advocate a company that financially supports the attempted subjugation of a minority.
Moreover, I felt alienated and betrayed when a friend or family member chose a sandwich over me. I felt pretty worthless to find out my value as a human being was less than $6 – the cost of a combo meal.
Honestly, I didn’t have very high expectations of Spectrum’s boycott at this predominately red university in this predominately red state. I figured we would bring attention to an ignorant and indifferent student population, and I’d feel like I was being proactive. I would have considered changing one opinion a phenomenal success.
So when someone said to me that this intended boycott was “pointless and petty,” I knew it wasn’t. It is never pointless and petty to voice one’s opinion in a public forum. That’s the point of democracy. I respect this right for everyone. I even had a civil conversation with the religious protesters at Pride this past Sunday.
I understand that many people just weren’t as passionate about this issue as I was – and that’s their choice. Not everyone can be a bleeding heart.
What I want everyone to know is that gay people are simply people trying to live their lives as completely as anyone else. And no one – neither Chick-fil-A, nor any other group or individual – has a right to impede that.
Not only are human rights not filling, they taste terrible and come at an incredible cost.
I’ll take the sandwich.
I don’t care too much for most humans to be perfectly honest.
I’ll take a chicken sandwich combo any day over their “gay rights” crap...LOL
There is no “human right” to force other people to approve of sodomy.
That’s all “gay marriage” is: A demand that mainstream society approve of a practice that is filthy and contrary to nature.
Fine - let 'em have it. Churches should promote "covenant marriage" with strict obligations and no government involvement in any way. See how many LBGT-ers demand their human right to sign up for that. :)
This kid is both gay. And young. So the utopian bullsh!t is really heavy. And I love how he uses buzzwords - even though he has no clue as to what he’s talking about.
I wasn’t aware it was a choice. If I wanna eat, I eat.
I don’t think about poor starvin turd burgling pygmies.
Tara called: they want their drama queen back....
“Moreover, I felt alienated and betrayed when a friend or family member chose a sandwich over me. I felt pretty worthless to find out my value as a human being was less than $6 – the cost of a combo meal.”
What a narcissist. Agreeing with Christ’s view of marriage in Matthew 19:4-6 and appreciating Chick-Fill-A has nothing to do with this person. I bet this person is most likely a pro-abort who has no trouble with the preborn child being stripped of his or her right to life. The only things homosexual persons are being denied in our nation is the “right” to have the government increase its involvement in their personal lives and the “right” to persecute Christians and others who disagree with them.
What I want everyone to know is that gay people are simply people trying to live their lives as completely as anyone else. And no one – neither Chick-fil-A, nor any other group or individual – has a right to impede that.
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I am SO sick of the homosexual agenda. The world is on fire and all they can do is whaaa f’ing whaaa! Write a will, give power of attorney, have a civil union—then sit down and stfu you attention w’s!
Exactly. Homosexual persons have all the negative rights(the list of things the government cannot do to its citizens) that everyone else does. What they want are so-called “positive rights” which always result in taking away the negative rights of another.
Typical SMU Daily Compost material. The type of student newspaper where you look at the ads and skip the articles if you need bathroom reading material.
Bullcr@p! You SHOVE your sin into our faces on a daily basis. You DEMAND your sin have "rights".
We are ALL sinners. The HUGH & SERIES difference between you and us.....we DON'T take pride in our sin. We don't have PRIDE PARADES for our sins, whether homo or proud sluts.
Instead, we ask forgiveness for our sins and try not to repeat them (some very hard to do, but we keep trying). Perhaps we may not make the same sin again and again, but we will make new ones. That is our nature.
Once again.....WE DO NOT TAKE PRIDE IN OUR SINS AND HAVE PARADES FOR THEM. You are nothing but a sick bunch of demonic a$$holes who spit in His face whenever you get an opportunity.
YOU ARE THE ENEMY. PERIOD, END OF STORY.
“Who died and made Chick-fil-A arbiter of the will of the Almighty?” I asked myself.
WHO DIED AND PUT GAY PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF MORALS FOR EVERYONE?
Yeah, that’s one group of people that I’M going to look to for advice about upright moral living right there. Freaking diseased, morally bankrupt perverts.
You are worth less than a 6 combo meal:
When people were told they were worth only 98 cents they were shocked,” Dr. Monsen said. “They feel better knowing they are $5.60.” But if we can free ourselves from bodily designations, understand that we’re not these bodies at all, and recognize who we really are there’s no limit to how much better we shall feel.
Hint:
Gay marriage is NOT a “right”!
It is a bastardization of a sacred union, between one man and one woman.
Primarily, it is an attempt to mainstream deviant behavior, and force the rest of the world to endorse it.
Instead of the "it's me not you", in this case, it IS you. Get back in the closet where you belong.
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