Posted on 07/19/2012 6:07:05 PM PDT by scottjewell
Chick-fil-A took a stand on gay marriage this week—a trend that may be due to pressure from gay right's advocates.
Pressure from gay right’s advocates may have led the top official fast-food chain Chick-fil-A—which has a location in Murrieta—to take a public position on same-sex marriage.
This week Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy said his privately-owned company is against gay unions.
Chad Griffin, president of the gay right’s non-profit Human Rights Campaign, said in a released statement Thursday that Chick-fil-A "has finally come clean" after hiding in the closet.
“Chick-fil-A is headed by a man who is proud of his company’s anti-LGBT giving and has made some extremist statements concerning marriage equality. Consumers now have to decide if that’s the kind of company they want to give their money to,” the Human Rights Campaign statement read.
This week when the Chick-fil-A president declared his company’s “guilty as charged” position on gay marriage, he added, “We’re inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say we know better than You as to what constitutes marriage.”
Human Rights Campaign and other organizations like it have pressured top government officials and business leaders to state their positions on gay marriage and gay rights, claiming that voters and consumers have a right to know.
Human Rights Campaign currently hosts a website that includes a “Buyer’s Guide” that rates businesses and brands on equality practices. Out of a possible score of 100, Chick-fil-A received a zero from Human Rights Campaign.
Other local restaurants rated by Human Rights Campaign include Starbucks, which received a score of 95; McDonald’s scored 75; Burger King scored 55; Domino’s Pizza scored 35; Wendy’s scored 30; and Jack in the Box scored 15.
Meant to put the above it quote marks; sorry, my bad.
Not sure what you mean by “chicken burgers”, but they’re not round pre-stamped chicken patties. They’re grilled, marinated chicken breasts, really good too. We have one sort of near us. Making a point of going there in the very near future.
Sorry for the choice of words. My granddaughter and her friends love them. I just like beef.
I’m sure I’ll learn to enjoy the chicken on a bun almost as much as they do.
Chick-Fil-A is a phenomenal company. Great food. Don't go on Sunday though as they are closed. They are a Christian company and give all their employees off as a day of rest. Glad to see they stuck to their guns
He put God ahead of the Human Rights Campaign?
The devil’s boys are going to go after this guy!
Office Depot just went on my sh!tlist.
They are contributing $1 million to Lady Gaga Born This Gay efforts.
I waded through some of the data at the HRC website. Here are some of the bigger companies that scored either 100 (pro-homosexual agenda) or 0 (anti-homosexual agenda). This is not a comprehensive list. If time permits, I’ll try to look at it a bit closer over the next few weeks and come up with a more useful and succinct analysis.
Oh, and one more thing: To me, the most interesting thing were two of the companies that scored an absolute zero: Motel 6 and The Washington Post. That’s interesting, to say the least.
100:
Campbell Soup
Clorox
General Mills
Kellogg’s
Kraft Foods
MillerCoors
Chrysler
Ford
3M
Avon
GlaxoSmithKline
Microsoft
Walt Disney
Pfizer
Time Warner
American Airlines
Choice Hotels
Caesars Entertainment
Orbitz
Hyatt
Continental Airlines
United Airlines
Apple
AT&T
Google
Dell
HP
Intuit
Kodak
Aetna
MetLife
Nationwide
UPS
Prudential
0:
Belk
Dollar General
O’Reilly Automotive
La-Z-Boy
Sealy
Aeropostale
Cabela’s
Fossil
Outback Steakhouse
ExxonMobil
Coca-Cola
Unilever
Chick-fil-A
J.M. Smucker
Pilgrim’s Pride
Smithfield Foods
Energizer
DISH Network
Martha Stewart Living
Netflix
Trump Organization
Motel 6
Priceline
U.S. Cellular
Washington Post
Liberty Mutual
Chick-fil-a, does have great friesand salads!
They also have nice clean stores and good food.
Great list - thanks for posting : It shows just how insidious and pervasive this campaign by gays and liberals has truly been. Is there any place left to shop or eat?
Oh, just now saw the 0 rating part of your list-—fantastic!
Correction: I inadvertently placed Coca-Cola and Unilever on the 0 list when they should have been on the 100 list. My bad. Sorry.
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