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Rick Warren: Chick-fil-A’s owner told me they set a new world record in sales today
HotAir ^ | August 1, 2012

Posted on 08/01/2012 8:45:54 PM PDT by rhema

And the day’s not over yet.

Somewhere, a Burger King ad man’s toying with the idea of having “The King” declare himself “100% pro-life.”

@dancathy just called me. #ChickFilA has already set a world record today, with 7 more hrs to go in the West. #OutOfChicken
— Rick Warren (@RickWarren) August 2, 2012

Not a word about today’s activities has been whispered on Chick-fil-A’s feed even though CFA has been trending on Twitter off and on all day. As noted in the earlier post, the suspicion is that the company’s lying low about what’s happening in order to extricate itself from the front line of the culture war, but I wonder if today’s outpouring will draw some sort of recognition tomorrow. If Dan Cathy’s willing to tout the numbers to Rick Warren, presumably an official acknowledgment and thank you is on the way.

There’s no shortage of local news stories out there about huge lines at the neighborhood CFA; if you’re curious, these two, from Iowa and Kentucky, are fairly representative. Meanwhile, I assume some sort of “Unappreciation Day” is in the works on the left, if only to respond to such an impressive show of strength, but I don’t know. Could be that, between this and the thuggish idiocy of Rahm and Mumbles Menino, they’re ready to cut their losses. Exit question: How big a political victory is this for Huckabee? Per this Fox News clip (via Mediaite), even he sounds surprised.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: aar; cathy; chickfila; eatmorchiken; huckabee; moralabsolutes; pastor; rickwarren; twitter
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To: Alex Murphy
I was going to post some similar comments at first but decided to read along just to see if anyone besides me noticed that the oh, so invisible Warren was trying to pop himself back into national headlines.

Just as I suspected, few have but my opinion of Warren is that he'd never make such an un-pc statement as Dan Cathey did but then he'd lose his "stature" in the eyes of the media.

That being said, Cathey was being interviewed by the Baptist Press, hardly a national "news" rag such as Slime" (Time) or "Snews Weak." Since when is the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, et al interested in the real America and the moral values of someone who "walks the walk?"

Is the Gay Mafia now so spooked that they've taken to scanning such un-pc articles coming out of the Baptist Press for heaven's sake? It seems as though the militant left has drawn a line in the sand (not that they hadn't before our "dear leader" spoke of his fondness for gay unions,) but any gay leftist heading for a little light reading in the Baptist Press will find all sorts of things not to like - biblical scriptures, for starters.

Seriously folks, Warren must surely be desperate to grasp on what a real man of integrity and conviction says, just to garner himself a bit of the old mojo. Sad for Warren, he's so yesterday.

81 posted on 08/02/2012 12:00:22 AM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: rhema

Hello All..
Since I’m an outside sales rep, I planned my day all around CFA’s in the Orange County, CA area..Believe it or not, there are still some conservative bastions here in CA.
Anyway, started in Costa Mesa, CA & dropped off chicken biscuits for my hubby & his co-workers. This location was already busy at 8am. Then picked up lunch for my Mother in law & I around 1pm..this Laguna Hills location was already packed with the drive-thru line at least 30 cars deep. I then grabbed a peach shake on my way home at the Aliso Viejo location..again, packed! with tons of people & cars waiting in line.
I almost cried during my lunch visit..everyone outside in line were taking pictures & you can just feel that something big was happening. I maybe gained 5 pounds today but it was soooo worth it! ha
I hope that Obummer & team are shaking in their boots because a sleeping giant has arisen & the name is FREEDOM!


82 posted on 08/02/2012 12:06:52 AM PDT by rainee
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To: Norm Lenhart

Well said.


83 posted on 08/02/2012 12:31:38 AM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: rhema

Hello! I’m re-posting this comment because it’s so great & hope I’m not infringing on any copyright laws :)

“Wait...if you’re gay the ONLY way you can be happy is to be MARRIED??? I know many happy UNMARRIED people and many HAPPY people who WERE married but now are NOT. So, please spare us the argument that WE are PREVENTING them from being “happy” because marriage is limited to ONE man and ONE woman. What seems to be at the heart of the issue and which will make gays REALLY happy is to REDEFINE marriage as THEY want it to be, as opposed to how it’s been defined and understood for ages! I say make your own happiness and leave marriage as it’s defined.”


84 posted on 08/02/2012 12:46:58 AM PDT by rainee
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To: rhema; All

Whoever does that ‘DU funnies’ thing should turn in on what Democratic Underground is saying about appreciate
CFA day. Hilarious

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1057519


85 posted on 08/02/2012 12:47:07 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Norm Lenhart
Or just carry a sigh that says “GAY PORN PHOTO SHOOT” and stand behind them with it ;)

LOL!!

86 posted on 08/02/2012 12:55:54 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: kingu

This will be truly disgusting

Many of the Chik employees I saw last night were young teens and the customers were heavily children with their families

Imagine having to observe chik-0n-chik and rooster-on-rooster PDA


87 posted on 08/02/2012 1:32:52 AM PDT by silverleaf (Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell)
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To: rhema

88 posted on 08/02/2012 1:37:05 AM PDT by Zakeet (Liberalism - Ideas so good that you have to be forced to accept them)
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To: meadsjn

I look at it like this. Since they think Jesus/God is as reas as the Easter bunny, and say that very thing ad nausem, we may just as well be telling them homowhatever is wrong because the Easter bunny says so.

As stupid as that sounds to us, that’s what it sounds like to them. If Christ himself appeared and said it, well that’s another thing entirely ;) But they just look at it as a bunch of fruit loops quoting a fantasy.

They will eventually see the error of their ways on that subject for themselves. But as far as us bitter clingers go, I believe we can make more headway by arming ourselves with fact and beating them senseless with it. And even if the person we argue with does not embrace reality, the quiet ones around him/her will think about it.

Remember one thing when arguing with libs. It’s the Golden Rule I have learned over years of doing it. You never argue to convince them. The argumentative types never see reason. You argue to influence those around them who do not say much. THAT is where you have an effect. And those are the minds and hearts which are more open to ‘change;.


89 posted on 08/02/2012 1:47:26 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: PA-RIVER

Let’s just keep the backlash going all through November.


90 posted on 08/02/2012 2:06:15 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: patriot08

The person who does a thesis showing how one gets that disconnected from reality will be an intellect on the level of Einstein.

They are mentally ill. Thorazine level. I mean you have people willingly courting AIDS at every turn laughing about how we’re going to die from unhealthy trans fats and crowing about ‘their’ vegiterian longevity’... Insane.


91 posted on 08/02/2012 2:06:33 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

“....They are mentally ill. Thorazine level. I mean you have people willingly courting AIDS at every turn laughing about how we’re going to die from unhealthy trans fats and crowing about ‘their’ vegiterian longevity’... Insane....”

Yep. I said it once, I’ll say it again: Liberalism is a dibilitating, chronic mental disease that rots out the human brain. It removes any cognitive thinking ability whatsoever. We’ve seen hundreds of examples of it over and over again. 50 years ago, these people would have been locked up in asylums, not trying to run a country. If left unchecked, they will destroy everything in their path. It’s a form of zombieism.


92 posted on 08/02/2012 2:26:14 AM PDT by lgjhn23
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To: Norm Lenhart

Yep.


93 posted on 08/02/2012 2:38:05 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Norm Lenhart
That makes much sense.

Whether in negotiating or debating, there needs to be a common language and some common points of reference from which to proceed.

One example of what not to do involves those who take their Bible into a courtroom to argue with a judge. They are essentially trying to get the judge to change his/her language from the legalese to something else, and change the framework from the legal setting to some sort of moral one. It doesn't usually work, and usually results in additional charges for just plain being silly.

94 posted on 08/02/2012 3:30:05 AM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: upchuck
If we could get everyone that went to CFA today to go vote in Nov, it would be the largest landslide in history.

Uh.... no.

Do the math. 1,000 locations times say 2,000 per location. That's 2 million. There about 140 million votes in the last election with a margin of victory being about 10 million.

95 posted on 08/02/2012 4:10:24 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: rhema

We had dinner at the Chic-fil-A last night. Place was packed. Was like 5 people ahead of me in the order line, took around 15 minutes to get our food, had to wait (while waiting for the food) for someone to finish to get a table. Parking lot (it’s at a shopping center) was overflowing, about six rows into the shopping center, even a couple of church busses there. Nobody was complaining about the wait, everyone was smiling, laughing and joking. The lady who was at the door greeting everyone stated that it had been like that all day except for about a 30 minute break.

TAKE THAT, GIBLETS!!! (GBLT’S)

BTW, in a recent Mike Adams article he rearranged the LGBT letters to GBLT and called them “Giblets.”


96 posted on 08/02/2012 4:13:48 AM PDT by fredhead (It's my Herbie year...check out the number on the side of the famous VW.)
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To: rhema

Rick Warren is evil and please don’t quote him again.


97 posted on 08/02/2012 4:17:40 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Corollary - Electing the same person over and over and expecting a different outcome is insanity)
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To: silverleaf
Exactly, the people turning out Friday who want Same Sex Marriage to become Legal will be doing it in a Non-Family Friendly way. There is no way I will take my kids to Chick Fil A on Friday, but adults should go who do not have children with them. Don't let them kill a day of business.
98 posted on 08/02/2012 4:44:36 AM PDT by shatcher
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To: fredhead

Oh, I forgot to mention this was in Norfolk, VA.

One lady said that we need to show up like this at the polls on election day.


99 posted on 08/02/2012 4:45:03 AM PDT by fredhead (It's my Herbie year...check out the number on the side of the famous VW.)
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To: dandiegirl

We need to come out again in force on Friday!!!


100 posted on 08/02/2012 5:50:47 AM PDT by Humble Servant
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