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IL Activist Wants Chick-fil-A Run Out of Business
JHPolitics.com ^ | 8-6-2012 | Justin Higgins

Posted on 08/06/2012 11:38:59 AM PDT by RealTeen

Choosing not to eat at Chick-fil-A (or choosing to eat there, as millions did last week) because of the ownership's views on gay marriage is one thing, but calling for their business partners to disown them is a little different. I am not opposed to boycotts, or buy-cotts like the one that occured last Wednesday, although I often question their legitimacy. I am opposed to bullying from political officials and activist groups trying to drive companies out of business through coercion, as Equality Illinois' director of public policy proposes:

In a petition, Equality Illinois is urging socially responsible business and institutional leaders across the country to challenge Chick-fil-A's discriminatory practices and end all relationships that enable the Chick-fil-A brand to operate on their premises.

We urge mall owners who rent space to Chick-fil-A to look deeply at the hateful organizations the company supports. We ask university officials to reconsider accommodating a business that ostracizes a large segment of their student body. We want corporate leaders who allow Chick-fil-A to do business in their offices to consider a new restaurant option during contract renegotiations.

First off, nothing Chick-fil-A does is discriminatory. Giving money to groups that support traditional marriage, including some that are incredibly active and deemed by some as radical, does not mean the restaurant discriminates. It also does not ostracize, as the editorial claims. They wait on, serve and even employ homosexual employees. That's not discrimination.

Secondly, should businesses really make determinations based on the ownership's social and religious views as opposed to the economic impact? Does Randy Hannig (the author) not realize the incredible economic damage he is calling for by wanting to tank a large enterprise like Chick-fil-A? Luckily for the chain, Hannig's group is unlikely to make even a tiny dent in their business. I've been to Chick-fil-A near here since Wednesday, and passed it multiple times, and the lines are still longer than normal.

If gay "rights" activists want to make a splash, maybe they should focus on convincing more Americans to embrace their views, rather than act like a bunch of politically intolerant school children who cry "bigot" any time someone holds a contrarian view. They may move the needle on the issue more than petitioning companies to throw away cash by cutting out a viable business partner.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2012; brownshirtleft; bullying; chickfila; christophobia; democrats; gaymarriage; homofascism; homosexualagenda; liberalfascism; marriage; persecution
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To: RealTeen

People in hell want ice water, too.

I’m SICK TO DEATH of these filthy sodomites and their constant shoving. Shut up and go back in the closet, all of you.


61 posted on 08/06/2012 2:18:42 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: RealTeen
What's next?

Are liberal elites going to find one judge out of thousands who 'just happens' to agree with them? Followed by running to their friends in the MSM - friends who will breathlessly report that a JUDGE has agreed Chick-fil-A has no right to exist? These folks are getting lamer by the minute... and soooooo predictable.

62 posted on 08/06/2012 2:21:26 PM PDT by GOPJ (..convinced if you put a compass in the hands of a liberal, it will point south -Fr Neveronmywatch)
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To: RealTeen

“Those who control language control minds.” Ayn Rand.


63 posted on 08/06/2012 2:24:23 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Springfield Reformer

I can’t find that poll!!


64 posted on 08/06/2012 2:26:48 PM PDT by ontap
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To: CatherineofAragon

The Rump Rangers are looking real bad due to this Chick-Fil-A episode.


65 posted on 08/06/2012 2:28:47 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

I really wouldn’t think any respectable mall would bend to this....especially after Wednesday!! I read there was a university that announced they were going to look into the CFA on campus and the alumni got so upset the guy droped it!!


66 posted on 08/06/2012 2:37:59 PM PDT by ontap
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To: RealTeen

Personally, I wish all homosexuals would get back in the closet and stay there. I am sick of their whining and bullying and threats.

Every time a state has had a vote on homosexual marriage, it has lost. If it wasn’t for homosexual-supporting judges, there would be no “homosexual marriage”. I am so angry with those who would destroy America, whatever their platform.

Let them boycott CFA. I boycott Target and other companies I don’t wish to give my money to. I am not trying to run them out of town, though. It is just my personal choice, just as boycotting CFA should be for them.


67 posted on 08/06/2012 2:40:36 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Gilbo_3
every 'politician' that has so much as breathed a thought about punishing CFA

The ones that did this backed off pretty fast....if you'll notice we haven't heard anymore out of Rahm Emmanuel or that Boston idiot!!!

68 posted on 08/06/2012 2:40:45 PM PDT by ontap
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To: stephenjohnbanker

True. Maybe I shouldn’t be so quick to say “shut up”, LOL.


69 posted on 08/06/2012 2:40:58 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: CatherineofAragon

: )


70 posted on 08/06/2012 2:43:35 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: MarineBrat

I seriously support dividing America into two separate countries. I would love to see it in my lifetime.


71 posted on 08/06/2012 2:55:58 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: RealTeen

We can’t keep living with these people.


72 posted on 08/06/2012 3:01:05 PM PDT by Clock King
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To: RealTeen
challenge Chick-fil-A's discriminatory practices...

An opinion is not a discriminatory practice, trying to get a business shut down for an opinion is.

It seems we do have haters among us, and they are the homosexuals.

73 posted on 08/06/2012 3:27:47 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: ontap; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; cuban leaf
The ones that did this backed off pretty fast....if you'll notice we haven't heard anymore out of Rahm Emmanuel or that Boston idiot!!!

and i think anybody that wants a CFA franchise in those cities would be foolish to not apply for the papers immediately and double dog dare these CSs [literally] to deny the permits...

play it right and possibly get access to a prime location 'sweet spot' while yer at it...

force their hand, 'in their faces' and all that jazz...

74 posted on 08/06/2012 3:52:24 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: Gilbo_3; ontap; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; cuban leaf

Boston is too anti-business,very high taxes, and commercial rents are too expensive.....also, overall, the people suck.

And the franchise owner in Chicago would just get murdered, like everybody eventually does in Chicago.

LOL!


75 posted on 08/06/2012 3:59:00 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: cuban leaf

This clown is a media-hog, leftist piece of crap. Besides that, he sounds crazy.

Chick Fil-A does not discriminate against its employees or its customers. CASE DISMISSED. SEND THIS CLOWN OUT FOR A SANITY HEARING before he gets a job as a White House spokesman.


76 posted on 08/06/2012 5:43:48 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MarineBrat

Great Idea! I second that motion, we get Texas, they can have New York etc....


77 posted on 08/06/2012 6:01:45 PM PDT by AmonAmarth (Wherever you go...There you are)
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To: RealTeen

A new name for a new enemy, Homosocialists.


78 posted on 08/06/2012 6:27:53 PM PDT by Eye of Unk (Going mobile, posts will be brief. No spellcheck for the grammar nazis.)
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To: laweeks

It’s just time to water the tree, that’s all.


79 posted on 08/06/2012 6:40:06 PM PDT by Quickgun (Second Amendment. The only one you can put your hands on.)
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To: beelzepug

That show of unity nationwide at Chic Fil A is a good indicator that Americans still have pride. We just need a few good leaders, and/or a few cooperative state governors


80 posted on 08/06/2012 6:54:34 PM PDT by Quickgun (Second Amendment. The only one you can put your hands on.)
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