Posted on 04/13/2014 7:05:05 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
CEO Dan Cathy wants his company to get past a controversy in 2012 over his anti-gay marriage comments by starting to focus more on attracting younger customers and leaving the public discussion of social issues to politicians
Chick-fil-A wants to move beyond recent controversy over the fast food chain’s stance on gay marriage as it looks to court younger customers.
CEO Dan Cathy told USA Today in an interview published Monday that he’s bringing the company into a millennial-friendly era that will not only include new menu items and store locations, but a new perspective on what beliefs should and shouldn’t be shared with the public.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
DON'T BE SO QUICK TO JUDGE FROM A LIBERAL RAG !!!
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Sounds more like silenced than caved. Still this is disappointing. They may as well open their stores on Sundays too while they are at it.
Looking around, it doesn’t just look like the rabid media who is quick to lynch.
One has to do lots of “reading between the lines” to conjur up a cave from what the man told Time mag.
He was courageous in his stand for marriage before, now he will shut up about it, at the insistence of the sodomite hordes.
If that’s not a cave, then nothing can be.
Interesting. Do you view your own lack of speech at work or in public as a similar “cave?” I would have thought you would have probably self-censored at some point in your life.
I guess you spout off everywhere, all the time, to everyone.
You must be fun to witness in movie theaters.
Agreed and I could care less what Chick Filet or any other restaurant known to man thinks about the homosexual agenda!
The CEO is a fool to allow the little Marxist reporters to drag him into ANY comment on the issue.
His stock reply should be something like..........”look, we are in the food business and welcome ALL citizens of the U.S.............period! Then walk away...........every time.
The libs all eat tofu and arugula. I will not go to Chick fil A anymore since they now seem to want to promote homosexual agenda
Kinda like the guy from Mozilla.
He hasn't “slapped” anyone down. He still believes what he's said and he will continue to support it more in private now. He will open more restaurants and continue to share Biblical principles as he does so.
By the way, have you put your name on the line in a similar fashion for godly marriages? Somehow, I don't seem to recall your name pilloried in public. Could you help direct us to where you've taken a similar stand?
No? Well then, you are your own poor example.
He runs a business not a social or political non-profit.
But hey, you stand on principle and as a purist demand everyone voice their opinion “All the time”.
Life crashes and burns under your demand....
I guess virtue would be to defy them more and more and more... until the whole of Chik-Fil-A (including all the innocent franchisees) is dragged into a filth fight that Christendom is not even READY for?
I say circular firing squad!
They announced they were getting out of social issues in july of 2012.
Any claims that any of this is “new” is just really bad reporting.
There’s going to be a time for this, BUT... I doubt that commercial corporate America is in any shape right now to do anything but try to ride it out with mum lips while these homo fools eventually bring their own popular nemesis on. The love that didn’t dare speak its name will now not shut up. Satan won’t let it shut up. It’s going to punish itself by becoming an intolerable nuisance.
I applaud your post. I have to shake my head sometimes at some of what is posted here from so-called conservatives. Most probably don’t practice what they think Mr. Cathy should do. He has taken his stand and I agree with him - its time to move on. Some on here are kind of hypocritical when they want others to do or say things they themselves aren’t willing to. And, just like that - the majority now refuse to support CFA because of a twisted article, then have the nerve to call the left intolerant.
“I am curious: What motivates you? It’s obviously not righteousness.”
Sorry, but I equate buckling to those groups as being no better than supporting them in the first place - and I NEVER liked their food to begin with.
Wow
This is where you prove Time wrong, correct?
I haven’t demanded anything. In fact, before all the homo stuff with CFA, I didn’t know much about the company. If you feel the need to take a stand, you should be sure you confident taking that stand before you open your mouth. Once you do, you should be man or woman enough to stick with it. I don’t like spineless people and have the right to say so.
“Chick-fil-A wants to move beyond recent controversy over the fast food chain’s stance on gay marriage”
The fast food chain never had a stance on Gay Marriage. Mr. Cathy made comments about his personal support of Christian beliefs and traditional marriage in an interview. That is what touched off the boycott and hate from the left.
Chick-fil-A, as a company, never made any policy announcements about the issue.
You are overstating this. No one “screamed” anything. Cathy made his comments about homosexuality and many of us stood with him. Just like Phil Robertson made his and we stood with him. I like to support Christian, Bible-believing, good example businesses, but I don’t search them out. If I become aware of them, I try to support them with my business. I think you should stand up for your beliefs and not back down for the sake of money. I believe the Cathy family are good Christians and have done a lot of wonderful things. Just wonder how much more they will back down to make more money. Suppose NY doesn’t want Christian companies at all.
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