Posted on 11/20/2019 8:40:18 AM PST by Midwesterner53
Most of us who were there on that sunny August day will never forget. For everyone else, there's a sign: "Above this plaque is a bullet hole. It marks the heroic action taken by Family Research Council employee Leo Johnson on August 15, 2012." That was the morning Floyd Corkins walked into our lobby and changed FRC forever. He'd bought a gun and learned how to use it. He'd loaded three magazines. In his backpack was a stash of chicken sandwiches that he planned to smear in the faces of staffers he hoped to kill. "They endorse Chick-fil-A," he said. It would be a "statement against the people who work there."
Thanks to Leo, it was a statement he never got to make. Fourteen days after someone snapped a picture of our staff smiling over boxes of Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, Leo was the only thing standing between Floyd Corkins and an FRC massacre. To a lot of Americans, the company's decision to walk away from years of biblical truth is upsetting. To us, it's personal.
In the days and years after that, we never talked publicly about Chick-fil-A's response to the shooting. Mainly because there wasn't one. Through all of the press conferences, the trial, and sentencing, I never once picked up the phone or opened my email to a message from someone at headquarters. Not even to ask about Leo. Obviously, Chick-fil-A wanted then what they want publicly now: as much distance from our movement as possible.
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I just cannot understand kissing the butt of maybe 3% of the market, to piss off 50% of it.
I guess there are homo lovers on the board and in upper management, they’re faggotry advocates, and they’re gonna woke CfA. Or, they’re afraid of the Gaystapo.
The founder Samuel Truett Cathy died five years ago. Kids Dan, Bubba and Trudy run it now. Five years ago CEO Dan backed off of their prior Christian perspectives and went “non-political”.
Oh, I know - I posted several links to that in earlier posts.
My point here is in response to the OP saying that chic-fil-a moved from anti-LGBT charities to neutral ones. But if that’s true - then that flies in the face of SA’s public policy and statements (which is neutral) and obviously CFA chose not to based on the LGBTs opinion of them.
Disappointed! To say the least.....
Now the pressure is on the franchise owners to decide whether to stay with the business or not. Could be lots of new corporate dictates coming down the pipe.
I buy a product because I like it
It is an agreement between me and the provider of the product, that once I give them money, they give me the product.
At that point, I have no claim on what they do with that money.
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I used to take this position.
In a sense it’s a very Libertarian position to take.
I’m not trying to a belligerent ass, but in 21st century American, this is the surest way to lose the freedoms you enjoy.
I can assure you the other side of the political aisle (almost to a man) isn’t fighting with one hand tide behind their back like you are.
Posting on a political website is a nice start to becoming politically effective, but (and I mean this in the most respectful way possible)....it isn’t enough.
CFA might be falling into the same abandonment of values that many US corporations doing business in China have. Because CFA has been banned from some airports and college campuses, and from a UK location, they might be changing their values hoping they can expand into those markets, just as so many have sold out to do business in Red China. They do seem to be trying to expand internationally, also.
But they must not realize how stupid it is to offend the customer base in the US that sent their profits soaring when leftists made their first blackmail attempt against them.
Agree. In my opinion, a franchise which abandons their values is worse than one than doesn't espouse any. Next look for Hobby Lobby to open on Sundays - "just for the holidays, of course."
So true, most have probably already forgotten about Dr. Laura. Great talk show
I visited the Philmont in 2008 long before the decline began.
I didn’t know there was a racial slur that ruined her
CFA has proven that money ism ore important than a Godly moral stand- Sad thing is they will end up losing money- not gaining- and then, and only then, will they ‘revert to their former ‘values’- only because their bottom line is suffering-
They’ve jumped the shark-
I won’t be going anymore. I never thought their food was really any better or worse than most fast food places - I just went there to support a Christian organization.
Yep.
Much like a parent that’s always held the biblical view on homosexuality...until their child came out.
Then...POOF! They’re woke, drop their lifelong morals, and are now accepting and tolerant of faggotry and perversity. All to avoid feeling bad from facing their child with truth.
Dr. Laura spoke “truth that shall not be spoken” and got beaten for it.
“ I didn’t know there was a racial slur that ruined her.
Apparently it was difficult to sell advertising spots after that.
CFA takes the mark.
Damn shame.
I’ve never eaten at their restaurants. There are none around here anyway. Guess I won’t be eating there ever.
Dicks will likely go out of business within a couple of years,PayPal is a little harder to unseat,while there are other pay services out there, none are as widespread as PayPal is. When/of another service like them comes along, I’ll change. Google has a pay service that is pretty widespread, but they are leftist as well.
Don’t give in to liberal bullies. They are as driven by their political ideology as Muslims by their politicized faith. When you give in a little, both take it as validation of their demands - and demand more.
‘Then they’ll open sundays. Then they’ll be gone.’
Actually, they’ll make more money; why do you think business jettisoned the Blue Laws so quickly in the ‘70’s...?
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