"Who?!!! Who? Is eating this chicken?!!"
Posted on 01/30/2011 5:43:32 AM PST by reaganaut1
The Chick-fil-A sandwich — a hand-breaded chicken breast and a couple of pickles squished into a steamy, white buttered bun — is a staple of some Southern diets and a must-have for people who collect regional food experiences the way some people collect baseball cards.
New Yorkers have sprinted through the airport here to grab one between flights. College students returning home stop for one even before they say hello to their parents.
But never on Sunday, when the chain is closed.
Nicknamed “Jesus chicken” by jaded secular fans and embraced by Evangelical Christians, Chick-fil-A is among only a handful of large American companies with conservative religion built into its corporate ethos. But recently its ethos has run smack into the gay rights movement. A Pennsylvania outlet’s sponsorship of a February marriage seminar by one of that state’s most outspoken groups against homosexuality lit up gay blogs around the country. Students at some universities have also begun trying to get the chain removed from campuses.
“If you’re eating Chick-fil-A, you’re eating anti-gay,” one headline read. The issue spread into Christian media circles, too.
The outcry moved the company’s president, Dan T. Cathy, to post a video on the company’s Facebook fan page to “communicate from the heart that we serve and value all people and treat everyone with honor, dignity and respect,” said a company spokesman, Don Perry.
Providing sandwiches and brownies for a local seminar is not an endorsement or a political stance, Mr. Cathy says in the video. But he adds that marriage has long been a focus of the chain, which S. Truett Cathy, his deeply religious father, began in 1967.
The donation has some fans cheering and others forcing themselves to balance their food desires against their personal beliefs.
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No, they’re just more anti-american scumbag dhims
Try the Chicken Strips salad. It’s fantastic!!
Problem solved.
I’ve never heard of this place before....until the gays started protesting it. The closest one to me is in NYC, which I hardly visit.
I just went to their site and wrote them a note of support. I told them we could use one around here!
...a tasty part of my wife's lunch routine when we were in the south...mmm-good!
Chick-fil-A is delicious food..We eat there often. The people at our local store are gracious and wonderful. It is a travesty to have them attacked like this.
These folks better leave chic fil a alone. I love that they are closed on Sunday. Hobby Lobby is too.
Try the spicy chicken - it WILL make you sweat.
Oh, God, the dirty jokes that could be made from the stupid gay guy’s comment.
"Who?!!! Who? Is eating this chicken?!!"
Don’t these sodomites have anything better to do with their time? A large segment of the population disapproves of your lifestyle...deal with it.
Hard to believe the irony just doesn't drip off the page with her statement.
Gays have an "amazing capacity to justify a lot of things" like: twisting family values, destroying traditional marriage, raising children in a perverted lifestyle just to name a few
I dont love that they are closed on Sunday, but that’s up to them.
...”Gays aren’t an oppressed minority, they are terrorists bent on destroying all that is good in America”...
It seems they are bent on making people who believe in and practice traditional marriage the oppressed minority. One way to stop this kind of oppression is to do small things like, eat often at Chick-fil-A to show support for them in response to these attacks.
Ever since the celiac diagnosis, I can’t eat there, but I loved their chicken, and the waffle fries. I support their right to determine their own company culture and values. Do Ben and Jerry’s fail to make ice cream people want to eat, because they fall to the left? No. I think Chick-fil-A should be left alone by these waffleheads.
“Gays aren’t an oppressed minority, they are terrorists bent on destroying all that is good in America”
Ain’t that the truth. Freedom of assocation - I’d rather associate with Chick-Fil-A than mouthy intolerant gays.
Gays aren’t an oppressed minority, they are terrorists bent on destroying all that is good in America.
“Bent”is right!
It really is a form of tyranny, the way they have played this out. They are a 3% minority telling the rest of the country how to behave.
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