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[T-M-T]

To ******* bad.  If everyone has to watch a gay character on every other sitcom, see rainbows on licence plates and storefront windows, see cross dressers in gay parades, and be told we have to be OK with it, then **** you for making an issue out of someone who has every right to take the opposite stance.

Thanks for explaining yourself further with that intelligent, rational statement.

(Good thing you don't make "childish outbursts" like me.)

I think it's time for you to go sleep it off.  Talk to you later.

[lordfly]

On the one hand, Chick-Fil-A is gross, and probably on the wrong side of history. On the other hand, Mr. Chicken Filla can say whatever he wants, it is still a free country, somehow. Just because he's a bigoted jackanape doesn't mean he shouldn't get to dig himself into a gigantic, bigoted stupid hole with his words.

Free speech does not mean only your speech is free. Yes, you are free to boycott a fast "food" chicken frying place. He's also free to do what he wants with the business, including denigrating a significant portion of the population at his peril.  Calling for the ban/burning down/shutdown of his restaurants only hoists him up like a martyr.

In short, don't eat at fast food joints and you won't have this problem.

[jbs49238]

Keeping track in this thread:

CK and LF... ding ding... winner, winner, chicken dinner (pun intended).

A business person being ignorant, bigoted and proud of it is quite American.
 
Disagreeing with those you find to be ignorant, bigoted, and proud of it, AND being vocal about them and refusing to support them is also quite American.

Using the government to try to prevent a person from conducting business because they are ignorant, bigoted, and proud of it is well quite UNAMERICAN!  Yet exactly what elected representavtives are attempting to do to Chic-fil-A in at least two US cities.

[Professor H]

[Frenchfry]

Telling a business what it can and cannot do is a function of government. Some could argue the restaurant owners in the pic below had the right to their opinions and the right to run their establishment in any way they liked. Fortunately government laws and regulations ended practices such as those seen here:

[blue2]

It can't get any more goofier than that folks..

[jbs49238]

Telling a business what it can and cannot do is a function of government. Some could argue the restaurant owners in the pic below had the right to their opinions and the right to run their establishment in any way they liked. Fortunately government laws and regulations ended practices such as those seen here:

I think you might be surprised to realize that a business owner is under NO OBLIGATION to believe something because the government doth dictate it.

You can make laws stating that an owner cannot post a sign that disallows a certain group of people, however you cannot through government action dictate how that business owner treats people or how they spend their money.

Your example, though a reminder of a sad time in our history is a pear, while the rest of us are talking about apples. 

Not a surprise that you would make a comparison about race, when you could have just as easily chosen a women's sufferage picture, but you are more comfortable calling folks racists than most anything else besides righty so I guess your misrepresentation of this issue and the canvas on which you decided to paint it on is absolutely no surprise.

[Forsythia]

Well there's a countrr protest coming.  Apparently some groups are doing a kiss in.  I'll try to make the one in Toledo.

Oh amd this guy has every right to say what he wants.  He's an idiot but he has the right to be one.

[jbs49238]

You are correct.  Best of luck with the protest.

[Flanders]

On the one hand, Chick-Fil-A is gross, and probably on the wrong side of history. On the other hand, Mr. Chicken Filla can say whatever he wants, it is still a free country, somehow. Just because he's a bigoted jackanape doesn't mean he shouldn't get to dig himself into a gigantic, bigoted stupid hole with his words.

Free speech does not mean only your speech is free. Yes, you are free to boycott a fast "food" chicken frying place. He's also free to do what he wants with the business, including denigrating a significant portion of the population at his peril.  Calling for the ban/burning down/shutdown of his restaurants only hoists him up like a martyr.

In short, don't eat at fast food joints and you won't have this problem.

Yup.  Yup.  And... Yup.

The hypocricy is just so overwhelming sometimes, it's hard to make nice posts like you LF.  One day perhaps.

Also, when's the Hobby Lobby boycott??

[Forsythia]

Yup.  Yup.  And... Yup.

The hypocricy is just so overwhelming sometimes, it's hard to make nice posts like you LF.  One day perhaps.

Also, when's the Hobby Lobby boycott??

I've been boycotting it for years.  Shaggy said he would also do the homosexual kiss in.  He's as straight as the day is long, but he said "if I can make a couple of bigoted rednecks toss their lunch just by kissing a dude, it's well worth it."

[Flanders]

Hmm...

Do you think only "bigoted rednecks" would find two dudes making out disgusting?

[Forsythia]

It's possible that non bigoted people would find it disgusting.  It wouldn't be making out either.  That's disgusting in public no matter what.

[tnweasel]

quite frankly, I find anyone 'making out' in public disgusting....and hope to not have to see it.... don't care what your sexual orientation..... as for Chick-Fil-A....will continue to patronize their store and sorry if that offends anyone..... we teach our kids to show respect and that it is possible to respect everyone and still hold to what they believe for themselves.... personal belief doesn't necessarily equal hatred

[John Kopke]

I've been boycotting it for years.  Shaggy said he would also do the homosexual kiss in.  He's as straight as the day is long, but he said "if I can make a couple of bigoted rednecks toss their lunch just by kissing a dude, it's well worth it."

Maybe Shaggy could provide us with a picture. Why is it necesaary to mention Shaggy is "straight as the day is long"? Are you concerned someone might get the wrong idea?

And if Shaggy kissing a dude makes a couple of bigoted rednecks toss their lunch why
not kiss 10 or 20 dudes and make even more rednecks toss their lunch?