From a first amendment perspective, I do not care one way or the other. The company and high-ranking officials are free to do as they please, as long as said actions are legal.

From a gay rights supporter and perspective, good for them.

Chick-Fil-A Agrees To Cease Funding To Anti-Gay Organizations, Chicago LGBT Group Claims

Chick-Fil-A Agrees To Cease Funding To Anti-Gay Organizations, Chicago LGBT Group Claims

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"Good for them?" Oh no, I think not. First, as always, gays have the same rights as anyone else.

Second, by throwing public tantrums and using thuggery against productive, ethical and harmless people with whom they disagree, they've inspired still greater resistance to their cause.

Third, their antics inspired a homicidal freak to storm the offices of the highly regarded organization that so terrifies them, resulting in the shooting of an employee.

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"Sometimes, the source of the beautiful dawning light that drives back the darkness, is your house burning"

You saying that is hilarious.
The glaring logical flaw in the argument is the realization that it's premise can be claimed to be just as "true" AFTER gays have achieved legal equality with straights.

Gays can't marry? Oftencold thinks that's equal.
Gays can marry? By the same stunted logic, it would be "equal" as well...


You keep believing that sunshine if it helps you sleep at night.
Anti-gay bigotry is a dying breed. Chick-fil-A's move was inevitable.

If you think there is any anti-gay back-lash on this, you're deluding yourself.


And out waltz the absurd allegations.
Anybody who thinks that shooting is related to the Chick-fil-A boycott is deluding themselves.

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As always, gays have exactly the same marriage rights as anyone else. They just can't pretend to marry people of the same gender in most States. Thus they have equal rights, just not equal inclinations.




Oh, for crying out loud! The gunman, a 'gay rights activist," had a backpack full of Chick-fil-A sandwiches. It was a response to the hysterical inability of the gay "rights" movement's members in general to accept rejection.

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"Sometimes, the source of the beautiful dawning light that drives back the darkness, is your house burning"

I love ya, OC, but...

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Your definition of "equal rights" would look at a law outlawing yamulkes and proclaiming that it applies "equally" to the Christian and the Jew.
It's not "equal".

You didn't even try to address my statement. It's 100% right.
Gays can't marry? Oftencold thinks that's equal.
Gays can marry? By the same stunted logic, it would be "equal" as well...


Your argument is idiotic.
It presumes that a shared position between John and Mark somehow makes Mark responsible for John's actions.

Yes. The shooter had overlapping ideals. But that doesn't make the Chick-fil-A boycott responsible for this nut.
By that mentality, Christianity is responsible for abortion clinic bombers.

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UPDATE...The response...

Chick-fil-A Sets the Record Straight

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Is that the expression of one who tried to fart but did a booboo instead?

Man this crap gets old...

Despite the right-wing spin and the occasional left-wing loud-mouth who tries his own left-wing spin, this has not been about them JUST supporting gay marriage.


It's been pointed out over and over again.
And if people think RATIONALLY about it, they would realize this pretense is bull%@#$. There are a LOT MORE companies out there than just Chick-fil-a which support "traditional marriage" which are untouched...

Chick-fil-a was doing something ABOVE AND BEYOND JUST putting money towards "traditional marriage" campaigns.

To repeat...

1) Chick-fil-A has donated at least $5 million to organizations (including a certified hate group) that, among other things, depict gay people as pedophiles, want to make "gay behavior" illegal, and even say gay people should be "exported" out of America.

Even if you oppose same-sex marriage, do you really want to support a company that advocates putting gay people in jail, or "exporting" them, just because they're gay?

2) Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy didn't merely say he supports traditional marriage. Dan Cathy said if you support gay marriage, you "are inviting God's judgment on our nation," and that we "shake our fist at Him" when we do. Dan Cathy also said same-sex marriage is the result of a "deprived" mind and called it "twisted up kind of stuff."

Even if you don't support same-sex marriage, do you really think gay marriage is "inviting God's judgment on our nation"? Haven't we all heard enough blame from those who claim to speak for the Lord, like after Katrina or, more recently, after the shooting in Aurora, Colo.?

3) Chick-fil-A supports organizations that have claimed they can change gay people into straight people -- "pray away the gay" -- despite the fact that practically every major medical organization has stated that this is not only impossible but dangerous and harmful.

Even if you don't support same-sex marriage, do you support fake "science" that is known to harm the very people it claims to help?

4) The media keep saying Chick-fil-A has never discriminated, but the truth is that Chick-fil-A has been sued over a dozen times for employment discrimination. That's what a leading business publication, Forbes, stated in 2007, when they also called Chick-fil-A a "cult" and reported that Chick-fil-A's founder and CEO Truett Cathy said he wanted to hire married people because they are more industrious and productive. Truett Cathy has also said he would probably fire someone who "has been sinful or done something harmful to their family members."

Even if you don't support same-sex marriage, do you want to support what some call a "cult" whose CEO says he would fire employees for "being sinful"?

5) Chick-fil-A is just exercising their First Amendment rights by running a business based on the Bible, right? Wrong. There's a line between the "free exercise of religion" and violating the law. If Chick-fil-A is violating the law by discriminating against gay people, or by firing women so that they can be "stay home" moms, as one woman who is suing Chick-fil-A says in court documents, that's not exercising religious expression or free speech, and that's not a First Amendment issue. It may be, if the court decides, a violation of the law.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-...b_1725237.html

Now if Chick-fil-a is going to continue this crap, then that's something to take notice of.
If Chick-fil-a is dialing it down and JUST donating to traditional marriage groups, then that's something most on the left can live with.

Also, I can't help but notice some EGREGIOUS malarkey in their statement:Anybody who doesn't recognize that as a simple, bald-faced lie is living with their head in the sand.

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Chick-A-Filet-A signed an agreement after the Chicago mayor and former OA chief of staff announced he was eschewing the First Amendment in favor of his declaration of Chicago values. Denying a private business a permit to operate within the city because they hold different views on gay marriage ought to prompt condemnation from gay marriage advocates because it is the same freedom that allows them their advocacy.

But no, to gay "rights" advocates the ends always justify the means including discarding the Constitution. Never mind that applying a political litmus test to granting a business license opens the door to government coercion accross a broad spectrum of regulation, the important thing is the advancement of gay marriage.