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Old 08-02-2012, 03:38 PM
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I'm just a tad confused...

Aren't these the guys that have benefited from sit-ins on college campuses, lunch counters, and the boycott of buses?

Oh I fully understand that people are going to argue "But that was different!" And it is in the sense that the businesses could legally get away with the sort of discrimination that makes most want to vomit.

But, I'll tell you where it's not different. It's not different in the sense that people are fighting for equal treatment under the law. It's not different in the sense that supporting these businesses only supports the continuation of the very thing you're fighting. It's not different in the sense that these things will eventually go the way of the dinosaurs.

I think that these individuals should take a moment to examine what gave them the ability to sit in their seat of moral superiority, criticizing homosexuals and their supporters, and recall for just a moment that they are benefiting from the exact same sort of behavior. We all have.
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David Badash: Chick-fil-A: 5 Reasons It Isn't What You Think

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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.

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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."
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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.
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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."
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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.
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Well duh. The company can't DO anything, only the individuals can. And in this case, the owner spent money donating to a bigoted, hateful group who are against gender equality. Some people don't want to support that so they will refrain from buying from his company.
And those "some people" don't care a bit how much destruction, poverty unemployment they create while spewing forth their own infantile hatred demanding that people pretend to support their own oddities all the while making repulsive public spectacles of themselves.

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And those "some people" don't care a bit how much destruction, poverty unemployment they create while spewing forth their own infantile hatred demanding that people pretend to support their own oddities all the while making repulsive public spectacles of themselves.

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I'm not sure what fantasy world you're living in, but here on earth, there's no destruction or poverty created by not going to chick fil a. And it's not "infantile hatred" to oppose people's views against gender equality. I'm not sure what oddities you're talking about, but no one gives a flying **** if anyone "supports" them, much less demands it of them, and I don't see me or my friends making a public spectacle of ourselves.

What's the name of your world, anyway?
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What's the name of your world, anyway?
I've been wondering that for a while.
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Failure to realize you are not the only pebble on the beach is bigotry.
Just because you never heard it doesn't mean I made it up.
Bigotry is things like saying, "I don't believe in blacks and whites marrying"
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Just because you never heard it doesn't mean I made it up.
Bigotry is things like saying, "I don't believe in blacks and whites marrying"
Sorry sweetie....that's still NOT bigotry. That is a belief with a strong leaning towards racism.

As long as they dont act with intollerance to the issue they are not bigots.
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Sorry sweetie....that's still NOT bigotry. That is a belief with a strong leaning towards racism.

As long as they dont act with intollerance to the issue they are not bigots.
intolerance is not bigotry; you can be intolerant of abusive husbands. that is not bigotry, it is discernment and being prejudicial toward or away from something but it is not being a bigot.
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Your poster is disgusting.


I've seen church people at shelters and event for the poor over and over agin. I've seen them take the homeless into their homes. I've watched them give to charities until it hurt.

What I really want to tell you about that poster wouldn't make it past the language filters. But I will tell you that whoever published uit ought to ber ashamed of themselves.
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