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Posted on 08/13/2012 8:28:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Since when does serving up junk food give someone a license to preach?
Politics and all things fried, fatty and fast are becoming intertwined to the point of absurdity.
We’ve got the Papa John’s pizza guys weighing in on the health-care debate, while the burger slingers out west at In-N-Out can’t serve up a cheeseburger without a Bible verse.
The craziness of fast-food commentary on social issues became obvious to me when I stumbled into a totally earnest discussion at a party last week by a bunch of Washingtonians who personally support the right to same-sex marriage, but are also wickedly addicted to Chick-fil-A sandwiches.
This is the stuff of serious dilemma inside the Beltway.
“I don’t know what to do about it. I mean, I guess I can go through the drive-thru where no one will see me,” one woman said.
“It doesn’t matter if anyone sees you there. It’s about helping them fund hate groups by buying their hate-chicken,” another responded.
“Have you had that banana cream pie milkshake?” someone asked.
And the entire room dissolved into a quiet moment of personal ecstasy, the kind that ends with a head-shake of loss, grief and sorrow...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
So wait, leftists as a whole push immoral, hateful, destructive, enslaving, anti-religious, anti-family, anti-responsibility changes on everyone - and that’s OK.
Some dude comes out against gay marriage, and another wants to put bible verses on his cups - and that’s NOT OK.
I love how these imbeciles think.
I don't know, Petula. The Constitution, maybe? You know, the First Amendment.
Since when does owning a barrel of ink let one preach pretentiously?
I’m sure the author is equally offended by liberal preaching when she tries to just watch a simple movie or TV show...
RE: Papa johns. “ How dare a business have an opinion about the costs of running their business”, says leftist deep thinker
The culture war is on and too many liberals have been riding the gravy train will spitting on the faces of the silent majority in this nation.
Petulan seems a bit petulant today.
These lefty hacks are always so bitter.
I think it’s some sort of psychological disorder.
That, Petula, is the smell and taste of FREEDOM. They are free to serve it up as they wish and you are free to eat there (or not).
i’m sure she’s equally offended by Starbucks and Ben and Jerry’s... biased to the hilt...
Said by the same liberals who ridiculed the symbolic renaming French Fries FREEDOM FRIES when France allied with Saddam Hussein over a food for oil bribe.
Said by the same liberals who ridiculed the symbolic renaming French Fries FREEDOM FRIES when France allied with Saddam Hussein over a food for oil bribe.
Shut up and open your own Gay-fil-A.
We’ll so who prospers in a free market.
Revisionist history. The HOMOSEXUALS declared plans to stage a "same-sex kiss-in" protest at the restaurants.
Supporters of traditional marriage and those who simply support a right to FREE SPEECH on such matters staged a PRE-EMPTIVE buy-cott to occur PRIOR to the planned kiss-in.
The Lavender Mafia's plot backfired on them as their protest effort was blown out by MASSIVE support.
Not to make it up
Well we had a large church group over last night and we chipped in and proudly dug in to Papa Johns pizza. (Chickfila closed on Sundays) I will continue to support any businesses that angers the establishment of media and nanny government.
Well, I could point out that the mere ability to memorize some lines and regurgitate them in front of a camera would not seem to bestow a license to preach either. Think about it lib lurkers.
However, I think that's just fine - it is called free speech, seems I read about it somewhere in a paragraph marked #1... I don't agree with the KKK nor the ACLU, but I don't want to live in a Country where either couldn't exist.
But over at Papa John’s Pizza, CEO and founder John Schnatter, a Mitt Romney fundraiser, declared last week that the company would raise the price of its pies if health-care reform stands.
INCREASED costs passed onto consumers? Why, I've NEVER heard such a concept. At least outside of economics courses. Gay-supporting swishy cocktail parties don't concern such matters when Journolistas are present. < /sarc >
Yeah, you corporate types have no right to preach to the rest of us. That ought to be left to actors and musicians to do that. < /sarc >
The author’s pretty lucky: fast food joints are usually the best jobs people with her brain power can get.
We don’t always hear about politics from shoe magnates or cabinet companies or even the one fast-food place that seems to be kind of good for you, Subway.
Well, NIKE did try Islamic inspired shoes...
We don’t always hear about politics from shoe magnates or cabinet companies or even the one fast-food place that seems to be kind of good for you, Subway. No, it seems that there’s something about the artery-clogging food barons that gives them some sort of calling to publicly weigh in on controversial, political topics.
Wrong again. When the head of American Apparel isn't sexually harassing women, he is pushing corporate advocacy for amnesty for cheap illegal immigrant labor and for the norming of homosexuality.
So don’t eat at any of ‘em - you wouldn’t fit in with the wholesome class of people you’d find there anyway......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_State_Coffee
Petula appears to be quite familiar with pizzas....
I had never been to a Chick-fil-A before this started. I found the one in my town and the spicy chicken sandwich is just super - I’ve been there twice now. I’m in Texas and the temp. is about 100 every day so it’s too hot for me, at my advanced age, to drive there often. As soon as the weather cools, I’m having that sandwich at least once a week. I also had the peach milkshake and it was swell.
I made myself drive there regardless of the heat, on homo demonstration day and they didn’t show up - probably due to our town being full of Texas Bubbas.
The chicken is just good and I’m glad I got to know that place.
Liberal were busy pushing anti-Chick-Fil-A memes until the conservative backlash made them proclaim “the whole thing is nutty”.
Now they are busy on the Facebook spreading hatred of Paul Ryan, today’s new target for Orwell’s/Stalin’s/Big Brother’s “two minutes of hate”.
we didn’t riot.... nor protest.... nor battle with cops.....no protests... no marches.... no cars burned ... no one beaten up...no shop windows broken.... no stores looted-———— we just went to lunch and got a sandwich.
Pathetic liberal females.
The MSM goes out and asks questions expecting and demanding the correct PC answer.
They then create a ruckus over incorrectness and then bitch that those asked are bolstering.
Here's an Idea, "Don't ask Don't tell"..
OTOH, it's anti American to tell anybody to shut up about Religion. Even companies.
If you don't like it GTFO and eat somewhere else.
And they have no idea how they just proclaimed themselves to be such before the whole world....
I'll be voting on election day, then heading to Chick-fil-A for a victory meal. Join in, America!
And one police Sargent in Dallas Texas got punished for it when he brought a chicken sandwich to the station and was harassed by two lesbian police officers.
We’ve got the Papa John’s pizza guys weighing in on the health-care debate
(** to the author of this moronic diatribe, Not the Freeper who posted it! **)
Hey, you booger eating moron! First and foremost, Papa Johns is a business, employing thousands of US citizens, and this so-called "health-care debate" will impact businesses in ways nobody can predict, because there's never been this level of intrusion into private employment since the social security act was implemented!
while the burger slingers out west at In-N-Out can’t serve up a cheeseburger without a Bible verse.
So don't read them. Or don't go to In-N-Out to begin with! If you don't like what they do, DON'T GO THERE!
The craziness of fast-food commentary on social issues became obvious to me when I stumbled into a totally earnest discussion at a party last week by a bunch of Washingtonians who personally support the right to same-sex marriage, but are also wickedly addicted to Chick-fil-A sandwiches.
I suggest these weak willed leftists just learn to deal with their guilt. They're BAD liberals!
Mark
This is a little more than a mere slip of the pen, it is an attitude that pervades the elitist media: "Our job is to define your culture, yours is to shut up and shovel out the fries, and, incidentally, to receive our lordly disdain respectfully." It isn't going to work like that.
Now they’re going after In N Out, which passively puts the chapter and verse numbers only of Bible verses in spots on their packaging most of the mouthbreathers couldn’t find. I wondered how long they’d escape the queer ire.
Lighten up Petula! Geeez! You commie libs are always pissed off and/or whining about something.
Since the Constitution of the United States was ratified you gay liberal a-hole.
Don't like it? Don't eat there you intorlerant bigot!
“Since when does serving up junk food give someone a license to preach?”
It’s called the First Amendment, moron.
More by Petula, seem she supports SOME corporate political activism:
http://jezebel.com/petula-dvorak/
“Payback Is a Bitch for Abortion Clinic Protestors, Thanks to a Brilliant Landlord” ( Mar 30, 2012 )
Todd Stave has the unenviable position of being the landlord of a building in Germantown, Maryland, which he leases to an abortion provider called Reproductive Health Services Clinic. So he knows a little something about dealing patiently with anti-abortion protesters. But when they started calling him at home at all hours and harassing his family, he got fed up and came up with a very clever solution: Do unto others as they have been doing unto you.
Problems really began for Stave at the end of 2010, when he leased his building to LeRoy Carhart, one of the only doctors in the U.S. who openly acknowledges that he performs late-term abortions.
...If you’re wondering how Stave can remain so relaxed about the situation, he explains, “I’ve been a member of this fight since Roe v. Wade. Since I was 5 years old.” You see, the clinic used to belong to his father, and then his sister ran it. When he was younger, the office was firebombed, and protesters were often gathered outside his dad’s house. So he’s used to a certain level of harassment and he’ll tolerate it — but only up to a point. And recently, the usually calm, cool, and collected Stave was pushed to his limit.
...He began recording the names and numbers of the a@@holes who called, and then he gave the list of info to his friends and asked them to call these people back on his behalf. Shazam! And the really smart part was that when someone from Team Stave called, they always took the high road.
...Genius. While it was initially only a few friends doing the calling, the group quickly expanded. Soon, he was up to having 1,000 callers at his disposal. And they got crafty too. They’d look up information on the people who’d placed unwanted calls to Stave, and then when they called, they’d drop the names of the person’s children or their school into the conversation. They’d also, said Stave, “tell them that we bless their home on such and such street,” and then name their address. Are you getting shivers up you’re spine yet? Stave’s calling force became so powerful that sometimes he was able to hammer an unwanted caller with up to 5,000 calls in return. Looks like two can play at this game, stalkers...
If the 'mission' of the company bothers you, just don't eat there; problem solved.
This is the biggest problem we have to confront and fight head on with everyone we know. Disagreement is NOT hate. If I have a different political idea from someone, it doesn't mean that I HATE that other person, I simply disagree with them. And he fact that I will WORK to insure that MY political idea triumphs isn't hate, either.
If these companies fund organizations that work to support traditional marriage, it doesn't mean that they HATE homosexuals, they just disagree with them that there is any right for homosexuals to be 'married'.
Good for them to support the causes they like. I’m not going to stand out in front of one of their coffee houses bitching and moaning. I just won’t go in to buy any of their products.
Don’t like Papa Johns, but In-n-out and CFA are the two best fast-food franchises there are.
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