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Chick-fil-A gay fallout: Chicago ban, Facebook gaffe, Malkin blog
LA Times ^ | July 25 2012 | Tiffany Hsu

Posted on 07/25/2012 3:32:49 PM PDT by scottjewell

[A] Chicago official has pledged to block the fast-food chain from opening in his district amid a heated national debate over the place of the gay marriage debate in corporate America.

. . .

The company’s offense? President Dan Cathy’s comments . . . that he is “guilty as charged” of defining marriage [traditionally]. In other words, he’s not in favor of gay marriage.

“If you are discriminating . . . I don't want you in the 1st Ward," Moreno told the Tribune . . . “Because of this man’s ignorance, I will now be denying Chick-fil-A’s permit to open a restaurant in the 1stWard.”

He also added that Cathy’s comments were “bigoted, homophobic.”

Chicago’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel, followed suit with his own statement: "Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values. They disrespect our fellow neighbors and residents. This would be a bad investment, since it would be empty."

. . .

Last week, Chick-fil-A issued a statement saying it would “leave leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena." The company added that it has always aimed to “treat every person with honor, dignity and respect -- regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender.”

The reaction has been intense:

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino told the Boston Herald that he no longer wanted Chick-fil-A in his city.

Muppets creator Jim Henson Co. backed out of a partnership with the chain to make kids meals toys.

Protestors are planning to congregate outside locations tonight; participating same-sex couples will publicly embrace.

[. . . ]

Meanwhile, Gizmodo claims Chick-fil-A created a fake Facebook account to raise sympathy on social media. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: antichristianbigotry; bluezones; chicago; chickfila; gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; illinois; kenyanbornmuzzie; menino; rahm; swrdswllwngsdshw
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To: scottjewell

So, when do they start burning down the Churches in Boston and Chicago?


81 posted on 07/25/2012 7:07:30 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The only good Zombie is a dead Zombie, oh wait...)
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To: scottjewell

The same people that I wouldn’t trust to pickup my Dog’s Poop are telling us where we can and cannot eat?

If this wasn’t so ridiculous, it would be, well, beyond ridiculous. Those Liberals are great little Nazis.


82 posted on 07/25/2012 7:17:42 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The only good Zombie is a dead Zombie, oh wait...)
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To: scottjewell

Can’t wait for the Chick-fil-A football kick-off games that are about a month away. Tennessee v. NC State on Friday August 31 and Auburn v. Clemson on Saturday September 1. I can’t wait to hear the marriage equality folks go after the SEC and ACC over that! LOL


83 posted on 07/25/2012 7:29:13 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: scottjewell

Thomas Menino should spend more time learning to format a letter properly than spending time harassing businesses. I think I’ll call him tomorrow and suggest he take a business writing course.

BTW, you no longer indent paragraphs when the paragraph is single-spaced.


84 posted on 07/25/2012 7:55:21 PM PDT by mommyq
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To: Kickass Conservative

you know when we think about this and what caused this then it truely is pathetic and stupid.

It’s not about love as I love many things but do not feel the need to marry them.
It’s about sex plain and simple and how they like to get off in their unnatural unhealthy way and those supporters seem to forget how nature or God made us to keep the human species going.

Because of their sex they think they should get special rights and it is special rights unless we allow all sorts of mariage of which they are opposed to.

When one looks at history and sees how the NAZI’s acted against Jews et then the same tactics are being used today by the far left and regardles of how the far left try to say they are not NAZI’s their tactics show us otherwise.

Sadly our side are pathetic and cowardly and will not raise this issue, hell Hannity etc is a fraud and PC as well as most talk radio.

Dr Laura S was saying about this decades agos ago and they got to her and the rest of the right shut up.

I only hope everyone on here informs their family, their neighbors, work etc about what is going on because staying silent only helps their twisted sick agenda


85 posted on 07/25/2012 8:13:40 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: scottjewell
Let the fags cry bloody murder all they want. They are trying to reinvent
anal sex as a civil rights issue. You should hear the blacks cry foul on TV
when they talk about this disparity.

When the camera's go away so will the perverts.

86 posted on 07/25/2012 8:24:25 PM PDT by MaxMax
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To: scottjewell

Newsmax has a report that the media made a big mistake.
Please see here:http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/gay-marriage-chik-fil-a-controversy/2012/07/24/id/446402?s=al&promo_code=F8E3-1


87 posted on 07/25/2012 8:39:18 PM PDT by mojo114 (Pray for our military)
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To: manc
Very well said my FRiend.

This is an entirely different Country than the one we grew up in. What was thought as Common Decency in my youth is now treated as the Extremist viewpoint. We can thank the years of Liberal Indoctrination in our Schools and the slanted Reporting of our Pravda wannabe Press Corps for the slide into the Progressive abyss.

88 posted on 07/25/2012 8:48:32 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The only good Zombie is a dead Zombie, oh wait...)
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To: MaxMax

exactly anal sex and strap ons are now a civil right, WTH .

These people are so screwed up that they will never understand .


89 posted on 07/25/2012 9:15:12 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Winstons Julia
allowing only government approved businesses to have permits seems very totalitarian.

Seems? It is the essence of totalitarianism - agree with the State or suffer. It's one stop short of re-education camps and gulags.

90 posted on 07/25/2012 9:49:28 PM PDT by garbanzo (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine)
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To: garbanzo; All

Can you imagine if a conservative area said they wouldn’t allow a JC Penney in?


91 posted on 07/25/2012 10:01:40 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

In the past, before my celiac diagnosis, I loved Chick Fil-A stuff. These days, I must enjoy only virtually. They have my support, though.


92 posted on 07/26/2012 2:28:18 AM PDT by sayuncledave (et Verbum caro factum est (And the Word was made flesh))
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To: Winstons Julia

Your facebook friend is a misinformed kook. Mr. Cathy said nothing of the kind.


93 posted on 07/26/2012 2:34:46 AM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: Squawk 8888

Good idea


94 posted on 07/26/2012 4:24:17 AM PDT by kanawa
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To: mojo114

Thanks so much for that link. I agree with what the piece is saying, and that he never said ONE word against gays nor gay marriage - but the fact that he said he stood for traditional marriage is all it took for this rabid advocates to smear him, and the media lap it up.


95 posted on 07/26/2012 4:27:22 AM PDT by scottjewell
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To: scottjewell

Let’s see, per the government drone...

“We will discriminate against you because we percieve that you are discriminating by having a non conforming opinion.”

I honestly wish they had a franchise near me...I’d be giving them all sorts of business.


96 posted on 07/26/2012 7:22:56 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: matt04

“They have two locations in MA. Simply shut them down overnight, bulldoze the buildings so they can not easily be re-rented and post a banner saying “Massachusetts doesn’t support our 1st Amendment rights, we won’t support them with jobs and tax dollars.”

I agree, but the problem is that each store is an independentaly owned franchise. Each restaurant owner most likely can’t afford to take that action....


97 posted on 07/26/2012 8:46:56 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: scottjewell

Can this be legal? Aren’t these city mayors violating the first amendment rights of Mr. Cathy and also descriminating to the extend of exclusion?

What do our lawyer FReepers say?


98 posted on 07/26/2012 8:53:36 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: ThomasMore

It does not seem legal to me - and it seems discriminatory and unconstitutional. It would be interesting to hear a FR attorney’s take on this, would welcome it.


99 posted on 07/26/2012 9:20:33 AM PDT by scottjewell
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To: scottjewell; All

H so true! Incidentally, Mr. Cathy also said of his Company, We are all married, to our first wives and are blessed for that. Does that mean they hate divorced people? Where are the outcries from divorced people? Where in the news are their hissy fits? hmmmm.

The entire left in this country are irrational, overgrown children who run to their Mommies (nanny govt) crying “They won’t play with me!! WAAAAAA They hate me!!”


100 posted on 07/27/2012 8:39:44 AM PDT by gidget7 ("When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson)
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