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Cracker Barrel Celebrates Pride Month, Turns Back on Tradition
Todd Starnes ^ | 9/23 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 06/09/2023 4:52:40 AM PDT by spirited irish

Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit. Cracker Barrel has gone gay.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: corruption; crackerbarrel; homosexualagenda; surrender
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1 posted on 06/09/2023 4:52:40 AM PDT by spirited irish
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To: spirited irish

I have initiated divorce proceedings with CB, which has become my ex restaurant. There will be no alimony paid or expected.


2 posted on 06/09/2023 4:55:52 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

Aaaaaand...there goes another one.


3 posted on 06/09/2023 4:56:50 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: spirited irish

WTF is wrong with these companies? Bye Bye to Uncle Herschel’s Favorite!


4 posted on 06/09/2023 4:56:50 AM PDT by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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To: chajin

Same here.


5 posted on 06/09/2023 4:57:00 AM PDT by spirited irish ( )
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To: Brandonmark
WTF is wrong with these companies?

Cowardice. Fear of losing fame, fortune, and following. Broad-mindedness that sees no evil in anything.

6 posted on 06/09/2023 4:59:03 AM PDT by spirited irish ( )
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To: spirited irish

What’s to be proud of?


7 posted on 06/09/2023 5:02:43 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: yldstrk

👍 👍 👍 👍 👍


8 posted on 06/09/2023 5:08:22 AM PDT by JayGalt (Convenience is the bait in which the true poison is concealed.)
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To: Brandonmark
WTF is wrong with these companies?

ESG. Environmental, social, and governance.

The giant global investment firms are demanding compliance in exchange for access to capital.

9 posted on 06/09/2023 5:12:11 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: spirited irish

They should have responded, we don’t get involved with political issues. We provide good food for everyone.


10 posted on 06/09/2023 5:12:43 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: spirited irish
This is nothing new for Cracker Barrel.

From their Wikipedia page:

LGBT policies

In early 1991, an intra-company memo called for employees to be dismissed if they did not display "normal heterosexual values". According to news reports, at least 11 employees were fired under the policy on a store-by-store basis from locations in Georgia and other states.[10][17] After demonstrations by gay rights groups, the company ended its policy in March 1991 and stated it would not discriminate based on sexual orientation.[99][100] The company's founder, Dan Evins, subsequently described the policy as a mistake.[10] From 1992 onward,[101] the New York City Employees Retirement System, then a major shareholder, put forward proposals to add sexual orientation to the company's non-discrimination policy. An early proposal in 1993 was defeated, with 77 percent against and only 14 percent in support, along with 9 percent abstaining.[102] It was not until 2002 that the proposals were successful; 58 percent of company shareholders voted in favor of the addition.[99]

Cracker Barrel achieved the lowest score (15 out of 100) of all rated food and beverage companies in the Human Rights Campaign's 2008 Corporate Equality Index, a measure of LGBT workplace equality.[103] Their score for 2011 had increased to a 55. The 2011 survey noted that the firm had established a non-discrimination policy and had introduced diversity training that included training related to sexual orientation.[104] However, the company's score for 2013 dropped to a 35 out of 100, not having obtained the points related to non-discrimination toward gender identity and health benefits for partners of LGBT employees and transgender-inclusive benefits.[105] In 2019, Cracker Barrel earned a score of 80 on the index, and maintained that score in the 2020 and 2021 reports.[106][107][108]

On December 20, 2013, Cracker Barrel announced it would no longer sell certain Duck Dynasty products which it was "concerned might offend some of [its] guests"[109] after Phil Robertson, a star of the reality TV show, remarked in a GQ interview:[110]

Don't be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolators, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers—they won't inherit the kingdom of God. Don't deceive yourself. It's not right.

— Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson

Robertson also made "comments likening homosexuality to terrorism and bestiality" in the interview, and expressed views about race which attracted criticism. On December 22, less than two days after pulling the products from its shelves, Cracker Barrel reversed its position after protests from customers.[111][112][113]

Beginning in 2016, the company adopted a pro-LGBT stance, developing an internal diversity council which included LGBTQ members. Since 2017, the company has sponsored Out & Equal, a workplace-equality non-profit organization.[114] In 2018, Cracker Barrel developed a limited edition of the chain's signature rocking chairs featuring an LGBT rainbow pattern. The company donated these "Rainbow Pride Rockers" to various pro-LGBTQ organizations, including the Human Rights Campaign, Nashville LGBT Chamber of Commerce, Nashville Pride, and Out & Equal Workplace Summit.[115][116]

In 2019, the company announced it would not permit Grayson Fritts, a Knox County, Tennessee cop and pastor at All Scripture Baptist Church who has called for the execution of LGBTQ people, to hold an event in one of its restaurants.[117][118]


11 posted on 06/09/2023 5:13:33 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Keyhopper
We provide good food for everyone.

Tolerance isn't enough anymore. Sodomy must be celebrated.

12 posted on 06/09/2023 5:13:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Drew68

Yes, all those years we were all “Capitalism Uber Alles”, not realizing we were selling the Marxists the rope they would hang us with.


13 posted on 06/09/2023 5:14:55 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: spirited irish

Goodbye Cracker Barrel, you are now on the list of companies I will not patronize.


14 posted on 06/09/2023 5:19:50 AM PDT by wbslws
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To: Drew68

On another thread, it was reported that Black Rock and Vanguard, left leaning investment firms, owned 27% of the restaurant chain. If that is true, that probably explains why Cracker Barrel has gone pro-pervert. It certainly isn’t a wise marketing decision because few of their customers are either limousine liberals or hipster types.


15 posted on 06/09/2023 5:20:26 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: spirited irish

Don’t support faggot business. It’s like going into a gay bar, just without the booze and with food.


16 posted on 06/09/2023 5:24:11 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: dfwgator
The progression:

1. Tolerance

2. Celebration

3. Compliance

4. Worship

17 posted on 06/09/2023 5:25:40 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: spirited irish

Their food taste like reheated leftovers and their Americana merchandise is cheap crap from China. Screwem!


18 posted on 06/09/2023 5:27:16 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Right Brother

Bob Hope called it:

“I just left California where they just legalized Homosexuality, I figured I’d better get out before they made it mandatory.”


19 posted on 06/09/2023 5:27:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: spirited irish

Their food taste like reheated leftovers and their Americana merchandise is cheap crap from China. Screwem!


20 posted on 06/09/2023 5:27:51 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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