Posted on 07/26/2012 3:11:13 AM PDT by scottfactor
I completely support Mr. Cathy’s rather tame comments.
I visited the local Chick-fil-a twice yesterday.
The first time, around lunch, it was impossible to get near the restaurant. The parking lot was full and there was a line of cars circling the restaurant for the drive-thru lane.
I went again last night (Wednesday) and finally was able to use the drive-thru. I spent $35 on some sandwiches and chicken tenders.
I guess you only have to be tolerant if you’re anything other than pro-gay? Heck, then you an say an do just about anything. Just look at the political clowns coming out against family values.
Chicago and Boston! Yep, those bastions of family values and self-righteous pontification!
I don’t do fast food, but my wife and I had CFA for dinner last night and she also bought me one of their salads for lunch today.
On August 1st we will do it again.
If the stories about the lines at CFA are true, this is going to be a major meme in this year’s election.
Don’t like their food or the chaotic parking lots but I’m giving money to my son so he can eat there. The two or three in our town are always crowded anyway, so 01 Aug should be a blowout.
“Oh, we know the cultural tectonic shift from traditional moral values to chaotic debauchery began in earnest in the 1960s, and we have seen our society gradually and steadily slide into moral decay since then.”
I just received my Air Force TJAG Online News Service feed, and it contains an annoucement celebrating the selection of one of our reserve lieutenants as one of the “Top LGBT lawyers under 40”. My spirit grieves for what my Corps, my Air Force, my military and my nation are becoming.
I have never experienced in yer face behavior like that; but, I think, if it happens at CFA, I would point and laugh as loudly as I could
I have always found their food to be delicious. If you like "spicy," their Spicy Chicken sandwiches will get your attention.
Above and beyond the food, the service is always outstanding. One can tell that Chick Fil-A recruits good kids, and trains them to be excellent at customer service. They're always friendly and attentive.
Can’t a restaurant expel non-buying individuals? Seems easy enough...if gays show up inside the restaurant and start doing this, just demand they buy something or leave.
“Can’t a restaurant expel non-buying individuals?”
Verrrry interesting question. The answer IMO depends on the political culture of the city where protests intended to disrupt the normal transacting of business take place.
The first “Alinsky tactic” I recall was for protesters to silently enter a business and build up a crowd that made it difficult for the regular customers. When challenged, protesters would insist they had not yet decided what to buy. If the protesters were minorities, they immediately accused the storeowner of “racism”.
Local politics determined whose side the police would take when they were summoned. In liberal cities the advantage tended to lie with protesters who were gay or Muslim or black or lately, OWS.
Now, here in South Carolina the authorities will defer to the businesses. “Officer, I asked these people to either buy something or leave, and they refused” will usually suffice to set the forces of law & order in motion. The state capital is said to be especially gay-unfriendly. Local Muslims are seen but not heard. And the Southern culture itself has kept race relations generally cordial.
The nearest Chick Fil-A is next door to the University of S.C. main campus. Once a couple of protesters held up a sign nearby that proclaimed “If you’re eating Chick Fil-A. you’re eating anti-gay!” This only served to fill the restaurant parking lot & created a spillover crowd inside. The protesters saw they had only caused a positive backlash, so they left.
Gay kiss-ins are rumored but people here do not like being disturbed while eating and the response would more than likely be “Let’s roll!”
I plan to buy some gift certs for some people I love.
Waffle fries: yum yum yum!
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