Posted on 08/02/2012 2:35:48 PM PDT by scottjewell
[OFFICIAL CHARGES OF DISCRIMINATION FILED BY GAY RIGHTS REPRESENTATION AGAINST CHICK FIL A - IL]
The Civil Rights Agenda, a local LGBT rights advocacy group, filed multiple complaints with the Illinois Department of Human Rights Thursday, alleging that the Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A restaurant chain’s “intolerant corporate culture” violates Illinois law and a provision in the state’s Human Rights Act.
“In our current high speed media and social media environment, Chick-fil-A has announced and caused to be published, to hundreds of millions of people, that LGBT people are unacceptable and objectionable,” said Jacob Meister, Governing Board President of TCRA and the attorney who filed the complaint. “They have made it clear the lives of LGBT individuals are unacceptable to them and that same-gender families are unwelcome at Chick-fil-A.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagophoenix.com ...
Where is Judge Roy Bean when you need him?
our governments at all levels have simply become too big...this group of queers can fire shots at a taxpaying corp, who has no real ability to do anything but waste cash in defense of their name...they do it, or be penalized by the *law* as 'haters'...
you would think that Dan Cathy wrote the Bible personally or somethin...
eventually, the only defense against these groups will be for the locals to find em and burn em out...
It’s about ‘fairness’ dude :)
Oh, and ‘equality’
Those sicko flibs will do it to you (just an aside).
Alexis de Tocqueville said that Europeans will try to get freedom, but will settle for less. They will, however, kill and die for equality. Americans, supposedly, have it the other way around. So now America is becoming Europeanized. And you know why they call ‘em Europeans. Because You’re a peon if you’re thinking European.
It all depends on how you define equality too.
Is it equality when a business has to give handi-capped spots to officially certified handicapped that I cant use and charge me the same as them for it?
Or charge me the same as child bearing women who get Obama-care reproductive (and other womens) services that I cant use as a man?
Is taking from some to give to others ‘equality’??
Strictly speaking that is the Karl Marx definition of 'equality', although Dems have made most (public figure) Republicans teriffied to use the word Marxism, calling it McCarthyism.
Marxist equality: Equal results.
de Tocqueville equality: Equal opportunity.
Marxist argument: Unequal results = presumptive proof of unequal opportunity, putting burden of proof of innocence on employer.
de Tocqueville equality: Unequal results = cause to suspect unequal opportunity and investigate further. Burden of proof remains on plaintiff.
Then there’s the Chic Fil A civil rights complaint version of equality.
Saying something that hurts the feelings of gays might cause gays to feel discriminated against, and therefore violates their civil rights in advance of any actual discrimination. We’re through the looking glass, people. Curiouser and curiouser. Beware the jaberwock.
” I have always been skeptical of employer discrimination and harassment laws and their constitutionality. “
And for GOOD reason!
that should be on behalf of Chick..hahah politics politics. is Acorn mixed up in this. How about intolerant public officials attacking job makers. Its all about parasites.
I don't think libs look at private sector employers the way we do. They see them as slave-masters and the employees as slaves, and they are Lincoln trying to free them with gubmnt jobs(the only important work), or food stamps.
I guess in this case the gays are the slaves.
Fortunately for them most people today educated in public schools are trained to believe it.
you know who started all this..our Prez came out for gay marriage then chick ..and then the mayors..chick is private owned but since win is ok for elected servants to dictate. this is just plain liberal mob rule..
but no one disscriminated..it is hetrosexual envy.a partner will never be anything more than a partner.
Face it Flounder (or whatever the complainant calls himself), you are inferior - and you will be until you recognize the immorality of your lifestyle.
The name was redacted because the complainant is a hypocrite. How do I know? You can see his name in the upper right on most pages: John Zaharakis, 44 y/o, owner of the gay bar Cocktail in Chicago. They regularly have mostly naked men dancing for the customers, so his claim to be a Christian is more propaganda. His lawsuit doesn’t even state he entered a Chick-Fil-A. Also, look up the Illinois statute. You read further and it plainly states the free exercise of religiously based views shall not constitute a civil rights violation! There’s no record of him having a daughter with his partner, Dusty Hoffman.
But the most hypocritical thing about this all is that his bar discriminates against straight women...they even have a sign! CFA doesn’t bar anyone from their restaurants in ANY way, but John will. Don’t believe me, just google discrimination and Zaharakis. Many of the gay blogs that talk about it even admit that it’s discriminatory. So where’s Rahm & Moreno now? Public records also reveal 15 liens/judgments from the IRS, the state, and private individuals - one of whom was the General Manager of Cocktail! The most recent liens were on July 16, 2012. This is the same day he alleged he felt discriminated against. Someone needs money badly.
This is the best complaint they could muster? The suit itself is baseless and the complainer is the one who should be sued. The arguments these GLBT extremists have are hollow and sensational. Just question their sources before believing the hype.
Wow, great work!!!
All I need to figure out is what they have to defend themselves from.
Classic Victim-hood Liberalism, “I feel, therefore I am”.
Yes, the whole case is bogus. Thank you for all of that additional information which only confirms this more wholly.
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