Petula Dvorak
@petulad
Washington, DC
Columnist for The Washington Post, off-balance mother of two, forever searching for comfortable 4-inch heels and really good tomato soup.
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 ...
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.
Petula Dvorak
@petulad
Washington, DC
Columnist for The Washington Post, off-balance mother of two, forever searching for comfortable 4-inch heels and really good tomato soup.
Wow... WHAT is Miller Lite doing associating with those gutter-dwelling freaks?
Do you know the best e-mail address for the Miller Beer company to complain about Miller Lite's sponsorship of this despicable "street fair" event (and disgusting ad)?
This ad is over a year (or two?) old. They’ve sponsored this gay fest since the 1970s.
Budweiser also has gay targeted advertising (but nothing specifically anti-Christian that I am aware of). Ford Motor too.
Those who disagree are just expected to sit down and shut up (as Clinton once said).
I understood that the Chick-fil-A owner merely answered a question posed by an interviewer, stating his personal opinion re same-sex marriage. In what sense has he or his employees been “preaching?”
Petula... Petula...
Have you ever considered singing as a career?
Far as I know, there is no preaching going on at any Chik-Fil-A restaurant. So where did this need for a license (or need for permission from the perverts) come from?
Since your straw man never materialized, at that point I stopped reading your crap.
I always go through a period of severe withdrawal every fall when they quit selling peach shakes.
One of the nice things about being in the Houston suburbs is that most of the gay folks stay in the city, although I have noticed more guys at the grocery store lately with their man purses over their shoulder. Just have to shake my head at them.
I’m in Conroe, north of you. I have never seen a man with a purse here just like none showed up at our Chick-fil-A.
Those spicy chicken sandwiches are really spicy hot. I like ‘em.
The gayatollahs cannot allow free speech.
2ndDivisionVet - Do you ever sleep? [BTW I do appreciate many of the articles you post.]
I think that they would like individual ‘church-goers’ to keep quiet about political issues (not just corporations with Biblical convictions.)
Maybe, with the supposed separation of church and state, atheists should be commanded to be silent as well.
The bois name it, "Butt-Fil-Er", and the thought makes their hearts twitter and sends a thrill up and down their collective legs.
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