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Chick-fil-A, Papa John’s and In-N-Out Burger: Spare us your fast-food righteousness
The Washington Post's Post Local ^ | August 13, 2012 | Petula Dvorak

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...

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
A "license" to preach? Excuse me? There is no more a license to preach than there is a license to print adolescent fatuities in the pages of the Washington Post. Which is an awfully good thing for our author's career.

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.

41 posted on 08/13/2012 9:49:35 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


42 posted on 08/13/2012 9:50:50 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lighten up Petula! Geeez! You commie libs are always pissed off and/or whining about something.


43 posted on 08/13/2012 9:50:50 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You win some, you lose some and some you don't suit up for.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Since when does serving up junk food give someone a license to preach?

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!

44 posted on 08/13/2012 9:54:08 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are useless and useful idiots.)
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“Since when does serving up junk food give someone a license to preach?”

It’s called the First Amendment, moron.


45 posted on 08/13/2012 9:58:06 PM PDT by ChowChowFace
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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...


46 posted on 08/13/2012 10:01:06 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Eric Holder's NAACP rally against the voter ID laws required the press to bring govt issue photo ID.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
No one is forcing anyone to eat at any of these restaurants, and as far as I know, none of the restaurants requires a 'religious test' before serving anyone.

If the 'mission' of the company bothers you, just don't eat there; problem solved.

47 posted on 08/13/2012 10:14:08 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“It doesn’t matter if anyone sees you there. It’s about helping them fund hate groups by buying their hate-chicken,” another responded.

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'.

48 posted on 08/13/2012 10:20:07 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: thecodont

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.


49 posted on 08/13/2012 10:27:15 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t like Papa Johns, but In-n-out and CFA are the two best fast-food franchises there are.


50 posted on 08/13/2012 10:38:54 PM PDT by Lou Budvis
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.

51 posted on 08/13/2012 10:44:59 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: a fool in paradise
SCREW liberal supporting companies like Miller Lite that sponsored a homosexual leather orgy in San Fransicko with THIS anti-Christian poster and included a sado-maso pervert show on the sidewalk by a Catholic church.

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)?

52 posted on 08/13/2012 10:45:21 PM PDT by nutmeg (I'm with Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz: Anybody But Obama 2012)
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To: nutmeg

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).


53 posted on 08/13/2012 10:49:46 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Eric Holder's NAACP rally against the voter ID laws required the press to bring govt issue photo ID.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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?”


54 posted on 08/13/2012 11:00:13 PM PDT by Elsiejay
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Since when does serving up junk food give someone a license to preach?

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.

55 posted on 08/13/2012 11:14:54 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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To: Marcella

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.


56 posted on 08/13/2012 11:21:01 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Grams A

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.


57 posted on 08/13/2012 11:35:35 PM PDT by Marcella (PREPARE)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The gayatollahs cannot allow free speech.


58 posted on 08/14/2012 1:31:53 AM PDT by agere_contra (Vote ABO. Don't choose the Greater Evil and then boast about how principled you are)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


59 posted on 08/14/2012 2:30:17 AM PDT by PastorJimCM (truth matters)
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To: mylife
Shut up and open your own Gay-fil-A.

The bois name it, "Butt-Fil-Er", and the thought makes their hearts twitter and sends a thrill up and down their collective legs.

60 posted on 08/14/2012 4:08:34 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages, start today.)
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