Posted on 05/22/2019 9:08:45 AM PDT by Liberty7732
Chick-fil-A is vilified by the American left — and particularly the LGBTQ+ community — like few other American companies.
The reason is clear: They are honest, biblical Christians in their beliefs and statements, including on marriage being between one man and one woman — because that is what the Bible explicitly says and what all of Christianity and the rest of the world believed through all of history until, literally just a few years ago.
But that adherence to biblical norms in today’s America means they must be crushed by the activist LGBTQ+ left that seeks to destroy anyone who will not think like them, i.e. bakers, florists and pizza shops around the nation.
This has resulted in a growing number of bans — and a fascinating turn of events.
The first wave of bans was in 2012, when Democratic city officials in San Francisco, Boston and New York threatened or enacted bans or attempted to block Chick-fil-A from opening restaurants in their cities because Chick-fil-A donated to Christian organizations such as the Family Research Council.
The LGBTQ+ activists organized boycotts and were immediately swamped by giant counter-protests with Chick-fil-A’s customers standing in line around corners to show their support. Rarely has a tactic backfired so magnificently.
The newest round of bans came after the leftist ThinkProgress organization charged that the Chick-fil-A foundation supported “groups with a record of anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.” Those miscreant hate-filling groups? The Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which both operate on clear biblical understandings that are 2,000 years old. Chick-fil-A gave $1.6 million to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and $150,000 to the Salvation Army in 2017.
That generosity resulted in the San Antonio City Council banning Chick-fil-A at their airport because “everyone should feel welcome when they walk through our airport,” according to Councilman Robert Trevino. Two weeks later, a New York Democratic assemblyman Sean Ryan, announced that the Buffalo airport was prohibiting Chick-fil-A from operating there, because “the views of Chick-fil-A do not represent our state or the Western New York community.”
Actually, they probably do.
Most recently, the kiddos in the student government at Trinity University, a private liberal arts college in Texas affiliated with the Presbyterian Church, voted to ban Chick-fil-A from their campus. The school does not have a Chick-fil-A on their campus, but serves its food on a rotating basis in the cafeteria. The unanimous vote to ban the chain was because of Chick-fil-A’s donations to groups that failed to support LGBTQ+ rights.
During all of this, Chick-fil-A executives have been nothing but class, creating a pretty stark contrast with those who are trying to shut them down and destroy the company if possible.
In an interview with Business Insider, Rodney Bullard, vice president of corporate social responsibility at Chick-fil-A and executive director of the Chick-fil-A Foundation, said the foundation focuses on lower-income and underserved youth.
“The calling for us is to ensure that we are relevant and impactful in the community, and that we’re helping children and that we’re helping them to be everything that they can be,” Bullard said. “For us, that’s a much higher calling than any political or cultural war that’s being waged.”
He also said that Chick-fil-A would be willing to work with LGBTQ+ groups in reaching children through these programs they have with 300 partners.
Chick-fil-A does not discriminate against LGBTQ+ people in hiring or serving. So this is about what Chick-fil-A leaders think and say. Further, they are willing to work with LGBTQ+ groups without requiring them to change their views. That, of course, is not reciprocated.
But a funny thing has happened in all of these attacks on Chick-fil-A. The chain is growing at a torrid pace.
Restaurant Business researched Technomic’s Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report and reported that Chick-fil-A’s domestic sales leapfrogged Taco Bell, Wendy’s and Burger King last year and will almost assuredly pass Subway this year to make it the third-largest restaurant chain by sales, behind only McDonald’s and Starbucks.
Kalinowski Equity Research agrees with that assessment: “We have long pointed out that Chick-fil-A is the restaurant competition with which McDonald’s U.S. should most concern itself—and by extension, investors should, too.”
Chick-fil-A sales increased 14.2 percent in 2018 and may increase 15 percent this year, much faster than any major, mature chain.
This success will not go unnoticed. And it is not likely to change behavior towards the chain by LGBTQ+ activists.
There is a deep well of hate for traditional Christian beliefs on the left and specifically in the LGBTQ+ activist corner. So expect ThinkProgress to continue to push out information on Chick-fil-A’s connections with Christian organizations and try to damage the company.
But at this point, apparently the American people are disinclined to pay attention beyond countering with buying more chicken sandwiches.
And there are still lines around the corner at all of the Chick-Fil-A restaurants here in the DC area.
Side note - I am addicted to Frosted Lemonades. I do not know what they put in them.
Crack. /s
I flew through Atlanta two weeks ago and went to a competing restaurant, with no lines, because the Chick-Fil-A was an insane line and I had a flight.
But nobody else in that airport had that kind of line.
Until the last three years or so, we didn’t have any here in Minnesota. Now they can be found in many of the 2nd and 3rd ring suburbs. In the past if I wanted one, I had to content myself with visiting one when in Florida or at Atlanta airport.
What I like most about them is that they’re clean and you don’t get any ‘hood attitude from the employees when you’re there.
There’s a handful of companies that I just decline to do business with because of their stance. Kind of a “nah, I’ll pass. thank you anyways” kind of thing. Some I will bend my stance on, some I won’t. I won’t for Ben & Jerry’s for example, because they are truly evil. There is one company however, that I truly loathe. They are the vile of the vile. Their smug self righteousness while seeking to profit off the deaths of innocent kids, along with other atrocities, has permanently put them in my “DO NOT GO” list. Dick’s. I will not do business with them, no matter the cost to me.
Are they publicly traded?
Yes, and they can complain about the "bullying" that they have had to endure; but, then turn around and become the very bullies that they complain about.
The slave does not dream of being free.
The slave dreams of being master.
It’s not just the good food. Staff is clean, respectful and helpful. You can look at them and tell they’re gonna do something with their lives...not just sling chicken/burgers forever. You can also tell...there’s zero discrimination in the company’s hiring practices.
The 2 I’m most familiar with have double drive-by lanes with huge waits in each lane and outdoor people taking orders in each lane. Oh if you go inside you wait as well.
One must ask the question: Does McDonald’s and Starbucks put money into destroying Chick-Fil-A through LGBTQDFERCNHY protest organizers because Chick-Fil-A is catching up with their market share?
I honestly don’t even care about the owner’s beliefs. The restaurants are clean, the food is good and the service is excellent. That’s what I care about and that’s what keeps me coming back.
If one believes (and I do) that homosexuality is a form of mental illness or, at the very least, a hormonal imbalance (or the result of one) then the hypercomplexity of human anatomy, physiology, endocrinology and other processes would almost certainly suggest that there are ‘side effects’ or additional imbalances, disorders, etc. of a psychological nature.
In other others, it’s rare for a tiny part of the brain to be dysfunctional without other parts (not necessarily adjacent) to be dysfunctional as well. The rates of smoking, drug and alcohol use, depression, self-harm, etc. bear this out and even if we accept a portion of their claim that they are social pariahs driven to physically destructive behavior, that leaves a much larger portion tied directly to their physiopsychology.
In gays this manifests itself in a vindictive pack mentality poorly disguised as ‘pride.’ Their poor self-image is, as you say, blamed on everyone and everything apart from themselves.
In other others > In other words
Same thing in Charlotte most any time of day or night...
we have a $25 gift card for CFLA got it at Christmas, every time we try to use it the line is two long (we only have 1 where I live and I don’t wait for food).
None around here (Maine) but I’ve eaten at a few at airport locations. Excellent fare. Wish we’d get one here.
Had a discussion with a liberal friend of mine just the other day, and he made a point about he won’t eat at Chick-Fil-A, because of their “agenda”.
I pointed out that they are by far the best service in the fast food industry and some of the best food as well.. to which he tried to poo poo... bah, what quality what service its “fast food”.. I can get that at BK.. To which I laughed and said, only someone who has NEVER been to Chick-Fil-A could remotely think that BK (or any other chain) offers anything close... He kept on his dismissive tirade, until his adult daughter finally piped up and said, there is no doubt they have the BEST service in the industry, and damn good food... And she then went on and started to explicitly list how they were superior in both in detail... He kind of just grumbled a bit after that and changed the topic.
As far as I’m concerned, let the leftists stay out of Chick-Fil-A, places are packed and super busy as it is, so if they want to settle for BK slop and think they are on par... let em.
But I did find it funny, his own very liberal daughter, laid the smack down on him.
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