Muppets dump Chick-Fil-A to support gay marriage

Reuters ^ | 7/23/2012

[markomalley]

The Muppets are ending their relationship with fast food restaurant chain Chick-Fil-A in a show of support for gay marriage, the creators of the puppet troupe said on Monday.

"The Jim Henson Company has celebrated and embraced diversity and inclusiveness for over fifty years and we have notified Chick-Fil-A that we do not wish to partner with them on any future endeavors," the company said in a statement posted on their official Facebook page.

The Henson company, named after the creator of lovable characters like Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, supplied their Creature Shop Muppet toys to Chick-Fil-A for children's meal packages but decided to sever ties after recent statements by the fast-food chain's Chief Executive Dan Cathy.

Cathy told the Baptist Press in a recent interview the company supported the "traditional family," and "the biblical definition of the family unit."

The Henson company, whose Muppet characters are hugely popular, said its Chief Executive Lisa Henson is a "strong supporter of gay marriage and has directed us to donate the payment we received from Chick-Fil-A to GLAAD," the company said in their statement.

[SkyDancer]

Maybe the SanFran data is what I got. Thanks for pointing that out.

[pogo101]

Although I agree that restaurants and singers should stick to the entertainment that brought in the customers, there is a pretty big difference.

A difference, that is, between a singer who interrupts an advertised-as-apolitical concert show with a harangue against GWB, and Mr. Cathy simply answering a question on a radio show. In the latter case, no customer of Chick Fil A is subjected -- as a condition of going in and buying the product -- to any message of any kind. Only folks who, outside of the restaurants, "reach out for" the extra information about Mr. Cathy's views will learn those views.

I suppose you can insist that Mr. Cathy simply have said, "No comment," but I think that is asking a lot. It should suffice that the concerts, and chicken stores, are kept free of speechifying.

[Cyber Liberty]

Oh! I learnt something today...what the “Q” is for.

[allmendream]

Well often times the comment from singer, actor, celebutard is in response to an interview question - and the reaction is usually that they shouldn't alienate their audience or potential fans with things that have little or nothing to do with their act, acting, music, ‘reality’ show or whatnot.

Being privately held, the owner is obligated to nobody - but if he had stockholders no doubt their advice would be the same as mine - “Shut up and cook chicken.”.

I advise it just because I enjoy their product and don't think their interests are served by getting political.

Big fan of “In and Out” burgers also - they put bible citations on their products - but otherwise seem to take a good healthy sip of STFU in regards to saying anything that would potentially alienate customers.

My favorite - Rev 3:20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.

;)

[pogo101]

I don’t think you and I are that far apart. I am just more focused on entertainers/ restaurants that FORCE you to hear their political crap, as a condition of buying their goods or services. (Similarly, look at Nabisco’s “Gay Pride” ad with the rainbow Oreo, supporting gay marriage, published to millions on Facebook and in print ads everywhere. NO one in the MSM criticized Nabisco for injecting itself needlessly into a nasty cultural/ political battle ... yet I’ve seen many “news stories” criticizing cultural conservatives FOR CRITICIZING Nabisco.)

[Wisconsinlady]

Maybe Chick Fil A should add “frog’s legs” to their menu.
And “Miss Piggy” ribs.

MMMMM. Yes, and Fozzie Fritters for dessert!

[Melinda in TN]

I have read posts from people that don’t like Chick-Fil-A and I don’t know how anybody can not like them. LOL Of course, I’m in the South and biscuits are a staple here. They have the BEST chicken and the biscuits melt in your mouth. We have one in the town I work in and I go there every chance I get. Forget going on lunch break though. They are overrun with customers at lunch, in my town anyway.

[a fool in paradise]

Aren't the Muppets owned by Disney now? Didn't the LATE Jim Henson sell them off shortly before passing?

Disney studios recently lost an "out" homosexual as studio head (he left in April following the John Carter Warlord of Mars movie failure).

There are probably many more within the Disney ranks. More pink journalism.

Pinklisting goes on but somehow blacklisting public Communists once upon a time in Hollyweird was a "bad thing".

Screw the Socialists. They are raping my childhood and American culture.

[a fool in paradise]

Church’s Chicken is no longer owned by the Church family.

It is now a muslim owned and operated enterprise.

Ask the head of Church’s Chicken how he feels about same sex marriage.

Otherwise, Disney-Henson is just being discriminatory and anti-Christian.

[a fool in paradise]

If it wasn’t for taxpayer funded PBS, the Muppets would’ve been another novelty puppet act from Ed Sullivan and the Tonight Show With Johnny Carson.

[a fool in paradise]

I've seen 2% published. And yet there was a story not too long ago where a poll was claiming most Americans thought queers were 25% of the population. They wish.

The number of homosexuals in the media make people think that reflects the general population figures.

Their numbers in newsrooms are beyond the norm, thus they drive the media agenda in reflecting the "proper stance" on news items important to them but few others.

Don't ask, don't tell was a "bad" thing for the military, but journalists and editors believe they can change more viewers minds if the audience doesn't realize they are being lectured to by homosexual activists.

[a fool in paradise]

So what’s next, Kermit and Miss Piggy in homosexual relationships?

Interspecies. The sex positive agenda is okay with this. No moral judgements over sexual pairings of any kind, you see.

[a fool in paradise]

Just a toy plastic gun will be enough to drive them over the cliff.

A DRAWING of a gun was enough to upset the sissies in Major League Baseball.

[a fool in paradise]

The irony is that most gay men (the majority of the homosexual world) are “foodies” who wouldn’t be caught DEAD inside of a fast food joint. Not a huge customer base loss there.

The Gaystapo plan to stage national "kiss-ins" at Chick-Fil-A.

Other than that, they seek to exploit social media using peer pressure to get naive young people to bump along their own minuscule outrage.

[a fool in paradise]

When the lavender mafia pinklists businesses, actors, commentators, and singers, it is morally justified and a protest against closed minded bigotry.

When SOME in Hollywood tried to clear their ranks of Stalin loving Communists, they were demonized as the worst sort of paranoid authoritarians in the world. Even today, they speak of “the blacklist” although the KGB files confirmed what we knew.

The media is dominated by the “New Democrat” red diaper doper baby radicals of 1968. No wonder they’d spin these 2 examples as they do.

[a fool in paradise]

How many who are of the opinion that people should “Shut up and sing” will opine that Chick-Fil-A should “Shut up and cook chicken”?

A politically active singer (who became a celebrity because of apolitical entertainment material) abuses the stage the audience paid for when they have to ENDURE insults against half the audience (Roger Waters essentially became the fascist he railed against in The Wall when in 2008 the inflatable pig was paraded with pro-Obama, anti-Hillary, anti-God, anti-Christian slogans, "better get them UP AGAINST THE WALL...").

Does Chik-Fil-A put the biblical definition of marriage on their foodstuff packaging and on posters around the restaurants?

JC Penney went to using same sex couples in advertising.

Does Chik-Fil-A "hammer home" a traditional marriage view by "only" using male-female couples in advertising?

Does JC Penney discriminate against those with cancer and retardation by NOT using them in their advertising?

There are differences of degree.

[a fool in paradise]

These parents were concerned. I heard one older lady remark, “..that Ronald guy at McDonalds is just too creepy for me.” That one made me laugh.

The Burger King is even creepier.

http://www.kraseybeauty.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Burger-King-Flame-Cologne.jpg

[a fool in paradise]

One group, and I assumed several were teachers by their comments, were commenting on the need for classroom monitors, which was happening, whereby mothers would volunteer for classroom duty and use the opportunity to help keep the homosexual agenda out of their child’s classroom.

Whatever happened to the PTA to review the kids' proposed curriculum?

[DBeers]

Interesting that they’d alienate just the, what, 14% that are LGBT

14%???

Wow, I would say you should do some further research -I would say that 1.4% percent (self identified) would be closer the the mark regarding the percentage of such disordered within the population...

[SkyDancer]

People here have already informed me. Thanks.