Can someone please explain this to me? While I certainly won’t be deterred from eating at a Chik-fil-a over their recent comments, how does going out of your way to visit one of their stores help?
I could understand that if you were going to eat out anyway, and had a choice, that would be a reason to go. But how exactly does this help ‘Christian values?’
These stores are franchises. Conceivably, you could be ordering from someone who has values that are contrary to yours but owns the store because it was a good business decision.
Chik-fil-a isn’t, and will not be, affected by this recent dust-up. People who eat there already are familiar with their background story for the most part. A store that is closed Sunday should be a pretty obvious clue.
If you really want to make a difference, volunteer at campaign offices and get people out to vote come Election Day. THAT is where your values are defended.
Nope, each franchisee is carefully screened and selected, groomed and scrutinized. The process takes years.
Neutralizes the leftist boycott if you go today and keep it up. If you go August 3rd, you can get into counter demonstrations against the planned "kiss in."
” how does going out of your way to visit one of their stores help?”
OK, spinboy, I’ll try to explain.
People are making a statement today in support of decency and integrity. Every extra chicken sandwich sold by CFA today tells the tinhorn politicians and the liberal fascist bullies that their attempts to inflict financial pain on businesses that do not promote their agenda will not only fail, but will have exactly the opposite effect.
God bless those who ARE “going out of their way” today!
BTW, spinboy, participating today in no way precludes one from also volunteering and helping to get out the vote in November, as your post seems to suggest.
Buying a franchise in any chain is not just a matter of plunking down your money and opening up a store. The franchisee is vetted by the franchiser to see that they have a solid business plan, neccessary business experience and are in line with the corporate vision and goals before they ever sign a contract. I’m sure Chik-fil-a has ways of vetting to assure them that those who buy in support the founders moral, ethical and spiritual goals.
Yes, it's a small gesture. But as General Nathan Bedford Forrest once said, "Get 'em skeered and then keep up the skeer." Most often the battle turns on a myriad of small actions rather than a decisive move. And it's not an "either/or" proposition. Just because we fight the little battle today doesn't mean we won't fight the big one tomorrow.
Can someone please explain this to me?
Unfortunately MDspiboyredux...if it has to be “explained” you won’t get it anyway. Sorry...
The in-a-nutshell version:
This is the age-old story of Christian values vs perversion (good vs evil). They drew a line in the sand and double-dog dared us to step across. We did.
The long version:
As Christians, we’ve been singled out to be knocked around like this many times by the left (bitter clingers, etc).
But last week, the Alinsky-ites decided to isolate and pummel what they thought was a great target for them in the form of a Christian business.
And holding this business up as an example of how they can wield power over us, not only did they once again insist on cramming their perversions down our collective throats - they took it even further and warned us that if we dared to disagree with their perverted values — if we insisted on exercising our Basic Constitutional and God-given Rights — they would hurt us economically.
Too bad for them that the target they zeroed in on happened to be a very highly successful Christian business and we instinctively knew to rally around and offer support - which we did immediately on an individual basis. But we soon got word to rally BIG on one particular day - and here we are!
They have mistaken our silence for weakness one time too many — and today we’re speaking out with our Collective March to the Chick-fil-A.