Posted on 08/01/2012 10:19:40 AM PDT by scottjewell
People across the country are flocking to Chick-fil-A today, not because of the fast-food chain's chicken sandwiches, but because of its CEO's vocal support of traditional marriage.
Nearly 600,000 supporters signed up to celebrate Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day today, which former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee created to counter a boycott launched by gay marriage activists last week after Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy said he was "guilty as charged" for not supporting gay marriage...
Courtney Clem, 22, strolled over to the Chick-fil-A in Crystal City, Va., to pick up lunch for her entire office and show her support. Clem said she wanted to eat at Chick-fil-A today not only because she supports traditional marriage but because she supports the First Amendment.
"We want to support their right to an opinion," Clem said. "I do support that opinion. And the right. Even if it was an opinion I disagreed with, I'd be here today. "
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Gay rights groups launched a national boycott of the chicken chain last week, which the mayors of Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and Washington, D.C., have publically supported.
The Philadelphia City Council is considering a resolution to condemn the company for what councilman Jim Kenney called their "Anti-American attitude."
D.C. councilman Marion Barry tweeted that he does not support "hate chicken," Boston's Mayor Thomas Menino said there is "no place for your company" in his city and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the restaurant's "values are not Chicago values."
The Chicago Republican Party is making a formal complaint against Emanuel today, alleging that the mayor has "broken civil rights laws pertaining to religious freedom and the First Amendment in denying Chick-fil-A a permit...
National conservative figures have responded to the controversy with an outpouring of support for the restaurant.
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Went to our local CFA in FOley, AL and it was packed. I would guess they will serve well over 1000 folks today.
I don’t know how many stores CFA has, but if it is 1000 (my guess is more), then at least 1 million will show their support today.
Say “Hi” to my son James. He’s in the Purdue shirt...
It is not just a Christian thing. I’ve known many people who had no religious beliefs who could not stand Sodomites.
Yes, same here. And there have been people who supported gay rights but now have become fed up with the blatant elitism and quasi-fascism of the movement.
Very good point; thanks for linking.
We are eating at the Huntersville, NC location and its is packed to the rafters!
Kuddos; everyone keeps reporting the same thing!
As I stood in line at our local CFA today, I could not help thinking how everyone was smiling, and polite, and courteous. Had this been a bunch of Liberals, there would have been riots, looting, fighting, trash everywhere, and the cops would have been arresting people instead of directing traffic.
My local, small-town GA CFA has been packed to the rafters since they opened this morning! 45 minute wait and one of the managers said that every employee on their payroll was working open to close today. The crowd was friendly and cheerful. Many comments were heard throughout the crowd about how bad Zero was going down if the turnout on Nov 6th was anywhere close to what CFA was getting today.
One of the local McD’s and the local KFC had their billboards posting “We agree with Dan Cathy” and “C-F-A Appreciation Day” on them. Amazing that even CFA’s competitors were supporting them.....
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; orIf two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
Obama was against gay marriage just a few weeks back, right? Then why wasn’t he boycotted by all these loony liberal lemmings of the licentious left? They’re just a bunch of sanctimonious windbags who want to brag about their moral superiority, just the kind of morons who repell in horror at waterboarding but yawn at partial birth abortion.
Ha ha ha...that's FReeper GOLD right there. Thanks for the laugh!
This incident will have gotten huge numbers of people to try CFA who have never eaten there before. Their revenue will thus likely be up for months to come.
You must live near Seattle. I’m in the same boat. The Boise State location is the closest one to us, 400 miles away. And don’t think I didn’t seriously consider driving all the way there! LOL.
PapaBear, you ought to be on CFA’s legal team :-)
Excellent posting.
-PJ
Don’t take this the wrong way (you might say the same about MI sometimes), but THAT IS IN MA???? Awesome!
“How come the headline says “thousands” but the first sentence says 600,000? That’s quite some minimalist headlining, I’d say.
-PJ”
Especially since I would estimate the actual number across the country to be more like a couple million or more.
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