Posted on 08/03/2012 9:56:24 AM PDT by scottjewell
I don’t know what “success” would be for an event like this. I’m sure that those who go to Chick-Fil-A will successfully kiss each other. But what do they expect to accomplish?
1. Will gay kissing in public make people more sympathetic to the gay cause? That seems obviously not to me — the people who are uncomfortable with gays won’t be MORE comfortable confronted, and there are a lot of people who are uncomfortable with public displays of affection who will be upset even if they aren’t against gays. I can’t think of any class of people who would look at two guys making out and say “you know, I thought that would be a bad thing, but now that I see it, it’s kind of cool.”
2. Will gays kissing scare people from the store? Well, maybe. But wouldn’t that prove that the public was, in fact, really against the whole idea of gay relationships? It would be like protesting against “cleanliness” laws by showing up without a shower in a month. You’d just prove why a cleanliness law was needed.
3. Will gays kissing attract people who like the idea of gays kissing? Probably not, but if it did, won’t those people then be buying food at Chick-Fil-A? Attracting a new class of people to the restaurant hardly seems like what their goal is.
4. Will they get someone to beat them up for their lewd behavior? OK, this might be the “success” they are looking for. But to get that success by doing something that most people would find offensive in any case, kind of seems like a wash to me. You get a thousand people who behave like boorish rubes, and you think the harm to your cause will be outweighed by one person having a natural reaction to the boorish behavior?
More likely, some parent is going to point out that there are kids in the restaurant, and that heavy make-out sessions are inappropriate in public. The people will probably call the parent names, it will be caught on video hopefully, and will just fuel the belief that gays are abherant and uncivil. Which most of them are NOT, but you’d never know because they don’t make a spectacle of themselves and are happy with the status quo.
Yep, all excellent points. fantastic
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