Posted on 11/20/2019 8:40:18 AM PST by Midwesterner53
Most of us who were there on that sunny August day will never forget. For everyone else, there's a sign: "Above this plaque is a bullet hole. It marks the heroic action taken by Family Research Council employee Leo Johnson on August 15, 2012." That was the morning Floyd Corkins walked into our lobby and changed FRC forever. He'd bought a gun and learned how to use it. He'd loaded three magazines. In his backpack was a stash of chicken sandwiches that he planned to smear in the faces of staffers he hoped to kill. "They endorse Chick-fil-A," he said. It would be a "statement against the people who work there."
Thanks to Leo, it was a statement he never got to make. Fourteen days after someone snapped a picture of our staff smiling over boxes of Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, Leo was the only thing standing between Floyd Corkins and an FRC massacre. To a lot of Americans, the company's decision to walk away from years of biblical truth is upsetting. To us, it's personal.
In the days and years after that, we never talked publicly about Chick-fil-A's response to the shooting. Mainly because there wasn't one. Through all of the press conferences, the trial, and sentencing, I never once picked up the phone or opened my email to a message from someone at headquarters. Not even to ask about Leo. Obviously, Chick-fil-A wanted then what they want publicly now: as much distance from our movement as possible.
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Bert, are you a poofter?
Is Paul Ryan now on the C-F-A Board of Dirs? Inquiring minds want to know.
Wow the crypto liberals showed up quick in this one
And when they came for me, no one was left to say anything.......
Good question....
But, if they go away also? No big deal. They are a guilty pleasure I can suffice without just as easily as the rest.
Besides, the bathroom scale likes me better when I cook and eat homemade instead. Life is good.
Do you mean queer? Don’t be afraid to use plain language and hide behind what is essentially BritSpeak.
My daily sometimes multiple anti queer posts speak for me.
I vigorously support BSA and Chick Filet who are both maligned by purists afraid of what people will say about them at church. They gullibily take up the cause placed before them by a despicable left wing media intent on dividing and conquering. The media wins
The purists never go after the queer choir directors. They actually permit queer priests in their midst. Then they do the easy thing and claim they won’t go to Chick Filet which requires no effort at all.
AMEN!!!
Good grief already the other thread was a Babylon Bee thread.
YOU WERE RIGHT!!! YOU WERE RIGHT!!! YOU WERE RIGHT!!!
OK now?
Uh - no it wasnt
OK. One thread was BB, another not. You didnt specify the thread. Nonetheless, their decision was disappointing and surprising. Now we know them better. Sadly.
The back end is through Adyen, you can pay through Paypal if you like, it is still an option, and some sellers may still be on the legacy Paypal system, but I believe they have to change over by 2021?
These changes took place in 2018
Yes I do, if I don’t like what they are doing, I can vote against them.
Do you expect Chick Fil A to donate to your favorite charities? Why can’t you just do that yourself?
Personally, my opinion, I would rather Chick Fil A use their money (profits) to invest in another restaurant location, more employed people would equal less charity....
Ah....so you are a troll.
Thanks for the compliment
I learn from the best, President Donald Trump, Master Troll
You can legally refuse business from anyone, just don’t give a reason.
So somehow Chick Fil A deciding not to donate to certain charities anymore is going to cause the quality of their chicken sandwiches to go down?
I don’t need a corporation to donate to charity, I can do that myself.
Enjoy the ban-hammer coming your way! I know that I will. :)
You take yourself way too serious
Doesn't sound like America when you have to keep your opinions to yourself.
It isn't about charities. It isn't about chicken sandwiches, and it isn't about cake.
It's about brownshirt intimidation and how people are caving in to intimidation.
In the movie industry they have this thing called a "MacGuffin."
You are focusing on the MacGuffin instead of the plot revolving around the MacGuffin. It is the plot that is the real focus, not the MacGuffin.
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