Posted on 12/22/2013 8:21:13 AM PST by Rome2000
Came to their senses
This, Jack, is unfortunately what happens with blind kneejerk scapegoating. The track record of actual boycotts hasn’t proved very impressive. Buycotts, which reward someone who has done something RIGHT, make a stronger statement.
A friend of mine and I ate at TeeJays last night. Not only did the waitress tell us “Merry Christmas,” but so did the cashier who checked us out. I found that refreshing and was thankful to hear it.
LOL!
Good story! You beat the system with your sensible choices.
And I still was able to enjoy some good cake! I had carrot cake, chocolate cake, and cheesecake. Mmm. McAlister’s Deli has the best carrot cake! :)
The overwhelming majority of Americans who get HIV get it by volunteering for it. What is rock-headed about putting their energies to some non-controversial ministries, where the needs of those who are faithful to the Word are great? There is no call for them to pander or continue to interact with the media firestorm about gayness, with all the other Christians in need in this world.
You are so welcome. Have a blessed Christmas, my FRiend!
However, you might well still have to smoke outside if the business is owned by a person who objects to smoking. That is exactly the way things should be — let business owners decide the rules, and let customers decide where they choose to do business.
I strongly oppose smoking, BTW, perhaps because I come from a family of heavy smokers. You're not going to be allowed to smoke on my property. But I'll definitely defend your right to light up on someone else’s property if you want.
Not bad.
Cracker Barrel decided to become a force on the political front of Anus sex.
I like my eggs over easy, not over crap.
I haven't been onto DUnderground for a very long time, ever since they were the **ONLY** liberal website circulating a provably false rumor about Jim Robinson (pinged here as a courtesy) that didn't remove it when I politely documented the facts. Everybody else removed the false statement or at least allowed my post correcting the false statement to stand. By contrast, Democratic Underground actually deleted my account, which I had created for the purpose of responding to the false statement, and then denied an appeal and never did remove the false statement.
Comments like this on Democratic Underground should remind us that any victory here is only partial:
http://election.democraticunderground.com/10024213496#post1
“16. My son works for Cracker Barrel in a small college town. Half the male wait staff is gay and are pretty open about it with their coworkers. One of the new managers in his store is gay. If some of the people complaining about CB’s original decision only knew who was cooking and serving their food, why they might get the vapors or something! By the way, he says the after-church crowd absolutely lives up to their reputation for being small tippers and complainers.”
So what do we do next as conservatives?
When we're dealing with large corporations, apart from a few exceptions like Chik-Fil-A and Hobby Lobby which are very open in their viewpoint, it is unreasonable to expect them to consistently support conservative values. However, it **IS** reasonable to expect businesses serving a predominantly conservative constituency not to cave in to a bunch of liberals who are not part of their core market.
Conservative Christians demanding change in businesses in Greenwich Village or San Francisco would get laughed at, and for good reason. We're not their market! So why do they think conservative businesses should listen to them?
(And since people Google, no I do not mean “hunting liberals” as in “shooting them.” The First Amendment gives liberals the right to be idiots, and gives me the right to hunt down their arguments and argue back.)
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spokeshave suggested: “Ha....everyone take a Duck Call with them....blow it at any dim - lib you come across.”
Oatka responded: “That's frigging hilarious! Can you imagine attending a political speech or social gathering and some airhead starts spouting this ‘offended’ crap about a public cross/bible display, gay/racial criticism, etc. and a chorus (even two or three - maybe one) of duck calls sound off. There's gotta be a lot of people in attendance who would get it and inform those who didn't. The whole complaint would be immediately deflated. Limbaugh, or any radio guy ought to promote this. (Love to see a TV show of talking heads where Juan Williams, et al, spouts off and someone else take out his duck call and . . . :-) )”
“Comments like this on Democratic Underground should remind us that any victory here is only partial:”
If you think that idiot really has a queer son that works at QB with all his queer friends, I have some swamp land for sale.
Those retards in the DUck pen lie every breath they take. Nothing they post is the truth, I doubt if even they believe it. It is fun to see them in melt-down mode though.
And a most Merry and Blessed Christmas to you, as well. May the New Year bring you good health and contentment.
I don't have a lot of history with Democratic Underground, but my limited personal experience tends to confirm your view.
I've dealt with liberals in both my professional and personal life for virtually all of my life. Very often I have been the token conservative; in a fair number of cases I've been the first real conservative that a young liberal recently out of college has ever met to discuss political issues. I know there are honest liberals out there who have core commitments that are dead wrong, but which they honestly believe and with which they are consistent; there are also many liberals who haven't thought through the conclusions of their views, and who can be reached by somebody who takes the time to ask them to consider a conservative viewpoint that in many cases they may never have heard before in their lives.
And then there are others.
Too often I see the liberal equivalent to a RINO — a liberal who couldn't care less about ideology but simply mouths the leftist dogma he (or she) knows will rally the troops and get him/her elected in Democratic districts. For liberals like that, power is the goal and ideology is merely a means to an end.
Perhaps worst of all is the sort of liberal whose liberalism is, at root, a revolt against morality and external authority. I see that very often in feminist and pro-abortion circles, and a significant part of liberalism is based on a core belief of “nobody has the right to tell me what to do.”
That attitude is fundamentally corrosive to any sort of civilized society, and I can have no respect for it.
Dear Cracker Barrel:
Go stuff yourself. With crackers.
I will never enter your place again.
Sigh. The quickest turn around to date and people want to stomp them.
I tend to agree. It’s so implausible. Not even mainstream joints attract that kind of “gay” dedication. Bragging with the same kind of sulphurous gas that Satan brags with.
Agreed. Satan is a liar and the father of lies, and while I would never say that all liberals are liars or unbelievers, an advocate of homosexuality is, at minimum, under strong delusion.
Here is one possibility, however — the Democratic Underground poster said half of the male waitstaff were homosexuals. I used to visit our local Cracker Barrel fairly often and I almost never saw a male waiter; nearly all were female, and I'm guessing that's probably true for most Cracker Barrel restaurants.
Maybe that's sort of like saying “half the male nurses in the hospital are gay” when there are only two male nurses, one of them is gay, and the other is a happily married heterosexual former Army medic who liked medicine and used the GI Bill to go to nursing school because he knew he wasn't a good enough student to become a doctor?
I could see, in a college town, that maybe out of “X” number of Cracker Barrel waitstaff, a small number were male and homosexuals made up a large percentage of that small number.
But again, maybe I'm giving the Democratic Underground poster too much credit.
“I don’t have a lot of history with Democratic Underground,”
I don’t have any history with them, but I do go there to read the comments when something in the news will cause them to freak out.
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