Posted on 05/05/2016 11:03:28 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and other city officials are urging New Yorkers not to eat at Chick fil-A.
The popular chicken restaurant is planning to open up a new location in Queens, its fourth to open in New York City.
But the liberal mayor argued that the owners of Chick fil-A support groups that promote "hate" against gays.
"Chick-fil-A is anti-LGBT," he said in a statement, according to the website DNAInfo.
"This group imparts a strong anti-LGBT message by forcing their employees and volunteers to adhere to a policy that prohibits same-sex love. It is outrageous that Chick-fil-A is quietly spreading its message of hate by funding these types of organizations."
He went on to call for a boycott by New Yorkers.
"I’m certainly not going to patronize them and I wouldn’t urge any other New Yorker to patronize them. But they do have a legal right," he said.
Chick-fil-A responded by pointing out that it has 80,000 employees of all different backgrounds and beliefs and prefers to focus on its food and service.
"The Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect — regardless of their beliefs, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender," a spokesperson said.
So what happened when Steve Doocy asked some diners at a Manhattan Chick-fil-A about Mayor de Blasio's remarks?
One man, told of the boycott calls by Steve, said he's on Chick-fil-A's side.
"That's what I'm gonna tell Trump. Keep God first and our kids will be fine," said Jeff.
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True but the left has almost total control of every major aspect of our civilization; i.e. media, academia, business, politics, economics, religion, and culture.
Chik Fil A restaurants are always clean. Equates to sanitary, equals good food quality. KFC, and the other fast food places are cockroach breeding facilities. Food quality equivalent to that!!
Again, what is the reason to be anti CFA?
Reminiscent of Obama telling people not to go Las Vegas.
What kind of person does that to his own constituents and countrymen ?
He is a thought control commissar.
Yeah, he’s a nut.
Also the notoriety might get more, not fewer, people interested in that particular Chick-Fil-A.
I never ate a cockroach yet at KFC, but I did catch something there a couple times. They are pretty meticulous at CFA. I just wish they sold chicken pieces too like KFC.
Make sure to keep denigrating and attacking any American who is proud to be openly Christian, while pretending to be “tolerant”
You’re right, except he’s nothe much of a man at all.
DO go to hell, New Yorkers tell De Blasio.
More divisiveness from politicians. What a shocker.
I suppose d-bag-lio should come out against traditional churches too then since they spew anti-gay hate speech.
May he rot in Hell.
Unlike you, Mr. Blahzeo, Chick Fil-A sells a good product. . .
I’m going to go there as often as I can.
Chik-fil-A had record sales!
Seeing the positive boomerang for Chick Fil-A, DeBlowsio is going to either:
a. Send in city health inspectors who will basically live there full time.
b. Send in mobs of prancing faggies to hurl glitter and disrupt the place while kissing each other.
Anybody who has ever been in a Chick-fil-A knows that's true.
De Blasio: another anti-free speech goon like Sheldon “You'll have an opinion when I give it to you” Whitehouse in Rhode Island.
Ever since there’s been a complete slap dick put in the WH almost 8 years ago, who empowers these dickheads!!!
There is no legal difference between a govt official pronouncing a boycott on a private business and a boycott against attending the churches of a particular religion.
Mighty slippery slope he’s half way down.
Don’t go to NY UNLESS it is to go to a Chick-Fil-A, but leaves as soon as you’ve eaten- and don’t use the bathrooms in NY-
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