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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Maybe Trump could make an executive order that says De Blasio gets no pay until he's out of office for 20 years...
...there seems to be no limit on what an executive order can do during the last 7 years.
Has there every been a time when government officials have been so brazen about verbally, legally and politically attacking legal businesses that provide quality goods and services to happy customers?
actually, at the city level, Jews voted in the highest percentage of any group AGAINST him.
They remember Crown Heights attacks before Rudy.
we somehow lose them at the state and federal level.
The New Jersey primary is coming up. I’m waiting for Hillary Clinton to change her name to Hillary DeClinto.
Don’t go to NYC, Don Corleone tells America!!!
“He is a thought control commissar.”
Just like the green pukes that want to outlaw actual Science so that only false “government science” can be spoken of.
I didn’t know that Clockwork Orange, Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm were going to be used as blueprints instead of warnings...
I had a KFC Coupon come in the mail a while back so I decided to try it. The next day didn’t start out well.
Just my experience. I have no desire to eat there again.
A politician ordering private citizens not to go to a private enterprise.
This is the shit that the Pol Pot wannabe Chavez demanded of Venezuelans before stealing sugar mills and newspapers for “the good of the state” from the private owners.
I’m mad as hell.
Very possible, especially with the buffet setup which isn’t always kept very clean.
I try to stick to certain items that I have found by experience to be okay. Hot buffet probably OK, cold could be questionable. And I hold the fried chicken with a napkin not my bare hands.
I went to a KFC once and there had apparently been a knock down drag out argument in the kitchen. They were screaming at one another. Didn’t go in there that night.
Supporting traditional marriage is now an expression of hate? Then what is saying "women's health" when you really mean "kill the baby"?
What is he talking about? What policy of Chick-Fil-A bans their employees from any such thing?
Their new Queens location? That’s irony for you.
What an @sshole!
They should sue Diblasio for discrimination against Christians.
And Obama never misses a chance to throw shade on Trump. What rational person with supposed standing as a supposed President would berate another man running for the office? Trump will be a relief after that uncouth lout.
Obama was a REAL let-down to the DNC and specifically, Pelosi.
He casts shadows on other people because he clearly answers to someone else. And Pelosi is in his chain of command.
Obama doesn’t want to be there. Read his expressions from day 1. Even in his campaign.
The UN and globalist agendas (I’m not trying to sound like a conspiracy theorist here.. but we must observe attempts from the UN and IMF to integrate the US and it’s holdings into theirs to solve their issues) need us to be disarmed. Obama’s pen stroke has done nothing for them.
The UN NEEDS us to be in a collapsed economy, and to be disarmed before that happens. To date, Obamas job was to win support for this cause - something he fails at every single time.
They finally stopped asking him to do it. He’s a lost cause. Now they need Hillary. Hillary may even be higher in his chain of command than we think.
It will interesting to see if NYers like Chik-fil-A or the Mayor better:-) Let’s check back it a week to see how the receipts look. After a week I bet NYers will be back to lov’n Chik-fil-A:-)
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