Caption reads...Stever Doocy-Here I am ordering 25 @chickfila sandwiches for our studio crew after @foxandfriends live shot on NY Mayor telling ppl not to eat there bz of their traditional marriage stance
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at insider.foxnews.com ...
Chik-fil-A should sue the pants off him for saying that
Chick-Fil-A has great food.
Cedar Point has one and I led the family to the center of the park to eat there.
Besides being a commie, De Blasio is one sick freak.
I go to Chick-Fil-A instead of KFC, mainly because their food and service is 100% better and the price is better...
And is this part of the De Blasio’s ‘selling off City Hall’????
WTH!!Since when do elected officials make statements designed to damage a private company?The man’s out of control.
Yes!
All the more reason to eat there. The libtards are too stupid to realize these types of comments only encourage people to eat at the finest fast food restaurant in the country.
Chick Fil A has rows of people 3 blocks down in Manhattan, no less!!
What a @#$@#$. Thank God his father really isn’t of Italian descent. I couldn’t live with the shame.
I have enough with Cuomo and Pelosi.
Thank goodness for Rudy, Scalia, Alito and (way back) D’amato :)
Christie? ah, for the northeast, we’ll take him.
Their sales will probably increase in light of de blah blah blah bee O’s statement. Will he order all city workers to NOT go there?
Just for that, I will go to the next one a drive by!
I never thought I’d live in an America that says, “you can’t do business here unless you believe like you are supposed to.”.
Chick Fil A has never done a single thing to demean, insult, or discriminate against gays. The only statement they have made is they believe in the Biblical definition of marriage.
Only a gay liberal could read discrimination into that statement.
May De Blasio rot in hell.
Well I was thinking about eatin mire chickin. Now I have to
Agreed! An government employee, much less an elected official, much less a mayor, much less the mayor of New York, has no business urging a boycott of a legal business.
Boycotts usually dont’ work. Buycotts work better. Buy at Chick-Fil-A.
Caption reads...Stever Doocy-Here I am ordering 25 @chickfila sandwiches for our studio crew after @foxandfriends live shot on NY Mayor telling ppl not to eat there bz of their traditional marriage stance
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Somebody should shove some gay sex up his...
De Blasio is a chikin-******.
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