Hey, Chick-fil-a, you oh so morally self-righteous restaurant that feels that it can spread hate against the gay community, I have a message for you;
Kiss my sweet a**…
Even if all your fry cooks have been secretly sent to seminary school, you are still on the wrong side of history, just like the racists who stood in the way of equal rights for people of all colors…
And just so you know, not very many of us go to fast food franchises for moral guidance…
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They can kiss my ass too!
It will just get their greasy chicken lip prints on it, but thanks for the support.
whoa..its chick-fil-a day..if youre not eating yours..can i have it.
lilly
It is full of fat and hate… might give you indegestion.
hmmm..sounds like our condo.
Sounds like every condo in America.
I like this. Very much.
Me? I want to protect the institution of marriage, which is why I am firmly pro-gay marriage and firmly against Kim Kardashian marriage.
Oh, yeah. That ought to do it.
I’ve only eaten a Chick-fil-A once. I was like, “OMG, these people think that Americans are so stupid that they have to spell out the word ‘filet’ phonetically”.
Leave it to you to spot the obvious shortcoming of this organization.
Ha ha ha! Def Leppard!
Hee Hee Hee! Blind Ocelot!
What? My comment was shorthand for “That may be correct, but this apparently stupidity-based phonetic spelling is not inherent to just Americans. For example, consider the phonetic name ‘Def Leppard’, which is a British band that had no idea if they’d even be heard in America or anywhere outside Sheffield when they chose it.”
See… you are just too clever for the common man… even us old farts.
There’s a difference between clever and smart.
But what if I happen to think you are both of those things, hmmm?
I… ummmm…. hmmmm….yeah
It isn’t a man crush or anything… I just like your brain.
I applaud you for speaking your mind. Not everyone will agree.
What I’m always amazed by is the point you are trying to make. It is about human rights. No one should be denied to live their life like the person next door. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and you do a great job explaining that as well.
I also struggle with people who say it is a “lifestyle” choice. It is neither a choice or a lifestyle. It is who a person is.
I also disagree with folks hearing the word “Christians” and immediately hating them. But I do believe everyone needs to stop with the name calling on both sides. Stick to the issue (human rights) and stop the mud slinging.
Each year we become more and more a nation of “either / or”. Life is not about extremes and I for one am tired of people telling me how I should think or feel.
You can have your soapbox back now. 😀
I shouldn’t have used the word ‘haters’. I was being overly clever
Yes, knock that clever crap off!
I just can’t help it.
“One word, dinosaurs.” – Bill Hicks
They aren’t buying that argument. Not since the Flintstones.
Overall, I’d say it’s way easier not to go to Chick-Fil-A than it would be if, say, McDonald’s came out against gay marriage. And as evidence, please note that despite terrorism, we all still buy gas.
I have never eaten at the Antigay-Fil-A… even though there are a few near my house. Do they hate beef also? Why just chiken?
Yes, beef, gays, not naming a restaurant Dude-Fil-A, all that.
Where’s the beef? Ha?!
Not in Mr. Cathy’s restaurant.
The English have their Beefeaters… And we have barbeque.
I wouldn’t eat here if the money they made went to ending terrorism. Food should not slip out of your hands like a wet turd.
Gay marriage should be a state by state thing. When an empire gets as big as the US we’re going to disagree greatly. Look at presidential elections. It’s insane how split people are near 50/50 each time. I’m moving to an island by myself.
Disagree on the state-by-state thing. A long time ago, slavery was a state-by-state thing – when slavery was completely wrong. And 60 years ago, interracial marriage was going to be the downfall of American society, and nothing happened.
Kills me when someone like Newt Gingrich or Rush Limbaugh support this. Though, in all fairness, all 6 of their combined marriage partners have been women. *rolleyes*
Also kills me that someone can go to prison for rape, or violence, or murder, or kidnapping, or child abuse and molestation, and at any time they are still free to marry. Meanwhile, the law-abiding, taxpaying hard-working gay or lesbian person is not free to marry.
Explain THAT.
I knew I could count on you for a level-headed and amusingly sarcastic point of view on this topic. You really are a loveable curmudgion… ahhhh… how do you spell curmudgeon?
Curmujin, son of Temujin!
Mongoloid, he was a mongoloid…
That’s what attila me.
Oh, hunny, you crack me up.
Really? Because frank-ly I felt kinda in-visigoth
Didn’t we already play this game? You have the Gall to start all over? Vandal with care, my friend.
Oh, now you’re gonna teuton your own horn? You pict the wrong day to do that.
I will pick this up tomorrow… I have to sort rummage.
It is sort of funny how the Republicans didn’t really like Romney until he was the only one left, and now they are all behind him. They should give him a magic underwear wedgie as long as they are back there.
Why a CEO would public say something like that is beyond me – so now Wednesday is Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day – and sadly, it will be packed.
Yay… let’s all get together to eat some chicken and discuss who we can tell how to live their lives next.
Me, I can’t hate and eat at the same time… gives me indegestion.
Great point … but I would be interested in sitting in one for a few hours studying the people who go in – especially if I know them!
Obviously the customers would be people who like a quality chicken product served with a side of moral, self-serving, self-rightiousness. Or slaw.
I only know about this as I read about it on another blog, we don’t have that franchise over here.
Is there something of a double entrendre of calling your poultry outlet Chick-Fil-a? They really didn’t want to associate with homosexuals in any way that they had to declare they only bang women in their fast food chain title! (Apolgies for the bang women phrase – you know what I mean)
They wouldn’t last five minutes here in the UK, our chicken outlets have gay innuendo in the title, it’s actively encouraged, “Chicken Cottage” being one (let me know if anyone needs an explanation).
I don’t go out for chicken since I got a deep fat fryer and make my own, it’s much tastier, I’ll start my own chain on the back of it, any contributions for gay themed titles welcome.
In all seriousness, I don’t agree with gay marriage just because it increases the amount of tedious days out I have to go to and further dilemmas and expense about wedding gifts, oh and I hate wearing suits.
I really just find it sad that people are so unhappy in their own lives that they have to object to people who are happy in theirs.
You have your own deep fat fryer?
I love you, Joe…
Oh, and great comments… thanks.
Yeah, my boyfriend wanted it. He also wants to go on a diet so they are at odds with each other.
This week I made deep fried camembert with a delicious (bought) red onion and cranberry chutney.
They key to successful deep fat frying I think is Japanese Panko breadcrumbs, ridiculously crunchy but light and non greasy when fried.
But far be it for a man of immoral turpitude to tell Chick-Fil-A how to fry 🙂
Dude… I want to come over for fried cheese.
And you keep your turpitude just the way it is.
Hey Joe, where you goin’ with that gun in yo… sorry, I lost my train of thought… I wait breathlessly to hear your opinion on my follow-up post…
Dear Mr Hoover
Gay themed titles: how about ‘Glory Poultry’……’Poultry Biter’………….’The Homosexual Chicken’……?
Yours
Thatch Herringbone
Or… ‘Chokin’ on the Chiken Bone’… It blends the fear of food induced dying with the awkwardness of a tasteless joke at the expense of a minority.
They could have waiters who are large, handsome men, wearing nothing but leather chaps, and who are specially trained to give the best Hiemlich manuever ever.
I like your ‘Chokin’ on the Bone’….I don’t know about the leather though; something feathery would perhaps be more apt, or just a pair of drumstick underpants……and the ‘best Heimlich maneuver’ is?
It makes straight men uncomfortable to get one from a guy in leather chaps, that is my only point. And I only made it to be funny. And you started it.
Oh…..I thought this was a serious restaurant venture we were discussing!!!
I find that poking fun at things that make people uncomfortable makes me feel supperior. And sometimes there might even be a point hiding under the sillyness.
It’s a good point; keep it up.
There’s food for thought there. I’ll decide this week and register the name at Companies House.
I look forward to eating at your fine establishment. Fried cheese for everyone!
How about “Dude-Fil-A”, with the slogan ‘Eat More Beef’?
We don’t want to be too obvious… not because of how it reflects on us, but because some people won’t get it.
live and let live …or live and let die………..just live.
Ever the philosipher.
A guy named Mr. Cathy hates gay people?
Yup. You nailed it, Ed.
I’m not even getting into this mix, except to say, Now who needs to breathe? 😉
I just thought it was a topic that should be discussed. I think maybe I made a mistake.
Mistake? I don’t know. This is America, right? It’s just that sometimes people take things the wrong way or differently than what you meant them. Say what you gotta say. Take your punishments and your accolades. It’s your blog. Just stand tight and be prepared.
Thank you. That is sound advice. I did a follow up post to clear things up, but I may just have made it worse. I guess all my posts can’t be art and silly Photoshop pictures of Dick Cheney and ninjas… sigh…
Never once have I said that I hated a gay person or hated anyone who has different beliefs than I do…yet everyday these people claim to hate what I believe in. It’s my choice just as it is theirs…is it not? Why then am I portrayed a hater? I have friends who are gay. I may not agree with their choices…but I would not hate them. I don’t think Mr. Cathy from Chick Fil A said he hated gays. He simply said he didn’t agree with gay marriage. I don’t agree with my family sometimes….does that mean I hate them? It seems only the people who are hated…are the ones who support more traditional values. So what if I’m considered narrow minded. What about my rights to express myself? No, silly Christian girl…you should shut up because you are intolerant. I’m really hurt right now…because everyone thinks I’m a hater.
Since it is doubtful that anyone reading this blog knows you there is a slim chance that any of us actually hate you. It is also doubtful that anyone hates Christians for being followers of Christ. But as Ghandi said “Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” “Christian” groups with warm, fuzzy names like the “American Family Assocation,” spend millions of dollars trying to convince people that, among other things, “homosexuals are the true inventors of Nazism and the guiding force behind many Nazi atrocities.” They pushed that little white lie in a book called “The Pink Swastika.” That is why these people are called haters-because they go far out of their way to lie about and condemn people who they disagree with. They cherry pick a bible passage here and another there to try to justify their hatred with them. Now, how much money has good Mr. Chick-Fil-A donated to groups like this one? If you associate with haters, there is a very good chance that you will be considered one of them.
And by the way-I am also a Christian, but since they started worshipping the republican party instead of God I have refused to have anything to do with them. The republican party has very little to do with the teachings of Jesus Christ, but they do like to dress up and play let’s pretend.
Very true…good points here as well. I’ve tried not to align myself with political parties in the name of religious beliefs. Gandhi sure did have a point with Christians being so unlike Christ. No Christian will ever be anything like Christ. We should strive to be, but none of us can ever achieve that kind of life. Thanks for the comment….gives me a lot to think about. 🙂
I should say that I don’t hate people for being confused by the gay marriage issue. People can feel uncomfortable. They can have doubts. But if you have gay friends, how can you possibly look them in the eye and tell them they don’t deserve to be able to try to make their love as much of a commitment as your straight friends? What possible harm could come to anyone from this? Gay marriage doesn’t detract from straight marriage. Infedelity Does.
This is a well thought out comment. And these are important things for us to talk about. Our society is growing, but there are some growing pains to go along with that growth. I over-simplified my point because I was trying to be funny. This may not be the issue to do that with.
I am sure that is the same argument that the racists in the South used when they fought the civil rights movement. Maybe they had the right to feel that they were better than other people. But they didn’t have the right to make decisions for other people, or tell them that they couldn’t do things that people who happened to be white could do. The problem with being too sure of your beliefs is that it makes you forget that other people have beliefs also. Change is going to happen. It all boils down to which side of history you want to be remembered as being on. This is the same thing as saying that African Americans have to ride in the back of the bus. Someday your kids or grandkids will ask you if you really took a stand on that side of this issue, and you will have to explain that you did.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to hijack your blog but I watched a friend commit slow suicide because he listened to other people telling him how he should live and who he should love. Sometimes I have to say something-for him.
I think it is important to get people thinking about issues like this. I don’t do posts like this too often. And I knew some people would get mad. And I am not even saying that my opinion matters, or that any one is going to change their mind.
And I guess I was blowing off a little steam. I just can’t see how a corporation can have institutionalized closed-mindedness… oh, wait… corporations are people now… I forgot.
Thank you so much for being a part of this dialog.
I echo your sentiments, Delilah. I am also a Christian, and while I do not agree with or support the gay community, I do not hate them. As a Christian, God has told me to love people–whether I agree with them or not. I do my best to be loving to all people. But if I tell someone I’m a Christian, I’m immediately labeled “hater.” People cry against Christians as being unjust and hasty to slap labels on people (“haters”), but isn’t it equally unjust to assume that just because I won’t support a lifestyle, then I am a hater? it seems it’s ok for everyone to have their own beliefs…so long as our beliefs aren’t Christian. Don’t label people…except Christians. Freedom of opinion and expression and opinion and freedom of speech for everyone…except Christians. This doesn’t anger me…frankly, I expect it…but it does make me sad.
Nobody argues with your right to have an opinion. You can think what you want. We just question your right to make your opinion into rules that affect the rights of others to live with the same feedom as you enjoy. Just like people have the right to be racists. But they don’t have the right to impose their racism into the real world. You can dissaprove of someone beccause they are gay, or of a different color, you just can’t decide that they have to sit in the back of the bus. It is about fairness.
There are only two quotes in the bible that can even be construed as being opposed to gay people, and both of these are subject to interpretation. They are not even laid down as laws on the level of the Ten Comandments.
The bible is, however, very clear on a rule that prohibits mentruating women from being allowed on holy ground. But I never once in my life heard anyone standing outside a chruch yelling that those women were going to hell. It sort of seems like a lot of people are hijacking the bible to support a belief that is more of a personal one.
No one can live by all the biblical rules. A man tried it and wrote a book called ‘the Year of Living Biblicaly’. I can’t remember his name, but it is worth reading. He ended up having to carry around a folding stool, because according to another law in the bible, if you sit where a menstruating woman sat, you become unclean and have to go through a ritual cleansing… or you might end up in hell.
We do not object to beliefs, we just don’t want them being interpreted as laws that define some of us as being less worthy.
I was happy to see the mayor of Boston take a public stand against them. Haters suck.
Haters suck… an ironic twist to my point if ever there was one!
Don’t you worry, I know it’s an oxymoron!
I will give you a few minutes to carefully consider my choice of words… then to blush… then to laugh…
Should I blush, I’m not sure I remember how.
Give it a try.
Have you seen the bumper sticker “Mean people suck…”
I have seen it. I am just trying not to make a really bad joke.
Hell to the YES!
Fo schnizzle.