Chick-Fil-A is "Guilty as charged!" — Page 7

I've found it useful in discussions like this to ask "If you found out that McDonalds [Olive Garden, Wendy's, etc.] gave a portion of their profits to the KKK, would you still patronize them?"

It's worked so far, though of course I don't hang around genuinely crazy or bigoted people (as far as I know). I'm sure lots of folks would pull out the "skin color is not the same as sexual orientation" card--but only if they're already full-on homophobes.

I think a lot of people think the issue is just "Chick-Fil-A is a Christian organization and the gays have a problem with that."

Unless they're gay (and sometimes even then--I'm looking at you, Antoine), they don't really understand what these organizations like Focus on the Family actually do. They think "Hmm, they support the traditional family. Sorry, gays, but what's wrong with that?"

And when I explain that they exist solely to work toward denying rights to a group of Americans, they start to get it.

In my best Diana Morales, "I mean, it's not like I wanted him to die or anything."

Condolences to the family. Chick Fil and the Cathy family still suck.

If this were reversed (and we lived in a bizarro world where the reverse was possible) and the PR person from an outspokenly pro-gay company had died we'd hear this was God's wrath.

I live in a bizarro world where God hates straight people, so I think it is God's wrath!

They will blame the gays for this. Frankly,I'm surprised they had any sort of PR director. Judging by the events over the past 2 weeks you would never know it.

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I lol'd when i first heard about the PR guy. It wasn't as satisfying as the day Jerry Falwell finally dropped dead, but the little things do count for something.

Well at least he got it in for Heterosexual Awareness month, by a hair!

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I have already heard his timely demise called "Pulling a Paterno." I think that phrase will enter my lexicon.

Stephen Colbert Rips Santorum, Huckabee For Supporting Chick-Fil-A

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/stephen-colbert-chick-fil-a-video_n_1711160.html

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My point is that all the hate and intolerance has to be put in perspective. This stuff that is obviously hateful has always been around. When my father, from Brooklyn, fought in WW2 he ended up transfered to a company from Texas, the nicest guys he'd ever met. They risked their lives for one another.

A few years later at a reunion in Texas he and my mom. who is very dark complected after a week in the sun, are asked to leave a restaurant because she looks black and it's 1954.

Things do change. It's just agonizingly slow and frustrating.

Somewhere out there is someone we call a terrorist. He doesn't care whether you're straight and a bigot or gay. And he would never understand this thread and the fact we can have it.

We need to be very careful how we judge people. And we need to remember that people can change.

Honestly Phyllis I do understand and I recognize the difference. He's using his vast resources to hurt people. Yet, in the process, he shines a light on ignorance. And most people sit back and watch and listen and are not vocal. But they really do see it for what it is.

If the same restaurant that asked my mother to leave was still around today they would probably place a photo of Obama on the wall if he were to visit.

"Things do change. It's just agonizingly slow and frustrating."

Yes, it is agonizingly slow and frustrating, but that doesn't mean we should sit back on our heels and watch it crawl by at a snail's pace.