Chick-Fil-A is probably up to the same old crap?

I can't seem to find a search anymore, so I will just start a new thread.

http://www.queerty.com/chick-fil-a-stops-anti-gay-donations-adopts-anti-discrimination-policy-20120919/

What say you?

I actually think it's pretty ballsy to change the policy considering the hundreds of thousands that showed up to ignorantly support what they thought was "free speech."

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Updated On: 9/21/12 at 09:02 AM

I predict NOM, Family Research Council, and Mike Huckabee to be livid and call for all Christians to now boycott Chick-Fil-A for giving in to the enemy. Just wait. They are so predictable!

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I heard this this morning, but I'd love to know more specifics about how the turnaround was decided.

Funny, I was on a road trip this weekend visiting friends and three of us drove Friday night well past dinner time and had planned to stop when we got to our destination. We were HUNGRY, but passed 3 Chikfilas before I would let us stop at a McDs. I have never had to do that, as we try to avoid fast food, and I wouldnt know where one of these are near us, except in Monmouth Mall when we'd always go for Auntie Ann's.

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Short of inventing a time machine, this is pretty much the best possible outcome.

Agreed. It's kind of tossing it back in the face of those who so staunchly stood by them and defended them, others be damned. I'm impressed.

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It will be VERY interesting to see how this tid-bit is received on the right. If the buy-coytt wasn't really about the gays, the right should still staunchly support CFA's freedom of speech, right? Right?

Seems to be looking more and more legit.

http://jointcra.org/

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I don't think so. They've gone from negative to neutral.

If they start donating money to pro-gay groups, maybe? But I doubt they will.

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I am not telling anyone to chow down. lol I still think it's completely okay for them to have bigoted opinions. It's also okay for me to choose not to eat there. The attention, however, brought the injustice to their attention and they ceased doing what upset me. They can still be assholes. They aren't donating to groups that think I deserve to be in prison at best and dead at worst. I appreciate that they understand that it goes against what they claim their operating values are and that they don't want to be perceived as such. It's something. And again, going against their core support takes balls.

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"I would need to see their tax return with a breakdown of all charitable donations listed before I would even consider that they might actually cease funding hatred".

I support your zeal, but I think that you are holding them to an inappropriate and/or unrealistic standard.

They have made a very public show of responding--in action, not just words--to criticism of their support of groups working against marriage equality. In situations like this, I think an argument can be made that a public reversal of position is the best possible scenario--it's a great "teaching moment" for both sides of the debate.

If we start getting into forensic accounting of how every corporation's dollars are spent, I think we end up on very shaky ground. Do we boycott a company if some of their employees spend their own money (which started out as company dollars in the form of payroll) on political causes which offend us?

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Not buying it here, either. Agreed with taz. When they promote their inclusiveness as aggressively as they promoted their bigotry, and make some substantial contributions to rights causes, I'll think they might be taking this seriously. As it stands, it is just another PR dodge.

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Updated On: 9/19/12 at 02:54 PM

Coincidentally, Forbes is out with its annual list of the 400 richest Americans, and the usual suspects are at the top: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison and brothers Charles and David Koch. Percentage-wise, the biggest gainers were Chick-fil-a founder S. Truett Cathy, whose wealth grew 281.1 percent, from $1.1 billion to $4.2 billion.

"That being said, if anyone feels they could never again support his company, I think that's a perfectly fair decision. But it seems to me the company is responding the way we wanted them to."

Nicely put. But that's all they are doing -- responding. Nice that they're putting some pretty words and policies out there. We'll see if they actually act on those pretty words and policies. Such bigotry as this company was practicing does not just get changed with a wave of the PR wand.

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