Chick-fil-A restaurants face day of "Kiss In" after conservatives deliver record sales

EAT MORE DOG!

Hank Jr Jr wrote:

Are all gays Atheists? Or are all Atheists gay? They all seem to have the same beliefs and the same politics. They're all against the death penalty for murderers . But have no problem with a Doctor sucking a baby out of a woman's twat and lopping its head off as a form of birth control.

Topix appears to have an unusually high ratio of gay atheists. They no doubt embrace atheism as some sort of rebuke to the assorted religions that rejected their orientation.

Freebird USA wrote:

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Topix appears to have an unusually high ratio of gay atheists. They no doubt embrace atheism as some sort of rebuke to the assorted religions that rejected their orientation.

More likely they're communists. Most libs are...

Chick il a is an awesome company!!!!

Chick fil a is being persecuted...

A Kiss In is speech, a boycott is an attack on a political opponents livelihood. A boycott is more like extortion than free speech.

Brian_G wrote:

A Kiss In is speech, a boycott is an attack on a political opponents livelihood. A boycott is more like extortion than free speech.

kinda like the million moms... you know extortionist

dragoon70056 wrote:

Good looking lesbians kissing in front of Chic-fil-a is bound to set another record for sales.

But queer support from SPitoon 70056 for the gay forces isnt going to a THING for his / her cause

PURELYCANADIAN wrote:

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Okay, so long as they stop coming here to Canada! I support you 100% on that one. lol

man I see its TOUGH being anything OTHER than a queer on this thread ....I stand by ya "OH Canada " etc etc ...If I was the Canadian President I'd erect an electric gay sensning fence all across the border to keep the USA fag and lezzie population here where its too late .....OH CanadaaaaaaaaH !!!

John Vis

The legendary Performer

milwaukee69 wrote:

Why is it that Chick-fil-A has an opinion about everything except good food?

This coming from a guy who drinks Milwaukee Beast.

Wnt My Mny Bck wrote:

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This coming from a guy who drinks Milwaukee Beast.

It's OK to use vowels. You don't have to buy them here. No, it really is OK. Ask Vanna.

Banks wrote:

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You haven't read her four letter rants at me. They aren't on this site. I choose to forgive her, however as she has emotional issues with her father's death. Christians are human you know. We still wrestle with our old and new nature.

You're too nice. I would tell her where to go.

rita wrote:

<quoted text>Lol I like the humor. Thanks for the chuckle.

If you really do believe and stand by it all then there's nothing left to say. Most of the time people want to pick and choose so thanks for the honesty :)

Absolutely.

elise in burque wrote:

<quoted text>Jeez, a simple, "No, I cannot prove it," would have sufficed. And, yes, I will believe science over fantasy, any day. Scientists go about finding answers by proving theories wrong, step by step,until they can no longer refute the truth. They are patient and methodical. That makes sense. Blind faith makes no sense. However, Blind Faith was a great band. Remember them?

I'll stick with faith, thank you.

You stick with the scientists that prove themselves wrong in a pretty regular basis.
Hopefully you are an attorney and can make a living off of the medical branch of those scientific mistakes. You know like the revolutionary drugs that end up causing side effects worse than the disease they treat? Or the transvaginal mesh surgery that caused bladder cancer or was enveloped by the uterus.

You get the idea.

NatFrye wrote:

<quoted text>I wasn't cracking jokes.
Please give a link to your figures.

My figures come from the 2010 Census.

milwaukee69 wrote:

<quoted text>Bravo! Excellent post.

Yep. You are a much better cheerleader than debater.

Dan Cathy, president of Chick-fil-A, recently put his company in activists' sights by donating money to same-sex marriage opponents and defending his conservative views on gay rights. Nothing too interesting here. This is what political debate in a democracy looks like.

Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno has gone farther. Chick-fil-A owns property in his ward, but he must approve any construction. "There are consequences for one's actions, statements and beliefs," he said in a public statement. "Because of this man's ignorance, I will deny Chick-fil-A a permit to open a restaurant in my ward."

Legally speaking, this isn't a hard case. Moreno has announced his intention to violate the First Amendment. As an ACLU attorney aptly noted in response, "When an alderman refuses to allow a business to open because its owner has expressed a viewpoint the government disagrees with, the government is practicing viewpoint discrimination." As any first-year law student can tell you, viewpoint discrimination is the number one no-no of American free-speech law.

Unlike Moreno, most officials punishing speech don't announce their unequivocal intention to violate the Constitution. Consider Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. Last week he said it would be "very difficult" for Chick-fil-A to get needed licenses in Boston and sent a letter telling Cathy that there was "no place" for Chick-fil-A in the city.

This is a more interesting case. Unlike the alderman, the mayor does not have direct control over the zoning process. However, his letter pointedly cc-ed Chick-fil-A's property developer and can informally influence the zoning process. And then there are the numberless ways in which urban construction projects empower local officials like Menino to harass disfavored projects.

The law, however, is unlikely to constrain the kinds of influence that Menino can wield. The reality is that litigation is a blunt instrument, and it is ill-suited to ferreting out the more subtle ways that officials can punish unwanted speech. This fact, however, doesn't make a threat from an official like Menino any less potent.

This is why, regardless of politics, one ought to condemn the mayor's actions. Such public condemnation is the only way of effectively constraining the kind of soft censorship he threatened.

The most obvious reason to condemn his threats is the counsel of prudence. One may applaud the courageous official who takes a stand against detested speech today. Tomorrow, however, some vindictive politician opposed to your enlightened views may try the same thing.

These tactics are also redundant. If Chick-fil-A really is the outrage to Boston that the mayor claims, he doesn't need to bluster and threaten. The good people of Massachusetts are free to withdraw their patronage from offending businesses. The market already keeps most business speech pretty innocuous.

Finally, gay rights activists should be particularly wary of such tactics. Every political persuasion has a stereotype of what it looks like in its uglier moments. For progressives, it is the image of the sanctimonious activist confidently using the power of the government to bully and bludgeon the less enlightened. It's best not to associate one's cause with such images by acting out the stereotype.

To the credit of our political culture, many condemned Menino's actions. To his credit, he has backed down, repudiating his earlier statements and saying he won't try to stop Chick-fil-A building in Boston. At times the best response to elected bullies caught in a moment of righteous indignation is simply to call them on it. Speech is a good way of protecting free speech.

It appears that Facebook censorship promotes a double standard that caters primarily to the Gay and Lesbian Community. Earlier this week, Mike Huckabee posted a Facebook page advertising Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day that will be held this Wednesday, August 1. The event was created by Huckabee to counteract the criticism endured by Chick-Fil-A owner Dan Cathy who recently endured much criticism from gay rights activists for statements he made expressing his opposition to same-sex marriage.

Within 12 hours of creating the page to support the event, everything related to the event had completely disappeared from Facebook.“Well it seems we hit a 12 hour bug. Apparently it hits when large numbers of Christians support something and post about it on Facebook,” said Huckabee. He further elaborated,“Could it be we were attacked because of our beliefs? Could it be that Facebook has a glitch in the system with a very narrow target?"

Huckabee is not the first person to complain about the double standards Facebook holds when it comes to the LGBT community. Earlier this summer, Dr. Michael Brown released a new book entitled A Queer Thing Happened to America. A conservative Christian author, Dr. Brown chronicles the history of the modern gay rights movement from its origins in the mid-20th century to today. Like Huckabee, Dr. Brown created a Facebook page for the purposes of promoting his newly released book. On June 12, Brown posted a message on his wall,“Can you believe it? Facebook has deleted the page for my book A Queer Thing Happened to America, allegedly as violation of ‘community standards.' As we have warned for years, there will be an attempt to silence all views that differ with homosexual activism.”

Like Huckabee, Dr. Brown would eventually get the page for his book restored, but not without a fight. In order to get his book restored, he published an article on Townhall.com ..In the article he points out,“I received the news yesterday that the Facebook page for my book A Queer Thing Happened to America was deleted for allegedly violating Facebook’s ‘Community Standards.’ But Facebook pages like ‘Hitler Fetus is our Jesus,’‘Zombie Jesus,’ and a host of other grossly offensive pages apparently do not violate these standards.”

In the cases of both Huckabee and Brown, Facebook claimed it was a mistake that the pages were deleted. Both insist however that the actions of Facebook are a sign that the social network is more concerned with catering to left-wing gay activists who complain of hate speech anytime someone dares to disapprove of their sexual lifestyle choice, rather than paying attention to the pages which promote intensely offensive hate speech towards those who practice the Christian faith. If the assertions of Brown and Huckabee are correct, it appears that the quest of the LGBT movement to achieve special rights may well be succeeding, at least as it pertains to Facebook and its selective application of ‘Community Standards.’

Rosa wrote:

<quoted text>...or the starving kids and hospitals full of sick children...and the nursing homes filled with the old and infirm...what a god...never mind about the whole countries that go to sleep at night hungry...

Typical DEM/Liberal. Where is your responsibility?
You want the government to take care of you, tell you what's best for you, tell you how big a drink you can purchase, feed the lazy...
You want God to solve all the problems you can think of.
Do you just want to sit around like a bump on a log? Get off your ass and do something. Do it for yourself, and do it for others.
Stop expecting every power position to do everything for you.

It is about censorship in america... about free speech and a group trying to censor others.....