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My neighbors are gay.  I asked them about this a few days ago and his reply was. "I don't give a damn.  Their sandwiches are delicious."

We are also friends with a lesbian couple.  Their reply "Unless they start asking us our sexual preference at the counter and deny us service it's a non issue."

I pretty much agree with them both.

Oh and those of you who don't like Chick-Fil-A's sandwiches.  I weep for your lack of taste...

There are plenty of companies who have religious roots.... wonder why CFA is being outed (no pun intended) more so..

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2011/02/05/poll-do-fast-food-chains-religious-leanings-flavor-your-patronage/

I meant franchising being the degree of separation, not the charitable arm.  If I don't buy a sandwich my 5 cents won't go to CFA, but my $4.95 won't go to the local business owner (which I try to support local business) either.  Franchising is a bit different than "local business" but you know what I mean.

IMO they are getting involved in an issue they have no business getting involved in, INTENTIONALLY.  They seem to be taking up the fight against gay marriage, as it's insane to take a public stance on this issue as a business and risk a drop in sales, when it's so easy just to leave it alone.  I can come to no other logical conclusion on my own.

My experience with charitable arms (as our company has one) is that they give based on the agenda of the body.

When a company is private the corporate profit is the owners money.  I make most of my charitable contributions through my business as well, but they're really personal charities that I support.

I just had a thought.  Obviously CFA is a company with very strong christian core values.  They are making a public stand which is getting them a ton of free publicity.  I wonder if the "boycott CFA" movement is actually driving more sales their way through the anti-boycott effect.

I haven't had CFA in a couple months but after reading this thread earlier today it got my tummy thinking about it, so I stopped and had CFA for lunch today.  I wasn't making any political stand, I was just thinking about it so I bought it.  So, just by starting this thread you have increased their sales by 1 in Omaha.  

As a former Denver-ite, I miss my sandwiches.  I personally wouldn't boycott, but I don't fault anyone for boycotting if that is their view.  I just don't want you to agressively pickett when I go to get my chicken minis. 

I now live in a very conservative town and we don't have one.  I think one would do well here.  We are right on I40 near California and half way between Vegas and Phoenix.  Somebody open one up please!

Besides, maybe we can get all of those sinners in Vegas to visit.   If they don't like Chick Fil A, we currently have an In-n-Out burger.

As far as the marriage thing, Gay people have just as much right to be miserable as anyone else.

I can see how they would want to preserve the Sanctity of Marriage. Since Heterosexual couples do such a bang up job of it. Hell, since they have had to fight so d@mn hard for it, they might actually do something like... I dunno... APPRECIATE the vows they take...

(for what it's worth I'm anti-marriage for everyone) :P

I'm vegan, so I don't eat there.   But, there's one across the street from my house and my hubby/daughter LOVE LOVE LOVE Chick fil a.  When we had a German foreign exchange student it also became her all time favorite restaurant!

I could not care less what the opinion of the President is.  I don't even care if the company takes a traditional marriage stance (which they haven't formally).

What I would have a problem with is if they refused to serve gay couples.  They serve everybody wearing clothes.

If you really knew the personal opinions of the leaders of your favorite companies, you would need to keep a scoreboard of where/what brands you would/would not buy.

The whole thing is completely ridiculous.

Andi

Its called being an educated consumer.  Just like we want an educated electorate, people should know how and where the products they buy come from and what the company does with that money.   What Mr Cathy does on his own money is his own business.  But CFA actively supports anti-gay marriage groups as a line item charity expense.  Cathy has said that he stands by his beliefs and that is the reason for CFA's success.  Well, that should also be the cause of his failure IMO - at least it is w/ my money.  HE is the one that brought the issue to the forefront and made a political stance in the companies name.  So we are not talking just about the private beliefs of the CEO, but the stance of the company and what it supports.   (snopes) 

Would you go to a fund raiser of a political with whom you disagree with just because the chicken is good?  When a company takes a political stance, your patronage supports that stance whether you believe in it or not.  Politicians see how people view their opinions with votes.  The only way Cathy (and all companies) can see if his political stance matters is how it affects the bottom line.  

I dont need a special election - I vote w/ my money everyday.

That's completely ridiculous.

And really hard.  I tried doing a Daniel Fast for 21 days once, which is basically Vegan, and I didn't last 5 days.

you pretty much wrote down exactly how i feel. 

too bad he doesn't push his religious beliefs into the poultry industry?  imagine the positive impact a company like chick-fil-a could have if they pushed to improve the chicken industry like chipotle does for the pork industry. 

It's not a political stance - maybe to you - but it's a religious and philisophical stance.

Your last example is so completely silly I won't even respond to it.

If you want to research the personal religious beliefs of every leader of every company before you buy go ahead.  (I am CERTAIN that you don't.)  I don't base my purchases on the personal religious beliefs of the leaders of the company.  And this is a RELIGIOUS belief.  I also don't vote based on RELIGION of the candidate one way or the other: jewish, christian, mormon, islamic I don't care. 

CFA is a private company - show me your proof that they actively donate to pro-traditional marriage groups. (Not that I will look at it because I don't care.)

Andi

Ignorance is bliss, isnt it?

And it's the easiest transition I ever made.

Also helped my triathlon training immensely.  I have actually hit the podium at age 42 (not age group but overall) after 13 years in the sport and I know it's my ability to recover quickly from my workous because I eat only whole foods, plant based.  I can do more training with more volume and more speed now than EVER.

But I'll be glad to "take this outside" to the nutrition forum.

Andi

Great point. To the boycotters: where is your scoreboard? I'd be interested to see it. Not because I'm actually interested in the data, but interested to know if you are consistent. 

Dude, you totally snaked my snark.

Now that's ridiculous.  I know what the Daniel fast is basically... you found it hard and tried to fast at the same time.  Gee imagine... I wouldn't use that fast as your only opinion on eating whole foods/plant based. That fast is not meant to be a conversion to plant based eating - it's a religious fast as much as anything.  It's supposed to be hard!

Andi