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You aren't a partner. :lol:
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So I will wrap this up for you guys before I go to the chair. This boycott by libs is about trying to deny this man freedom of religion. Any views that don't conform to the liberal agenda shall be quashed. Dissent is not allowed, conform or perish. You will be assimilated, resistance is futile. WE ARE THE BORG! LMAO
You aren't a partner. :lol:
You can treat people with dignity and respect and be against SSM.
This whole thing is rather silly to me. If the dude wants to use his company to promote an anti-gay agenda, he's free to do so. If that pisses people off enough not to patronize his business as a result, they are free to do that. Everybody just get back to excercising your freedom, and we're fine.
Muppets dump Chick-Fil-A to support gay marriage - Chicago Tribune
"The Jim Henson Company has celebrated and embraced diversity and inclusiveness for over fifty years and we have notified Chick-Fil-A that we do not wish to partner with them on any future endeavors," the company said in a statement posted on their official Facebook page.
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The Henson company, whose Muppet characters are hugely popular, said its Chief Executive Lisa Henson is a "strong supporter of gay marriage and has directed us to donate the payment we received from Chick-Fil-A to GLAAD," the company said in their statement.
Chick-Fil-A has not hidden its Christian mission statement from day one, which precedes the founding of Henson's company. If Henson actually gave a damn about the issue, rather than responding to pressure and then grandstanding, they might have never chosen to associate with Chick-Fil-A at all.
It's a pity that simple symbols and characters from childhood now have to be politicized.
Chick-Fil-A really has no choice but to claim to abhor gay rights and marriage, because in the right wing southern Xtian states like MS, KT, AL, etc. Chick-Fil-A is considered fine dining. One has to consider the economic situation of the right wing folks that live there; middle class righties in those states just eat hot dogs or Mac-and-Cheese and go out to McDonald's for fine dining, whereas the elite upper wealthy class dines at Chick-Fil-A.
When an eating establishment is revered as a culinary creme-de-la-creme by so many right wingers, the last thing such an establishment should do is insult its patrons by supporting something those patrons consider deplorable. After all, what would happen if a right wing couple in AL, KT, MS, etc. walked into a Chick Fil-A, having saved up for so many months to afford to dine there, and saw a gay couple dining at another table. To say the least, they would pissed to the max.
You can treat people with dignity and respect and be against SSM.
This whole thing is rather silly to me. If the dude wants to use his company to promote an anti-gay agenda, he's free to do so. If that pisses people off enough not to patronize his business as a result, they are free to do that. Everybody just get back to excercising your freedom, and we're fine.
Chick Fil A in no way prevents gay people from dining or working at their restaurants. This is just ignorant.
Yea all baptists are evil i suppose. I once got asked to leave a gay bar. Hmmmmm. Should I overreact? Hmmmmmm.
So I will wrap this up for you guys before I go to the chair. This boycott by libs is about trying to deny this man freedom of religion. Any views that don't conform to the liberal agenda shall be quashed. Dissent is not allowed, conform or perish. You will be assimilated, resistance is futile. WE ARE THE BORG! LMAO
FYI, Chick-Fil-A is not an escort service/gentlemen's club. It only serves chicken.
Oh they "say". This type of **** is getting rediculous. This whole Chick Fil A thing is making this a really ****ty choice for people to have to make. Support religious freedom and the right to free speech vs the right to marry. I value free speech over marriage. Earlier this year there were petitions going around to get Colorado to get our state politicians to review SSM. I signed it and even stood outside king soopers for an hour collecting signatures. I have always voted for ssm when it has been on the Colorado ballot. My wife and I make a yearly donation to GLAAD and cospride.org. The disgusting attitudes of the people on this site and other websites is strongly making me reconsider all of this. Apparently the gay community wants to force people to discriminate based on religion and suppress the right to free speech. I suppose since I don't agree with religious discrimination it would not make sense for me to continue to support these groups. As long as the gay and lesbian community is encouraging people to discriminate I will no longer be supportive of them and I am going to instead donate that money elsewhere and encourage my friends and family to do the same.
We call this a straw man. I do not like the baptist church, you know, the organization, what we are talking about. I don't know any baptists, but then again I never ask any person what cult they belong to.
Where the hell are you guys getting this idea? Boycotting a company because you dont agree with something they did or said is nowhere near close to religious discrimination or suppressing someones free speech.
It is not straw man. Furthermore referring to a church as a cult is as bigoted as me referring to gays a faggots. Just because you try to justify your hate for people based on their beliefs doesnt make it right. No better than the people who have reasons for hating blacks, gays, jews, or whoever else you want to throw in there.
Refusing to use the goods or service of a person or company because you do not like their religious values is discrimination.
Not necessarily.
Since we have freedom, people can use their freedom to not buy goods from a certain place if they don't wish to. This goes for Nabisco, Chick-fil-A, etc.
Business owners have the freedom to hold their views without being punished, and people have the right to not shop at/boycott companies if they wish.
muciti;1060733257[B said:]you clearly think that the only way to discriminate against someone is to disagree with their views on marriage.[/B] That is simply not the case. As long GLAAD and their supporters continue to discriminate against people based on their religious beliefs I will not support them or their causes. If SSM makes its way back to Colorado this bigotry has lost at least one vote and if I can help it more. I am going to strongly advocate against GLAAD and cospride.org until they stop this nonsensical attack on a man for no reason other than his religious beliefs.
Refusing to use the goods or service of a person or company because you do not like their religious values is discrimination.
Disagreeing with someones views is in no way discrimination. Basically you can believe that marriage should be whatever you want and you can voice that opinion. But as soon as you actually stop a group of people from getting married and receiving the same rights and benefits as other groups of people then you are discriminating against that group.
It would help to clarify it is legal discrimination. Practicing the act of discrimination itself is not always illegal. I don't go to Hooters or Mary Lou's coffee because of their exploitation of young women which means I am discriminating but I'm doing it with my own dead presidents. That is consumer freedom.