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Religious Bigotry at the New Yorker?

itsforthekids said:
I proved nothing that you said. 85% of Americans are Christian. We're not a theocracy though. Christians and Christianity are under constant attack by the left, in favor of Islam, who, by the way are the ones killing gays and oppressing women.
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Saying Muslims are protected by the first amendment and have a right to worship in America, is not attacking Christians nor is it endorsing violence towards homosexuals
 
itsforthekids said:
Exactly. In fact, NO ONE would know that Chic fil a is Christian owned simply by walking into one of their restaurants.
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Unless you ask why they are never open on Sundays
 
prometeus said:
Right, because Cathy is spending his lottery winnings on anti-gay groups.
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Others say that he is standing up for his belief in traditional values. Either way, he's allowed to donate where he pleases. By the way, my neighbors gay daughter works at Chic fil a
 
itsforthekids said:
Others say that he is standing up for his belief in traditional values.
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It is his right to do so.

Either way, he's allowed to donate where he pleases.
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Very much so.

By the way, my neighbors gay daughter works at Chic fil a
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No doubt because it is illegal to discriminate in employment.
 
SheWolf said:
Unless you ask why they are never open on Sundays
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Lots of businesses aren't open on Sundays. Many restaurants are closed one day a week.

What's the problem?
 
Harshaw said:
Lots of businesses aren't open on Sundays. Many restaurants are closed one day a week.

What's the problem?
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I don't have a problem with it, and I think it's obvious why they are closed on Sunday
 
Jack Hays said:
Chick-fil-A and the Christian Infiltration
Barton Swaim, Weekly Standard
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I disagree with him entirely that there's any religious, let alone specifically Christian, vibe in a Chick-fil-A.

Unless one wants to make the argument that the "friendliness," "devotion to service," and making sure each guest has a pleasant experience that Swaim cites is somehow specifically Christian. Piepenberg seems to agree.
 
Harshaw said:
I disagree with him entirely that there's any religious, let alone specifically Christian, vibe in a Chick-fil-A.

Unless one wants to make the argument that the "friendliness," "devotion to service," and making sure each guest has a pleasant experience that Swaim cites is somehow specifically Christian. Piepenberg seems to agree.
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I have to wonder if some of these people have ever actually been to a Chick-Fil-A. There's nothing religious whatsoever about the restaurant. The employees are the nicest of any fast food restaurant I've ever been to and the chicken sandwiches and lemonade are delightful.
 
Josie said:
I have to wonder if some of these people have ever actually been to a Chick-Fil-A. There's nothing religious whatsoever about the restaurant. The employees are the nicest of any fast food restaurant I've ever been to and the chicken sandwiches and lemonade are delightful.
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It's possible that they're so cynical and venal that genuine friendliness does seem "creepy" to them.
 
Rogue Valley said:
The Chick-Fil-A founder/owner family are anti-abortion zealots ... a stance based on religion.
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So what? What happened to tolerance of other people's views?
 
Josie said:
So what? What happened to tolerance of other people's views?
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It's seen as bigotry (against women) and we can't ask someone to be tolerant of that, right? No one asks you to tolerate bigotry. Now here's the fun part. You don't see the religious anti abortion position as bigotry, thus you see their attacks as bigotry. Fun, huh?
 
Harshaw said:
I disagree with him entirely that there's any religious, let alone specifically Christian, vibe in a Chick-fil-A.

Unless one wants to make the argument that the "friendliness," "devotion to service," and making sure each guest has a pleasant experience that Swaim cites is somehow specifically Christian. Piepenberg seems to agree.
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Fair enough. I think he was just extending the location theme.
 
SheWolf said:
Christians aren't treated nor talked about as badly as Muslims or Islam. If people started protesting the construction of churches and calling Christians and their beliefs antithetical to American values, and Americans elected a president who spoke of putting them on a registry then we are talking. In the meantime, I am not going loss any sleep over the bigotry Christians think they deal with.
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You're living in a country that has an undeniable traditional history of being predominantly Christian. Given that, the US has generally been tolerant of people from other faiths living here. Any perceived discrimination that a Muslim faces in the US pales in comparison to what befalls non-Muslims in the Arab world. Especially after the Islamitization of Iranian, Egyptian, Libyan, Iraqi, and soon Syrian governments.
 
Jack Hays said:
That was "work elsewhere" in addition to CFA if they didn't want Sundays off.
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Even if you hadn't meant that, it wouldn't have been "bigotry." If you really want to work on Sundays, then Chick-fil-A simply isn't the job for you, end of story.
 
Harshaw said:
Even if you hadn't meant that, it wouldn't have been "bigotry." If you really want to work on Sundays, then Chick-fil-A simply isn't the job for you, end of story.
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I personally didn't mean anything. It was not my exchange.
 
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