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Muppets owner Lisa Henson severs ties with Chick-Fil-A over SSM

sawyerloggingon said:
Dixie chicks were not boycotted they just lost fans and I was one of their biggest. They went to a foreign country and disrespected our president, then they came home and dissed their fans. We stopped listening to them and the radio stopped playing them. No organized boycott, just honest reaction. If you can find one boycott by mainstream reps over something like this chic thing I will be very surprised. I sure never heard of one.
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Ahh, okay, so then it's just people voicing their displeasure, and not wishing to give their money to someone they disagree with. But now it's a vicious boycott, got it!!

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muciti said:
No it is not Show me where a Chick Fil A restaurant did not treat someone with "honor, dignity and respect - regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender." Unlike the bigots boycotting this restaurant based on their religion and creed.
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No one is boycotting this place because of the owners religion, they are boycotting because of the offensive and disrespectful things he said towards LGBT people.
 
Your Star said:
Ahh, okay, so then it's just people voicing their displeasure, and not wishing to give their money to someone they disagree with. But now it's a vicious boycott, got it!!

:roll:
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Sort of like blacklisting commies in the McCarthy era. Some might ask what has become of today's liberals?
 
sawyerloggingon said:
They went to a foreign country and disrespected our president.
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Of course, were a country star do the same thing today, the same ninnies who boycotted them would treat them like heroes.
 
muciti said:
Has nothing to do with how they treat their customers or employees does it?
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would not do business with an organization that supports the kkk
would not do business with an organization that supports the nation of islam
would not do business with an organization that supports preventing same sex couples from being married
 
muciti said:
Has nothing to do with how they treat their customers or employees does it?
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If a restaurant were donating money to groups that lobbied to bring back segregation and Jim Crow Laws, even if they obeyed all the laws in their own restaurants, wouldn't you have a problem with it?
 
Your Star said:
No one is boycotting this place because of the owners religion, they are boycotting because of the offensive and disrespectful things he said towards LGBT people.
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his religion and believes and his creed is that marriage should be between a man and a woman. There is nothing wrong with him expressing this belief nor is there even anything wrong with him believing it. Just like there is nothing wrong with you having your beliefs or expressing them. This issue is just continually getting more and more hostile and ignorant by both sides of it. Realistically both sides of this can co exist together and come to a realistic solution if you all weren't so busy trying to oppress each other and shove your views down each others throats.
 
justabubba said:
would not do business with an organization that supports the kkk
would not do business with an organization that supports the nation of islam
would not do business with an organization that supports preventing same sex couples from being married
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The KKK and NOI are both violent hate groups. To try to connect them to Christians is just ignorant.
 
Kandahar said:
Like I said, I really don't care if Obama or any other politician "gives a **** about me," as long as they implement good policies. If you want to feel all warm and fuzzy and pretend that your candidate of choice cares about you personally, that's your decision. But I like to be a bit more rational than that. :2wave:
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Riiiiight. Your 'candidate of choice' lied about his beliefs, about why he held his beliefs, and pawned gay rights out in the name of political expedience. And you wonder why your values and character amount to less than ****. :lamo
 
muciti said:
his religion and believes and his creed is that marriage should be between a man and a woman. There is nothing wrong with him expressing this belief nor is there even anything wrong with him believing it. Just like there is nothing wrong with you having your beliefs or expressing them. This issue is just continually getting more and more hostile and ignorant by both sides of it. Realistically both sides of this can co exist together and come to a realistic solution if you all weren't so busy trying to oppress each other and shove your views down each others throats.
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Uhmm he supports making gay marriage illegal. I don't see to many gays pushing to make heterosexual marriage illegal. So who is trying to push their views on people......
 
muciti said:
The KKK and NOI are both violent hate groups. To try to connect them to Christians is just ignorant.
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what connects them is the support of abhorrent views
 
muciti said:
his religion and believes and his creed is that marriage should be between a man and a woman. There is nothing wrong with him expressing this belief nor is there even anything wrong with him believing it. Just like there is nothing wrong with you having your beliefs or expressing them. This issue is just continually getting more and more hostile and ignorant by both sides of it. Realistically both sides of this can co exist together and come to a realistic solution if you all weren't so busy trying to oppress each other and shove your views down each others throats.
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It is his right to believe that and express that, and people have the right to not go to that business because of his views and express their opinion about his views. This goes both ways.
 
muciti said:
his religion and believes and his creed is that marriage should be between a man and a woman. There is nothing wrong with him expressing this belief nor is there even anything wrong with him believing it. .
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No, there is nothing wrong with that.

Of course, he has not limited himself to that by a long shot, as he has contributed money to hate groups and indulged in rhetoric designed to elicit hatred against gay people.
 
Kandahar said:
Chick-Fil-A contracted with the Jim Henson Company to include muppet toys in kids' meals.
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Sounds like a win/win for both parties. Chick gave money to the Muppets Company for the right to included toys and Chick got a well known toy.
 
VanceMack said:
Riiiiight. Your 'candidate of choice' lied about his beliefs, about why he held his beliefs, and pawned gay rights out in the name of political expedience. And you wonder why your values and character amount to less than ****. :lamo
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A politician...lying? Say it ain't so!

Obama has been very good at implementing progressive policies on gay civil rights. Moreso than any other president in history, actually. I don't give two ****s about when he chose to endorse gay marriage or why; I never doubted that he was on the correct side of the issue in the first place. And it looks like I was right. I'm sorry if you were fooled into voting for Obama because you thought he hated gays...but if that's the case, it's your own fault.
 
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Billy the Kid said:
Sounds like a win/win for both parties. Chick gave money to the Muppets Company for the right to included toys and Chick got a well known toy.
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Yep, it was a win/win for a while. Then the Chick-Fil-A dude decided to make some ignorant, bigoted comments and the Jim Henson Company decided it didn't want its good name associated with them.
 
Kandahar said:
Obama has been very good at implementing progressive policies on gay civil rights. Moreso than any other president in history, actually. I don't give two ****s about when he chose to endorse gay marriage or why; I never doubted that he was on the correct side of the issue in the first place. And it looks like I was right. I'm sorry if you were fooled into voting for Obama because you thought he hated gays...but if that's the case, it's your own fault.
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I havent voted for a republican or democrat in a long long time. Its comical that you will sit back and espouse his virtues all the while freely admit that he is a liar and a political opportunist that sees people as nothing more than tools and voting blocs. :lamo

O yes...sycophants definitely get the government they deserve. Unfortunately you take the rest of us along for the ride with you.
 
muciti said:
his religion and believes and his creed is that marriage should be between a man and a woman. There is nothing wrong with him expressing this belief nor is there even anything wrong with him believing it.
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He's entitled to his ignorant opinion; that doesn't mean there is nothing wrong with it.

Realistically both sides of this can co exist together
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Nope. The pro-discrimination side will go the same route as other pro-discrimination movements in the past...they'll either die off and be replaced by generations that don't support this ignorance, or they'll actively change their minds and do a mea culpa, or they'll just slink away and pretend they never held those views.

and come to a realistic solution if you all weren't so busy trying to oppress each other and shove your views down each others throats.
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The only realistic solution is to allow equal civil rights for all Americans regardless of their sexual orientation. Anything less constitutes discrimination.
 
VanceMack said:
I havent voted for a republican or democrat in a long long time. Its comical that you will sit back and espouse his virtues all the while freely admit that he is a liar and a political opportunist that sees people as nothing more than tools and voting blocs. :lamo
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A politician behaving like a politician. Imagine that. :roll:
 
Your Star said:
It is his right to believe that and express that, and people have the right to not go to that business because of his views and express their opinion about his views. This goes both ways.
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I would never support anything that took away a persons right to boycott. I agree it goes both ways. Those people do and should have the right to do it. Just because someone has the right to do it doesnt change that they are just as big of idiots and bigots as what they are protesting.
 
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