Chick-fil-A PR goes Rogue

This is what is so sad about this whole thing. Go into your local McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s or whatever. Then go into a Chick-fil-A. The difference is striking. CFA restaurants are cleaner and have much faster and better service. Plus, they have better food and better healthier options. I will take that every time over the rude, semiliterate individual lackadaisically dishing slop in a skanky fast food joint.

You can tell a lot about people by what gets them up in arms.
A guy that runs a really good business that has an opinion concerning a controversial issue- an opinion that is, by the way, actually in line with about half of our country- THAT gets people worked up. Governments in two of our nation’s biggest cities denying a business opportunity and jobs/income for their communities because of what they deem as essentially a thought-crime... ah... whatevs...

 

I'm not up on interracial marriage law but two thoughts come to mind:
1.] It was illegal at some point and then made legal. I opined up thread that maybe
the Supreme Court will adjudicate this across the board.
2.] And I am asking this honestly, is being black and being gay the same thing?

 

The laws are there to protect people from a rogue majority.

If the majority could just vote its way and not have the Supreme Court to keep it in check, this is how it would be in the South: Blacks would still be at separate (but equal) drinking fountains, sitting at the back of the bus and there would be no inter-racial marriage.

 

America has come a long way, though. I can envision a future in which a black man is elected president. Someday. Someday.

 

You are absolutely correct about the checks and balances. And if my state legalizes same-sex marriage or if the Supreme Court legalizes it across the board, my life will continue unchanged and I will be happy for the people that that was important to. I think I still consider interracial marriage and same sex marriage as a bit of an apples and oranges comparison due to race being genetic and the jury still being out on the genetic element of homosexuality. The Supreme Court essentially ruled that you cannot discriminate on the basis of skin color, what would the ruling be based on regarding same-sex marriage?

I'm curious if polygamy is a better example than interracial marriage. If four adults really love each other and what to live together and want the financial/legal benefits of marriage, should we extend the franchise to them?

 

There are several similarities that come to mind:
a) Neither is a or choice - one is born black or gay (or both!)
b) It's maybe easier to hide your sexual orientation but lighter skinned blacks sometimes used to 'pass' for other ethnicities
c) Both have at some time been prevented by law from equal participation in society by the 'majority'

 

Tremendous. Just keep being you.

What does Kobe have to say about gay marriage?

 

But dishonest about impersonating children on Facebook to sock-puppet a defense of the company. And dishonest about Jim Hensen company's decision to break with them over social policy views being about children's safety and the dangerous, dangerous properties of Muppet toys.

I'm still missing how this response is honest, moral or defensible in any way.

 

LongTimeListener: Do have anything to add to the discussion or are you just going to follow me around from thread to thread to rehash that in April of 2011, I opined that people were overreacting to Kobe using the word "faggot?"

Do you disagree with my opinions? Great, climb in the ring and argue.
If its just gonna be ad hominem non sequiturs, just shut the fuck up troll.

 

In this context, on this thread, I think it's entirely appropriate to note that your first appearance here was to defend the use of the word "faggot."

Other than that, your posts have zero intellectual weight and are not worth responding to. Equating gay marriage and polygamy is a perfect example of that and stands on its own.

 

Do evangelical Christians keep kosher? I always thought there was something in the New Testament that made that requirement go away, sort of like why they don't sacrifice animals.