Dear Robbie:

Wanna know why you get to sell porn for a living?

Because enough people gave a shit about your freedom to do so and fought against religious wackos... THESE VERY SAME RELIGIOUS WACKOS.

The only reason anyone has any freedom what-so-ever is because people fought for it. For a pornographer.... A FUCKING PORNOGRAPHER FOR CHRIST SAKE... to just say "I don't see what the big deal is" When someone is trying to take freedom away is.. well.. FUCKING PERPLEXING. WTF?!?!

What freedom are they trying to take away?

I don't know about you, But I feel gays should be free to get married. The owner of chick-fil-a is obviously trying to take that freedom away.

I also feel that people that are into personal freedom should take issue with that and ANY time someone does try to strip personal freedom away. FROM ANYONE.

You're preaching to a deaf crowd man. It's not even worth wasting time on anymore. I've been in countless debates over freedom, loss of freedom, the patriot act, the TSA, homeland security, etc etc etc and one thing that every single person on the other side of the debate had in common is that they simply do not care. They don't care because "it's not my freedom being taken away'.

I've literally argued in these debates with thousands of people over the years and they are all the same. So it's really a futile exercise to try and talk common sense to anyone who only cares about 'their' rights. And by the time 'their' rights are taken away too, they'll simply shrug their shoulders and deal with it.

How can you take away something they never had? And he happens to disagree with us. He can spend more than me, I can just write about it.

I suppose you can't in the pure technical sense.

But preventing a freedom that should be is taking away from freedom none the less.

alot of americans are close minded dumbasses.

i think it's scary how much influence religion by now has. especially cause in other countries people are condemned for that

I wonder how much business cracker barrel is losing. Thy have a long and storied history of homophobia and were the preferred choice of ignorant hateful people for a long while. They must be having marketing meetings about ways they can be more hateful to lure back their customers quickly. They still segregated seating by race into the 1990s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker..._Country_Store

Maybe a parking lot lynching of a life size Jim J Bullock doll would ramp up their 3rd Quarter revenue?

It is frightening how many "intelligent" people believe that shit and allow it to influence everything around them.

They are no different than JohnnyClips believing in Aliens being the creators. Believing in a magical man in the sky who controls the universe and hates gay people (even though he created them) is equally absurd.

That was the first place I ever worked and had a lot of fun and learend a lot. Did not like all the church crap behind the owner and manager but I got paid and thats what counted.

This place would close on Sundays against Mall policy and pay 500$ fine for being closed each week.

Coup...I don't think you realize I am in total agreement with you.

But I still say that the guy who owns Chik-Fil-A didn't say anything different than is being said in stupid churches across the country every day. He actually believes in that superstitious and hateful bullshit.

My opinion on this is that the most extreme elements of both "sides" are using this as an excuse to publicize themselves.

I'm 100% for gay marriage.
I don't know how either of us is fighting for freedom by having a discussion on a message board.

But if a vote is ever given in my state to make it legal I will vote FOR it.

I still don't think it's fighting for "freedom" to try and silence the guy from Chik-Fil-A

He has every right to think stupid thoughts and do and say stupid things.

Freedom is a two-edge sword. If we censor him...then we're no better than he is.

They were there JUST for the greasy chicken ... as I heard for people here ... :winkwink:

You have an interesting method of twisting shit around, don't you?

You spent your day interviewing people in the parking lot at a fast food chicken place?

Chic-Fil-A is free to make any statement he wants about anything he believes in. I am so sick of this turning into a 'freedom of speech' thing.

I will never, ever eat there. I am very pro-gay marriage and gay rights.

It is HIS right to say what he wants. It is MY right to say that they are a bigoted, horrible company that should be put out of business. And never to spend a dollar there, and encourage others to do the same.

This is freedom of speech. It MUST be both ways, or it doesn't work.

And for everyone who believes as I do about gay marriage, don't cry "He has no right to say that." Use your tongue and your dollars to fight the good fight.

Love their food!

Years ago dirty boy was one of the smarter guys on GFY.. this post reminded me of that

It's not just a matter of speech. They give money to support violence. This has been repeated and repeated and repeated but it just doesn't seem to stick.

i have no idea what everyone is talking about

Cliff note....

Chick-Fil-A "hates" gays or same sex marriage, many people are supporting this.

Looks like their winning so far, many people are mad.

So, much ado about nothing?

Oh, nvm. Guess there was more to the story that the article by Mark Washburn was letting on. Maybe he doesn't know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Ch...ge_controversy

Yep. Saying the same ignorant shit that is going to be said in every fundamentalist church in America this Sunday by a hundred thousand Baptist preachers.

The guy is obviously deeply religious. Which means he believes superstitions.

I'd say instead of getting mad at Chik-Fil-A...people should get mad at RELIGION. That's where the real hate is at.

Maybe, but there are still plenty of Christian denominations that aren't in the hate business, and even more religions that aren't hate-focused or opposed to sexual preference.

both sides are wrong, & stupid. :2 cents:

Funny how evengelicals are so firm in their belives that marriage is sacred and traditional, and that gays marrying isn't according to the bible etc etc.
If you really look into what the bible says about marriage it's hard to take them seriously.
This infographic shows it in a good way:
http://cdn.unicornbooty.com/wp-conte...the-Bible-.png

Jump to conclusions much?

He probably doesn't know.. he's only been a media reporter for 12 years and never heard of wiki before...

Chicken is easy to cook.
It's easy to stay out of other peoples lives.
Please drive through.

that doesnt look to bad ;_))

It's been meme-ified already, but the day people are lining up to do charity as an expression of their Christianity instead of to support an anti-gay chicken restaurant, then we'll talk.

I really can not figure out why people must assume that just because someone supports the traditional definition of marriage that they must automatically hate gays. Perhaps someone can explain how they go hand in hand.

Oh snap, you think he purposefully omitted information to present bias pro-Chik-fil-A?

It's the premise and the terminology.

If I said that the "traditional definition of equality" doesn't include people with black skin, it would become clear. Right? According to old tradition, black people aren't equal, therefore they never had the right in the first place, therefore nobody is denying them rights by not allowing them to vote or marry or own land.

In other words, the very notion that there is some "traditional definition of marriage" is a paper tiger. It's just words used to justify discrimination and exlusion of other equal citizens to participate.

Oh but by the way, it has nothing to do with hating gays. Thats a huge leap in the other direction. You dont have to hate gays to not want gay marriage any more than you have to hate heterosexuals if you support gay marriage.


And yes, this is another entry in my ongoing series of manufactured buzzwords created to divide people. "traditional definition of marriage" is bunk. If you don't want to let gay people get married, grow a pair and say so (not to the OP, but to everyone)

Has that ever been a question? I thought it was pretty obvious they were against gay marriage (not against gays, against gay marriage) and they have said so numerous times.

thats cool that you do ireports for CNN, i didnt know that

The funny thing is nowhere in the bible does it say "marriage is between one man and one woman" But you'll hear these assholes say it does over and over again.

Chick-Fil-A
 

It's National Kiss Day & also National Cross-Dress Day at Chick-Fil-A. Since I'm not into kissing guys, guess I better find a dress.
On a more serious side, Chick-Fil-A is in an accommodation business as defined under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Would you go to a business in 2012 that will serve African-Americans or Jews, but publicly states they shouldn't be allowed to marry? Or donates to some very intolerant groups?

On a different note, they had good chicken soup in 1990 in Corpus Christi when I lived there. The new one by me has crap for food. Food was bad before I found out their politics.

I didn't eat any chikin today.

I will put up a gallery tomorrow (don't feel like doing it now) of today's protest. Weak. There was a cowardly vandal that hit the place last night, then around 6:00 PM three lesbians showed up. I had to suggest that they kiss, and the "married couple" obliged.

Afraid as far as making a statement goes, Chick-fil-A supporters won, hands down.

It isn't so much that they hate gays as it it is they don't see them as being their equal. They are saying, "You are gay, my religion makes me believe that because you are gay you should not be allowed to marry another gay person. I can like you, but we are not equals because I am free to marry and you are not."

Now if you took the word gay out of those sentences and replaced it with with word black people would brand you as ignorant, a racist and a person filled with hate.

There was supposed to be a same sex kiss-a-thon in front of the chik fil a in Hollwyood friday night. Would love to have caught some lesbo action. missed it. Anyone grab a few pics?

Include supporting burning at the stake for people who don't worship the right way.

The Bible, Torah and Koran are books of fiction. Written for the purpose of propaganda, control and how you should live your life based on how they did 1,000s of years ago.

They're used to justify murder and genocide, it even includes acts of genocide carried out by god or on his orders. I say they're used and now was used because it happens today. Israel/Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Iran and even the US. Branch Davidians.

Now the crazy fuck is getting all the free advertising he could ever wish for. I advise KFC to come out with a similar piece of propaganda.

After the past couple of days, I disagree. Most of the people feel that marriage should be between a man and a woman. It is what they were raised with, it is what they believe. For the majority it has nothing to do with equality.

You can see my pics at http://www.gotbaddog.com/kiss-a-gay-day-chick-fil-a/

To be honest, I had to suggest that they kiss; it was like it never dawned on them, even though they were a legal couple and were carrying signs saying "kiss mor chiks"

Pretty weak turnout compared to Wednesday

Nice pics, baddog...:) Torrance is slowville, a bit.


I used to go to both restaurants from time to time until I started feeling physically sick afterward. I miss the KFC from the 60's when the chicken tasted like chicken and Pepsi or whoever was not in the picture.

Being a BenHya Southerner, I've noticed people have two takes on chik fil a. Like the chicken hate the chicken...and "They are a righteous family of god fearing people" or... "what a bunch of fucking wackjobs." IN GA and SC the workers all appear to be on mind control drugs. Like a cult or some shit. Glazed eyes and just a little too happy for me.

people like this scare me

http://www.gotbaddog.com/wp-content/...a/gay_4203.jpg