Business is good at Chick-Fil-A

[_DarkHelmet]

Chick-Fil-A will get an initial boost from the publicity. They are in the news right now and any publicity is good publicity in the short term. I'm not sure what they can expect long term. Most businesses try to stay out of political issues because they don't want the controversy to turn off potential customers. People who have a negative experience at a store are more likely to leave feedback than people who have a positive experience. Does it work the same way for people who have negative opinions of a company as opposed to positive opinions? Will the negative opinions of chick-fil-a linger longer than the positive opinions? There are only so many chick-fil-a meals I can eat before I'm sick of it and want to eat somewhere else. But if I'm boycotting chick-fil-a I can stay away forever. I guess time will tell.

[_Droopy]

How is this bad news for Obama? These rednecks were going to vote against him anyway.

Fascinating. Ronald McGraham just said that the vast majority of American blacks were "rednecks." This is where leftist ideology, especially at its highest temperature, inevitably leads. That must really gall the left, the fact that, in California during the prop 8 campaign, among the major proponents and defenders of the Prop 8 against the gay gestapo and the Left were Mormons and Black Americans, backed up by a majority of Americans period, including moderate Democrats.

We're not talking about new recruits against Obama here. National polls indicate that people are more and more becoming tolerant of homosexual marriage, so if you think Obama standing up for Gay Rights is going to hurt him, then you're an idiot. It will attract more moderates while the bigots who will vote against him, were going to do so anyway.

Even if true, polls at the time of prop 8 and since have shown overwhelming opposition to homosexual marriage. As it stands, only half of Americans support homosexual marriage. But isn't it wonderful that we don't live in a democracy in this country, and there are ways to prevent democratic mobs and their ideological passions and fevers from taking the society over a cliff?

In the end what does all this prove? These folks buying overpriced chicken are idiots, so let them waste more of their money for all I care.

Everyone's an idiot but Comrade Graham This guy's narcissism just went into hyperspace.

Un-freaking-believable.

[_Droopy]

Bottom line: its none of anyone's business, let along homosexuals, if the owner of Chik-fil-A exercises his first amendment rights and takes a public stand against what he believes is institutionalized sexual perversion.

If you are homosexual, and you don't agree with Chik-fil-A's postion - eat somewhere else. In any given town or city, there are scores of fast food restaurants (including Cluck You, Churches, Bojangles, Popeye's, and KFC, among others) who serve much the same food. If you don't like his stand on an issue, don't eat at his restaurant.

Posturing, protesting, crying "Oppression!" and whining that the sky is falling upon you because everybody doesn't turn their moral and philosophical worlds upside down to satisfy your craving for ideological and personal validation, and alter their core values to coincide with your own lifestyle preferences and ideological demands does your cause no good.

[_moksha]

Bottom line: its none of anyone's business, let along homosexuals, if the owner of Chik-fil-A exercises his first amendment rights and takes a public stand against what he believes is institutionalized sexual perversion.

Just like it's not anyone's business if Chick-Fil-A's secret ingredient is asbestos and an even more secret pink ammoniated gelatinous substance. First amendment all the way baby!

[_MeDotOrg]

Bottom line: its none of anyone's business, let along homosexuals, if the owner of Chik-fil-A exercises his first amendment rights and takes a public stand against what he believes is institutionalized sexual perversion.

If you are homosexual, and you don't agree with Chik-fil-A's postion - eat somewhere else. In any given town or city, there are scores of fast food restaurants (including Cluck You, Churches, Bojangles, Popeye's, and KFC, among others) who serve much the same food. If you don't like his stand on an issue, don't eat at his restaurant.

"It's none of anyone'e business let alone homosexuals. Let alone homosexuals? So, it's less their business? The interesting thing about the above quote is that Droopy seems to be unaware that opposition to gay marriage could upset anyone other than homosexuals.

Look, I agree that the owner's of Chick-Fil-A have a right to their opinions. I don't think cities have a right to prohibit them from setting up shop just because of their views on this issue. I DO think that people have a right to boycott, just as numerous Christian groups have boycotted various companies over their policies.

I think sometime in the next decade, all of this is going to become moot. Here's the progression, by year of a CNN/Gallup poll, asking the question: "Do you think marriages between homosexuals should or should not be recognized by the law as valid, with the same rights as traditional marriages?"

Poll Date Yes No Undecided
5/3-5/6/2012 50 48 2
5/5-5/8/2011 53 45 3
5/2-5/6/2010 44 53 3
5/7-5/10-2009 40 57 3
5/8-5/11/2008 40 56 4
5/10-5/13/2007 46 53 1
5/8-5/11/2006 42 56 2
4/29-5/1/2005 39 56 5
3/18-3/20/2005 28 68 4
7/19-7/21/2004 32 62 6
3/5-3/7/2004 33 61 6
2/16-2/17/2004 32 64 4
2/6-2/8/2004 36 59 5
12/2003 31 65 4
10/2003 35 61 4
6/2003 39 55 6
1/2000 34 62 4
2/1999 35 62 3
3/1996 27 68 5

In addition, polling shows a strong correlation between opposition to gay marriage and age: the older you are, the more likely you are to oppose gay marriage. As being gay becomes more accepted, and more and more people go to school and work with people who are openly gay and in gay relationships, they are going to realize there is nothing to be afraid of.

Time and empiricism will continue to erode opposition to gay marriage.

[_palerobber]

wow, Chick-Fil-A's brand index score is tanking hard.



not at all surprising -- having Huck Palin applaud your hater bona fides is like the kiss of death.

[_Doctor Steuss]

When was the last time anyone saw this many Christians lined up to help at a soup kitchen, or organized to help clean up a blighted area, or LDS lined up to clean the chapel on a Saturday morning?

Onward Christian Soldiers...