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I agree with Mr Cathy (gay marraige is not cool) | 49 | 56.32% | |
I disagree with Mr Cathy (gay marraige is fine by me) | 12 | 13.79% | |
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Gay-rights supporters plan kissing protest at Chick-fil-A
August 2, 2012 | 5:16 am "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day," an event Wednesday in which supporters converged on the fast-food establishment to back its chief executive's controversial stance on gay marriage, is not the end of the controversy. Gay rights supporters are planning a "National Same-Sex Kiss Day at Chick-fil-A" on Friday. As part of the event, couples are encouraged to go one of the chicken restaurant's locations and take a photo or video of themselves kissing. "Let's show Chick-fil-A thanks for their support of Love, Equality, and the Real Definition of Marriage! Invite your friends!" organizers said on its Facebook page. Gay rights advocates on Wednesday also suggested that supporters eat at KFC instead of Chick-fil-A. On Wednesday, much of the attention was focused on supporters of the embattled eatery. Mark Almlie, 39, said he's never had Chick-fil-A food, but drove from Simi Valley to the restaurant Wednesday to support "people that will stand up for what they believe in." "I'm not against gay rights by any means, but I think this guy is getting a bad rap," Beaumont resident Ed Vatter, 57, said over a plate of chicken nuggets and waffle fries at the Chick-fil-A in Laguna Niguel. "Plus," he told The Times, "the food's pretty good." Hundreds of people turned out at chicken eateries throughout the state Wednesday in support, including at a Northridge Chick-fil-A. Gwilym McGrew, who drove to the fast-food restaurant from Woodland Hills, said more than 100 cars were waiting along Tampa Avenue to pull into the parking lot. "A couple hundred" people had lined up on foot, he said, some drinking water distributed by employees. "It's very calm madness," McGrew said. "Everybody's very orderly." McGrew was one of many people who ventured to the restaurant to show support for Chick-fil-A, which drew criticism after chief executive Dan Cathy recently said he and his company were against gay marriage. The comments drew strong reactions, with customers pledging to boycott the chain and some mayors proclaiming they would not allow Chick-fil-A to open in their cities. In response, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee declared Wednesday to be Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, calling on people to eat at the restaurant to show support. McGrew said he came to the restaurant to support Cathy's religious beliefs, even though he said he himself is not religious. "I'm not getting myself involved in the issue of gay marriage and all that; I'm not getting involved in a religious debate," he said. "I'm getting involved in the government putting their thumb on a businessperson for his religious beliefs." Customers said they waited in line for about 20 minutes, and were told it would take about an hour longer before they could order food. Earlier Wednesday, more than a dozen people stood outside the Northridge Chick-fil-A, waving American flags and holding signs: "Free to speak, to build, to boycott." The event was organized by the San Fernando Valley Patriots, a local arm of the tea party. "That man — just like you or I — has a right to say, 'This is what I believe and not be punished for it," Karen Kenney of the San Fernando Valley Patriots told KTLA. The Northridge restaurant declined to comment and referred questions to the company's corporate office. [For the record, 7:10 a.m., Aug. 2: An earlier version of this post and headline incorrectly stated that the protest was organized by the gay rights group GLAAD. It was organized by grass-roots activists, but is supported and promoted by GLAAD. GLAAD is also supporting -- but not organizing -- an effort to eat at KFC instead of Chick-fil-A.] Gay-rights supporters plan kissing protest at Chick-fil-A - latimes.com |
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Next, some looney tune in a Joker get-up is going to explode a bomb or mow down a bunch of supporters and protesters in a Chick-fil-A crowd. Watch and see..
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We do? We get tax breaks like married people do? When something happens to our partners and need medical decicions made, we get to make them? If our partners were to die we are entitiled to their assests?
Where is the outrage??? There is plenty, beleive it or not there are MANY in the GLBT community that see right through this...how convienient that he used to be against it, but now just months before elections he changed his tune? We are gay, not a morons...well most of us anyways. |
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This whole damned this is so stupid and blown out of proportions on both sides. No, he did not directly say he was against gay marriage in his speech, however, for the people that know his stand on the issue, there is an understanding why they think he implied it.
Boycotting the restaurants does nothing to hurt Mr. Cathy, it hurts the people at the store level, effecting people's hours and pay, some of which I am sure need to work and the $$$, and some of which are from the GLBT community. The mayors saying they don't want the businesses, are shooting themselves in the foot, do to lost revenue from taxes generated by the stores. The kiss in...do I really need an excuse to kiss the person I am seeing...I am a big boy, I can take care of myself, I will kiss my boyfriend where ever I want to, when ever I want to...but, I am not going to make a special trip to a fast food joint just because I think it will piss some people off. And lets talk about all of those people who went to Chic-fil-a...were they all really there because they were supporting 1st ammendment rights, or were some of them there being just as childish as the people protesting because they think they are supporting Mr. Cathy in his "anit gay marriage stand". And really how pointless was going there on that particular day? Waiting in lines for 2, 3, or more hours for what...a chicken sandwich, that you had to pay for...SERIOUSLY??? I don't care what the cause is...if I have to wait that long for a damn chicken sandwich, it better come with a blowjob and a happy ending. We all have to many different opinions and points of view, and to many ways people intereperate the teachings of the invisible man in the sky and his son, that we will never agree on everything, hell we may never even agree on most things....but how hard is it to respect what everyone's point of view is and try to get along? I am not a religious person, but I do sing a lot a churches, and I always include this song as an "extra" sing along...and everyone seems to know it... Last edited by zz4vetteguy; 08-03-2012 at 2:54am. |
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That’s a situation I can sympathize with; I don’t doubt that that happens a lot. You’re dealing with a lifetime of hurt on both sides. I don’t know that if they had been married it would have changed the situation all that much, probably would have just reversed the roles. I wish people treated each other better.
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