Thread: Chick-fil-A

Originally Posted by earcutter

What's going on?

City's telling a private company to get out because of the company's president is against same-sex marriage!?

Boston mayor to anti-gay-marriage Chick-fil-A: stay away - chicagotribune.com


Who cares how you feel about the issue of same-sex marriage, I really don't want to know unless you REALLY think it has something to do with the issue - what I want to know is; how you feel about government telling private company's what their moral values should be.

You think if the Owner of Barns and Noble (big book retailer) were to be a Jew and didn't want to sell Mein Kampf, we should force the store to carry it? NO! Why? Because its a private company and not a library!

Well that's my rant - maybe I am not thinking clearly - but it seems as stupid as someone opposing government interfering in healthcare but then lobbying that abortion should be illegal???

What do you think?

Objectively speaking, this is a business decision, both by the Mayor of Boston and the owners of Chick Fil A. They both feel it furthers their standing with the people they represent to say what they said.

The streets of Chicago must be all cleaned up if this is the Mayors big project?

Never mind the countless homeless in the city, or the crime, get the bad chicken man lol

Chick Fil A is some tasty food, no reason to shut down an establishment (eliminate jobs), just for the owners religious beliefs. Then again, Chicago is know for its upstanding and morally right city government (insert corruption here).

So I was listening to Boston Radio (AM1030) the other night and the host was talking another this letter.
He summed up the letter from Boston's mayor quite well "We're so tolerant in Boston that we won't tolerate your company for the sole reason that we disagree with you".

I doubt CFA would try this but I would love to see them try to open in Boston, get turned down in the permitting process then take the letter and get the ACLU to represent them due to religious discrimination. It would be epic trolling and the ACLU would hate themselves for having to represent CFA. I would end up with a serious case of the lols

Wouldn't it be awesome for you and a buddy in Boston to go into a Chic-fil-a and pretend to conduct a gay marriage?

I liked Santorum's remark to this the best" Why are the people screaming the loudest for tolerance, so intolerant when somebody disagrees with their beliefs" and I really don't like Santorum all that much but the man has a point...

Originally Posted by gssixgun

I liked Santorum's remark to this the best" Why are the people screaming the loudest for tolerance, so intolerant when somebody disagrees with their beliefs" and I really don't like Santorum all that much but the man has a point...

I agree - but a friend of mine brought up a good point today to me as well. "Since when do CEO's expose their beliefs? They have code for that. Words like we embrace family values."

He's got a point. When you are a CEO - you are an "agent" of the company.

Just another thought... I still maintain that government has no place enforcing "individuals" morals, but as an agent of the company I have to admit I am a bit torn.

EDIT - the government enforces morals every day... sorry dumb thing to say. I don't think the gov has any place telling someone what to believe.

Originally Posted by earcutter

He's got a point. When you are a CEO - you are an "agent" of the company.

And his very public ant-gay stance has been really good for the company's profits. However as we all know the society has been evolving, so another generation or two and I bet we won't be hearing much of the same rhetoric.
Sexual orientation is not a protected class, but I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes.

Originally Posted by gugi

And his very public ant-gay stance has been really good for the company's profits. However as we all know the society has been evolving, so another generation or two and I bet we won't be hearing much of the same rhetoric.
Sexual orientation is not a protected class, but I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes.

I am not so sure being against gay Marriage is the same as being Anti-Gay somehow that doesn't sound quite fair

I just don't really have a dog in this fight, Can't really decide which group is showing more hatred, nor do I really care Sad isn't it

You're right. We need to look at all the social issues in the US and say "why" is this happening?
Why is One out of every 100 people in the United States is imprisoned. Even though we are 5 percent of the world's population, we have 25 percent of the prisoners in the world. We are number one in the world in the number of people we imprison - we even beat China. Why is our education system behind every other English speaking country in the world? Why is our medical system First only in Cost??? We need to ask ourselves a lot of really hard questions!