Chick Fil A Shows Its Cowardly Side
Up until now I have had no strong feelings one way or the other about Chick Fil A. It wasn’t until fairly recently that there was one semi near me (about an hour away) and the one time I ate there I was not that impressed with the food.
I disagreed with their stance on marriage equality but recognized that it came from sincere beliefs of the owners, and even though I felt those views wrong I felt they were entitled to them.
In addition I have had issues with the whole “boycott some business or performer because you don’t like their views” theory.
In short given a choice I would go somewhere else but if they were the only place around or had a really good deal I was open to the idea.
Today however came the final straw.
As you may have heard in the news, the Jim Henson Company decided to end their relationship with Chick Fil A because of Chick’s anti marriage views.
Now Chick could have simply told customers that they had decided to end their relationship but instead they have put up signs saying that they (Chick) decided to stop distributing the Muppet products for “safety reasons”
As I see it you are entitled to your views but with that goes accepting the consequences of those views. When you are too cowardly to do even that, it’s enough for me to say I am done as a customer.
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It’s one thing to not agree with someone’s sexual orientation. It’s quite another thing to donate money to hate groups which fight gays and lesbians, condemning them and keeping hate and violence against gays and lesbians alive.
“boycott some business or performer because you don’t like their views”
but isnt that the free market? I am free to boycott a business because it is being run by a douche… or maybe a scientologist. Why should people give their money to businesses that behave in ways that they do not support?
We should all boycott Chick…and not just because their food is terrible.
Amen on both (reasons to boycott), SL
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Chick-Fil-A (maybe we don’t have them in California?), and I haven’t eaten chicken in 17 years anyway, so I suppose they won’t miss my business.
But I strongly agree with Shannon on the issue of boycotting. I can think of at least 3 other national chains that sell chicken as its primary consumable. When you’ve got a choice, why would you give your money to a bigot who will use the profits to do things that hurt people?
roro80, Chick-Fil-As are in California, though rare. There’s one super-busy one in Hollywood, on Sunset Blvd.
Perhaps the company was slow to expand in California because of it’s more liberal attitudes and they only came into the state since it made them more money? (And there’s a bit of snark in there, too.)
StockBoy — They don’t want GodChicken nourishing the pot-smoking sodomists of the Left Coast.
Roro… LOL!
http://gizmodo.com/5928926/chick+fil+a-got-caught-pretending-to-be-a-fake-teenage-girl-on-facebook
OMG, they just keep on digging themselves deeper, don’t they? Hilarious.
The sad thing is, in the areas they are most prevalent, this probably will help as much as it hurts. I came from a very fundie Christian little town, and a small handful of my high school fb friends have posted how great it is that a company is sticking up for Christian values.