Comments on Advance Indiana™: Chick-fil-A Boycott Backfires

I guess donating money to groups in support of tra...

2012-08-05T09:41:14.699-05:00

I guess donating money to groups in support of traditional marriage amounts to hate speech in the same way that donating money to Planned Parenthood amounts to supporting abortions.

Neither statement is accurate by the way.

I think it's interesting the way "Unknown...

2012-08-03T09:43:47.432-05:00

I think it's interesting the way "Unknown" uses the term, "hate groups."

It's also important to point out that individu...

2012-08-03T07:22:35.591-05:00

It's also important to point out that individual franchise owners and their employees don't share all of the owner's political views. A boycott punishes them for the views of the restaurant chain's founder. On that basis, unknown, I would never go watch another movie because I deplore how the actors, producers and directors donate so much money to radical, left-wing candidates and causes.

30 Chick-Fil-A set a 1 day world sales record in a...

2012-08-03T06:48:42.145-05:00

30 Chick-Fil-A set a 1 day world sales record in a letter its president sent to Rev. Rick Warren

I think it's important to clear up a couple of...

2012-08-03T02:35:43.875-05:00

I think it's important to clear up a couple of misperceptions that have been floating around. The boycott isn't about his views on marriage equality. He has the right to spout off whatever nonsense he wants. His statements that we're inciting God's wrath, etc is his opinion. He's welcome to it.

The problem is that the chain has donated over $5 million dollars to hate groups like Exodus International (which claimed they could turn gay people straight and set up camps to send teens to for conversion therapy. The majority of kids forced into them come out with severe depression issues and a majority of them end up with mental issues and a high suicide rate). The group has since admitted conversion therapy doesn't work. They also donate to groups like the Indiana Family Institute, Focus on the Family, etc. Some of the groups have been designated as hate groups - so it's not just the guys like Erik Miller from Indiana. While he's disgusting, he's not risen to the rank of hate group.

Instead, they're giving to groups that claim LGBT people were the backbone of the Nazis, that gays and lesbians should be guaranteed so we'll "die out," blame us for any major natural disaster, etc.

This causes real problems for LGBT youth who are the number one suicide risk. These groups have actually advocated for parents to disown gay children.

It's much bigger than his opinion on marriage equality. It's the active support of groups who want to keep us as second class citizens - or in some cases reinstate sodomy laws or the "traditional Biblical" solution for gay sex - execution. That's a whole different ball of wax.

It should also be noted that the company's consumer index rating has plummeted lately. The majority of Americans now have a negative view of the chain. There has been a difference made.

They've also been the target of several discrimination claims for fired LGBT employees, freedom of religion violations (you can't even own a franchise unless you agree to abide by their religious beliefs), and refusing to serve openly gay people.

This is much bigger than one guy's comments, Gary.

This whole issue was blown out of proportion by Li...

2012-08-02T16:31:17.678-05:00

This whole issue was blown out of proportion by Liberal Democrats!

Geeezzzzz! One man speaks his personal moral opinion (which he is absolutely entitled to do) and suddenly liberals attack the business he runs, and impute the personal opinion on the business without any cause or basis.

This business does not discriminate or even take a stand on moral issues. It is wrong to impute the ideas of a person on another entity. In this matter, the beliefs of a corporate employee (which are not shown to be the corporate beliefs) are imputed by Liberals and now they have apparently tried to ban the corporation from doing business in their city.

It's just wrong.