I now pronounce you rooster and rooster.
Not anymore!
Remember how dirty libruls were spitting on the First Amendment by refusing to eat bigoted chicken? Well, the First Amendment is now oficially dead.
Chick-fil-A cried uncle, thus rending in twain the hearts of all the nimrods who shoved chicken sandwiches in their gaping maws in order to show their support for homophobia and bigoted assholery. Let’s hear it for the gay agenda!
From The New Civil Rights Movement:
Chick-Fil-A has reportedly stated it will no longer donate to anti-gay organizations or groups that actively oppose same-sex marriage.
[read full post at ABLC]
WereBear
I thought their sales were HUGE!
I refuse to believe it is not an economic reason. Based on the past forty years.
Cris (without an H)
So now we can expect throngs of bigots to walk into Chick-Fil-A and vomit up those sandwiches they bought out of spite?
aimai
@Cris (without an H):
Oh, I only wish.
aimai
ShadeTail
I don’t trust this announcement at all, and now that a Chick Fil A has finally opened nearby, I will be able to speak with my money by actively not going there.
Xecky Gilchrist
Let’s see if they stay off the hate bus as long as they were on it, then maybe we can reconsider.
Lit3Bolt
Does this mean they’ll finally be open on Sundays too?
I mean, if they’re not hating on the gays, they’re probably going to Hell anyway…
Mnemosyne
I’ll give it a few months to see if they actually follow through. I would kinda like to be able to get some of their chicken strips when I go visit my parents at Christmas, but if I have to keep getting tots at Sonic Burger instead, I can live with that.
Randy P
@Mnemosyne:
There’s a place called Sonic Burger which sells babies? And they taste like chicken?
Gypsy howell
Too late. Never going back in anyway, even if I did trust them to honor this, which I don’t. If they’d wanted liberals like me for customers, they would never have done this to begin with. Plus, their food was going down hill anyway, and their service has always been slow.
Sly
They’re just obeying the One True God.
Jon O.
Nice of them to see the light after getting millions of bigots to line up for a chicken sandwich. Sorry, I’m still out.
danah gaz
w00t!
NorthLeft12
@Cris (without an H): I can imagine the feeling of “betrayal” that the loyal wingnuts will no doubt make public over the next week or so.
Another example of conservatism being failed by its followers, I guess.
amk
So the wingnutz will boycott them now? Irony.
Ms. D. Ranged in AZ (formerly IrishGirl)
@ShadeTail: @ShadeTail: That was my first reaction. Who is going to be watching to let us know?
WereBear
@NorthLeft12: The biggest lie the wingnuts tell themselves is that everyone else in the country is just like them.
Can they break 27% when they tell the truth? Now that they are doing so, let’s see what happens.
spudvol
Eat Mor Coq
SenyorDave
What a relief, now I can go back to not eating at Chick-Fil-A because serve shitty food, instead of not eating there because they support bigots.
Ms. D. Ranged in AZ (formerly IrishGirl)
I have this older male co-worker who goes to Chik-Fil-A three times a week since this controversy began. And he announces it out loud every single time. I keep my trap shut because I am only a contractor and I actually like him overall However, I always think the same thing, “if you want to clog up up your arteries in support of hatred and bigotry hastening the day you die, more power to you. Bigotry against LGBT will die with the majority of your generation and the sooner that happens the better.”
Geoduck
I’m honestly surprised at this. Didn’t think any pro-gay boycott would hurt their sales badly enough. It’s a two-day drive to the nearest branch, but I’ll continue to stay away..
SenyorDave
@Randy P:
There’s a place called Sonic Burger which sells babies? And they taste like chicken?
Better watch it, your comment will get picked up by some conservative group who will use it to prove that liberals eat babies.
Michelle Malkin will be checking out your countertops soon.
El Cid
So now right wing Southerners have no other excuse to give for eating up 5,000 calories at Chick Fil A other than that they want enormous fried chicken sandwiches with sugared breading and large waffle fries with a large sugar-bomb Coca Cola?
patroclus
Not good enough. The statement was made only by their “Real Estate Director” which is NOT the highest office in the company and does not necessarily have the power to enforce compliance throughout the company. The specific request by the Chicago alderman was for the company to adopt a comprehensive anti-discrimination policy covering all aspects of the company’s business and a mere statement by a senior executive, while laudable, cannot substitute for an actual board-enacted company-wide policy.
There are also possible loopholes; they could potentially open up another corporation or trust which makes the bigoted donations while keeping the one in question “clean.”
In my view, they should not get the special zoning variance that they are requesting for the stand-alone restaurant at Logan Square in Chicago until and unless they actually comply with Chicago’s laws and reasonable document requests. With all this brouhaha, they have shown themselves to be untrustworthy and everything needs to be completely above board and honest if they really want the Logan Square standalone special zoning variance.
poco
OY! ABL? the link doesn’t go to your page, or have you changed the name and layout?
Citizen_X
Awesome. Newsflash, bigots: WE SURROUND YOU.
SRW1
In medical news: Mike Huckabee has been taken to hospital after suffering multiple aneurisms of facial blood vessels.
RaflW
Well, gee whiz. I bet they (1) shipped mad cash off to NOM and other hate groups over the past several months since this Nov 6th is likely the last gasp of fully organized, fully funded anti-gay electoral fooferawing. That they won’t give any more is nothing to crow over.
(2) the CEO and his cronies will get a nice bonus at the end of the year, which they will dutifully tithe over to the haters
(3) its still crispy fried death on a bun served by stores that almost never promote women to management level.
They’ve been Komen-cowed, but I can’t imagine they’ve been reformed.
Sophist
Ha! The wailing and gnashing of teeth from all the bigots who thought they had found their new culture-war hero will be sweet, sweet music unto mine ears.
Forum Transmitted Disease
I hope this is true as I’m having waffle fries withdrawal.
Balboa
This is good news only in sense that it will consume a news cycle and probably piss of NOM and Tony Perkins. Chick-fil-a may no longer donate to anti-LGBT organizations, but since the company is privately held, the Cathy’s can, and probably will, continue to donate large sums to the same bigoted organizations. The Coors and Koch family members have played this game for years.
Bottom line, Chick-fil-a profits end up in the same organizations to promote anti-equality.
gian
Not to endorse fast food as health food. But the chic fil a brand is better than most. The sandwiches are all under $500 cal and its not hard to have a sald instead of fries.
Our kids like their play areas and will be happy to go back, since we havent been back after thay went full metal wingnut. I liked that the kids meals came with books. We still have a bob the builder book from there.
My guess is the real silent majority just stopped going like we did. And 27% buying extra just didn’t make up the lost business.
roc
Yeah, this ranks up there with SGK’s ‘too late’ reversal for me.
Those people haven’t changed. They’ve just decided to hate on the DL because it was hurting their bottom line.
JGabriel
If Chick-Fil-A or its owners intend to continue donating to Republicans, then they’re lying.
Which is to say, in short, they’re lying.
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replicnt6
@spudvol: I declare you winner of the thread.
Lauren
The middle cow’s sandwich sign would be more realistic if it read “Your going to hell.”
LanceThruster
@SenyorDave:
On the downside, this might delay the onset of type 2 diabetes for Lardy McLardcheeks (Chris Christie) and the other Red State beached whales.
Pococurante
Just means they’ll have public shaming of employees who don’t donate.
? Martin
I’m not sure this is right. I haven’t seen anything from Chick-Fil-A themselves – just from a Chicago official who was blocking franchises entering the city. Anyone got anything better than this source?
patrick II
@LanceThruster:
Do you really think Chris Christie could pass up a fried chicken sandwich regardless of the cause?
Ruckus
I wonder if the chickens or the cows complained the loudest?
The chickens because they were not being eaten equally or the cows because they were being used as spokesmodels by bigots.
Forum Transmitted Disease
@gian: I have a friend who works there (Southern Cal). She said the “support Chick-Fil-A” days were fucking crazy, but then business fell off a cliff.
I guess it’s pretty bad, as she got laid off about ten days ago. My local store is now stripped to the bone as far as staff goes. They’re getting less food deliveries and the lunch lines (it’s right next to a military base) are smaller.
Anecdote does not equal data, yadda, yadda.
LanceThruster
@patrick II:
True, though he won’t be that non-descript in a trench coat entering through a side door anyway.
PaulW
I still won’t eat Chik-fil-A until they lower the costs of their meals by a $1 or so. Still too expensive compared to other fast food options.
PaulW
I still won’t eat Chik-fil-A until they lower the costs of their meals by a $1 or so. Still too expensive compared to other fast food options.
beergoggles
Meh, I don’t trust virulent xtians to keep their word or not lie for jebus. No reason to go there and I will keep writing to city councilors to challenge or deny permits for any stores of theirs that open locally.
The Populist
@WereBear: Bwahahaha, seems our protest did the trick. I doubt they could make up the business a lot of us gave them in the past and they had to do something.
Viva la first amendment! The right needs to remember one thing, a business provides services and products and creates value in their communities. It is not a vehicle for pushing hate agendas. I don’t know if people are going back to Chick Fil A now but it does speak to the power of organization to make people aware that buying their chicken amounts to giving money to hate organizations, since that is what they did.
The Populist
@beergoggles: I bet the company stops giving but it doesn’t mean the owner and his family won’t stop.
The Populist
@Forum Transmitted Disease: What is sad is all of my rightie friends felt it was about the first amendment somehow and ate there that specific day. Since then none go there regularly simply due to needing to watch both their pocketbooks and their waste lines.
The company lost big on this. The reaction to this is a lesson to anybody who makes their company a vessel for evil political movements.
The Populist
@JGabriel: You know the CEO and his family will give all they can to these causes. I am thinking that their company will be more careful who it gives to.
The Populist
@Sophist: I see it like this, Cathy and his family will still give their money to these groups. I am betting as a private company CFA is either an LLC or an S-Corp so all profits are automatically split out to all shareholders yearly and then that person pays taxes on those proceeds.
We win simply because the entity so many defended for one day had to cave. I don’t know if I am willing to eat there as often as I did before all the brouhaha because I know the profits quietly get split up to the Cathy family and we know they won’t change their stance.
The Populist
@patroclus: It’s not hard for the company to back off. As either an LLC or S-Corp the profits go straight to the Cathy family who will more than likely continue giving to these hate groups.
The company is basically a legal entity in which the Cathys make millions yearly. The family can’t say it so they had the real estate exec say it. If Cathy said it out loud he’d be lying simply due to the fact that they will privately give the money to these entities.
The Populist
Now that I think about it the RE exec laid out this news. He has to deal with franchisees of which many are in blue states now (thanks to massive expansion). I wonder if the franchisees pressured the company into this stance?
Think about it, at McDonald’s the franchisees have the power. I can see it here too. Without new franchises, CFA stagnates.
LanceThruster
@Forum Transmitted Disease:
The fact that the innocent suffer is quite sad. I think the same thing when I hear about plans to punish/boycott oil companies when it seems that the end result is more likely to only effect the individual gas station owner.
evodevo
@Lauren: two thumbs up !!
AHH onna Droid
@LanceThruster: true, but given that anecdata friend was female she may be better off looking for work at a place with room for advancement for females while shes getting that unemployment check.
Donut
All the fucking assholes who screeched about how awful it was that Joe Moreno did what he did need to STFU and sit the fuck down.
Results, Bitchez. Sure, who trusts them and who cares about some shitty-for-your health chicken?
But the symbolism – powerful. And get it straight, folks, they didn’t cave thanks to any boycotts.
You wanna guess how many employment practices liability claims they were getting ready to have to face? And guess how many insurers wanna write that business? I’m gonna say none. No insurance, a record of discriminatory activities? They would have eaten a lot of shit sandwiches, and all of it out of pocket.
Gian
@Forum Transmitted Disease:
I am sorry that people lost jobs, and as fast food goes – they and in and out are the gold standard for employee compensation – and both of them are fundi nut run places.
look, I sure as hell don’t think running a register at a fast food joint is life long work. I worked at a burger king for about 3 months myself.
But it’s a gig that should pay for food, clothing, shelter and health care, and leave enough to have a phone and cable and an apartment where there’s a pool and a workout room.
and if you flip burgers and go to school, a weeks wages oughta buy more than one freaking book
HEY YOU
I’ll stay away from Chick-Fil-A for the same amount of time they have suffered the disease of homophobia.I may be too old to ever eat there again.
Sidney18511
I guess that after the “gay hating chicken day” was over sales were down. Down a lot. But u still wouldn’t trust then, and I am sure that there are millions of others who feel the same way. That bullet that they shot in their bigoted foot cannot be removed.