Patrons Flock to St Joseph Chick-fil-A to Show Support
Patrons waited 20 minutes to get a meal.
Hundreds turned out in St Joseph Wednesday to show their support of Chick-fil-A.
The day was proclaimed “National Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” by former Arkansas Gov. and talk show host Mike Huckabee.
A line of cars over the lunch hour Wednesday backed-up into the street as hundred waited in line to support the company after others criticized it’s President for his remarks about gay marriage last month. Many patrons waited about 20 minutes before they could get their meal.
Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy last month said the Atlanta-based company was “guilty as charged” for backing “the biblical definition of a family.
Those in St Joseph today said they came out to support his opinion and to support his right to announce his opinion.
“I came out just to show my support for something that is America.” One patron said. “this is what we are, we are free people. I spent 22 years in the military defending the constitiun of the United States and this is one of our rights.”
“I came to support the owner, the corporate president and his stand on one man, one woman marriage,” one woman said.
“And i wish more companies would follow Chick-fil-A’s standards on business such as being closed on Sundays and allowing their people to go to church and things like that,” said one patron.
Opponents of the company’s stance are planning “Kiss Mor Chiks” for Friday, when they are encouraging people of the same sex to show up at Chick-fil-A restaurants around the country and kiss each other.
FUGGG CHIC FIL A and their ignorant, small minded “supporters”!!!!!
Angry, you’re a narrow minded individual. I support gay rights to the fullest. The big point is there was never any hate expressed thorwds the gay community. get over yourself
The truth is, we are to political about our every day lives. Can’t we go a day and just allow a simple comment or opinion to be just that, simple. For me I find it sad in this economy, when our neighbors and friends may go to bed hungry, we worry about this. My other thought is, Chick-fil-a is bland and overpriced anyways…let’s at least fight over good food…lol
Sorry this isn’t about a simple comment. Chick-Fil-A is a big supporter financially of groups who wish to “stamp out” the Gay and Lesbian lifestyle. It is oppression and bigotry at the ugliest level.
Here are five reasons why Chick-fil-A isn’t what you think:
1) Chick-fil-A has donated at least $5 million to organizations (including a certified hate group) that, among other things, depict gay people as pedophiles, want to make “gay behavior” illegal, and even say gay people should be “exported” out of America.
Even if you oppose same-sex marriage, do you really want to support a company that advocates putting gay people in jail, or “exporting” them, just because they’re gay?
2) Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy didn’t merely say he supports traditional marriage. Dan Cathy said if you support gay marriage, you “are inviting God’s judgment on our nation,” and that we “shake our fist at Him” when we do. Dan Cathy also said same-sex marriage is the result of a “deprived” mind and called it “twisted up kind of stuff.”
Even if you don’t support same-sex marriage, do you really think gay marriage is “inviting God’s judgment on our nation”? Haven’t we all heard enough blame from those who claim to speak for the Lord, like after Katrina or, more recently, after the shooting in Aurora, Colo.?
3) Chick-fil-A supports organizations that have claimed they can change gay people into straight people — “pray away the gay” — despite the fact that practically every major medical organization has stated that this is not only impossible but dangerous and harmful.
Even if you don’t support same-sex marriage, do you support fake “science” that is known to harm the very people it claims to help?
4) The media keep saying Chick-fil-A has never discriminated, but the truth is that Chick-fil-A has been sued over a dozen times for employment discrimination. That’s what a leading business publication, Forbes, stated in 2007, when they also called Chick-fil-A a “cult” and reported that Chick-fil-A’s founder and CEO Truett Cathy said he wanted to hire married people because they are more industrious and productive. Truett Cathy has also said he would probably fire someone who “has been sinful or done something harmful to their family members.”
Even if you don’t support same-sex marriage, do you want to support what some call a “cult” whose CEO says he would fire employees for “being sinful”?
5) Chick-fil-A is just exercising their First Amendment rights by running a business based on the Bible, right? Wrong. There’s a line between the “free exercise of religion” and violating the law. If Chick-fil-A is violating the law by discriminating against gay people, or by firing women so that they can be “stay home” moms, as one woman who is suing Chick-fil-A says in court documents, that’s not exercising religious expression or free speech, and that’s not a First Amendment issue. It may be, if the court decides, a violation of the law.
Even if you don’t support same-sex marriage, do you want to support a company that might fire women to force them to be “stay home” moms against their will?
There are plenty of good restaurants that are happy to work hard for your hard-earned dollar. Why support a company that is working so hard to deny people their rights?
David Badash
David,
I know you mean well, but you are damaging your cause. the “5 reasons” article above simply isn’t true. It is completely fabricated! There is not a shred of truth to it. Do the research yourself. There is no organization. It is a common tactic used to defuse the opposition on an issue.
Find a legit way to support your cause, but don’t be dishonest. The public is smarter than that and you will only discredit your cause. Many of those who supported Chick-fil-a yesterday did so because they are strongly opposed to this type of bullying tactic. More of the same simply doesn’t help.
Angela