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It's most associated with the chairman and CEO of the company Dan Cathy (the company is still largely owned by the Cathy family)
“I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage,’ and I pray God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to try to redefine what marriage is about,”
And millions of dollars of corporate donations to anti-marriage-equality groups in the early 2000s (including one group founded by then Chick-fil-A vice-president Donald Cathy).
The company has tried to fly more under the radar in the 2010s, and try to focus on selling chicken sandwiches and not arouse controversy with its corporate giving. Dan Cathy said it was "a mistake" to "support political or social agendas" with its charitable giving.
Perversely, it is the religious right that is demanding that the restaurant stand for something it no longer wants to publicly stand for.
It's most associated with the chairman and CEO of the company Dan Cathy (the company is still largely owned by the Cathy family)
“I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage,’ and I pray God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to try to redefine what marriage is about,”
Same here.And millions of dollars of corporate donations to anti-marriage-equality groups in the early 2000s (including one group founded by then Chick-fil-A vice-president Donald Cathy).
It's something gays wanted and which there s no good reason to deny them, so it is in a sense anti-gay.On the contrary, this comment is definitely about opposing same-sex marriage, which is not the same as being "anti-gay."
Same here.
Oh, it's something that 'gays' "wanted." Just imagine how many other things "gays" (a completely monolithic group, apparently) might "want!" And any objection by other people--for any reason whatsoever--is thereby "anti-gay."It's something gays wanted...
Oh, it's something that 'gays' "wanted." Just imagine how many other things "gays" (a completely monolithic group, apparently) might "want!" And any objection by other people--for any reason whatsoever--is thereby "anti-gay."
It's something gays wanted and which there s no good reason to deny them, so it is in a sense anti-gay.
Not buying the diversion, my friend.If you can't come up with a good reason why we shouldn't be allowed to marry and only rely on the old "because the Bible says so" then don't be surprised if we consider you anti-gay.
This is more than that. Like the story of the fiery furnace, the founders of CFA, who identify themselves as Christians, caved to the pressures of wickedness and worshiped the golden statue of their king. If CFA never professed to being a Christian company, sure...nobody would care. But for many Christian's, to include myself, it is like seeing a Christian brother turn his back on God's word. It is about "saving them from death and covering a multitude of sins".
James 5:19-20
Where in your quote has the CEO ( not the company, just the CEO) said anything anti gay? Where is the company's anti gay rhetoric?
On the contrary, this comment is definitely about opposing same-sex marriage, which is not the same as being "anti-gay."
I have no idea what GTAW is. But the gays don't want something you have.If I want something you have and IMO there is no good reason for you to not give me one too, is it because you are anti- GTAW if you don't think that giving me one would be the best option? What if you have what you believe is a good reason and I just don't agree with you ? Should you be expected to change your belief in order to suit me or be considered anti -GTAW?
If you can't come up with a good reason why we shouldn't be allowed to marry and only rely on the old "because the Bible says so" then don't be surprised if we consider you anti-gay.
It doesn't have to be a very good reason if it isn't costing you anything. Keep in mind as well that they are not asking it of you, they're asking it of a secular state.Seems to me that when asking someone to do something for one it ought to be the one doing the asking that needs to come up with a good reason for granting the request.
Drawing a line between anti-SSM and anti-gay is as nit-picking as drawing a line between segregation and racism.
Maybe we should have a prize for the first person who says he doesn't know the meaning of GTAW after reading a post by "grasping the after wind," and then raises his hand after figuring it out.I don't know if I'm anti-GTAW since I don't know what that is. But I know I'm pro-chicken.
It doesn't have to be a very good reason if it isn't costing you anything. Keep in mind as well that they are not asking it of you, they're asking it of a secular state.
Nonsense. Herding people into areas and restricting them from others based solely upon their natural skin color is nothing like not giving government rewards to people for no particular reason.
I don't know if I'm anti-GTAW since I don't know what that is. But I know I'm pro-chicken.
Why not? They are involved in exactly the same way in the lives of heterosexual couples.I am a citizen of that secular state and therefore they are asking it of me as well. I see no reason why I or the secular state should be involved in their personal lives. I would need a good reason to want either the secular state or myself to become so involved.
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