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Hating on Chickfila...Why??

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I also hate all the name calling. If a person chooses to eat at Chick-fil-A then that is their choice and it is wrong for some of the activists to call them names or brand them. In my opinion, there are always hardcore vocal activists that make a bad name for any cause wether that be GLBT, pro-life, pro-choice, animal rights or any other cause.
 
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I'm not an Aussie, remember.

I guess that the fact you call Australia your country in two places on your personal data pages can tend to confuse people.

So where do you say you live now?
 
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OP speaks of hate, I didn't see where hate was the issue in the appreciation day of chicken sandwiches.
I don't see that chicken sandwiches were the issue, it's Cathy's statement.

Hate is taught in the Bible,several times. If we only look at Proverbs what can we deduce?
Proverbs 6:16-19 (NLT)

16 There are six things the Lord hates—
no, seven things he detests:
17 haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that kill the innocent,
18 a heart that plots evil,
feet that race to do wrong,
19 a false witness who pours out lies,

a person who sows discord in a family.


Proverbs 15:1 (NLT)


15 A gentle answer deflects anger,
but harsh words make tempers flare.



I think Cathy knew his words would cause a stir for this isn't the first time he said as such.
 
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OP speaks of hate, I didn't see where hate was the issue in the appreciation day of chicken sandwiches.
I don't see that chicken sandwiches were the issue, it's Cathy's statement.

Hate is taught in the Bible,several times. If we only look at Proverbs what can we deduce?
Proverbs 6:16-19 (NLT)

16 There are six things the Lord hates—
no, seven things he detests:
17 haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that kill the innocent,
18 a heart that plots evil,
feet that race to do wrong,
19 a false witness who pours out lies,
a person who sows discord in a family.


Proverbs 15:1 (NLT)


15 A gentle answer deflects anger,
but harsh words make tempers flare.


I think Cathy knew his words would cause a stir for this isn't the first time he said as such.

I think the OP was referring to the GLBT community "hateing" Chick-fil-A. Some do, I dont.
 
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Albion said:
I guess that the fact you call Australia your country in two places on your personal data pages can tend to confuse people.

So where do you say you live now?

I live in Australia. I'm English
 
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Lovely Lane said:
What does that mean ebia? Cause your flying the Australian flag, I'm thinking you have dual citizenship?

I do have dual citizenship, but I don't think of myself as Australian at all.
 
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First, it's not "consumer money". Once a customer buys a meal it is Chick-fil-As money and that company can do whatever they want with their money. Secondly there is absolutely nothing "anti-Christ" or "anti-American" about standing with God on the matter of marriage and homosexuality. What is really wrong is for homosexuals and their supporters to call those who oppose their lifestyle "haters", "bigots" and "homo phobics" (a word made up by the homosexual community to make those who stand with God appear to have a mental problem).

Good post brother:thumbsup:

My issue with this whole thing isn't the gay boycotting of the restaurant. They can boycott who they want, when they want, and by whatever legal means they want.

My issue is that local govts, funded with my tax dollars boycotted a fellow taxpayer from establishing his restaurant in their municipality simply b/c a CEO exercised his right to speak freely on a clear cut Christian issue.

It is up to the consumer which businesses will thrive in which cities, and it should be up to their prospective CEOs to ensure their profitability only to their shareholders.:doh:
 
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OK, but what I read in your previous post was that the sales on that day when people came forth to support Chick-fil-A disproved any claim that there was persecution.

Please reread my post. I made a clear statement that what has happened with Chick-fil-A is not a case of persecution. I offered the support Chick-fil-A day as an example. In 1938 the Nazis conducted the Kristallnacht, when Jewish-owned businesses and buildings were attacked. If the German people had tried to support those shops the next day they would have been arrested. That is persecution. Boycotting Chick-fil-A is not persecution.
 
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My issue with this whole thing isn't the gay boycotting of the restaurant. They can boycott who they want, when they want, and by whatever legal means they want.

My issue is that local govts, funded with my tax dollars boycotted a fellow taxpayer from establishing his restaurant in their municipality simply b/c a CEO exercised his right to speak freely on a clear cut Christian issue.

I agree with you 100%. Consumers are free to boycott businesses--I don't care whether it is homosexuals boycotting Chick-fil-A or conservatives boycotting JC Penny. Local governments have no business preventing a business like Chick-fil-A, although, as I said before, what we saw here certainly didn't arise to the level of "persecution" as some have claimed. A few local officials attempted to gain political points by grandstanding on the issue. Cooler heads will prevail.
 
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I agree with you 100%. Consumers are free to boycott businesses--I don't care whether it is homosexuals boycotting Chick-fil-A or conservatives boycotting JC Penny. Local governments have no business preventing a business like Chick-fil-A, although, as I said before, what we saw here certainly didn't arise to the level of "persecution" as some have claimed. A few local officials attempted to gain political points by grandstanding on the issue. Cooler heads will prevail.

Yay for common sense
 
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Please reread my post. I made a clear statement that what has happened with Chick-fil-A is not a case of persecution.

You are right...and those words can be taken two different ways. If you say that I took them the wrong way, I'm glad to have the record set straignt.
 
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When someone threatens to take away your economic livelihood because you stuck to your convictions, I think it is fair to say that constitutes persecution. Only problem is, I don't think it's working out too well for the oppressors.

What are you talking about?
 
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When someone threatens to take away your economic livelihood because you stuck to your convictions, I think it is fair to say that constitutes persecution. Only problem is, I don't think it's working out too well for the oppressors.
First wouldn't be important to know the customer base of Chick-Fil-A? Just bet the majority of customers are straight, just by percentages. Which means to me the lost of sales from a small group spread out over many States is nil by comparison. Maybe that is why Cathy has no fear in saying what he does when he wants. No lost to him, but it does rally the base and bring in big sales from time to time when he goes anti-LGBT.

Persecution? Does anyone know what Christian persecution really is?
I'm thinking of a Christian in Iran that may loose his head for preaching scripture, or maybe those Coptic Christian's in Egypt being murdered for years, Pakistan Christians having their homes torched, or maybe the 19 at a Bible-study in Nigeria that were killed. To me that is persecution, not a boycott of a freakin' chicken sandwich.

I do not understand why some of those use the Christian banner to speak derogatory of another. Boy, I kind of doubt that Cathy convinced any LGBT types to re-consider their way of life. And that isn't what brings one to know Christ.
 
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First, it's not "consumer money". Once a customer buys a meal it is Chick-fil-As money and that company can do whatever they want with their money. Secondly there is absolutely nothing "anti-Christ" or "anti-American" about standing with God on the matter of marriage and homosexuality. What is really wrong is for homosexuals and their supporters to call those who oppose their lifestyle "haters", "bigots" and "homo phobics" (a word made up by the homosexual community to make those who stand with God appear to have a mental problem).
Cathy wouldn't have any money to commit to hate groups were it not for the consumer base that supports Chick-Fil-A, and thereby affords the company to achieve gross profits so as to net income.

Secondly, Christians do not have a right to command any community of citizens in this country to be judged and denied their citizen civil rights by law, due to the tenets of Christianity judging them as sinners and thus declaring them to be unqualified to be free and equal as people.

This is not a Christian country.
Freedom isn't dispensed through permission of the Christian faith. America is a free Democratic Republic. Where freedom of religion and freedom from religion is the first inalienable guarantee.

No one has to tolerate the pursuit of hate filled zealots who seek to command the secular legislative process so that it be made to comport with enforcement of religious tenets that decree one community of citizens are worthy of being denied civil rights equality because that community of persons are denounced as sinners by the scripture that is particular to that faith.

This isn't a Theocratic Dictatorship. It's America!
That was founded so as to escape the former authority implied by a Theocratic Dictatorship that united as crown and church.

Jesus condemned bigotry and prejudice. Christ came to save the world from the sin that is exampled by sacrilegious elitist politics and prejudice, inequity, hatred and segregation.

The anti-Christ agenda of Satanic hate groups clad in the transparent falsehood of false xtian values slandering God in calling him their ally and their prejudice as the lords work, have been thwarted before in this country's history. When slaves were freed and women were made equal to men by law, rather than forced to be second class citizens because the Bible said it was righteous.

And history shall repeat itself with a new victory as Satan is once again defeated in his earthly agenda. And the army of the anti-Christ is beaten back once again.

What a Hell it must be for those who hate everyone but their kind of people, to have to live in an eclectic nation where all people are free to be equal in the sight of any God they choose, or choose not.
 
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