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No, CFA did not "have" to do it. Seriously, what is with you guys? You simply will not, cannot, adamantly refuse to give credit where it's due.
The fact is: CFA opened up on a day that they aren't typically open.
The fact is: The employees cooked away to provide food (FREE!) for all the people donating blood.
The fact is: CFA did NOT "have" to do this.
Just stop.
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Originally Posted by Akonyo
I personally don't like gays either. I'm not religious at all, but I believe that the acceptance of such practices adds to the current massive relationship instability, high divorce rate, and declining values in this country.
With that said, I feel bad for the victims of this massacre. They did not deserve this, despite the fact that their lifestyle choices are deplorable.
CFA owners likely feel the same way.
Both of these responses from page 2 are SOLID.
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I am happy to give credit where credit is due, and here it is due.
But I still don't like other positions the company taken.
I try to be fair and balanced toward the company, and on occasion will patronize them.
Why do we have to totally love them or totally hate them? Why is that the normal attitude on every thing on City-Data?
LMAO. We live in a world where, if fathers of certain ethnic groups stay with their families, they're called heroes. Where some mediocre poem written by a valedictorian is hailed as the greatest speech ever given. Where the White House invites Sara Bareilles to perform at a State Dinner, but asks her to include in one of her songs the Washington Performing Arts Children of the Gospel Choir, and then the audience turns to the choir and gives them a standing ovation, ignoring Ms Bareilles, who finally gets up on her feet, too. But say something positive about a company we all thought did the wrong thing years ago, but seems to have righted itself, and all of you consistently hailing the mediocre question what the big deal is.
Am I the only one seeing this disgusting trend?
If I was a minority, I'd be offended by gloating over the mediocre, as though I belonged to some group only capable of that.
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In their eyes, and mine as well, it is loving to say the gay lifestyle is not good - because it does have consequences. Whether you agree with that or not - that's their stance.
It is also loving to position themselves to help them out in times of crisis, even though they do not agree with those who practice homosexuality - even to the point of violating their own standards in working on Sunday.
Really, OP? You're taking this opportunity to make Chick Fil A somehow a victim because they didn't get enough fawning press coverage for this? Maybe it was because the press were too busy covering the actual victims and their families as well as the various implications of this horrific tragedy.
Some years ago, I had the misfortune to call a cab in an unfamiliar, predominately white and fairly isolated community. The conversation turned to my field of employment -- and within a couple of blocks, the loser behind the wheel launched into a diatribe about "the Jews who control all of 'big business' ". I could only conclude that this loser was peddling his personal agenda with every conversation he initiated.
And unfortunately, the strategy is also fairly common to a small, but very outspoken majority of Fundamentalist Evangelicals. I'm not referring to blatant anti-Semitism -- but to the conviction among too many of the Christian Right that their way is the only way. And that a distressing minority among them is as obsessed with power and authority as the faux liberals over there in Left Field.
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Being white and Christian is the worst possible category there is in America.
The resentment between the most fervent Evangelicals and the most fervent "Social Justice Warriors" is a double-edged sword.
If several members of your staff ask to open up to make a few chicken sandwiches for the blood donors contributing to the worst mass shooting in history you essentially have to do it or face a huge backlash.
Can you imagine a "no" from brass with the disappointed employees taking to social media?
Now that would go viral.
At the same time I really do hate the media so whatever.
There's nothing that can't be spun by some. No matter how good a thing they do, it'll never be a good enough.
BTW Sparky, who picked up the tab for the food and costs?
Could it be that as a Christian run business they actually practiced what they're taught, with no other motive except to help people?
It was nothing but a cheap public relations gimmick.
Would you have said the same thing if a gay-oriented organization contributed to the rebuilding of a burned-out Fundamentalist church? Or a feminist group to an Islamic center?
There is a great deal of a "holier than thou" attitude among many gay-friendly and supposedly-"progressive" interest groups.
And as an aside, I have heard some friends (not involved in sexual-orientation issues) ask why Chick-Fil-A isn't mandated by law to be open on Sundays. Clearly respect for individuality and decisions based upon reasons of conscience is deteriorating among the younger and more-media-saturated segments of our population.
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I am surprised, however, by how many people are shocked that MSM doesn't talk about stories like this.
Controversy and divisiveness > continuity and accord for the media.
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