chick fil-a has no business in minneapolis and minnesota (Rogers: universities, restaurant)

[TimtheGuy]

Originally Posted by Drewcifer

When a corporation decides to engage in political discourse any backlash they receive is fair game. Chick fil-a endorses hate mongering values that are outside of Minnesota's mainstream. I hope they fail.

They have been rocking down here in Apple Valley. Place is packed.

[Backintheville2]

Originally Posted by pete6032

Which views offend you if I may ask out of curiosity?

Their CEO's views are rather well known and are easily searchable. I'm not going to list them all and get off topic. The larger point was I don't have any problem with them opening a store where ever they may choose to do so...it doesn't bother me since I have no intention of spending any of my money there.

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by hershey4u2014

Some cities like Chicago for instance have tried to block efforts opening chik fil a. As the president of chik fil a is against gay marriage and has donated money( around 20 million) to anti groups as well as Uganda's kill the gays bill. Minneapolis Is a progressive cities overall and we don't need businesses like this building here. I was reading some reviews on yelp and there are some anti gay bigots that enjoy their food and will go there. However as a progressive city they should not be building franchises here.

How "tolerant" you liberals are.

[Ghengis]

Originally Posted by Harrier

How "tolerant" you liberals are.

things a little slow on the P&C thread today chicken-hawk?

[MN-Born-n-Raised]

Originally Posted by Ghengis

We have a newly opened Jihad Pizza Guys franchise here in town and while I deplore their political and social views in general, I'm able to separate their terrorist activities from their ability to make a scrumptous hand-tossed pizza. Their Hawaiian and Canadian bacon pizza with a side of cheese and garlic breadsticks are to die for!

Jihad Pizza Guy's over promise. On my last order, they said I was guaranteed 20 virgin's upon my death.

[steel03]

I have no interest in tolerating people who would see me imprisoned and even killed for the sake of their own ignorant comfort, and just as little interest in tolerating people who would make a joke out of such an attitude. "Business" and "opinion" have jack **** to do with it. I don't care if their chicken is made of literal gold, Chick-fil-A is repulsive and represents all the purest forms of violence, hatred, and oppression, and patronizing them is sadistic and unacceptable in every case. It is ***** silencing and ***** marginalization no matter how you slice it. Tell yourself as much as you want that your chicken sandwich has nothing to with ***** teenagers all over the world being brutally killed by their peers, but no evidence, nothing factual is ever going to back you up. You are reveling in your own privilege, repeatedly reaffirming the sick notion that nothing is wrong just because it doesn't directly affect you, bolstering the life support system of the forces that socialize every single person on earth into deeply-ingrained homophobia, misogyny, and transphobia. There is literally no sound way to justify giving Chick-fil-A business.

Get over yourselves, there are real problems in the world.

edit: turns out "q u e e r" is blocked on this site, fyi who ever is in charge of that, that's not an offensive term, it's a totally accepted and acceptable way to refer to the LGBT+ community without worrying about the alphabet soup of all those letters

[MnMomma]

How about Lululemon? I don't think many people support making fun of people who have difficulty pronouncing "L", or supporting child labor--but people shop there and happily pay more than the quality would suggest just to have this hip label on their yoga wear.

[NCN]

Originally Posted by hershey4u2014

Some cities like Chicago for instance have tried to block efforts opening chik fil a. As the president of chik fil a is against gay marriage and has donated money( around 20 million) to anti groups as well as Uganda's kill the gays bill. Minneapolis Is a progressive cities overall and we don't need businesses like this building here. I was reading some reviews on yelp and there are some anti gay bigots that enjoy their food and will go there. However as a progressive city they should not be building franchises here.

Considering it is food they sell, I would think you should be more interested in the product they sell. Michelle Obama ought to love them because they sell healthy food.

[okie1962]

I seem to remember a lot of Jesus Lovers upset with JC Penney when they had Ellen as their spokesperson. And I think I remember a few months back a lot of Christians were boycotting the Girl scouts,

Here is an interesting link. List of Companies Christians Boycott Grows - "Haters of God" | USA NEWS FIRST

[okie1962]

Originally Posted by NCN

Considering it is food they sell, I would think you should be more interested in the product they sell. Michelle Obama ought to love them because they sell healthy food.

Most of what they sell is not that healthy, or at least what I always order. I used to get their spicy chicken sandwich with coleslaw. Sometimes I would get the waffle fries. I quit going about 3 years back, so maybe they added more healthy options. I think they did have grilled chicken when I used to go there, but never really saw that many folks ordering it.