Chick-Fil-A is a discriminatory business and made/makes a bundle off of it..

[Fumesucker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_same-sex_marriage_controversy

Around here their already more than healthy business became overwhelming as certain Christians lined up many deep to buy their fast food from the restaurant chain that "supported their values". Quite often you couldn't even pull into the parking lot because the SUVs were lined up out onto the street and Chick-Fil-A is still the most popular fast food by a substantial measure on our local strip of such establishments.

While I think that a store that put up a sign that said they didn't discriminate could probably increase their business that doesn't mean that advertising your bigoted ways won't increase your business also. There are a lot of religious bigots out there and they will spend their money with businesses that tell them what they want to hear.

I never liked Chick-Fil-A that much anyway and stopping eating their stuff altogether wasn't much of an imposition but it's not like my particular boycott made much financial difference to them...

[Zorra]

1. What is your motivation for posting this? nt

[Fumesucker]

4. Christian fundamentalists give me the hives...

I have plenty of posts in the Religion Group backing that up too...

[Zorra]

6. It seems like you are attempting to discourage people from boycotting

or threatening to boycott entities that promote discrimination against LGBT people.

I live in Arizona, and I am eternally grateful to all the people who threatened to boycott Arizona when the fascist legislature here passed their "hate the gays" bill, and whose threatened boycott caused Gov. Brewer to not sign the bill.

So naturally, because this threat of a boycott saved me, personally, from having to live under intolerable conditions, I'm wondering why you are posting something that is an apparent attempt to paint boycotts or threatened boycotts as futile.

Why is that so important to you?

[City Lights]

2. ok. nt

[JI7]

3. i think part of it is also an excuse to eat unhealthy food

they can claim they are doing it for god .

[greytdemocrat]

5. Personally

I like their product and I don't go in for boycotts
as they usually do little and are forgotten quickly.

[Agschmid]

7. The Chick-Fil-A in my home town sponsors the GSA at the high school.

I think each franchise is different.

[PoliticAverse]

8. Chick-Fil-A is a case of how public boycotts sometimes backfire...

but they also haven't been refusing to serve someone because of their sexual orientation (unlike
certain wedding-photographers or cake bakers).

Also if you read the whole Wikipedia article you can see that the boycott has influenced
them - specifically as to what organizations they donate money to which was the main point
of the boycott anyway.

[JI7]

9. they also hire openly gay people

the issue is more about what the owner of it gives money to rather than the business itself. but of course if you give money to his business it will mean more money for him to give to anti gay groups.

but in the other cases i think it's more about wanting to discriminate directly .

[Igel]

11. Esp. when, as in this case,

the owner at issue is now dead.

Truett died last fall.

I like CFA. Better than the alternatives and willing to conduct spirit nights for whoever asks. I'm also pretty sure that the franchisee (or the manager) at the local CFA is gay, so it seemed silly.

At the same time, the organizations that Truett and his non-profit organization gave money to did more than just engage in anti-LGBT activities or had sub-units that were at times involved in anti-LGBT activities. Seeking such ideological purity from complex organizations, esp. those that aren't run in a strictly hierarchical, dictatorial manner is a difficult matter, and that's true if it's the donor or recipient.

[Cali_Democrat]

10. Cool story, bro. nt

[Oklahoma_Liberal]

12. They have delicious chicken breakfast burritos.

I get one a week, minimum.