Chick-fil-A chief spokesman Don Perry dies unexpectedly
Source: Los Angeles Times
Don Perry, head spokesman for Chick-fil-A, has died.
The Atlanta-based company said Perry died "suddenly" Friday morning. Perry, who most recently was vice president of public relations, had worked with the chain for nearly 29 years, according to Chick-fil-A.
He was a well-respected and well-liked media executive in the Atlanta and University of Georgia communities, and we will all miss him, the company said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.
Local news outlets reported that Perry suffered a heart attack.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-chickfila-perry-20120727,0,7787369.story
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)up sympathy for anyone that works for an outfit like Chick-fil-A, especially as head spokesman.
bullwinkle428
(20,627 posts)virgogal
(10,178 posts)Deep13
(39,154 posts)The article says he worked for the company for 29 years, so he was no spring chicken, but that does not mean he was old either. Sorry he did not live long enough to learn that prejudice is wrong and to become a voice for the side of social justice.
louis-t
(23,199 posts)Speck Tater
(10,618 posts)When they come face to face with God and find out She's a Liberal.
gregoire
(192 posts)at a violent company, expect violence. It would be my guess that the police are going to refuse to investigate this too closely for fear of what they'll find.
RagAss
(13,832 posts)zbdent
(35,392 posts)Akoto
(4,261 posts)My mom had a heart attack a few years back. Fortunately, she survived with a stent placement, but even so. This just happens, and it's usually not expected.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Seriously, I agree, and am glad she survived.
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)For the company, leaving the policy debate means "not proactively being engaged in the dialogue" on gay marriage, spokesman Don Perry wrote in an email. Perry did not respond to questions on whether the company would stop donating to causes that oppose gay marriage.
The College Park, Ga., chain has won both censure and praise for recent statements made by its president Dan Cathy in opposition to gay marriage. In an interview with Baptist Press, Cathy said the company was "guilty as charged" in supporting the "biblical definition of the family unit."
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-chick-fil-a-gay-marriage-20120719,0,5713061.story
Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)Certainly the effect of a heart attack on the body can be described as violent, but not the kind of violence you seem to mean.
And -- violent company? How so?
MyTwoSense
(46 posts)What, you think one of the chickens got him?
randome
(34,845 posts)But he probably did not deserve to die.
BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)BHN
idwiyo
(5,113 posts)BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)Perhaps we should send this thread over the LBGT forum.
I'm sure they would not appreciate it either.
Don't hold your breath for an apology.
A cactus would be a more likely acknowledge hurting some one than the poster
you requested an apology from.
Sensitivity of a brick, some of the posters on this thread-
and I mean no offense to bricks, which are actually useful.
The hilarity and "Gay" jokes are condoned by 2 juries.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240127896#post9
And continue in Meta...
I see you are fairly new, and I offer you my sincere apologies on behalf of the rest of DU.
This is NOT representative of our membership in general.
BHN
idwiyo
(5,113 posts)I alerted and checked TOS violation box too
Even though majority of the jurors do not agree, I still beleive that post is extremely inappropriate anD insensitive towards LGBTQ community.
BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)Someone's death is nothing to joke about.
It is a tragedy for those he loved and was loved by.
BHN
qwertyMike
(2,901 posts)So how is it a tragedy?
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)spouse, friends.
I can't believe it is necessary on DU to have to explain this.
RIP Mr. Perry and condolences to his family and friends.
backwoodsbob
(6,001 posts)wtf?
MountainLaurel
(10,271 posts)RKP5637
(67,032 posts)the stress it caused him. It's the Gay's fault, they did it to him.
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Not Me
(3,398 posts)nt
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)the content of many fast food outfits, I would think that could be a factor if he ate a bunch of it ... I've never eaten at Chick-fil-A, but many seem to like their food.
I would never go near one, I try as best to avoid fast food and I would never eat there because of their political games and religion.
IggleDoer
(1,186 posts)is not true to Chik Fil A's biblical principles
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)benld74
(9,889 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)poultry attempt at humor
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)Response to mindwalker_i (Reply #13)
tanyev This message was self-deleted by its author.
BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)Some one's death is NOTHING to joke about.
BHN
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)His family lived on his work as a bigot.
If any young kids, they're the only ones to feel sorry for.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)RedStateLiberal
(1,374 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)begin_within
(21,551 posts)tawadi
(2,110 posts)Just sayin.
begin_within
(21,551 posts)tawadi
(2,110 posts)Atypical Liberal
(5,412 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)Atypical Liberal
(5,412 posts)One of the common statements by Westboro Baptist Church and other idiots is "God hates homosexuals", though usually it's not put so politely.
Thus the joke that I guess god hates the haters, too, to kill off a chief spokesperson so soon after the PR brouhaha.
I don't actually believe in magic so obviously I don't actually believe that any deity actually killed anyone.
Lisa D
(1,532 posts)n/t
BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)Thank you for keeping DU classy.
BHN
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)political spectrum fan the flames of real violence and you whine about off color jokes at the expense of some dead shmuck whose company funds RW hate groups.
I often wonder if the Romans thought they could make friends with the barbarians that overwhelmed them. In the past 30 years we have allowed the RW to create a new Barbarian class. And all a portion of progressives can do is wring their hands and say we need to be "proper" with them.
RetroLounge
(37,250 posts)RL
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)mwooldri
(10,291 posts)I don't know the guy. I don't know what he stands for. We knew he worked as an executive with Chick-Fil-A.
This isn't the time for this. Comforts from very very afar from me to his family and friends.
BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)What is more disgusting is that 2 juries voted to let jokes incorporating
"GAY" in reference to this persons death voted to let the posts stand.
Thank you for voicing your decency.
You give me hope.
BHN
Occulus
(20,599 posts)I see 2 people wondering when bigots are going to start blaming gay people for his death.
I see no jokes about gays at all. I also see the 1 or 2 off-color pieces of graveyard humor, but nothing particularly egregious.
As a gay man, I think you're wrong on both points. Dead wrong, if i may make a bad pun.
BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)Sorry, but I do.
I find nothing humorous about the grave dancers on DU at all.
A person died.
Joking about it is NOT appropriate.
Say you were a member of this person's family, and you came across
this thread on DU?
I am embarrassed for DU right now.
Period.
This thread is hideous.
BHN
Mad props to the chicken, though.
randome
(34,845 posts)Thanks for your remark.
And if I ever do say anything offensive, please let me know. I'm more than willing to say 'My bad'.
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)She likely lived well off his support of bigotry. She had a choice.
BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)A death is nothing to seize upon as an opportunity to crack jokes.
Some are you are simply reprehensible to me.
BHN
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)The man was a hater. No one forces you to be a PR flack for a bigot. No one forces you to maryry or stay married to a PR flack for a bigot.
Trunk Monkey
(950 posts)Continue on w/ your grave dancing
BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)I know this person to be a decent person-
Not the OP's fault when the lowest common denominator jacks a thread
to show the ugliest side of DU.
Please don't think everyone on DU is like that- we are not.
The filth on this thread represents a very TINY percentage of our community,
the worst, unfortunately.
Welcome to DU, none the less.
BHN
Trunk Monkey
(950 posts)I tend to be hyper sensitive on this issue because I watched it happen to a friend who lost her son in a motorcycle accident then had to read the hateful comments posted on the news article about his death.
I will very likely never eat at a Chick-fil-a again but I offer my sincere condolences to the family
Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)...the OP is simply a significant development in a major news story that's been playing out over recent days. You're right, I didn't post it with any intention beyond informing DU that this had happened. I can't control what happens once it's posted, but I followed strict LBN rules and didn't add my own comments because I didn't think I could add anything worthwhile or significant to the story itself...and I certainly didn't coach anyone on how to respond.
BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)I know you can not control the filth that crawled out from the DU woodwork
to comment on something sacred. A death.
Those who would mock such a thing have no respect for life- including their own.
That is how I see it.
I'm so sorry that what you posted as news turned into a cesspool of disrespect for
another human being.
Perhaps we DO have the government we deserve.
A Congress that has no respect for life and a message board full of people who are just like those they
condemn.
Respectfully and in friendship-
BHN
rocktivity
(44,555 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)I'm sure if any of his family members come across it on the Internet,
they will appreciate your sincere humanity towards their loss of a loved one.
BHN
patrice
(47,992 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)The creep just died.
Condolences to his family and friends.
BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)So the deceased lived a life many of us would not.
Does that make the life less sacred?
Does that make the pain of the family less?
I am appalled by DU right now, so thank you for encouraging
"class" and humanity towards our fellow creatures, all of them.
What I find so mind numbing is the hatred-
It is no different than the hatred spread by the bigoted right wing, so called X-tians.
We are no better than they, if we sink to their level of disregard for life- all life.
BHN
Quantess
(27,630 posts)who knows, maybe the creep had 2 adoring cats? If so then those kitties would miss him.
I'm sure he has family and friends who remember him with love and with gusto. If any of them want to pick up the fight, then we can take it up with them, instead! But for now, let's just have a moment of peace.
noamnety
(20,234 posts)"He is also a flower gardener, seldom happier than when kneeling in the soil tending his beauties.
In the spiritual realm, Don enjoys leading his church fellowship cell group, as well as working to help maintain harmony in the congregation.
"One of the challenges sometimes is helping to reconcile differing views among members," he said, "but we work to keep unity of the faith."
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)How you live your life says a lot abiut you. Enjoying gardening, big deal. He helped facilitate a climate of hate.
cordelia
(2,174 posts)nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)most "normal" days are stressful beyond reason. but when there's a crisis it's all on your shoulders. your phone rings around the clock.
in this case, there was no reason for the COO to go mixing his personal beliefs with business. he's caused much harm to all the families who depend on that business to survive.
and now there's this.
i have nothing but sympathy for Perry and his family.
emilyg
(22,742 posts)alp227
(31,962 posts)I wonder if Alex Jones will say something like Obama and Tom Menino (the mayor of Boston who wrote Chick-fil-a expressing disapproval of the chain being in Boston) and Rahm Emanuel (the mayor of Obama's hometown Chicago...yep you know how corrupt Chicago politics can be) conspiring to cause Perry's death?
NoodleyAppendage
(4,619 posts)J
HERVEPA
(6,107 posts)Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)my condolences to his family and loved ones
BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)I appreciate you.
Interesting, today, this thread has revealed so much to me about so many DU members
I have loved and respected, and now can no longer regard as anything but an indicator of
how we resemble the very thing we supposedly despise.
It's sort of like reading "Animal Farm," the page you turn and suddenly the the painting on the barn
is the same as the message that stirred the revolution among the four legged.
Am I wrong?
BHN
Aristus
(66,096 posts)Damn. The poor guy's legacy is that he was spokesman for Chik-Fil-A.
What was he in a previous life? A flatworm?
moriah
(8,311 posts)Too bad CFA will be closed on Sunday if such a God-fearing man was granted resurrection, having died on a Friday and all.... no one would notice!
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nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Herlong
(649 posts)And all do respect. But fast food kills many slowly. Why is the slow death from fast food not the story?
twizzler
(206 posts)but some of the responses here are disgusting and hateful. I can't fathom the pure hate shown by certain posters here, and you know who you are.
RIP Mr. Don Perry and my deepest condolences to his wife and children.
I hope this makes up for some of the hateful comments here.