When it's taking things too far....

[griffinwolf]

You know, I'm one about rights and showing your displeasure about things, but sometimes true acts of random kindness get bogged down with whiney people complaining.

case and point:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110131/us_yblog_thelookout/popular-chicken-chain-under-fire-for-anti-gay-marriage-donationsIt's not like they donated the

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[sabercat]

There have been similar things happen here as well...
Everyone is free to spend their money and patronize the establishments they choose to. If you don't like what a company or a business does, then it's simple, don't patronize them. What gets me is the picketing and boycotting, hate websites etc. Seems VERY hypocritcal considering what the same sex support groups are trying to accomplish.
In the end, it makes their plea for "equality" appear shallow and selfish.

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[griffinwolf]

Hate wears many guises, but seems to use the same tactics.

[ceruleanst]

This is not isolated. Jack-Chick-Fil-A "tithes" 10% of its profits to "Christian" organizations, many of which are the kind that "defend marriage" and harass abortion providers. While its employees are not officially required to be Christian and to attend prayer meetings, the rank and file keep popping up with their stories of being made more uncomfortable about it than is reasonable.

Dan Cathy's promise now to "not champion any political agendas on marriage and family" is just soothing noises to mollify the consumer public. I'd expect to discover that the agenda of Focus on the Family still doesn't seem particularly "political" to him so it's okay.

I am aware that any corporation I have to do business with is going to use some of my money for evil, and I just shrug and deal with it because I have a life to live. But the case of Chik-Fil-A is so direct that I feel I have to maintain a boycott, because each purchase is kind of like a tiny personal donation to SHUTE MOR DOKTERS.

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[sabercat]

What gets me is the picketing and boycotting, hate websites etc. Seems VERY hypocritcal considering what the same sex support groups are trying to accomplish.

"In the end, it makes their plea for "equality" appear shallow and selfish."

[banner]

So don't spend your money at their establishment. I don't buy Ben and Jerry's ice cream because I don't like the evil things they give their money too.
But I don't picket them or attack them.
These 'activists' going after chick filet aren't really activists, they're just attention whores.

[roycalbeck]

Need I point out the number of logical leaps your position requires to get from 10% tithing to "shute mor dokters"?

Three.

One to leap from tithing to putting the term Christian in quotes. That's like a little bit preggo, either they are or they're not. "Many of which" becomes the second leap. Third is going from the idea that a group which "harasses abortion providers" does so by "shuting mor dokters".

You're halfway to Kevin Bacon. Why did you stop there?