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It was the same old tea party constituency that turns up for every reactionary right wing gathering. Very few young people, no minorities.

there were plenty of minorities where I was yesterday. Many blacks and latinos happen to hold the same view of gay marriage that Dan Cathy does. President Obama also had the same view until a few months ago...

until a few months ago. He did not.

It can't be because of short memory, many if not most probably still experience discrimination daily.

Why would they discriminate against another minority?

I'm Irish and have read about the wide spread discrimination against the Irish years ago, but only experienced two cases of being discriminated against for being Irish personally. That was enough for me to swear to try my hardest not to discriminate against others.

primarily.

trump the truth they see with your own eyes everyday.

Unless you can provide proof, I don't believe you.

From slavery, to woman's suffrage, to civil rights, they always lose. They go kicking and screaming but they always lose.

We won!


--imm

I actually like their food. Especially their chicken biscuits, and their shakes are awesome. But I won't support bigotry. I'm really going to miss the holiday shake.

that many of these people didn't know why they were supporting CFA?

Many of us look for *any* good reason for that. Or even a bad reason.

Thanks in advance.

I don't think that progress is automatic, and reaction can be devastating and very real, but in this case, there's not a whole lot of turning back.

If the Repiglickins get in, they get to put more wingnuts on the Court.

Lawrence v. Texas would be overturned. Then the debate would instantly shift from whether gays should be allowed to marry,
to whether gays should be thrown into prison. Those sodomy laws that are still on the books would go back into effect, and
very likely start being enforced again. Teabagger legislatures would pass new ones.

Support for gay rights in national polls would be of little comfort to gays who live in those states.

"Huh? What are you talking about?"

For all the thousands that showed up, MILLIONS didn't !!

I agree with you. I think this is just a kneejerk "way we were" for an outmoded belief that's going down hard. It just may take Chick-fil-A with it, now that Dan Cathy's so happy to openly tie his company's brand to anti-gay activism.

So they went went bat-shit crazy about eating there on one day.

it's common sense and the right wing has none.

And we will ride the wave of change to a new Progressive era and finally replace 3 decades of Republican bullshit.

Dismaying, isn't it? (if it's true)

And they went apeshit when they found out they had the one.

"Chick-fil-A generated $492 million in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization on revenue of $1.12 billion in 2011, PrivCo said. It added that the company’s 44 percent Ebitda margin was “virtually unheard of in the restaurant industry.”

The chain has the biggest sales per unit in fast-food, according to QSR Magazine. In 2011, the company generated gross sales of $2.9 million per location, outpacing the average unit sales of runner-up McDonald’s Corp. (MCD) by $400,000, the magazine said in its August 2012 issue. (They did this despite being open only 85% of the time McDonald's is)

PrivCo said it valued Chick-fil-A at $4.5 billion using peer multiples of Oak Brook, Illinois-based McDonald’s, Dublin, Ohio-based Wendy’s Co. (WEN) and closely held Wichita, Kansas-based Wil-Ken Enterprises Inc., which operates Popeye’s Chicken and Biscuits restaurants. The calculation factored in the company’s 3-year annual growth rate and Ebitda margins, the report said.

The chicken chain has a value of at least $4.3 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, based on the average enterprise value-to-Ebitda and price-to-earnings multiples of four publicly traded peers: McDonald’s, Wendy’s, San Diego-based Jack In the Box Inc. (JACK) and Louisville, Kentucky-based Yum! Brands Inc. (YUM), the owner of the KFC and Taco Bell brands.

“It is a very impressive business story,” said Sam Hamadeh, CEO of PrivCo, in a telephone interview. “Whatever people think of the politics, when you look at how we quantify the amount of money they are forgoing every year by being closed on Sundays, you have to respect that.”

I've never eaten there in my life, so I can say I've been boycotting them for over 51 years. I hadn't heard anything about the politics of their CEO before he exposed himself so I don't think ALL of their customers can be counted as bigots, but it's going to be interesting to see what happens to those numbers in the future.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-31/hidden-chick-fil-a-billionaires-hatched-as-value-soars.html

Simply put they need to ask themselves what would Jesus do and then make the right decision. They have much too much hate.

evil people, Hitler, dictators, child molesters, Sandusky....all created by God and therefore not mistakes?

Let's hope it carrys through to November.