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Tsar-Ivor
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posted August 05, 2012 11:38 PM
Edited by Tsar-Ivor at 23:39, 05 Aug 2012.

@JJ have you even read why the guy doesn't permit homosexuals to eat within his restaurant (fast food res)?
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xerox
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posted August 05, 2012 11:59 PM
Edited by xerox at 00:00, 06 Aug 2012.

It's just ridiculous and if that guy is actually banning homosexual people from eating at his restaurants (?), then he had that activism coming for him from the start. In a secular country, religion should never be allowed as a way around discrimination.

How can you, avoiding prejudicess, even know if a person is gay?
I've had that debate here when it comes to immigration. He's a bit of a HBT acttivist and he wants to open up more gay immigration, ie gay people who are being abused in their countries. And i'm like, how do you control that kind of immigration? How do you know if people really are gay or if they're just saying it because they want to get into our country?
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Elodin
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posted August 06, 2012 12:26 AM
Edited by Elodin at 00:29, 06 Aug 2012.

JJ, please link to your source. I've found nothing that says the owner of Chick Fil A does not welcome gays in his restaurant.

His actual interview comments about marriage I'll link to below.

Clicky

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The company invests in Christian growth and ministry through its WinShape Foundation (WinShape.com). The name comes from the idea of shaping people to be winners.

It began as a college scholarship and expanded to a foster care program, an international ministry, and a conference and retreat center modeled after the Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove.

"That morphed into a marriage program in conjunction with national marriage ministries," Cathy added.

Some have opposed the company's support of the traditional family. "Well, guilty as charged," said Cathy when asked about the company's position.

"We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that.

"We operate as a family business ... our restaurants are typically led by families; some are single. We want to do anything we possibly can to strengthen families. We are very much committed to that," Cathy emphasized.

"We intend to stay the course," he said. "We know that it might not be popular with everyone, but thank the Lord, we live in a country where we can share our values and operate on biblical principles."


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Elodin
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posted August 06, 2012 12:35 AM

JJ, from everything I read on the matter it looks like you been misinformed. The restaurant DOES NOT refuse to serve gays from what I have read.

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As debate swirls over comments made by Chick-fil-A's president, the Biblical Recorder's editor described many media reports of his conversation with the company's president as "distorted."

During a call-in radio interview Thursday (July 19) with WORD-FM in Pittsburgh, K. Allan Blume described his conversation with Chick-fil-A's Dan Cathy as "very positive," unlike how it is being portrayed in a variety of news reports.

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Blume asked Cathy about opposition to the company's support of the traditional family, and Cathy responded, "Well, guilty as charged."

In the interview Cathy went on to say, "We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that."

Blume expressed his surprise at how standing up for traditional family values in today's politically correct society has become code for hate speech.

"I don't understand why that's a bad thing all of a sudden," he told the radio hosts. "It was not an anti-gay statement. It was a pro-family statement."

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Blume, who has not been in touch with Cathy or the company since the story was first published, referred to Chick-fil-A as a "class organization."

"They're very positive," he said. "This is basically an All-American organization that's worked hard and been very successful, and yet, they're painted to be very anti-American or something worse than that.


"They don't shut anybody out from their restaurant … they welcome everyone."





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xerox
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posted August 06, 2012 12:35 AM

Well, then I don't get what the fuss is about.

Who cares about his values. I just want my burgers.
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JollyJoker
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posted August 06, 2012 08:40 AM

Seriously - WHO CARES?

So an exec of a fast food chain expressed his view that he doesn't like same-sex marriages because god supposedly commanded otherwise or whatever.

Who cares?

If he said, he'd support Romney - is that a reason to start campaigning against that fast food chain?

Still not scratching the point whether private business people can bar certain groups from doing business with them, and I don't see any reasonable law that would say you must serve everyone (or deal with everyone). In fact, on a wider scale - country-wide - countries are boycotted, and I see no reason, if I have a private business, why I shouldn't be allowed to boycott certain people I don't like.

Sure, if I have a sign in my shop window that says "WE SERVE NO [insert name]" said window would probably be smashed the first night it was there. Also, how are you supposed to make sure for things that are not immediately obvious?

So practically, this is just a lot of noise. Everyone has a right on their opinion, and if people think same sex marriage is not what God wants, that's fine. In practise, however, this is a POLITICAL statement (because it is an opinion about how the law should look like).
I mean, since that's one of the issues as well, if the Exec had said he'd be against abortion, it would be the same nonsense, if pro-choice and women's rights and whatnot would call for a boycott.

For example, I don't like married people who cheat on their partners, simply because they CHEAT, and I don't like cheaters. If they are married, they promised each other something, and cheating isn't part of that. Which would technically mean, I strongly frown upon adultry.
However, I'm not a religious person, and I don't think people have to be married to be together, but if they ARE (and no one forced them), and if they DID make each other promises, they should keep to them, because that's what honest people do - keep their promises.


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Minion
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posted March 01, 2013 09:15 AM
Edited by Minion at 09:17, 01 Mar 2013.

Obama backs gay marriage in Supreme Court

The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overturn California's ban on gay marriage and take a sceptical view of similar bans elsewhere, wading into a case that could have broad implications for the right of same-sex couples to wed.
The administration said unequivocally in a friend-of-the-court brief filed late on Thursday that gay marriage should be allowed to resume in California, where citizens voted to bar it in a 2008 referendum known as Proposition 8.The brief marks President Barack Obama's most expansive view of the legal rights of gays and lesbians to marry.


Well looks like he can keep his word, even if it is after 5 years. Wonder what took him so long, but great news.


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bixie
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posted March 01, 2013 11:46 AM

hooray! me and my boyfriend do have to get married in benedorm, but can fly out to sunny L.A and get married there!

And then get shot, because L.A is a ****-hole!
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OmegaDestroyer
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posted March 01, 2013 02:24 PM
Edited by OmegaDestroyer at 14:27, 01 Mar 2013.

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Wonder what took him so long, but great news.



He didn't want to alienate part of electorate and his thoughts were evolving.  Just goes to show how passionate he is about the topic.

If the ban gets over-turned (which I assume it will), it will be because of rights being vested and a strict scrutiny standard being applied.  It will not be, however, due to the President's underwhelming response to the issue.
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Minion
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posted March 01, 2013 02:54 PM
Edited by Minion at 14:56, 01 Mar 2013.

I should have written "oh Obama, so soon? But it has only been 5 years!" No, I was not ACTUALLY wondering why it took him so long.
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Corribus
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posted March 02, 2013 02:10 AM

Well it's nice, but the timing is pretty piss poor.  It's sort of like cleaning that stain out of the carpet while the house is on fire.
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mvassilev
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posted March 02, 2013 03:03 AM
Edited by mvassilev at 03:03, 02 Mar 2013.

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And then get shot, because L.A is a ****-hole!
LA isn't that dangerous. Sure, there are parts of it that are (like Compton), but that's true for most cities. LA is bad because it's expensive and it's hard to get from one place to another, whether by car or by public transportation.
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mvassilev
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posted June 29, 2015 07:21 PM

Same-sex marriage is now recognized in the US.
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OmegaDestroyer
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posted June 29, 2015 08:39 PM

I was happy with the ruling because maybe now we can focus on more important things such as crumbling infrastructure, a stagnant economy, and medical research.
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Corribus
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posted June 30, 2015 05:50 AM

Yes, yes, it's a long time coming, it's the right decision and all. Yet I still can't help but feel somewhat disgruntled at how political the Supreme Court has become in the last several years. It's almost like a mini-Congress any more: every vote is split pretty much along party lines.
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artu
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posted June 30, 2015 11:01 AM

Some principles should be above daily politics for certain. But I guess, what you complain is inevitable to a degree since it's the politicians who assign the judges and they'll go with like-minded people.
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OmegaDestroyer
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posted June 30, 2015 01:43 PM
Edited by OmegaDestroyer at 13:43, 30 Jun 2015.

I completely agree, Corribus.  It is irritating to watch the same people vote the same way on everything.  It seems like the only people above such behavior are Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kennedy and even then, they barely do it.
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kipshasz
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posted June 30, 2015 02:09 PM

OmegaDestroyer said:
I was happy with the ruling because maybe now we can focus on more important things such as crumbling infrastructure, a stagnant economy, and medical research.


Ha, you wish. next thin on the agenda of the US goverment is to defeat Russia.

I think you realise it by now that the people you elect into your senate or whatever you have there, give 0 turds about the internal problems of the great US of A.
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OmegaDestroyer
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posted June 30, 2015 04:00 PM

I realized that well over a decade ago.
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Trogdor
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posted July 01, 2015 03:03 PM

I've been noticing the rainbow-tinted avatars on Facebook lately and all I have now is a question:

If you don't use the rainbow tint, will people think you're a homophobe?
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