chick fil-a has no business in minneapolis and minnesota (Rogers: store, to move)

[my54ford]

Originally Posted by RogersParkGuy

Rubbish.

Plenty of companies have changed their practices as a result of public protest. In fact, few companies have changed them for any other reason. Just this weekend, Whole Foods, facing a large-scale protest from its own employees, agreed not to penalize workers who took Thanksgiving off. Individual acts, like refusing to patronize a given business, accomplish nothing.

We need to remind our "Christian" fellow-citizens that this is not a theocracy. They don't get permission to spread hate or practice discrimination because their filthy, good-for-nothing religion says it's okay.

my how wonderfully accepting and open minded you are

[NCN]

Originally Posted by okie1962

I seem to remember a lot of Jesus Lovers upset with JC Penney when they had Ellen as their spokesperson. And I think I remember a few months back a lot of Christians were boycotting the Girl scouts,

Here is an interesting link. List of Companies Christians Boycott Grows - "Haters of God" | USA NEWS FIRST

There is a big difference between boycotting a business for their political views and refusing to let the business operate.

[NCN]

Originally Posted by okie1962

Most of what they sell is not that healthy, or at least what I always order. I used to get their spicy chicken sandwich with coleslaw. Sometimes I would get the waffle fries. I quit going about 3 years back, so maybe they added more healthy options. I think they did have grilled chicken when I used to go there, but never really saw that many folks ordering it.

We got a gift certificate last Christmas for Chic-Fil-A. I had a vegetable salad and a small fruit salad. Choosing to be healthy is a personal choice. My husband loves their chicken sandwich; I like my chicken cooked a little more done. I don't think I have ever been treated more courteously in any restaurant.

[Glenfield]

Originally Posted by steel03

I have no interest in tolerating people who would see me imprisoned and even killed for the sake of their own ignorant comfort, and just as little interest in tolerating people who would make a joke out of such an attitude. "Business" and "opinion" have jack **** to do with it. I don't care if their chicken is made of literal gold, Chick-fil-A is repulsive and represents all the purest forms of violence, hatred, and oppression, and patronizing them is sadistic and unacceptable in every case. It is ***** silencing and ***** marginalization no matter how you slice it. Tell yourself as much as you want that your chicken sandwich has nothing to with ***** teenagers all over the world being brutally killed by their peers, but no evidence, nothing factual is ever going to back you up. You are reveling in your own privilege, repeatedly reaffirming the sick notion that nothing is wrong just because it doesn't directly affect you, bolstering the life support system of the forces that socialize every single person on earth into deeply-ingrained homophobia, misogyny, and transphobia. There is literally no sound way to justify giving Chick-fil-A business.

Get over yourselves, there are real problems in the world.

edit: turns out "q u e e r" is blocked on this site, fyi who ever is in charge of that, that's not an offensive term, it's a totally accepted and acceptable way to refer to the LGBT+ community without worrying about the alphabet soup of all those letters

Wow, Jack, it's just a chicken sandwich.

[okie1962]

Originally Posted by NCN

We got a gift certificate last Christmas for Chic-Fil-A. I had a vegetable salad and a small fruit salad. Choosing to be healthy is a personal choice. My husband loves their chicken sandwich; I like my chicken cooked a little more done. I don't think I have ever been treated more courteously in any restaurant.

I bet you did eat healthy, but I am guessing, and only guessing, that what you ate is a very small portion of their sales.

[okie1962]

Originally Posted by NCN

There is a big difference between boycotting a business for their political views and refusing to let the business operate.

You must have not read my first post on this thread.

[okie1962]

Originally Posted by NCN

There is a big difference between boycotting a business for their political views and refusing to let the business operate.

What about the Mosque that tried to open a few blocks from Ground Zero in lower Manhattan.

[Glenfield]

Originally Posted by okie1962

What about the Mosque that tried to open a few blocks from Ground Zero in lower Manhattan.

I understand the point you are trying to make but you are off target on this one. Even if they were comaprable entities, the opponents of the mosque wanted them to relocate several blocks further north while the OP wants to prohibit CFA from opening anywhere, at least in Minnesota. Apples and oranges.

Still I get your larger point that those who supported boycotts from one side of the political spectrum should not protest when they come from the other side. In that way, I thought the JCPenney illustration was stronger.

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by okie1962

I seem to remember a lot of Jesus Lovers upset with JC Penney when they had Ellen as their spokesperson. And I think I remember a few months back a lot of Christians were boycotting the Girl scouts,

Here is an interesting link. List of Companies Christians Boycott Grows - "Haters of God" | USA NEWS FIRST

Sure, but they weren't calling for a complete ban of those organizations from a community.

If the OP doesn't like Chick-Fil-A being in Minnesota, then he/she can peaceably protest and boycott the place.

[Mplsite]

Some people interpret the bible to say that black people are an inferior race. Would all the people who currently go to chick fil a likewise still patronize the business if the president of the company was racist? Anyhoo, if bigots want to support a bigoted company they can feel free to, just like people are free in this country to put 100% faith in some hearsay from some pillaging raping murderous tribes from a bygone era and label it "God's word". There's only one chick fil a in Mpls and unfortunately it's in a U of M building, which only further proves how big ten universities are by and large not so intellectually or ethically inclined. If a company's owner goes out of their way to advertise their discrimination against a minority and at the same time her/his ignorance then I will also go out of my way not to fund them. I think a good number of Minneapolitans are educated enough to know to make the right choice and not support them and I'm thinking that's why there's only one in the city.