Huckabee to GQ: Gay Marriage Will End Civilization

that whole story is so sad and stupid

It really was a great tofu sandwich

holy hell, I thought you guys were joking

me too!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/Ybmblogo.png

It is now officially 1000x funnier than when I thought it was a joke.

also people who are bummed about chick-fil-a: it's just shitty fried chicken, you can get pretty much the same thing at mcdonald's or popeyes or kfc without directly funding a publicly homophobic company

― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, July 24, 2012 3:34 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not defending chick-fil-a as a company but their batter's got a unique flavor compared to most of those chains.

the employees chirp "Have a blessed day!" as they hand over your waffle fries

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, July 24, 2012 8:19 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this has literally never happened to me at a chick-fil-a. i also worked at a chick-fil-a for a few weeks right before graduating high school. i imagine it might be different for store managers or franchise owners, but there was zero religious pressure put on me or any employees that i could see. in any case, fuck 'em.

the your black muslim bakery is less "funny" than "sordid and tragic"

this has literally never happened to me at a chick-fil-a.

I've been in only one CAF in my life so this might be the policy at the store located in the secular heart of a diseased county, i.e. a public university in Miami-Dade.

lol

http://gizmodo.com/5928926/chick+fil+a-got-caught-pretending-to-be-a-fake-teenage-girl-on-facebook

the your black muslim bakery is less "funny" than "sordid and tragic"

yeah not really seein the lolz personally

for reference

the employees chirp "Have a blessed day!" as they hand over your waffle fries

wtf seriously

I've never been in one but now I wanna go by a lemonade just to tell them hail Satan prince of all flesh

I would jump at the register bellowing THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU

Ummmm, they dont say that.

I stopped eating Popeye's because of the "Annie the Chicken Queen" commercials, and now this. I need to eat less fried food though so I guess overall it's a plus.

also the only times Chick-Fil-A employees have said stuff like "have a blessed day!" to me were in semi-rural regions where a Wendy's or Burger King employee would have said the same thing. I've never been too weirded out by the closed on Sunday thing. That's not an offensive practice imo.

i totally thought alfred was joking about 'have a blessed day'

the only chik-fil-a i've ever been to was on my old campus, where the employees were obv just stressed-out students trying to move the line along as fast as possible -- so yeah, never got to hear 'have a blessed day.'

also the only times Chick-Fil-A employees have said stuff like "have a blessed day!" to me were in semi-rural regions where a Wendy's or Burger King employee would have said the same thing.

Yeah, I can think of at least six businesses in my town where I'll hear that at checkout.

Why was Your Black Muslim bakery named that? Apologies if I'm coming off as thick. Seems a bad race PR move if you're also a hitman?

Bey named the business Your Black Muslim Bakery on the personal recommendation of his spiritual guide, Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. In 1971, Bey moved the bakery to Oakland.[1] By 1974 it was the "largest Bay Area bakery specializing exclusively in natural food products", with over 6,000 loaves of bread and over 300 cakes per week sold at 150 stores.

Sorry, missed the wiki link. Thanks!

xp Or "Heaven-O!", which actually has a serious pressure group behind it

"serious pressure group"

Geocities lives on

come on guys let's just sit back and laugh at the bigger and bigger PR hole they are digging for themselves

'serious' and 'influential' maybe not in the hemisphere, much less same zip code with that one. xposts

bouncin around my fb feed...
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/580779_10150964068092869_1460836878_n.jpg

can't believe the mayor is won't allow chick fil-a in Boston JUST because he doesn't like their chicken

xp I meant that they take themselves and a ridiculous idea like that seriously.

I believe he said he personally doesn't like their company. lol @ them pretending he has any legal standing for not allowing them there.

Christians Say Chick-fil-A Under Siege By Militant Gays // FOX News

What a crazy world.

xp yeah how does that work exactly? i think he can block some public subsidies? iirc he was banging heads w/ wal-mart a while back and whatever he did there was effective. but i don't think he can just like push a button and SHUT IT DOWN

But that isn’t cutting the mustard with Menino. He said he plans to fire off a letter to the company’s Atlanta headquarters “telling them my feelings on the matter.”

“If they need licenses in the city, it will be very difficult — unless they open up their policies,” he warned

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1061147182&srvc=home&position=emailed

there are tons of licensing/zoning/permitting things city officials can do to keep franchises out

a ha

lmao at militant gays, they have taken up arms and have allied with the cows, they are here for your bibles

I gotta say that unless the restaurant is actually discriminating against GLBT folks as customers, or in hiring -- and from what I've seen there's no evidence that it is -- what these city officials are doing is kinda NAGL. Punishing a business for who/what it supports politically is treading on dangerous ground.

I agree. I still won't eat their shitty chicken sandwiches though.

can you expand a little, phil? i think that's interesting but i can't quite find a good analogue for the dangerous ground. i feel like it depends what 'punishing' means; like either action - respecting a company's right to bigotry (or whatever else), or publicly lending your voice to speak against a company - has baggage, but at least the latter has a positive effect, too.

there's something else that i can't quite put my finger on, too, about how automatically separating the opinions of a company from customers' attitudes towards that company is a sad deferral to the stature of corporations, a can't fight city hall thing allowing compartmentalisation that we would be reluctant to accept in other situations. if corporations are people, this one is an asshole, some vocal recognition of that is powerful i think?

? cities do this kind of thing all the time. if they don't like a business, they have the power to run it out of town, it isn't very complicated.

coworker of mine is a city councilmember for a bay area city and was very involved in keeping Walmart out - arguments didn't get much more complicated than their policies are shitty and they will harm local businesses (an argument you could make about any franchise, really) and then you throw up all sorts of onerous processes to make it not worth the franchise's time to try and get a permit and then they give up. until the next election cycle anyway lol.

I was gonna say, the only thing really different here is that the policy in question is so repellent that city officials are willing to pull back the curtain and reveal the wizard

In many circumstaces I've conflated support for gay marriage with not giving a damn about homosexuality. The CEO took a position on probably the socological and moral question of our time -- an abhorrent one. But I would find it more disturbing if we learned that the corporation offers no domestic partnership benefits (I haven't checked).

lol "policy" I meant "position"

if we learned that the corporation offers no domestic partnership benefits (I haven't checked).

would be surprised if company offers benefits of any kind to its wage employees.

^^^

this is a fast-food franchise people

benefits are probably a 25% discount off their shitty food

chick-fil-a actually offers kinda crazy benefits, i know many ppl who chick-fil-a paid for their college for example, fwiw they do walk the walk in terms of being fundie xian beyond hating gays, not being open on the sabbath, etc., until recently i actually used their being much better arguably more progressive employers than their competitors as my get out of jail free card for still giving them business despite the knowledge that any examination into their politics would definitely reveal some sickening shit (boycotted them during the terri schiavo endgame though). tbh i'm still not sure it's not an adequate reason - chick-fil-a's influence is certainly greater there than in whatever soon to be lost cause it throws money at. at the same time though fuck 'em and fuck mike huckabee and fuck rick santorum.