Deeply Hurtful Act

[G-Lexington]

I recognized it for what it was - a bunch of people who, like the Chick-Fil-A CEO, see something they cherish falling apart. And thousands upon thousands of people, who share that fear, went and bought chicken sandwiches. Because they can't let go. There's a ton of them - no question. But they're the last of them. Their voices have been getting louder mainly because their numbers have been getting smaller, and they're forced to shout in order to keep the volume up.

Hard-Up has the right idea. Because they won't win. Not in the long run. Their kingdom is collapsing. They're crying out that THEY're the oppresed minority now. As we gain rights, and become more visible and a part of their everyday lives, bit by bit, more and more, day by day...they put on their game face, and buy a chicken sandwich.

Lex

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

Our mission remains unchanged.

We err if we let their fear and ethnocentrism act as a model for us.

Barriers are not broken down by adopting hate to counter hate.

Our task is to be in society, to work, play, worship, buy, compete and everything else among our more conservative neighbors. As we do, over time, they see we are just more people.

Far from failing, Chick-Fil-A will only continue to prosper and grow. No amount of wishing otherwise will stunt them.

Take a stand, but don't forget that selling out to hate is a mistake whether one is straight or gay, atheist or Christian, conservative or liberal, black or white, whatever. Don't buy into hate. Be proud, but be positive.

Our gay youth weren't under any delusion in these hyper-conservative communities. This changed nothing about what they knew already, just proved it. If anything, it might help them because more supportive people may show up Friday than they ever suspected were in their communities.

go weed it
sure a dizzy read but anyway

this not gay issue ya nose dat is sure
as say lot lands folkys wanna go happy valeeys fa long time

thankyou

happy pornins day or if at work happy work day

 

[lolalola70]

i wonder if the feeling i got watching all those idiots was the same feeling Jewish people had in Germany in the '30's when ....

 

[DanikShade]

If its any consolation, you can spend the rest of your life knowing that you are incapable of hating as much as they do!

I very much disagree with that statement. This site and many others like it are filled with hatred, its just wrapped in righteous indignation. The same righteous indignation the christers use to defend their position. I don't agree with them, I despise all forms of organized religion, but I recognize their right to believe what they do just as much as I recognize the rights of the people on JustUsBoys to spew their disgust and hatred against fat guys, religious people, republicans, gun nuts, etc etc etc.

It is the height of hypocrisy for any of us to criticize any of them. Our behavior is exactly the same, we just use different words. Hate me if you like, I really don't care, but there is a foul stink of truth to what I've written like it or not. Bigotry has many faces and they're not all christians.

 

[bw92116]

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

so poeple or unda human or unda process chikens is irratioanl loons
or culture<woteva it is spawn um or folk vote ans da party on dudes won so it okay

nothin new wot world a lands do so

anywaywaywayay

shake ya booooootaaay

 

[secondmonkey]

I think we should organize our own "gay day" at chick fil a. Find all the fags you can and line up with rainbow shirts on. Buy only a coke and have gay sex in the bathrooms.

 

[bw92116]

I'm a recovered Catholic myself, and to me the good work that Catholic Charities does is not enough to make up for the harm the Catholic church does and has done for centuries.

 

[Saybrooke]

That is just so sad

Thinking about attending the kiss-in today.

 

[Benvolio]

It is a mistake to regard this as motivated by hatred for gays. Most would say, and believe, that they are defending marriage from attack.Disagreeing with that position does not convert their motive to one of hatred.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

rituals ans words
ans death be end
until da body
figa
da hole

* in their head? *
dunno dat fit?
% keep it open %
is a do
* ooh so a dos *
blow up no do
! got any big words? !
no but lot littuls 1s wot alls add up ta 1
% Kool %
! wot dat? !
not tellin

ha

 

[gsdx]

In the cities where I have lived, including Albuquerque, the chief sources of volunteers and donors to food banks and homeless shelters, are churches.

Perhaps, but those churches are helping less-fortunate, disadvantaged, and hungry people - not corporate, for-profit businesses.

All that money they spent on their chicken sandwiches could have fed a lot of hungry people instead of lining the pockets of corporate executives who will return that money to the hate groups through tax-except donations.

And hungry children still go hungry. Shameful.

 

[mbamike]

Great article JD. Thanks for sharing.

 

[syoBsUtsuJ]

I understand the owner/CEO being a millionaire sharing his socio-politcal views. They're just exactly that ... HIS views! Personally, I will never visit any of his franchise establishments, but that's just me. People just rally for any cause that makes them feel good about themselves, even when it's hate-influenced.

 

[gsdx]

But neither I nor any other poster was positing that the protesters SHOULD have been helping Chick-fil-A. You're rebutting an argument that was never made here.

Yes, I did. You mentioned all of the good things churches do in volunteering for food banks. I was commenting on how much money those 'haters' wasted in Chick-Fil-A restaurants when, as Christians, their money would have been better spent by donating it to food banks.

They call themselves 'Christians', but it's more important to them to promote hatred and give their money to a restaurant than to give it to a child who is going to go to bed hungry.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

I understand the owner/CEO being a millionaire sharing his socio-politcal views. They're just exactly that ... HIS views! Personally, I will never visit any of his franchise establishments, but that's just me. People just rally for any cause that makes them feel good about themselves, even when it's hate-influenced.

fa eons is so a thang but wot is people
wen all words be nothin
but dressin ta cova
da thang
ans slime a nature
form it not
still a thang
no culture of modern
figa a jot
or sumthang
* cause playin videogames? *
wot dat?

anyway

$ stop readin $
O KAY
# moderns humans got figa where arms head legs is #
no
# ooh - pizza ? #
Kool

 

[gsdx]

And you have not proved your point. The people who spent $8 on a combo meal at Chick-fil-A may have spent many times that in the past year helping the poor through the agency of their churches.

Their past deeds are irrelevant and unknown. We don't know what they did with their money. Buying a combo meal was a public protest of support. They didn't spend their money there for any other reason than to tell Chick-Fil-A to 'keep up the good work hating the same people we hate and for helping us make sure they never get the same rights we do.'

I'm just saying that the $8 spent on the combo would have let a few children go to bed with a full belly. They hate us more than they care for a hungry child. It's more important for them to feel superior and to make sure everyone knows it.

 

[DigitalFudge]

I'm un-phased

 

[bort138]

 

[gsdx]

Which is why you shouldn't make statements like this.

Don't worry. I won't.

I'm done.