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davidc wrote:I know some folks at CFA corporate, and have met the founder of CFA and his sons Dan and Bubba.

davidc wrote:I'm not offended by what you say. I'm offended by what your country does. It rapes women as an act of war and allows people to sell children for sex to make money.
Own it, its who your country is.
If you are offended by my words, maybe you should work to change your country. Or just admit you like it the way it is.

davidc wrote:

BucketHead wrote:What group advocates the killing of gays?

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/ch ... 8/01/45430

There are more mainstream sources for this info, but I just Googled "chick fil a kill the gays" and got this one. It's pretty well documented.

Chick-Fil-A's corporate "charity" arm WinShape has donated millions of dollars to groups like Family Research Council.

The restaurant chain Chick-Fil-A has been criticized for its donations to the WinShape Foundation that in 2010 gave $1000 to FRC, which represents less than 0.01% of the Winshape Foundation's overall budget.

Kraj 2.0 wrote:

davidc wrote:I'm not offended by what you say. I'm offended by what your country does. It rapes women as an act of war and allows people to sell children for sex to make money.
Own it, its who your country is.
If you are offended by my words, maybe you should work to change your country. Or just admit you like it the way it is.

You're not bright enough to be genuinely offended. You're a dimwit who buys into fairy tales that powerful men with hidden agendas dish out to weak-minded cattle to make them move in certain directions. You don't know the first thing about Serbia, war, rape, or sex trafficking.

Terry B. wrote:Dude gets rich selling shit like this and people are upset that he is against gay marriage?

davidc wrote:
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/ch ... 8/01/45430

There are more mainstream sources for this info, but I just Googled "chick fil a kill the gays" and got this one. It's pretty well documented.

Chessman wrote: Really?

The restaurant chain Chick-Fil-A has been criticized for its donations to the WinShape Foundation that in 2010 gave $1000 to FRC, which represents less than 0.01% of the Winshape Foundation's overall budget.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Research_Council

So let's examine this so-called direct link between Chick-fil-a and this "kill the gays" thing. Their charity arm WinShape gave a whole whopping $1000 to the FRC, less than 0.01% of their budget. Not exactly direct financial support, is it?

FRC did not lobby against or oppose passage of the congressional resolution. FRC’s efforts, at the request of Congressional offices, were limited to seeking changes in the language of proposed drafts of the resolution, in order to make it more factually accurate regarding the content of the Uganda bill, and to remove sweeping and inaccurate assertions that homosexual conduct is internationally recognized as a fundamental human right.

FRC does not support the Uganda bill, and does not support the death penalty for homosexuality – nor any other penalty which would have the effect of inhibiting compassionate pastoral, psychological, and medical care and treatment for those who experience same-sex attractions or who engage in homosexual conduct.

Turdacious wrote:

Chessman wrote: Really?

The restaurant chain Chick-Fil-A has been criticized for its donations to the WinShape Foundation that in 2010 gave $1000 to FRC, which represents less than 0.01% of the Winshape Foundation's overall budget.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Research_Council

So let's examine this so-called direct link between Chick-fil-a and this "kill the gays" thing. Their charity arm WinShape gave a whole whopping $1000 to the FRC, less than 0.01% of their budget. Not exactly direct financial support, is it?

Let me get this straight-- liberals are mad because Chick-fil-a gave money to an organization that spent the money on square toed shoes and BGEs?

BucketHead wrote:

FRC did not lobby against or oppose passage of the congressional resolution. FRC’s efforts, at the request of Congressional offices, were limited to seeking changes in the language of proposed drafts of the resolution, in order to make it more factually accurate regarding the content of the Uganda bill, and to remove sweeping and inaccurate assertions that homosexual conduct is internationally recognized as a fundamental human right.

FRC does not support the Uganda bill, and does not support the death penalty for homosexuality – nor any other penalty which would have the effect of inhibiting compassionate pastoral, psychological, and medical care and treatment for those who experience same-sex attractions or who engage in homosexual conduct.

The last sentence is why we will always remain at an impasse

http://www.frcblog.com/2010/06/frc-stat ... -res-1064/

Pinky wrote:I boycott Chick-fil-a on Sundays to protest their decision not to be open on Sundays.

The Epic Failure of Tantrum Politics

In politics as in life, the squeaky wheel usually gets the grease, but the other three wheels are finally telling the squeaky wheel to shut the hell up.

Fast food and public protests typically hold as much appeal for me as rectal cancer, yet last week I simultaneously exposed myself to fast food and a public protest with a pair of visits to the local Chick-fil-A franchise.

I popped in last Wednesday at around 9PM to find the restaurant still overflowing with customers like muffin-top fat rolls over tight polyester trousers because it was Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day. Many of the patrons were obese, red-cheeked, flat-topped, checker-shirted, effusively wholesome Southern peckerwoods, which is atypical for the neighborhood and suggests a smidgen of Astroturfing from the pro-Christian, anti-gay-marriage crowd.

On Friday at around 9AM I wolfed down a spicy chicken biscuit while anticipating pink hordes of French-kissing homosexuals. They’d threatened to stage a gay “National Same-Sex Kiss Day” counterprotest to Appreciation Day, which was itself a counterprotest of an initially threatened mass national boycott of the fast-food chain due to its CEO’s soul-scaldingly hateful comments supporting the radical extremist notion of “traditional marriage.” But during my tenure there Friday morning, there were no gay couples outside kissing and the restaurant was relatively empty.

By most accounts, Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day was a rousing success. The company claims it racked up record sales. By contrast, the gay kiss-in was generally deemed a flop.

Even more encouraging, a loathsomely self-satisfied super-douche who harassed a longsuffering Chick-fil-A drive-thru worker and posted the results on YouTube found his feeble attempt at shaming drowned in a vicious backlash that cost him his job.
“I call for an immediate moratorium on all boycotts.”

I invest zero emotion in the ongoing gay-marriage brouhaha. I question why the state claims the power to authorize any kind of marriage, as well as why an issue that directly affects—at MOST—one or two percent of the population has such enduring “legs” in the news cycle year after year.

But I find comfort in the fact that what William Safire described as the “nattering nabobs of negativity” were ruthlessly smacked down last week by what Richard Nixon called the “silent majority,” a term he ironically seems to have lifted from JFK.

Maybe the sun is finally setting on the Era of Tantrum Politics. Maybe it won’t be so easy anymore to body-slam individuals and businesses to the mat and force them to tap out lest they be shamed and shouted and glitter-bombed and boycotted and extorted and guilt-tripped over the possibility that some hyper-sensitive professional loafer will have their fragile, glass-orchid feelings hurt.

At least that’s how things seem to be trending.

BucketHead wrote:Kraj tries to voice his opinion

Kraj 2.0 wrote:After coming across this subject on various message boards the past few days I've concluded that a large percentage of the American population are closet queers and braindead pawns. People will go completely out of their way to support queerness. For what? The only people who'll go to bat for a queer are queers themselves. If you're sticking up for gay marriage and you claim to be straight, I got news for you -- you're a closet flamer. There's absolutely NO REASON for gay MARRIAGE to be allowed. Marriage, BY DEFINITION, is between a man and a woman. Deal with it and shut the fuck up. What's next - claiming unequal rights because a dude with a dick can't take a piss in the women's restroom? When did this country lose its balls and its common sense? All you queer-supporting losers are a disgrace to this country.

That is all.

davidc wrote:Marriage, by the definition of European countries that are more than 2 decades removed from genocide (which of course, excludes Serbia) is between two adults, regardless of gender.
Marriage, by the definition of a growing number of US states, is between two adults, regardless of gender.
Marriage, by the definition of many countries, is between a man, and as many women as he can buy (Usually, the men's "mistrisses" in those countries are actually boys. See http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/dancingboys/
Marriage, by definition of the Bible, includes all kinds of crazy arrangements, including the forced marriage of a rapist and his victim.

By the way, in the US, we've learned that the most vehement anti-gay activists are the closet homosexuals. Seriously dude, anybody who is as anti-gay as you is always gay. Google Ted Haggard. Are you into meth, too? Just sayin.

Kraj 2.0 wrote:Marriage by ANY non-queer definition is between a man and a woman. Hit up dictionary.com and type in the word

mar·riage
noun
1. a. the social institution under which a man and woman establish their decision to live as husband and wife by legal commitments, religious ceremonies, etc. Antonyms: separation.
b. a similar institution involving partners of the same gender