Delicious news!
Chick-fil-A has agreed to stop funding groups with anti-same-sex marriage stances, according to a statement released Wednesday by LGBT advocacy group The Civil Rights Agenda.
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"Going forward, our intent is to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena." Chick-fil-A wrote in an emailed statement to NBC News.
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According to the release by the CRA, the letter stated that chain's charitable wing “is now taking a much closer look at the organizations it considers helping, and in that process will remain true to its stated philosophy of not supporting organizations with political agendas.”
Awesome.
I admit, I finally caved myself this past weekend. I put it off for months, but I finally decided I had to have a "#1 with a Cherry Coke". It's my favorite Saturday lunch. I also own an iPhone (and probably other things made at Foxconn); I patronize a local jeweler who plays Limbaugh in the shop; I buy diamonds for my wife; I eat meat; I do not drive a hybrid; I don't avoid the local burger chain with the Bible stuff on their cups; I thought it was stupid and childish when wingnuts freaked out about the pizza guy who hugged Obama; and I don't bother to check the political positions and contributions of all the other businesses I patronize. I am really not much of an activist. Go ahead, take away my Liberal Cool Kids Club card.
You’re a traitor to the cause!
But seriously … “burger chain with the Bible stuff on their cups”. Really? This sort of thing just doesn’t happen here in the UK much. Although last summer we took the kids to a little zoo which is run by Creationists but I didn’t see much evidence of their faith other than the name…
http://www.noahsarkzoofarm.co.uk/
And they have this page on their web site:
http://www.noahsarkzoofarm.co.uk/pages/research/research.php
Quote:
“In our view the evidence currently known points to a ‘both/and’ situation (creation and evolution) rather than ‘either/or’: there was an initial creation, followed by a vast amount of evolution, geological and biological. Far from being static, the world was created to be ever changing, unfolding continually new forms and opportunities until its purpose should be fulfilled. The question of the age of the earth is also not one of ‘either/or’: we believe the earth is much older than 6000 years but much younger than 4.5 billion years. The view is counter-cultural and controversial, but whatever its degree of acceptability, we encourage interested readers to explore the issues for themselves.”
That my friend is about as controversial as it goes in this country (in public of cause). By far the most vocal religion is Islam sadly and for all the wrong reasons. :(
“burger chain with the Bible stuff on their cups”. Really?
yeah. just some Bible quote(s) in small print. i read one once and thought “that’s odd”. but, no biggie. if they want to be thought of as a Christian burger joint, that’s their call. as long as they don’t change their burgers…
That my friend is about as controversial as it goes in this country
a mild-mannered defense of old-earth creationism! that would not pass muster with the fundies over here. oh no.
By far the most vocal religion is Islam sadly and for all the wrong reasons.
Islam’s pretty quiet here. the Christians have all the real loudmouths and rabble-rousers.
Ha. Yeh, when we heard about that Zoo from a friend they said “…and guess what, it’s run by Bible-bashers!”. We were like “No way! Really? Is it in-your-face?”. “Nope, and it’s a pretty good zoo”. So off we went and the kids loved it. Good luck to them.
As for Islam in America – well, if I were an American Muslim I certainly wouldn’t shout about it, let alone say anything that might draw attention to me and mine. Though isn’t your president a Muslim from Kenya? Arf, arf.
You can be “pure” only up to a point. Trying to think if I skip any corporate establishments for political reasons and…nope, though I could be persuaded.
It’s like there’s this thing that represents the collective will of the people that’s supposed to do this stuff. What is it again….?
The only big-chain pizza I order is Papa John’s, because it’s the one whose greasy food I like best. I do not give a crap about John Schnatter’s craybaby capitalist outbursts, and even if I did, he wouldn’t miss my bimonthly-or-less 25 bucks.
I’m not opposed to boycotts in principle. But in practice, most of the time they seem to be a pretty lazy form of activism. (Passivism?) “I’m going to pressure this company by… not doing something. Something I don’t do that often anyway.”
If a person really wants to influence a company, I much more admire the strategy of buying enough public shares to have a voice at the shareholder meetings.
I boycott Chick-Fil-A or whatever you call it by not living in a country that has one. I might have one next time I am in the States though. My wife really likes their sandwiches.
As someone who spent 5 years working in a real Italian restaurant, I “boycott” Papa Johns because it should be ashamed to call itself pizza (and because they don’t have them here).