Chick-fil-A

[regishay]

My wife just sent me a picture of the line at chicfila from this morning. Still backed up like it was Wednesday all over again.

Guess people around here are going to make sure the gays and liberals understands what believers stand for. Makes me proud to
continue to support them.

I believe its today, but I heard on the radio some gay group in retaliation against all the support chick filla got is suppose to rally thier folks and sit at all the booths today. So it makes sense that people would be showing thier support again today.

[woody]

I really don't care about this issue, and do not understand why it is an issue other than ppl just finding something to batch about. Nevertheless, I just passed by the CFA on County Line Rd and there were hardly any cars there.

[MSDawg870]

Nevertheless, I just passed by the CFA on County Line Rd and there were hardly any cars there.

Any tandem bicycles parked out front????

[deltadukman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=thNqs9fPcgM



He really showed them, but apparently his employer didn't think so. He was fired.

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By Laura Hautala (LA Times)
August 2, 2012, 4:09 p.m.
Arizona resident Adam Smith thought he was doing good by taking a video of himself confronting a Chick-fil-A employee in the drive-thru lane Wednesday.

“Chick-fil-A is a hateful company,” Smith said to the employee in the video, which is still up on YouTube under multiple accounts.

But his employer, Tucson medical equipment manufacturer Vante, saw it differently. Vante has announced that Smith, formerly the chief financial officer and treasurer, no longer works there.

“We respect the right of our employees and all Americans to hold and express their personal opinions,” said a statement from the company. “However, we also expect our company officers to behave in a manner commensurate with their position and in a respectful fashion that conveys these values of civility with others.”

The video shows Chick-fil-A employees responding to Smith’s statements by saying, “I’m really uncomfortable that you’re video taping,” and, “It’s a pleasure to serve you, always.”

Smith said that by taking free water from the Chick-fil-A drive thru, he hoped he was taking money away from hate groups.

“I don’t know how you stand it,” Smith said to the employee. “This is a horrible corporation with horrible values.”

After the employee wished Smith a nice day, he responded, “I will. I just did something really good. I feel purposeful.”

An account for Vante Chief Financial Officer Adam Smith is no longer available on professional networking site LinkedIn.

[gps4]

good for vante.....it blows my mind how folks will go so far out of their way to act like a$$hats to folks who are minding their own business. and good for the chick-fil-a employees who show compassion, tolerance and self-restraint when faced with the knuckleheads who do go out of their way to insult or degrade them. its one thing to talk about what you believe, but when you and your employees walk the walk, it magnifies the unreaonsbaleness of those who "demand" tolerance yet are not so willing to practice what they preach...


also ran across this today....

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/03/vi ... him-fired/


But the greatest outrage came from media coverage of the event.

Dan Gainor, with the Media Research Center, said he was especially disturbed that CBS ignored the story altogether.

“What’s truly amazing is when you have hundreds of thousands of people turn out for something and one of the big three broadcast networks doesn’t even acknowledge it on air,” Gainor told Fox News. “That’s worse than almost any of the awful things the leftwing groups have thrown at Chick-fil-A.”

Gainor said ABC and NBC covered the story but emphasized the small protest groups – instead of the pro-Chick-fil-A supporters.

“The left thought they could bully an American company and they discovered that the vast majority of Americans were willing to take extra time out of their day, embrace a long line and celebrate a company that shares their values – and supports free speech as well,” he said.”It got out there in spite of the mainstream media not being willing to talk about it much.”

But the media outlets that did cover the protest – took a very different approach to the story:

Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn urged homosexuals to “infiltrate” the privately owned company.

“Make the restaurants gay hangouts of the community,” she wrote. “Gays and lesbians could start applying for jobs at Chick-fil-A. Get in there. Become managers, take over the places.”

MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart urged protesters to bully the restaurant chain.

“Find out who is affiliated with Chick-fil-A in any way and put pressure on those folks,” he said.

Fort Myers News-Press reporter Mark Krzos wrote his observations about Chick-fil-A on his Facebook page, according to the media-news site JimRomenesko.com

“Such a brave stand…eating a g**damn sandwich,” he wrote.

“I have never felt so alien in my own country as I did today while covering the restaurant’s supporters,” he wrote. “The level of hatred, unfounded fear and misinformed people was astoundingly sad.”

---I guess hypocrisy knows no bounds.....