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The sad thing is, Chick-fil-A’s sandwiches (and its chicken noodle soup and diet lemonade) are tasty, but talk about leaving a nasty taste in your mouth with this bigotry. (Change.org):
Bet Chick-fil-A wishes this month would end. Over the past few weeks, the restaurant chain’s deep ties to the anti-gay movement have been exposed and uncovered by a number of activists, most notably Jeremy Hooper at Good As You. Whether it’s Focus on the Family, the National Organization for Marriage, the Pennsylvania Family Institute, or Exodus International, Chick-fil-A ties run deep.Of course, the President of Chick-fil-A wants gay people to share no hard feelings. The restaurant will gladly feed homosexuals gobs of chicken sandwiches, after all. But when it comes to marriage, Chick-fil-A believes strongly that same-sex couples just don’t deserve equal rights.
As we wrote about a few weeks ago, Chick-fil-A’s charitable arm, the WinShape Foundation, has been particularly active in the fight against marriage equality. They’ve hosted conferences with some of the leading opponents of gay marriage in this country. A higher up at WinShape has even praised the efforts of anti-gay activist David Blankenhorn for working against marriage equality, and for articulating a solid reason why American culture should reject same-sex couples.
Now comes some email correspondence that Good As You has shared on their blog, where the WinShape Foundation’s Retreat Center — a center run by the charitable arm of Chick-fil-A — admits that they have a severe distaste for LGBT people.
The email correspondence goes a little something like this. Someone writes WinShape an easy question about whether their retreat center is open to LGBT people. WinShape’s response:
“WinShape Retreat defines marriage from the Biblical standard as being between one man and one woman. Groups/Individuals are welcome who offer wholesome, educational conferences and programs that are compatible with Biblical values and WinShape’s purpose,” WinShape wrote back.…”We do not accept homosexual couples because of the statement in our contract.”
They sure like homos to contribute to the bottom line, but no marriage for you…
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I stopped patronizing that establishment many years ago. . .they have always tried to fly just under the radar with their right-wing “religious” doctrine, and their particularly arrogant claim to hold “biblical standard(s)” close to their hearts is just another way for them to claim they alone possess the only true interpretation of Gawd. Of course, all while ignoring whatever verses might indicate they themselves have less than “biblical standards.”
These people are going to be in for such a surprise in the afterlife when they realize, as they land on the waterslide to Hades, that the LGBT community were God’s chosen people all along.
God is in the mixof their spicy chicken recipe?
Concubines are very much part of the “biblical standard.”…So why don’t we all just register at their “retreat” as concubines…? Just asking.
GhandiThe saddest part of these corporations and church groups hiding behind their biblical beliefs is that Christianity overall is given such a negative impression.
My partner and I are so fortunate to worship at an inclusive church, St. James’ Episcopal. While they do not offer us the option of marriage, neither does the Federal Gov’t nor the State of MS which would secede rather than give the LGBT community any sense of equality, they do offer a loving and caring place where Christ’s truest teachings are preached.
It’s times like this with Chick-Fil-A, Target, Walmart, NOM, AFA, etc etc etc that I refer to my favorite quote of all:
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” ~Ghandi
I begin each and every morning with thoughts and prayers that I might be a person whom Ghandi might admire.
What would Jesus eat?Chik-fil-A is so holy that they don’t even open on Sunday. Funny thing is that Gawd said to remember Saturday and keep it holy. They’re losing money on Sunday while violating one of the 10 Big Suggestions.
Even the cows are hypocrites.
Gandhi would like you even better ifyou spelled his name right.