Support Religious Bigotry Day
I happened to drive by the ‘Chik’n Chapel’ [not to be confused with Church’s Chicken] at lunch time on the the first and saw the crowd. The Local Puppy Trainer has a slideshow of the sideshow, if you are interested.
I have never eaten there, for a number of reasons, but the most important one is a survival rule I used when I was flying around the world and visiting foreign places – never ingest food or drink prepared by people who think the end of the world is a good thing. To me, the first step in achieving immortality is not dying, and I have a hard time understanding people who think that death is the first step in the process.
They might have handed out badges for proving you’re a bigot, or stuff verses from Revelation in the kid’s meals, I don’t know. I don’t like white meat on poultry; I don’t like food that is breaded and deep fried [excluding hush puppies and doughnuts, which don’t pretend to be anything other than dough]; and I don’t trust people in the food industry who don’t know Holsteins are dairy cattle.
The guy who owns the chain [‘franchisees’ are sharecroppers, not owners the way the chain is structured] has publicly stated his homophobic views, and put his money where his views are. This is America, and that is his right. Government should not be involved in censoring him. People, OTOH, have every right not to associate with him, or buy from his chain. He has made a bad business decision, and will pay for it.
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Domino’s Pizza was once the dominant pizza delivery outfit in America. Then right-wing nutball founder Tom Monaghan opened his ugly maw and spewed hateful stuff. I don’t recall the last time I ordered Domino’s Pizza, I don’t think they even have an outlet in my city anymore. Not that I think about politics when I buy pizza, but really, with all the other pizza out there, why would I buy Domino’s and support that kind of nuttery? (Though Domino’s is now owned by Baen Capital, if I’m recalling correctly… hmm, another reason not to buy pizza from there 😉 ).
Hate is bad for business. During the ugly years of desegregation in the South I saw entire cities ruined economically by hate as hate motivated them to do self-destructive things like close all the city parks and pools so that blacks wouldn’t be able to use them after the court order came to desegregate them (hmm, that’s like shooting yourself in the foot to avoid having to buy new shoes?). I’m sure that in Fundistan this kinda thing goes over well, but Fundistan is a poor backward cousin of America. If you want to make money you gotta go where the money is, and that ain’t Fundistan.
– Badtux the Hate-observin’ Penguin
“excluding hush puppies and doughnuts”
Whew! that’s a relief! I wouldn’t know what to think of a retired policeman who didn’t like doughnuts! 😛
I don’t know the ultimate impact on Chick Fil-A of their newly broadcast bigotry. The day after it was broadcast, but before I knew about it, at lunchtime, I happened to be in a parking lot which one of their outlets shares with a supermarket near us; there was a veritable horde of people in cars in line; cars were tying up traffic on one whole stretch of parking lot. I don’t know if that’s the usual lunch crowd or if the Bigots of Houston were holding a meeting. I don’t eat critters, anyway, though the chickens I remember from my granddad’s farm come awfully close to the line between animals and vegetables…
I would note that they waited until the first, after the food stamp and other government checks have been received to do this, because these people do seem to receive a lot of government money, and many of them wouldn’t have been able to buy from anyone without it.
It’s rather amazing how the worst levels of social problems in the US seem to be concentrated in areas dominated by the Fundies. If government programs are cut significantly, the South is in a whole lot of trouble.
the day i discovered, ages ago, that chickfila was closed on sundays, i just assumed they were religious zealots and so i stopped patronizing them. because i do try to not be patronizing toward the religious.
If wealthy men are patronizing, does that mean that Ann Rmoney is matronizing?
Actually is sort of weird behavior, because eating ‘brunch’ after church is a common thing among the better off evangelicals.
Unless they had really superior milkshakes or french fries, I would never have eaten there. My source for that information wasn’t impressed with their offerings in either area, so I didn’t even try them.
Nice phrasing 😉
Now that you bring it up, Steve, ‘patronizing’ in that meaning is a really difficult word to translate into foreign languages. You have to explain it, you can’t simply find a foreign word that expresses the same concept, especially with its negative connotations.
As for your question – ‘only if you’re a femnazi trying to rewrite English to suit your political views’ seems to be the standard answer one hears around here to such questions.
While, at least Ann’s horse didn’t reduce their tax write-off by winning anything in London.