Because such protests WORK.

In 2010 Target stores became the target of protests similar to those now being focused on Chick-fil-a. Target had donated to anti-gay causes and gays raised hell.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20011983-503544.html

Now, Target just unveiled a gay wedding registry!

http://lezgetreal.com/2012/07/gay-wedding-registry-someone-finally-got-it/comment-page-1/

The article links to stories about target now selling shirts to benefit gay marriage and cards for gay marriages.

While we may not be able to change the mind of the bigoted owner of Chick fil a, lots of other companies will see the hot water Target and Chick-fil-a landed in. Most companies simply do not want to be in the center of such controversies, so most will think twice about their contributions to anti-gay causes.

Yes, gays exercising their right to free speech does frighten many.

This one will backfire.

You can find out what "back fire" really means.

This is really a last pathetic stand of the bigots. They are desperate for SOMETHING to rally behind because they know that demographics and the rapid social change are against them.



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That's why those two paragons of virtue, Rahm Emmanuel and Thomas Menino, had to eat crow recently and walk back their threats to use unconstitutional authority to block Chik-fil-A's business.

Whoooo Hoooooo, I bet you that you are just, just so titillated that a whole 2 people have backed away from what they said, yeah, a real victory for your side!

But we all know what you will be eating soon, and it ain't crow!

http://www.usatoday.com/LIFE/usaedition/2012-04-09-Homophobia-psychology---_ST_U.htm

Ewwwww. BKP in chaps with depends (TM) showing through!

This is the sort of outfit I bet BKP would pick as he came flaming out of the closet:

http://loridyan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dameedna460.jpg

Apologies to Dame Edna

I think Boyd K-K-Kiss mah Pucker would just come screaming out of the closet as his One True Self:

http://www.fancydressball.co.uk/big_images1/happy-halloweenie-costume-4007265.jpg

Though I would love to do that costume for Halloween some time

LOL!

Menino didn't eat crow. He stands by his statements. Hence the "I'm exercising my constitutional right of free speech, just like they are."

He's fully in his right to strongly suggest they look elsewhere, and that's what his original letter said. There was nothing in his letter that stated don't bother applying for a permit, you won't get one. He stated that their viewpoint wouldn't be welcome here. He's right.

Gay marriage is legal here. It has been for years. Bigots are called out. They're perfectly welcome to their beliefs, but their right to express their beliefs end when they decide to actively push to limit the rights of others (as CFA has, donating money to particular hate groups).

It's one of the joys of New England. We may be a stodgy lot, perhaps a bit too conservative in our traditions, but we're direct and say what we mean. It tends to be called rudeness by those who don't understand us, but it's honest and straight forward.

Aside from the weird Boston quirk that chains tend to struggle here in general. Without a hardcore following, Chick-fil-a won't do well here in the city. Way too bad of a reputation coming in to survive.

"You can find out what "back fire" really means."

is this raymond in disguise? I really wonder about "straight" people that would like to see a whole segment of the population be discriminated against.

I didnt think it was correct for the city to not allow CFA to open...but i say when they do open...protests and show them that "power to the people" can still work!

every day a bigot goes to the cemetary and a kid turns 18 and eligible to vote, wondering what the hell was their problem.

there is an entire generation that has grown up among a gay populace and peers and, (sshhhh... they're just like the negros. What is your problem, Dad, with my friend Lionel?)

sadly, there is still a huge chuck of America that can't realize that they've already lost, and that they look like quaint jerks to their grandchildren. Because they are quaint jerks.

Too bad the BSA is among those unaware that they have already lost. But then, nothing exceeds like excess.

I lived through school desegregation in the Deep South in the 60's. This is deja vu all over again. Using the Bible to make it right. All over again.

+1.

Agreed.

I hope you don't mind I just used pieces of your post in an argument on FB..

I think that allowing gay people the right to have a wedding registry is an attack on all normal wedding registries throughout the country.

For behold, the cheap gifts thy register for before thy holy marriage is sacred unto the Lord of Hosts.

For a man should register with the woman and should act as if he cares when he clearly does not.

But a man shall not register with another man - for that is an abomination. Like we discussed earlier when talking about eating lobsters and playing football and unruly teenagers.

I doubt the powers that be at Target changed any of their opinions, they just realized they were missing out on $$$ and figured they would make more by seeming less bigoted to avoid boycotts and having more people sign up for/shop from their registries.

Yes I'm a cynic and I think just about anything any company does is to increase the money in their pocket.

BUT it is nice if the affect of that is less $$ in the pockets of the anti gay causes...tho they may just find a more creative way to fund them without their name tied in. See, cynic. I (partially) blame the morg.

Maybe the powers that be have not changed their minds, but they are no longer using the corporation as a weapon against gays. Instead they are using the corporation to help gays.

Disarming the bigots works for me.

If you don't like a corp's politics, don't patronize them. I don't buy Ben & Jerry's for instance.

All the homosexual groups are doing is bringing Chik-fil-A more free publicity. I hear of people willing to go miles out of their way to eat at a Chidk-fil-A, now. The nearest one to me is 17 miles away on the other end of the city but I'll go there.

http://www.usatoday.com/LIFE/usaedition/2012-04-09-Homophobia-psychology---_ST_U.htm

And as far as I know, the politicians wanting to stop the expansion of cfa are STRAIGHT.



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I didn't say Emmanuel and Menino (et al ... there are probably others, those are just the most famous) were homosexual. They're just power-abusing political thugs jumping on the trendy bandwagon. Not the sort of people I'd want on MY side but apparently the homosexual lobby will take whatever support it can get.

Obama is also apparently against homosexual "marriage" (depending on what day you ask him), so I guess he's a bigot too.

And you have a problem with that?

That is what separates him from bigots, his OPEN MIND and willingness to CHANGE IT when he learns that he is wrong. You should try it some time.



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Wow, that's fucked up even coming from you.

The modern 21st century Fascism.

Sorry, but with that you have shown that it is you that is the closet queen bully.

You really should come out of the closet, it really is better to live an authentic life.

BTW, gays didn't pick the fight with CFA, CFA picked the fight by donating to anti-gay bullies, becoming bullies in the process. Gays standing up to such bullies is self defense, not bulling.



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no-mo-mo Wrote:
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> The modern 21st century Fascism.

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no-mo-mo Wrote:
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> but apparently the homosexual lobby
> will take whatever support it can get.

And that's the way it is. We'd like to score 100%, but 51% is a start.

So there's going to be a bubble of fat rednecks with diabetes in 10 years around the time all states can no longer discriminate against gays (I'm guessing).

Another decade and most CEOs and almost all of the 15 will be dead or drooling into their jammies.

So... people who are against discriminating gays are like people who killed Jews, Gypsies and GAYS... Ok, then.

Apparently no-mo-mo is another one of those idiots who never paid attention in grade school history class.

Yeah... I noticed that... Nazis were not known for being gay friendly...

Most of my FB friends are now boycotting, and they are spread from coast to coast. No doubt their networks of friends are doing the same thing.

My observation is Chick-fil-a is in a definite minority on this, except in the South where they are HQ'd. More than anything, I think their stance reflects provincial thinking. Old ideals die hard in the South.

No kidding, my god, they're still fighting the civil war down here.

I didn't see reinactments of the indian wars when I lived out west but seriously???????

You lost- get over it and move on.

Oh and quit waving your damn bibles around like it's some kind of f***ing constitutional ammendment.

It a stupid book of fairy tails, with extremely questionable moral lessons.

Seriously someone needs to write a new bible and pull it out of some burning bush to get them to evolve morraly and ethically.

Whole thing makes me hate religion

It's sad to see how anti-gay people spew accusations here.

I had a TBM friend, who was extremely anti-gay, come around when he saw a gay friend of mine pass away and his lover was denied the right to visit him in the last few weeks of his life and take care of his funeral. The TBM family of that dying friend REFUSED to let his lover come near him...even at his deathbed.

Does it really have to take a heartbreaking experience like this to turn an anti-gay person around and see what they are doing to gay people?

In my lifetime, yes.

I hope that will not be the life experience of those young enough to be my children.

We haven't gone to chikfila for two years now. Their chicken is good. Too bad they support discrimination against non traditional families.

...I have already been boycotting them for years. Their Xian mission statement and not being open Sundays was enough for me. Make me a chicken sandwich on Sunday and shut the %$#@ up, bigot.

Mission statement: "To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us." What a bunch of nonsense.

That's why they serve genetically-modified poultry in their stores ... LOL!

I have never understood the anti-gay sentiment or why it's so important to some people to not allow others to live the way they want so long as it's not hurting anyone else. It's just un-American. I don't get it, and I never will.

I'll never understand the snarling hatred for people different from them either.



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