Having a number of errands to run today, I was able to adjust my route to pass by the Hollywood Chick-fil-A to snap a few pictures at about 3 PM local time. I spoke with Alex, the local manager; she reported a brisker than usual business today:
FROM THE COMMENTS: Brian doesn’t “think these crowds care much about gay marriage one way or the other. They’re opposing left-wing thug tactics and supporting the 1st Amendment & liberty.” Seems the way it was this afternoon in Hollywood.
Now, there were some protestors, a total of 5 — and this at the corner of Sunset and Highland deep in the heart of blue America:
And one of their number couldn’t resist using the favorite word of the politically correct gay activist:
He gave me his permission to snap the picture. And there was security there:
That said, the business remained brisk:
UPDATE: Meanwhile in Alabama,
Huntsville YouTube sensation Antoine Dodson is gay, and today he wanted a spicy chicken sandwich for lunch.
As for wading through the crowd at the Chick-fil-A on Whitesburg Drive supporting the company’s opposition to gay marriage, Dodson says, “That’s what freedom is.”
Fairfield, California had a wonderful turnout. It took hours to get food!
This boycott is working about as well as the one against Rush Limbaugh.
Gee, you never hear that one anymore….
Pictures on WTVN’s facebook page show brisk business here too.
Meanwhile on the 9th floor of the McDonald’s headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois the board of directors discuss their new business strategy called ‘We Don’t Heart Gays.’
Meanwhile on the 9th floor of the McDonald’s headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois the board of directors discuss their new business strategy called ‘We Don’t Heart Gays.’
BINGO!!!
Question of the day: How many fast food execs ran to their bosses and said “I REALLY think we need to support traditional marriage” BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
The line to get in was around the block at the one in Frederick MD tonight, but despite the wait, everybody was in a jolly mood. Even the harried employees were happy and cheerful.
Compare and contrast with the anger and bitterness of the left.
No protesters in Hoover, AL. None. But the business was packed; it was 2 or 3 times more full than one finds on Black Friday!
The Alabama reporter got it wrong, in my opinion. I don’t think these crowds care much about gay marriage one way or the other. They’re opposing left-wing thug tactics and supporting the 1st Amendment & liberty.
from the Facebook post of a fraternity brother (and a gay friend). A very freedom point of view-
“So Chick Fil A doesnt condone gay marriage. I dont condone fast food chicken. It’s America-all this means is they aren’t catering my wedding”
I tried to eat at Chick-fil-a, but couldn’t even get onto the property, it was that packed. Then I was listening to local news radio and they were giving Chick-fil-a updates with the traffic alerts … lol
Oh the leftists on my Facebook timeline are now really frothing after the boycott was a major fail. They’re starting to trot out a Huffington Post article about gay employees of Chick-fil-A and how they’re having to put up with customers thanking them for being anti-gay. Of course the comments are predictable.. oh you know – those Christians again with their “fictitious book” spewing hate. Oh and how they were “brainwashed” in to thinking this was a free speech issue.
If any of the folks who turned out at Chick-Fill-A today had pooped on a cop car, sold drugs in the Chick-Fill-A parking lot, or raped one of the women waiting in line they’d be the darlings of the mainstream media and liberal politicians.
I keep seeing FB comments from liberals about the opinion of “white, Christian men”. What about the black Christians that liberals always seem to pretend don’t exist?
Drove by the Chick-fil-A (that’s actually kinda unweildly when you’re typing) and there were about 8 cars on the street out front waiting to pull in. There was probably about 50(?) or so people standing outside the front door. This is after 2100 on a weeknight in Lakeland, FL.
#12 Or banged an intern in the dining room or sexted a picture of their dick on the table.
The worrysome part for Democrats about this should be if people are passionate enough to stand on line or wait in a drive-through on a hot summer day for an hour or more for a chicken sandwich and waffle fries to make a point, odds are they’re going to be passionate enough to make sure the vote on Nov. 6.
And there’s probably a good chance they’re not voting for you.
#15 BINGO!!!!!
Had the same thought today waiting in line for a chicken sandwich.
Thanks, Blaster_84. I needed a good laugh. I might have to steal that.
For me this boycott will be like the Coors boycott (remember that?) I won’t have to alter my lifestyle one bit. I practically never visit Chicago or Boston as it is.
I’ve only been as far north as Cinci and Reagan Natl. and I’m not in a hurry to get back to either one. Indianapolis was nice though. Kinda reminded me of some Southern locales I’ve been to.
Chicago can burn (again) for all I care.
I was at an Albuquerque Chick-Fil-A. The line outside took an hour to get inside, even though the employees were working as fast as they could–with smiles. Met a Scottish immigrant and a judge running for election while talking with my fellow line waiters. I’m definitely voting for the judge and am telling my friends who he is. Usually we just say against all judges.
The real irony is the CEO’s gay views really are not all that popular, but the extreme fascist speech suppression tactics of the left ended up turning what many still think of as an anti gay bigot into a fearless champion of free speech. When will the left finally learn to slowly build concensus and political support, and ally themselves with libertarians who consistently defend freedom, including free speech, as the NRA did on gun control, instead of their dirty speech suppression tactics. The left managed to turn many libertarians and centrists, who ordinarily might have been sympathetic to gay mariage, into defenders of chick filla.
Absolutely not true.
Despite how the issue polls (and it doesn’t even poll at 50%), in the 32 states that have put ‘gay marriage’ up for a vote, it has lost EVERY TIME. Current batting averages: for traditional marriage – 1.000, for ‘gay marriage’: .000
When are the advocates of same-sex marriage going to stop their Kabuki dancing around that one?
The cold hard fact is that the centuries old definition and understanding of marriage is held by many more people than those who howl, wail, shriek, whine, cry, piss and moan that it should be broadened to include same sex couples.
And this latest fiasco of leftist politicians threatening fascist tactics against those who hold the centuries old view has blown up in their wretched faces and isn’t likely to persuade more people to jump on the ‘gay marriage’ bandwagon.
Never.
The Obama Party and LGBT community are gatherings of ideologues who are convinced that they are right and that everyone else is not only wrong, but evil.
If something is not theirs, they will confiscate it.
If confiscation is resisted, they will destroy those who resist.
The Obama Party and LGBT community depend for their existence solely on the virtues of others. They need the value other peoples’ work creates, the money other people earn, and the decency of others to not return evil for evil in order to survive.
Take away any of those things, and they wither and die.
TO: The Hatefilled Homosexual Community
RE: Love, Anyone?
I have to wonder at the behavior of the homosexuals who ‘hate’ Chik-fil-A. What motivates it? And what does it gain them?
I can recognize one reason for their hatred. It’s hatred of God. And God is something they just can’t overcome. However, they CAN attack the ‘messengers’.
But then again, what good does that do them, as it only adds to the ‘talley’ of their sin…..killing the messengers.
On the other hand, how would they react to someone staggering out of a bar, fumbling for their car-keys? Would they decry the patent danger-to-society of such?
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Gay is a one-word oxymoron.]
P.S. Homosexuals can behave as they will…within the confines of the Law of the Land, e.g., no rapes, no pederasty, no murders, no cannibalism, etc.
But to suppress the freedom of speech of others because they don’t care to hear the message is anathema to the Constitution of the United States.
And THAT makes them “enemies domestic”…..
Chuck Pelto:
Don’t paint people with same-sex attractions with such a broad brush. They fall into a lot of subgroups, and only a minority of that already tiny group matches the way you describe them (“enemies domestic” and whatnot). I grant that that minority is typically loud and in-your-face out of proportion to their numbers, but that’s a common phenomenon in all segments of society.
In fact it’s their (generally heterosexual, if antinomian) left-progressive supporters in government and the media who’re the most aggressive (e.g. the alderman who started this hoopla). And that’s because the politicians like a fight because it brings out the votes, and the media likes a fight because it draws eyeballs to their product.
So, if you’re going to call mutual masturbation between two same-gender persons an objectively disordered sexual act, go right ahead. It’s a good, philosophically sound argument with thousands of years’ history behind it and is probably the best way to explain the Judeo-Christian moral claim to a skeptical and cynical audience.
It also is no respecter of persons: It joins masturbating to porn and various other hetero “favorites” in the category of disordered sexual acts, leaving very few modern persons able to throw the first stone. (And, by-the-by, there are ways to indicate that you still respect the person’s humanity even while you characterize their behavior as sinful.)
But try not to sound like a stereotype or caricature, eh? Especially not a stereotype or caricature of the dimwitted Bible-thumper who’s incapable of effectively evangelizing because he’s too busy throwing stones. Why be a Pharisee when you could just be a Christian?
TO: Questioner
RE: Broad Brush?
Don’t paint people with same-sex attractions with such a broad brush. — Questioner
Hardly a ‘broad brush’, based on personal experience. I’ve yet to meet a homosexual that was TRULY ‘happy’. We’ve a couple down the street here who are opposed to just about everything the neighborhood association presents that would improve the value and quality of life in our part of this city. They represent the sort of people reported as of yesterday at the Hollywood Chik-fil-A. On the other hand, elsewhere, the ‘air’ of another couple has a sense of false gaiety that is palpable.
That’s just locally. Compared to 60+ years of personal experience elsewhere and in different venues, to include being a young paratrooper in the 70s.
Gay Patriot seems to be in a superior mental state compared most others I’ve encountered in Life and on the web.
How so, do I say such? Because I cannot count the number of web-sites I’ve been ‘killed’ on for expressing the same sentiments as I have here regarding sexual orientation.
I, as well as any other honest-to-God christian, don’t hate homosexuals. I feel sadness for what they are doing to themselves. Like I feel sadness for the people in abortion mills that murder the most innocent of US all.
I know very well….based on numerous experiences with God, and occasional brushes with elements of that other camp, that He exists and He WILL ‘judge’ each and every one of us according to His Law. And….to quote Mr. T….
I pity the fool….
….who remains ‘stupid’, i.e., (1) ignorant and (2) proud of it, regarding His ‘Love’.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[God builds His temples in the hearts of men, on the ruins of churches and religions.]
Christians hate gay as much as Gay Marriage Advocates hate Hetros. Defending traditional marriage do not mean you hate gay. Social issues have always been a silly argument. There is no right or wrong, evil or good, they’re simply opinions like tea or coffee
P.S. Try to avoid putting words I have not spoken into my mouth. It makes you look….’unattractive’….
TO: oic
RE: Heh
There is no right or wrong, evil or good, they’re simply opinions like tea or coffee. — oic
Then why don’t you (1) go out, (2) get drunk and (3) go out and drive your car into a crowd of innocent pedestrians.
In YOUR ‘universe’—as stated above—there IS no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’. No ‘evil’ or ‘good’.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[The Truth will out….even from those who couldn’t recognize it if it kissed them on the cheek….]