The snack wars have just gotten ugly [merged w/ CFA hates gheyz]

[Faith No More]

Did anyone see the Daily Show's bit on this? It was hilarious.

[Reforged]

Anyone want to take a guess at what Publishers Clearing House does? :-P

[Jaysyn]

Anyone want to take a guess at what Publishers Clearing House does? :-P

Gives away large cardboard cheques?

This is a new sock puppet account for Chik-fil-a I take it?

[Reforged]

Anyone want to take a guess at what Publishers Clearing House does? :-P

Gives away large cardboard cheques?

This is a new sock puppet account for Chik-fil-a I take it?

More or less, PCH was implicated in various scams. This was reported on various news channels. This earned the company some rather bad PR.
http://www.corporatenarc.com/PCH-scams.php

I don't think its a sock puppet account solely for Chik-fil-a, I think some sock puppet accounts are made by people hired to boost PR for various companies that need it badly.
Just a theory.

[Jaysyn]

[Creed of Heresy]

Chik-fil-A: sammiches becoming political statement against gays.

Chick-fil-A, the fast-food chain known for putting faith ahead of profits by closing on Sundays, is standing firm in its opposition to gay marriage after touching off a furor earlier this month.

Gay rights groups have called for a boycott, the Jim Henson Co. pulled its Muppet toys from kids' meals, and politicians in Boston and Chicago told the chain it is not welcome there.

Across the Bible Belt, where most of the 1,600 restaurants are situated, Christian conservatives have thrown their support behind the Atlanta-based company, promising to buy chicken sandwiches and waffle fries next week on "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day."

The latest skirmish in the nation's culture wars began when Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy told the Baptist Press that the company was "guilty as charged" for backing "the biblical definition of a family." In a later radio interview, he ratcheted up the rhetoric: "I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, `We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'"

You're inviting the WORLD'S judgment on our nation when you say stupid shit like "we are inviting god's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say 'WE REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY WANT YOU TO BE THERE BECAUSE IF YOU ARE IT MEANS THERE'S A CHANCE THAT YOU'LL AGREE WITH OUR CLOSE-MINDEDNESS, BIGOTRY, AND INABILITY TO ACCEPT ANYONE NOT LIKE US! YOU KNOW, EXACTLY WHAT THE BIBLE TELLS US TO AVOID BEING!'" And the world is judging us all a bunch of retards for his shit!

Still...there's always some hope in the form of the Jim Henson company and the mayors of Chicago and Boston [who had the most like-a-boss thing to say on this to CfA] :

A Chicago alderman vowed to block a Chick-fil-A proposed in his district, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel supported him, saying, "Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values." Boston Mayor Thomas Menino wrote in a letter to Cathy: "There is no place for discrimination on Boston's Freedom Trail and no place for your company alongside it."

In announcing it was pulling its toys, the Jim Henson company said it has "celebrated and embraced diversity for over 50 years." It directed its revenue from the Chick-fil-A toys to GLAAD, a leading gay rights organization.

But of course where you have good, humanistic, TRUE Americans speaking up, you have narrow-minded oppressionist "if you're not like us you're not our equals" twits on the religious side opening their big fucking mouths:

The Rev. Roger Oldham, spokesman for the Southern Baptist Convention, said many Christians want to support businesses owned by fellow believers, and the loyalty intensifies "when Christians see a fellow Christian being persecuted."

"They will come out of the woodwork when a theologically based position is being politicized by individuals for their own purposes," he said.

CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION?! ARE YOU FUCKING-

WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN.

GET THE FUCK.



Religion: Always at the forefront of bigotry, oppression, discrimination, and always the last to cross the finish line when bigotry, oppression, and discrimination are torn down in this country. Women's rights. Anti-slavery. Anti-segregation. Now gay rights. Religion will be the last to cease the bigotry, oppression, and discrimination in this, just as it always has been, and afterwards it will claim to still be a paragon of open-mindedness and acceptance...even though it is the very last thing to become so. Pardon me if I have no intention of giving religions or the sheep that follow them a "spirit award." You bunch of hypocrites; you all disgust me. ~A secular-humanist heterosexual supporter of LGBT rights~

[NoraBrimstone]

Persecution? Oh fuck off.

What is wrong with these people? Why do they want others to suffer? Why can't some people just be against things and not want everyone else to meet their personal standards? I, for example, am against abortion, but do you see me telling others that they should change their lives to suit MY opinions? No. As long as it's not my baby being aborted it's none of my bloody business.

[DeistPaladin]

Bullies are always such crybabies when you hit them back. Christians are no exception. They've spent the last 2000 years murdering, torturing and oppressing both non-believers and rival religions alike and now they're ready to whine about any restraints put on their bullying ways by civilization.

I'll say it again to Christians everywhere: stopping you from oppressing me isn't oppressing you.

[Jaysyn]

I guess you somehow missed the existing thread on Chik-fil-a here.

Please merge, mods.

[Anomalocaris]

Chick fills a what? Bra? Sweater?