Good As You: ChickFila Controversy Roundup
10/04/2012
Will Chick-fil-A's WinShape Retreat accept my money (and my marriage)?
In recent responses to its controversies, Chick-fil-A and the man at the center of the storm, Dan Cathy, have referred to the WinShape Foundation's programs as its only real focus in the area of marriage. So I, a legally married...
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09/28/2012
'And even an armed gunman'—NOM shamelessly equates Chick-fil-action with crazed violence
I've already shown you how the National Organization for "Driving a Wedge between Blacks and Gays" is using its new "Save The Republic & Marriage" site to make the unbelievably claim that its cause is like that of slavery's abolitionists....
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09/19/2012
Report: Chick-fil-A more bothered by recent controversy than supporters wanted you to believe
According to the Chicago-based Civil Rights Agenda, Chick-fil-A has made some drastic changes to its policies. Press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Chick-fil-A Ceases Anti-gay Donations, Clarifies Stance on Gay Customers & Employees September 18, 2012 – Chicago, Illinois – The...
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08/08/2012
Chicago Chick-fil-A supporters to defend company by calling gays 'evil'
Peter "we must re-stigmatize homosexuality" LaBarbera on his planned demonstration tonight at a Chicago area Chick-fil-A: Our banner reads: “We Stand with Chick-fil-A: Marriage Is One Man, One Woman.” Please join me and a few hardy souls in defending this...
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08/07/2012
NOM continues to co-opt Chick-fil-A brand; Chick-fil-A silent
This is from the National Organization For Marriage's latest fundraising blast: NOM and Chick-fil-A are allies in calling people like me "thugs"? Allies in putting legal marriages like mine in smear quotes? Allies in helping NOM raise money? Allies in...
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08/03/2012
Just some (final?) perspective on Chick-filled-cray-cray
For every person who showed up at a fast food chain this week to "send a message" to us "prideful, arrogant" voices of equality for all American citizens, there were hundreds of thousands of others who wouldn't have been caught...
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National Organization for [Marrying Political Activism to Fast Food]
Not only is America's number one source of discrimination now co-branding its logos with a certain fast food chain, but one can no longer even enter NOM's website without first being greeted with this: For NOM, the agenda is obvious....
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It's not just Dan Cathy: Press outreach guy on board of pro-'ex-gay' Family Life #Chickfila
The man who is speaking to the press about this… …is one of seven members of the board…. [Board of Directors] …of an organization whose outreach to gay people looks and sounds like this: (Pastor Robert Lewis speaking) [FULL AUDIO...
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08/02/2012
Audio: Companies should focus only on business (*unless they are against gays)
Such logic: [Liberty Counsel]
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Video: The worst Chick-fil-A ad ever made (featuring Pat Boone)
Same-sex marriage is a logical step towards polyandry, Leviticus is good fast food policy (hey, they don't serve shrimp), gays are akin to rapists and murderers, Pat Boone loves us but not our lifestyles, "flamboyant" gays should not be in...
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Bryan Fischer pits that fast food company against 'sodomy-besotted media', 'crime against nature'
From the American Family Association's most visible face: "Despite the constant bleating and bloating of a sodomy-besotted media, the American people know that marriage is an institution created and designed by God. What God has defined, man must not redefine....
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NOM & @ChickFilA: Co-branded
If I was a fast food company trying to get beyond controversy, I'd probably be reluctant to see the nation's number one, highly controversial opponent of LGBT rights in this country—whose asks include both state and federal bans of gay...
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Photo: The different between a sit-out and a ban #ChickFilADay
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Gay Chick-fil-A worker 'takes back' prior defense; thanks, Huckabee!
Another change of feelings brought on by yesterday's Hucka-stunt: A Gay Chick-fil-A Employee Speaks Out [Daily Beast]
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Video: 'Spiritual battle' begins at Chick-fil-A
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Dan Cathy deliberately poking hornet's nest
He may say he's "keeping the main thing, the main thing" and act like he wants nothing to do with the controversy that he started. But check out this tweet from Rick Warren: Yeah? Placing boastful calls to a man...
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08/01/2012
'I have changed my mind' on @ChickFilA (P.S. this is happening all across America)
Because of the overplayed hand of Mike Huckabee and the National Organization For Marriage, Josh Ozersky now gets it. He is representative of millions—trust me, I've had a very good traffic day—who are increasingly clued in: But after hearing what...
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Mike Huckabee: 'The bloggers' 'viciously celebrated' death of Chick-fil-A PR head
If you go over to Huffington Post, you will find a round up of numerous Twitter users blaming gays for killing Chick-fil-A's head of PR: [Huff Po] And if you go over to my Twitter wall from Friday, you will...
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Video: Chick-fil-A supporter says debate is fulfillment of biblical prophecy #SodomAndWaffleFries
Judgement is coming to our too-gay world and the Chick-fil-A debate is just more proof:
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'Don't be a f*g, eat Chick-fil-A today'
What some of the Chick-fil-A Appreciation day is looking like: Someday this whole fiasco will be studied in Corporate PR classes.
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Chick-fil-A is now and forever an anti-marriage-equality restaurant; that's the message that transcends today
To a person, the people in this video say they are at this Pennsylvania Chick-fil-A because of "traditional marriage": That's why I've been saying all along that in side some corporate offices, there are surely people who are smacking their...
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Agreed, @MichaelRJoyce! And here's @DanCathy's 'different view' about gays and God's judgment #ChickFilADay
Well I can assure you that you're not telling anyone to shut up (and ironic thing for a supposed free speech to seek). But I do agree that people can hold different views, which is precisely why I've been so...
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Transcript from my morning CNN appearance (video forthcoming)
Jeremy Hooper is a popular blogger and political consultant for GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation campaign. Thanks for being here. JEREMY HOOPER, POLITICAL CONSULTANT, GLAAD: Great to be with you. COSTELLO: Jeremy, last hour we talked to...
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Sen. Graham nabs hot Chick; stands with notion that gays shake fist at God, bring judgment on nation
What the GOP Senator is supporting, tacitly or explicitly: DAN CATHY, president and COO of Chick-fil-A:"It's very clear in Romans chapter 1, if we look at society today, we see all the twisted up kind of stuff that's going on....
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07/31/2012
Chick-fil-A repeats same talking points, this time on main website
Recently posted to Chick-fil-A.com: [Chick-fil-A.com] More of the same. Of course no one with the company has dared to answer the ONLY QUESTION that really matters, which is: "Does the Cathy family (i.e. the main profiteers from this fast food...
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On death penalties, fast food, and the suspect tastiness of felt puppets
Last month, I brought you audio of a pastor named Kevin Swanson and his co-host, Dave Bruehner, blaming Carrie Underwood's support for marriage equality on her blonde hair and vegan diet. Now this: During his Friday radio broadcast, Kevin Swanson...
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07/30/2012
Whitebriar Bed & Breakfast in Edgewater, NJ: God invented AIDS to punish gays; 'there were no queers in our time'
Joianne Fraschilla shared this message, which seemingly comes from WhiteBriar Bed & Breakfast owner Carole Lokan-Moore: [SOURCE: Camp WhiteBriar @ WhiteBriar Bed and Breakfast—Facebook] SEE ALSO: Joianne's Change.org petition And surprise, surprise—this same WhiteBriar Bed and Breakfast will be celebrating...
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NOM ally Mike Huckabee doesn't support NOM's Starbucks boycott
From Focus on the Family's Citizenlink: MIKE HUCKABEE: Instead of having an honest, rational, intellectually sound discussion about whether the COO of a company should be able to make statements, whether it’s Dan Cathy at Chick-fil-A or Howard Schultz at...
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Video: 'Filthy f*ggots' composer raps with Chick-Fil-A
The Internet user "GodGunsGutsGlory" is known for writing and performing songs like "filthy f*ggots"... *SEE MORE: GGG's startling website Now, Brandon K. Thorp at Towleroad tips up to this new video where this very same person vistas Chick-fil-A and shares...
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07/27/2012
Pastor Aaron Fruh: Gay marriage forced Noah to take up sailing
Chick-fil-A defender says Dan Cathy was right to say gays bring God's judgement: "God knew that the people of the earth were going to destroy themselves through same-sex marriage,” Fruh said, “so that’s why he brought the flood.” Gay Marriage...
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Alan Chambers: Chick-fil-A has donated to 'ex-gay' Exodus for seven years!
If true, this is HUGE: [Alan Chambers' blog] A few things. One, this is direct financing to programs that say gays can and should change. There is no denying that this goes WAY beyond marriage. It also goes WAY beyond...
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Mike Huckabee won't defend what Dan Cathy *actually* said; because he can't, knows it'd drain support
Mike Huckabee may think the anti-gay parts of the Bible are lock solid. However, he better also hope that the bear false witness parts are a lie. Listen to this unbelievably misrepresentative assessment of the Chick-fil-A situation: SOURCE: Washington Watch...
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Chick-fil-A's latest unhelpful defender: Man who admits he'd like to 're-stigmatize' gays
This is Peter LaBarbera's admitted position on homosexuality: MORE: Peter LaBarbera [GLAAD CAP] So while I know he thinks he's doing the company a solid, I would imagine that even a less-than-accepting company like Chick-fil-A would be reluctant to accept...
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How the fast food debate would've played out if the intent was tolerant
Knowing of the Thick-chil-I COO's strong opinions on the subject, a local paper recently asked fast food magnate Cathy Dan about supporting same-sex marriage. "Guilty as charged," she replied in a calm, principled tone. A few days later, LGBT blogger...
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07/26/2012
Bryan Fischer continues to think he's helping Chick-Fil-A; isn't
From the American Family Association's most incendiary (and most visible) spokesperson, Bryan Fischer: Also from Bryan Fischer, the idea that "norma-phobic" gays are like terrorists who can cause tragedies like 9/11: SOURCE: AFA Radio SOURCE: AFA Radio Has a company...
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From the official page of the Southwest Tea Party (@chickfila, #EatChickFilA)
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NOM photos suggest packed [trucks in front of the Chick-fil-A one]
First let me say that I totally expect Chick-fil-A to experience a sales bump. Evangelicals and like minds will show up in full force just to "send a message" to those "mean" gays and allies. Even with the sit outs,...
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07/25/2012
Listen: Huckabee, NOM defend saying gays invoke God's judgment
This is what the Chick-fil-A president and COO actually said: DAN CATHY, president and COO of Chick-fil-A:"It's very clear in Romans chapter 1, if we look at society today, we see all the twisted up kind of stuff that's going...
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Video: Focus on the Family 'explains' what 'shaking a fist at God' means
Dan Cathy's comments about gay people are pretty damn clear: DAN CATHY: (1:05)"…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...
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07/24/2012
(EXCLUSIVE) More from Chick-fil-A's prez: 'Redefinition of marriage' is 'twisted up stuff'; God left us 'victim to the foolishness of our own thoughts'; 'a deprived mind'
DAN CATHY, president and COO of Chick-fil-A:"It's very clear in Romans chapter 1, if we look at society today, we see all the twisted up kind of stuff that's going on. Washington trying to redefine the definition of marriage and...
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Chick-fil-A defenders won't (can't?) defend what Dan Cathy actually said (NOM edition)
This is the National Organization For Marriage's Jonathan Baker speaking to the American Family Association about how Chick-fil-A has supposedly engaged on marriage: "They've not done it in an objectionable fashion. They've not denigrated people. They simply shared that they...
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Okay, Esther Fleece—let's talk about biased #chickfila reporting
A week ago, I showed you how Focus on the Family's young people outreach person, Esther Fleece, was trying to frame those of us who have covered the Chick-fil-A controversy as being unbalanced, unfair, and generally skewed: As I noted...
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Another thing that's always driven me crazy about Chick-fil-A...
…is that the cows that they have taken it upon themselves to position as bad spellers are actually dairy cows: This long-running campaign's obvious goal is to dissuade customers from beef by having photogenic cattle sell out their fowl friends....
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07/23/2012
FRC lies about Chick-fil-A; chickens.
The latest FRC email blast: Except not at all, you deliberate bearers of false witness! *THIS* is what has shocked so many people: DAN CATHY: (1:05)"…I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist...
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Chick-fil-A supporter: 'Norma-phobic' gays are 'like Ahmadinejad with Israel'
First, Bryan Fischer reminds us of the startlingly brutal things that Dan Cathy actually said, as well as the fact that the president and COO has not apologized for any of them. Then the American Family Association's most visible and...
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Why the 'pro-family' forces fib (tell a lie long enough…)
I was struck by this comment on the National Organization For Marriage's blog from a reader who trusted NOM to clue her in to some semblance of truth: Well commenter, you likely had no clue because this is a complete...
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Audio: The National Organization For Marriage thinks it's courageous to say gays 'shake fist at God'
Not only is NOM's claim of "neutrality" now forever neutralized, but the once-pragmatic organization is now immortalized as being okay with saying gay people shake their fists at God and bring forth holy judgement: AUDIO SOURCE: Dan Cathy [Ken Coleman...
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07/20/2012
Why I will not be appearing on The Ken Coleman Show (regrettably, I might add)
The ask: Jeremy, Hey, hope you are well. Id love to have you on my show tomorrow. It is live from 2-4 pm ET. If you can do it I'd love to chat briefly today so you know what the...
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Chick-fil-A's new booster: Man who says gays are 'particularly evil lie of Satan'
First it was Bryan Fischer, who used words like "sulfurous fires of hell" (and even worse) to defend the fast food franchise. Now we get Glenn Stanton, the Focus on the Family senior official who is known for saying this…....
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07/19/2012
Audio: Fischer says @chickfila has evoked 'sulfurous fires of hell from the Big Gay' 'Gods'; gays lead to jihad
Conservative writer Warren Throckmorton has described Bryan Fischer as to the right of Jerry Falwell. Today the AFA Radio host played the role well, when he said that Jerry Falwell should not have walked back his comments about gays causing...
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