She’s saying… “Hesh yer mouth!”
Remember yesterday… how I said I refuse to talk politics?
See, among other things I’m Jewish, but I’ve always respected the fact that Chick-fil-A is closed on Sundays. It’s all right by me. The owners follow their religious convictions.
Hell, in Israel, where I lived for over a year, everything shuts down at sunset on Friday and re-opens at sunset on Saturday so if you’re gonna catch a bus you damn well better do it before sunset on Friday. And I have some hilarious running for the last bus stories in my repertoire. Not to mention obscene. And dangerous.
So… I refuse to take issue with Chick-fil-A’s chicken. Of all fast food joints in existence, they make by far and away the best chicken. There is only one Chick-fil-A restaurant within 40 miles of our town and my kids were in heaven whenever we shopped nearby.
It would always be: ”Where do you all want to get lunch?” And the unanimous answer was always… ”Chick-A-Fil!” Because for some reason we thought the name of the place was Chick-A-Fil. For the longest time I thought we were all dyslexic until my sister called it Chick-A-Fil just yesterday - and she’d never heard of the restaurant until this recent tempest in a teapot.
Here’s what I have to say - Chick-fil-A makes damn good chicken. You wanna kiss in front of Chick-fil-A? Kiss away. Please. I haven’t eaten there for a while, but all this talk of kissing makes me want to go grab some of those great chicken nuggets with dipping sauce and cheer for free speech and free kissing.
Sometimes you just gotta put your lips together and kiss someone.
P.S. Go Oscar Pistorius! Team Pistorius here.
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Can’t remember who said it, but here is it is anyway: “The best way to control the unwashed masses is to give them a common enemy to hate.”
What the Chick-fil-a guy deserved in response was, “What a bozo,” or “”How did someone that dumb get rich?” What he said was obnoxious, but harmless. It has all the teeth-and meaning-of me saying, “God shall smite thee if thou plunders my chocolate stash.”
But the mayors of Boston, Chicago, San Francisco? Those clowns are dangerous, using governmental power to make threats and attempt to control what people say. To control what people think! You give a bully-and all governments are bullies at heart-that kind of power, and we’ll find ourselves in a fascist state and wondering which of our neighbors is going to report us for mouthing an unpopular thought.
Yes, Jaye, I myself am worried about Pol Pot style re-education camps. If you want to ban somebody from doing business in your community, ban the banks that ripped us off. Now there’s a thought!
Can’t go around imposing thoughts and beliefs upon your neighbors. My father, a civil rights attorney, has always said - we may not like it, we may not agree with it, but the beauty of the American system is that even hate groups have the right to free speech - and he marched in the ’60′s with the civil rights groups.
Exactly, Julia and Jaye! March, boycott, kiss, indicate your displeasure in any legal way you wish. But using political power to keep a business out? No.
And I never ate there because…I’m allergic to CHICKEN!
Had to look this up to understand what was going on. What ever happened to live and let live, or turn the other cheek. We have a son who is gay and in a stable relationship and I really haven’t got time for people who bash them. Dislike what others do, but it is their choice to do it.
This is why I really have turned away from religion. You know about the Ireland and problems there. Well is Scotland it was just as bad in terms of the hate but clearly without the bullet and the bomb. my mother was Catholic and my father was protestant. They were both ostracised by their families and in my mothers case from her church and her god. As she got I’ll towards the end of her life she spent a lot of time in hospital and the catholic priest who served the hospital began to ‘take her back into the faith’.
She died, he spoke to me and told me about her finding her faith and suggested that she would like a catholic burial and thatI should go to the local priest where we lived. Without going into to many details I nearly got arrested for nearly hitting him after being turned away and told that as my mother had never attended ‘his’ church she couldn’t have a service there. After a number of interventions by neighbours, he agreed. The funeral was duly held and as we were leaving the church to go the graveyard a number of those same neighbours then apologised for the appalling quickness of the ceremony ……
Religion and it’s warped and twisted beliefs, you can keep them..
The issue is complicated, Tom and there was no gay bashing involved. It really is a tempest in a teapot. The owner of Chick-fil-A is entitled to his opinion regarding marriage. Chick-fil-A does not have a history of discrimination of any kind. However, when you say things in such a polarized situtation you definitely can expect people to react.
The issue these days is that people do not seem to understand we are all entitled to our own opinions. And mayors need to stay out of it. So stupid.
Too bad you’re allergic to chicken, Anny! Chick-fil-A makes great chicken. Yes, boycott, protest, but right, keeping business away from a community? Insane.