Stableford reports: "Scores of same-sex couples celebrated 'National Same-Sex Kiss Day at Chick-fil-A' by kissing each other outside some of the fast-food chain's 1,600 stores on Friday night in protest."
Eduardo Cisneros and Luke Montgomery participate during the nationwide 'kiss-in' at a Chick-fil-A restaurant, 08/03/12. (photo: Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters)
'Same-Sex Kiss Day at Chick-fil-A' Draws Kissing Activists
05 Aug 12
n Wichita, Kansas, the owner of the Chick-fil-A handed out free chicken sandwiches and water to gay rights activists gathered for the kiss-in.
"He was a very nice gentleman," Jeanne de Grasse, one of the sandwich beneficiaries, told Wichita's KAKE-TV. "He was very reasonable, we had a nice dialogue and he shared sandwiches and water with us."
In Decatur, Ga., Chick-fil-A employees served lemonade to the protesters.
In Atlanta, where Chick-fil-A is based, partners Haley Key and Stefania Alon-Key locked lips in front of the Chick-Fil-A restaurant in the CNN Center. (The store, though, was closed.) Outside, Rollin Longino, an activist dressed as Jesus, held a sign that read, "I Had Two Dads and Turned Out All Right!"
In Chicago, Zachary Dickerson, 33, and John Lichtfield, 30, kicked off an early version of the kiss-in, holding a sign that read "We win" as they smooched. A small crowd burst into applause, and others followed suit.
"Dan Cathy is exercising his constitutional right to exercise his opinion," Dickerson, a lawyer, told Yahoo News. "And we are exercising our constitutional right to tell him he's wrong."
Sarah Melzer-Hire, also 33, thought people should know about the goals of the organizations to which Chick-fil-A donates.
"Dan Cathy has the right to say what he wants," she said. "But when it comes to giving money to organizations that believe things as preposterous as gay people should be in prison, deported, or advocating for 'reparative therapy,' an average consumer who thinks they're supporting free speech doesn't know that they're also supporting that kind of oppression."
In Hurst, Texas, Chick-fil-A owner Rich Eager said that a small number of activists showed up to engage in public displays of affection without incident.
In Port Charlotte, Fla., Chick-fil-A operator Edward Leslie went table to table collecting trash and filling drink refills, but as of 8 p.m., there were no signs of protesters. "We will gladly serve everybody and provide them some great food," Leslie said.
On Wednesday, following several weeks of protests and catcalls from progressive mayors aimed at Chick-fil-A, supporters of the fast-food chain-and traditional marriage-turned out in droves, jamming many of Chick-fil-A's 1,600 U.S. stores. And gay rights activists, for the most part, stayed away.
One protester, though, was fired from his job as a chief financial officer at a Tucson, Ariz., medical device manufacturer after a video he shot of himself bullying a Chick-fil-A drive-thru employee went viral.
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So our fellow citizens don't deserve equal rights, just because you don't agree with their protest? WOW, not very equal in your support of their "constitutional right to free speech" only his, right?
And FYI, if you do a little research you'll see there are lawsuits against the company for discrimination. ..
Welcome to the ranks of the conformists.
Being a "Family owned business" is no excuse for wanton bigotry -and I'll just about bet my kilted toosh that that company's chickens are battery, so don't give me the
I have a Lesbian daughter and take ALL attacks on GLBT rights as an attack on she and her partner -you have no idea what it like to have any rights at all in this medievalist country for those outside the "Norm" whatever the Hell that is!
Maybe ask your Mr McConnel what he thinks for an opinion on high -he'd take all rights away from all of us!
B.T.W., I am the proud and loving father of a lesbian daughter and can tell you that she and her partner have enough trouble getting any rights at all as a couple without having crap like the Chick-Foul-'A trash thrown at them and their ilk.
What the Hell would you know about these thing from your apparently shallow in-words-only so-called "support" for that which you don't even begin to comprehend.
Now THAT'S "Immaturity".
You must be of the ilk of the appalling Ann Coulter, who tried to rationalize the position of the perpe-traitors (sp' deliberate) -as she would in her deeply reactionary and utterly predictable way.
Kiss-kiss!
Sorry that I did a double-post. Thought that I'd lost my first one so went back to what i remebered of the original and added a few points. So yet again, 'scuse humble dyslexic typing non-skills.
Take yer pick of what's left.
Ultimately, a boycott - a social action - is powerful only to the degree that a set of individual decisions (not to buy) is maintained. The individuals originating and maintaining the boycott have the right, even the obligation, to publicize it and encourage others to join. I won't contribute dollars to people who want to do me harm. Nor should you.
I actually would enjoy a nice Chik-Fil-A sandwich right about now, but I refuse to eat there until they acknowledge that my friend since childhood has the right to marry the man who makes him smile so much, and until they stop providing a such a 'family-friendl y' mob to flock to for people like his parents, who told him 'we can't pretend there's nothing wrong with you. We never want to see you again.'
Mr. Cathy, there's something wrong with YOU, and the people like you, and I regret having ever spent money on your product. The fact that said product is so damnably delicious, well, that's just twisting the knife.
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