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Sheeniac
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As a devout Catholic, I try to abstain every Friday from meat. I travel for work, and have limited meal options. But today, I sought out a Chick-Fil-A for lunch. It was packed. I feel I’ve shown just a little support for a company under the gun for the owner daring to utter Christian beliefs.
I’ll be in the area of the Chick-Fil-A one Friday a month for the next several months. My Friday practice on that day will be an extra donation to a Catholic charity.
I’ll be in the area of the Chick-Fil-A one Friday a month for the next several months. My Friday practice on that day will be an extra donation to a Catholic charity.
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oneofmany
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Those who support “gay marriage” have every right not to eat at Chick-fil-A. They can even boycott it if they want to, we live in a free country.
As a Christian I won’t give money to companies who support Planned Parenthood. I won’t give to the Komen charity since they backed down when they got heat for not giving money to PP. My husband refused to shop at Target for a long time when he thought they gave a huge amount to PP but we now shop there when we found out they don’t give to PP.
We get a voting guide telling us who is pro-life and that affects our voting. I wish we could know more about companies and then we can decide who to support and who to avoid.
I don’t think mayors and government people should get involved in any of this though. There will be people in their cities who are for Chick-fil-A and those who are against. Let the people decide.
As a Christian I won’t give money to companies who support Planned Parenthood. I won’t give to the Komen charity since they backed down when they got heat for not giving money to PP. My husband refused to shop at Target for a long time when he thought they gave a huge amount to PP but we now shop there when we found out they don’t give to PP.
We get a voting guide telling us who is pro-life and that affects our voting. I wish we could know more about companies and then we can decide who to support and who to avoid.
I don’t think mayors and government people should get involved in any of this though. There will be people in their cities who are for Chick-fil-A and those who are against. Let the people decide.
The head of Chick-fil-A’s public-relations division died Friday, a person familiar with the situation said.
The Atlanta-based fast-food chain has been the focus of a public backlash since its president and chief operating officer, Dan Cathy, said last week that he didn’t support same-sex marriage. Activists have protested at Chick-fil-A restaurants, and local officials in Chicago and Boston have publicly said they don’t want the company to open new outlets in their cities.
Donald Perry, Chick-fil-A’s vice president of corporate public relations, died of a heart attack Friday morning, according to television-news station WRBL News 3 in Columbus, Ga., which cited Mr. Cathy for the information. A person familiar with the situation confirmed that Mr. Perry had died, but spoke on the condition of anonymity pending an official statement from the company.
Washington Post
The Atlanta-based fast-food chain has been the focus of a public backlash since its president and chief operating officer, Dan Cathy, said last week that he didn’t support same-sex marriage. Activists have protested at Chick-fil-A restaurants, and local officials in Chicago and Boston have publicly said they don’t want the company to open new outlets in their cities.
Donald Perry, Chick-fil-A’s vice president of corporate public relations, died of a heart attack Friday morning, according to television-news station WRBL News 3 in Columbus, Ga., which cited Mr. Cathy for the information. A person familiar with the situation confirmed that Mr. Perry had died, but spoke on the condition of anonymity pending an official statement from the company.
Washington Post
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Seeker1961
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How your comment relates to anything I said is a mystery to me.
The only thing I can come up with is that you are upset about the fact that people who disagree with the Catholic position have the same right to boycott, protest and express their opinion as you do. If that is the case, then yes, you might need to hide in the parish so you would only have to encounter people who believe exactly as you do.
Believe me, I have known what Catholic people think about gays for a LONG time. Thankfully, I found a few Catholics who were more willing to show me the love of Christ than their mastery of Church teaching. Through them, I was able to meet a God who loves me as I am, but loves me too much to leave me that way. They led me to a God who made me WANT to change my life and my behavior.
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CatholicBoy1957
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Here’s a link to an Atlanta news source about Perry:
ajc.com/business/chick-fil-a-public-1486023.html
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord.
Hopefully, he was among those that the Cathy’s evangelized. If he went to Heaven, it’s a better place.
BTW, I noticed that the article has mention about a “kiss-in” scheduled for August 3.
ajc.com/business/chick-fil-a-public-1486023.html
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord.
Hopefully, he was among those that the Cathy’s evangelized. If he went to Heaven, it’s a better place.
BTW, I noticed that the article has mention about a “kiss-in” scheduled for August 3.
Not to the person with the migraine.
But that is an emotional response that I fully understand.
I am so grateful you found people who are lovnig to support you. I am a heterosexual single woman who recently went through catechism and confirmation. I get the impression from a lot of laity that it’s more acceptable to be sexually immora if you are a straight person … It’s really upsetting to me as sin is sin, and we are all sinners ! As for Disney offering 2-4-1, we are supposed to do good to those who do evil …ALSO KNOWN AS, to cause God’s wrath due to unrepentance. God bless you !How your comment relates to anything I said is a mystery to me.
The only thing I can come up with is that you are upset about the fact that people who disagree with the Catholic position have the same right to boycott, protest and express their opinion as you do. If that is the case, then yes, you might need to hide in the parish so you would only have to encounter people who believe exactly as you do.
Believe me, I have known what Catholic people think about gays for a LONG time. Thankfully, I found a few Catholics who were more willing to show me the love of Christ than their mastery of Church teaching. Through them, I was able to meet a God who loves me as I am, but loves me too much to leave me that way. They led me to a God who made me WANT to change my life and my behavior.
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CatholicBoy1957
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This must be the offending section of the article (click here) in question:
No mention of Gays specifically. This could be construed as a slam against whores and whoremongers. Why isn’t there a boycott being organized by whores and whoremongers?
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Dawnia
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Or single parents, couples who are shacked up together, single people…all are not traditional families
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Seeker1961
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Chick Fil A never donated money to an organization that claimed to cure adulterers.Or single parents, couples who are shacked up together, single people…all are not traditional families
Why is everyone trying to give this guy an out so he can say “gee, I am so sorry, I didn’t mean gay marriage!”. I thought that it was a good thing that he spoke out against gay marriage?
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estesbob
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The owner did. He has contributed lots of money to his Church. Like our Church it claims it can cure adultery.
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Dawnia
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I highly doubt he would claim he wasn’t talking about gay marriage, because that by definition is a non-traditional family.
No one seemed to have problem with his donation to non-progay organizations or his position on family until this interview. The company has been around since 1967 and people are just now getting around to being offended? Seems rather phoney.
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TracerBullet
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And just because a person has AIDS doesn’t mean they are homosexual.Luckily it is not a dilemma – you can avoid AIDS & migraines by becoming informed and avoiding things that cause them
And BTW, just because a person get migraines doesn’t mean they are homosexual…
Or that being homosexual causes them migraines (altho I have heard of the migraines occuring after (and perhaps bec of) sex…but it didn’t specify whether it was only homo sex or also sex in a trad marriage)
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Mickey
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LOL! That’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.
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stewstew03
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Oh, well that’s easy enough to clear up. You said this, addressing Catholics on this thread:How your comment relates to anything I said is a mystery to me.
The only thing I can come up with is that you are upset about the fact that people who disagree with the Catholic position have the same right to boycott, protest and express their opinion as you do. If that is the case, then yes, you might need to hide in the parish so you would only have to encounter people who believe exactly as you do.
Believe me, I have known what Catholic people think about gays for a LONG time. Thankfully, I found a few Catholics who were more willing to show me the love of Christ than their mastery of Church teaching. Through them, I was able to meet a God who loves me as I am, but loves me too much to leave me that way. They led me to a God who made me WANT to change my life and my behavior.
“…don’t moan and cry when people don’t agree with your values. Everyone here complains vociferously about gay people who protest, who complain about not having equal rights and so on-so don’t imitate them! Don’t adopt a victim mentality everytime someone disagrees with your position.”
So, my response to you is:
“You have trivialized the matter in an effort to make us feel small - as if this is much ado about nothing and we should just crawl back into our parishes and get over it already. If you would like to live up to your username, I suggest that you truly seek what this controversy is about, and please try to avoid trivializing your brothers’ and sisters’ points of view.”
However, putting that aside, I am pleased that you have found a Church home.
Stay strong in your faith and God bless…
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Scott_Lafrance
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The Church can’t, but she teaches that Jesus can.
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SgtSchultz
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That’s why radical homosexualists coined the term "homophobia’.
So this guy has the right to name days? Who gives him that power? I’m going to name 30 July “John Banner Day”. All must do their best to impersonate and pay honour to the man who suffered Nazi aggression and later played one to make people reconcile their lives and have some fun.Mike Huckabee announced August 1st as an official Chik-fil-A day for standing up for their beliefs pubicly…no CFA in my small town but I may drive the 45min to eat at one on that day
Indeed. Anything that doesn’t 100% support the homosexual “lifestyle” is seen as being “anti-gay”. It’s an attitude of “if you’re not with us, you’re against us” that Stalin, Bush, or any other blowhard ideologue would be proud of.
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Catholic confab looks beyond the gaffes
washingtonexaminer.com/catholic-confab-looks-beyond-the-gaffes/article/2503449
washingtonexaminer.com/catholic-confab-looks-beyond-the-gaffes/article/2503449
He took it upon himself.
And based upon the emails and the facebook pages, it would seem a great many other people agree.
You can name a day anything else you wish. If you get enough people to agree, then it may happen.
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