Great News!!! Chick Fil A in Reading Mall.

[f1restarter]

Good news first: Makers of one of the most delicious chicken sandwiches has recently opened their store at the Oracle Mall in Reading!!

Bad news: LGBT has pressurised the Oracle mall not to renew the 6 month initial lease and so the restaurant will be closed after 5 months.

Please show your support for Chick fil A by contacting: [e-mail]

[ZedLeg]

Oh no I guess you’ll have to get your fried chicken at one of the thousand chicken shops that doesn’t fund conversion therapy.

[JakeT]

I'm a bit torn about this, as I really do like fried chicken.

BUT

I also really don't like the fact that's the owners of the chain have been known to be so anti LGBT.

I live near enough to Reading to go in and try it, and I might do, but it doesn't sit right, spending the money there. Normally I don't care what people believe, but I'd avoid a company that's had such a past with this sort of thing.

[f1restarter]

Funny, the same LGBT group doesn't protest against Harrod's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Qatar

[f1restarter]

ZedLeg said:

Oh no I guess you’ll have to get your fried chicken at one of the thousand chicken shops that doesn’t fund conversion therapy.

Yes I guess I'll just have to resort to the thousand Halal chicken shops that mostly are owned by those that believe being gay is a sin punishable by death.

[RC1807]

They don’t open on Sundays in the U.S. because the owners are “such good Christians”, who oppose LGBT. Accepting “Christians’ then....


Stupidly, the owners bought some concessions at major NFL stadia. NFL games are on Sundays, except Thanksgiving. Sound business decision there.

[Sporky]

f1restarter said:

Funny, the same LGBT group doesn't protest against Harrod's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Qatar

I'm sure that for any group campaigning on any subject it's possible to find an instance of their interest that they're not actively working on. Everyone has limited time and resources.

[ZedLeg]

f1restarter said:

Funny, the same LGBT group doesn't protest against Harrod's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Qatar

People have protested the Qatari royal family many times.

I’ve been boycotting Harrods for years .

[ZedLeg]

f1restarter said:

ZedLeg said:

Oh no I guess you’ll have to get your fried chicken at one of the thousand chicken shops that doesn’t fund conversion therapy.

Yes I guess I'll just have to resort to the thousand Halal chicken shops that mostly are owned by those that believe being gay is a sin punishable by death.

How many chicken shop owners did you survey to get that information?

[Alex Z]

f1restarter said:

Funny, the same LGBT group doesn't protest against Harrod's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Qatar

There wouldn’t be much they could do to affect Harrods or the owners.
With a single leased restaurant they can put pressure on the landlord, get plenty of publicity, and achieve a good result.

Edited by Alex Z on Sunday 20th October 19:10

[anonymous-user]

What about all the muslim owned shops that see LGBT incompatiable with there relgion. Yet one store is picked out just seems farcical.

[ZedLeg]

Thesprucegoose said:

What about all the muslim owned shops that see LGBT incompatiable with there relgion. Yet one store is picked out just seems farcical.

It’s not one shop it’s a large multinational chain. They’re protested and boycotted all over the place.

[toasty]

There’s always Temple of Seitan. Well there is until you realise their chicken is vegan substitute.
Where can you get atheist fried chicken and is it any good?

[f1restarter]

ZedLeg said:

How many chicken shop owners did you survey to get that information?

I don't really need a survey to know which shops in London, Birmingham, Bradford, Luton etc are owned by people who condemn gays. Yet I don't see any LGBT protesting outside their restaurants. Just don't believe in bullying tactics to close down a restaurant. If you don't like it, just don't do business there. This is pure intimidation by a group to literally scare the landlord into cancelling the lease.

[Bill]

Thesprucegoose said:

What about all the muslim owned shops that see LGBT incompatiable with there relgion. Yet one store is picked out just seems farcical.

How many of those stores campaign against LGBT rights?

[Sporky]

Thesprucegoose said:

What about all the muslim owned shops that see LGBT incompatiable with there relgion. Yet one store is picked out just seems farcical.

Nonsense. One store among many whose policies are campaigned against.

Time and resources are limited. You seem to be looking for a reason to condemn them because they're not addressing every issue simultaneously. As that's obviously impossible for any single group, perhaps you just don't like people who act in line with their principles?

[Thales]

Poxy offended types, this is why we can't have nice things. I'll be sure to check this out soon - their chicken sandwiches are lovely.

[SydneyBridge]

If the food was crap, fair enought the Oracle ending the lease early.. as it is, they knew who they were taking on and have capitulated to the protestors
Shame on the oracle managment.

[f1restarter]

SydneyBridge said:

If the food was crap, fair enought the Oracle ending the lease early.. as it is, they knew who they were taking on and have capitulated to the protestors
Shame on the oracle managment.

Agreed! The management should've told the LGBT bullies to fk off, not crap their pants at the first sign of a rainbow outside their window.

[Bill]

SydneyBridge said:

Shame on the oracle managment.

Really? Shame they decided they didn't want to be associated with religious bigots?