Great News!!! Chick Fil A in Reading Mall.
Discussion
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.
"I don't have time to sort all the problems in the world therefore I'm not sorting this one out."Strange attitude when you think of it like that.
Truckosaurus said:
Are they actually any good, or do the Yanks get excited by them because their KFC didn't do burgers until recently, so Chick-Fil-it (sic) seemed exotic?
Far better than the KFC which is even worse tasting in the UK. At least in the USA Chick fil a's customer service was stellar and a pleasure being served by their staff, unlike the indifferent servers at KFC here. 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.
the difference must be that the owner of the Kebab shop maybe keeps his views to himself, or, doesn't even agree with them. The guy who runs my local kebab shop, I have absolutely no idea of his personal beliefs, what he spends his money on or what he does with the profit from his business, it remains speculation only that he might want to see all the gay people stoned to death, or maybe he isn't even a strict practicing Muslim at all, he is just "muslim in name only" like quite a lot of people. The owners of Chick Fil-A decided to make a public statement about their beliefs and people are calling them out on that.
which as someone else said, is a bit of a shame. They make some excellent chicken compared to KFC et al, but yeah, we *know* what the owner believes and chooses to do with his money/has done in the past.
But yeah, now I know they are in Reading I might have to go and buy some.
Thesprucegoose said:
The Islamic faith is against LGBT rights, so I would call that nonsense. The issue is why are they are targeting one brand when many others are not targeted what so ever, smacks of double standards.
Because that brand directly funds anti-LGBT groups. Not difficult to understand. Shakermaker said:
The owners of Chick Fil-A decided to make a public statement about their beliefs and people are calling them out on that.
As i said a few comments is pretty small fry in comparison to being sentenced to death, and I'm not gay so don't really understand the logic behind protesting against old comments, over protesting against a billion pound buiness venture, funded by a totalitarian state, who punish homosexulity by death.
Bill said:
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?Thesprucegoose said:
From what i can see that was 7 years ago.
As i said a few comments is pretty small fry in comparison to being sentenced to death, and I'm not gay so don't really understand the logic behind protesting against old comments, over protesting against a billion pound buiness venture, funded by a totalitarian state, who punish homosexulity by death.
They donated $1.8m to organisations with anti LGBT values in 2017. As i said a few comments is pretty small fry in comparison to being sentenced to death, and I'm not gay so don't really understand the logic behind protesting against old comments, over protesting against a billion pound buiness venture, funded by a totalitarian state, who punish homosexulity by death.
Chick Fil A made them selves an easy target.
I would gladly see more pressure put on businesses who take money from countries with crap human rights records.
gregs656 said:
They donated $1.8m to organisations with anti LGBT values in 2017.
Chick Fil A made them selves an easy target.
I would gladly see more pressure put on businesses who take money from countries with crap human rights records.
AIUI the donation was a very small proportion of their charitable outlay (that could be misreporting though). Funny how the lgbt+-*/w community chooses to ignore all the good stuff the Chick Fil A doesChick Fil A made them selves an easy target.
I would gladly see more pressure put on businesses who take money from countries with crap human rights records.
irocfan said:
gregs656 said:
They donated $1.8m to organisations with anti LGBT values in 2017.
Chick Fil A made them selves an easy target.
I would gladly see more pressure put on businesses who take money from countries with crap human rights records.
AIUI the donation was a very small proportion of their charitable outlay (that could be misreporting though). Funny how the lgbt+-*/w community chooses to ignore all the good stuff the Chick Fil A doesChick Fil A made them selves an easy target.
I would gladly see more pressure put on businesses who take money from countries with crap human rights records.
ZedLeg said:
How much "good stuff" counteracts funding groups that are trying to erase your existence?
they're not trying to 'erase your existence', they are (very misguidedly) trying to help - if you want erasure from existence you'll need to look to certain other countries where being lgbt+-*/ is actually a death sentence.Chick Fil A got me through living in Texas - something I properly looked forwards to and always seemed to turn up on a Sunday
Their advertising on the giant billboards used to make me chuckle too -
I get why the LGBT people would boycott the restaurant- but stopping other people from enjoying it sucks.
Their advertising on the giant billboards used to make me chuckle too -
I get why the LGBT people would boycott the restaurant- but stopping other people from enjoying it sucks.
Edited by Petrus1983 on Wednesday 23 October 12:02
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