What you may not know about Chick-fil-A

[Soon]

"Well, guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that. We intend to stay the course. We know that it might not be popular with everyone, but thank the Lord, we live in a country where we can share our values and operate on biblical principles." - Dan Cathy, CEO of Chick-Fil-A, when asked about the millions his company has donated to "family ministries." (Via Good As You)

[skeeter_01]

http://www.advocate.com/business/201...es-out-antigay

on today's yahoo!pride...

[Soon]

Originally Posted by HowSoonIsNow

"Well, guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that. We intend to stay the course. We know that it might not be popular with everyone, but thank the Lord, we live in a country where we can share our values and operate on biblical principles." - Dan Cathy, CEO of Chick-Fil-A, when asked about the millions his company has donated to "family ministries." (Via Good As You)

The "biblical definition" of family also included incest and polygamy, so I guess that's cool too.

[DapperButch]

I work in a an outpatient office which is part of a large medical system, which is private, non-profit.

Their nondiscrimination policies for staff and patients includes seuxal orientation.

However, until now, we had a receptionist who accepted chick-fil-a sandwiches and coupons for free sandwiches from the chick-fil-a representatives who made the rounds of the outpatient services. Well, two weeks ago a new receptionist asked me about the coupon that she got from a rep, saying that she didn't know what to do with it. I grabbed it out of her hand, and tore it in half in short order. I launched into how we don't accept their coupons/sandwiches b/c they are an anti-gay organization and after all we have non discrimination policies at our company for sexual orientation.

I put the poor woman into a tizzy who said that she didn't know that about chick-fil-a and that she doesn't like chicken anyway. She also said she would make sure she didn't accept them.

I was pretty rabid about it. She was fine with it though and actually wasn't a new employee to our health system, just a new employee too our department. I will have to email our old receptionist (who is still a part of our health system, just left our department), to how if she is enjoying the sandwiches guilt free since I am not bitching at her for accepting them.

ETA: I think I am going to contact our HR department what I can do about this, company wide. They recently added gender identity to their non-discrimination company, so perhaps they will listen (or just don't want an irritated employee on this issue).

[Nadeest]

It might be a good idea to ask that any chic-fil-a representatives be banned from the medical system's properties.

[DapperButch]

Originally Posted by Nadeest

It might be a good idea to ask that any chic-fil-a representatives be banned from the medical system's properties.

Exactly, that is my plan. And really, I don't think it is appropriate for them to be coming through anyway. We are doctor's offices (I doubt they go into our hospitals), not a place to hand out food/coupons for food.

However, for all I know, they are making deliveries and just stop by our office to give us the extras? I don't know. I do know that a chick-fil-a is not close to our site, so I would be quite surprised to think that any offices would order from them.

[Beloved]

[nycfem]

The Muppets Dump chick-fil-a

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/07...ick-fil-a.html

[Kobi]

Mayor Thomas M. Menino has sworn that the franchise will have to fight city hall to bring its fast-food empire to Boston after Chick-fil-A’s president, Dan Cathy, said gay marriage is “inviting God’s judgment on our nation.” The Atlanta-based chain is hoping to open a restaurant in a popular tourist spot near the Freedom Trail — a rather ironic choice in Menino’s eyes.

“Chick-fil-A doesn’t belong in Boston,” Menino told the Boston Herald on Thursday. “You can’t have a business in the city of Boston that discriminates against the population. We’re an open city, we’re a city that’s at the forefront of inclusion. That’s the Freedom Trail. That’s where it all started right here. And we’re not going to have a company, Chick-fil-A or whatever the hell the name is, on our Freedom Trail.”

Menino just may succeed in effectively banning the chain from Boston: The mayor blocked the development of a Walmart in Roxbury last year, citing the retail empire’s negative impact on neighborhood business and lower-wage workers as his motivation. Now, he plans to offer Chick-fil-A a similar hurdle-laden policy. “If they need licenses in the city, it will be very difficult,” Menino said. “Unless they open up their policies.”

At the very least, Menino will be able to count on the support of Boston’s Northeastern University students in this fight. Chick-fil-A already had to cancel its plans to build a restaurant on that campus when students protested that the chain had donated millions of dollars to anti-gay groups. Administrators heeded the student’s wishes and told Chick-fil-A to fly the coop.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/07/23/...#ixzz21TB479mK