I've never eaten there but I will now just to show that I don't like anyone trying to stop them from stating their believes, there not open on Sundays to give there employes time to attend church, thats not to there advantage as far as making money. I think there a good christian company.

It takes bigots to support bigots. Chick-Fil-A donated 2 million dollars to anti gay groups in 2009, ([equalitymatters.org]) and similar amounts in 2010 ([equalitymatters.org]). By the way, no one is trying to stop them from stating their beliefs. They have the same 1st amendment right to freedom of speech like anyone else. People are simply reacting with their same right of free speech by making the stance that bigoted companies are not welcome in their state. Chick-Fil-A has every right to promote bigotry all the way to the demise of the company.

And thats their right to do so, just because there believe is different than yours don't make them a bigot, they don't ask sex preference to work for them and treat all the same.

Yes, it is their right to fund hate groups. It's your right to defend their bigoted actions as one bigot to another. By not asking sexual preference they are following the law. It's not a question they can legally ask employees or potential employees. This does not make them better people and does not take away from their status as bigots. You always lose these arguments Randy and let everyone see what a shallow, blind man you really are. Save yourself this time and quit now.

Why does there believes make them bigots and your attitude towards Christians not make you one........?

My attitude towards bigoted Christians your mean? I do not hold the same attitude for all Christians. You can not turn the tables on this one Randy. They started it, they will go down with their sinking restaurant now. Jump on in with them. You can be the log that holds their head above water, go spend 10 bucks on their junk food fast food.

Customers stand in line for a Chick-fil-a meal at the chain's restaurant in Wichita, Kan., on Wednesday. Aug. 1, 2012.
Elected officials have urged Chick-fil-A to stay out of their cities, the Jim Henson Company has severed ties, and gay rights groups are organizing national protests against the fried chicken chain. But at the Chick-fil-A where Andrew works in northern Alabama, business has been booming over the past few weeks.

On Wednesday -- dubbed "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day" by former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee -- lines are stretching out the front door and the parking lot is packed with customers coming out to support company chief executive Dan Cathy, who recently came out against same-sex marriage with statements that have polarized lovers of the fast-food chain.

Andrew, a gay 24-year-old who has been working at the northern Alabama Chick-fil-A since January, sat in his car smoking a cigarette and watching the crowd during a break earlier Wednesday.

"I call it hater appreciation day," said Andrew, who asked that his last name be withheld out of fear he'd be fired. "It's very, very depressing."

Chick-fil-A has long come under fire from activists for giving millions to groups that advocate against gay rights and even support ex-gay therapy, but the fire has ratcheted up in recent weeks, following interviews in which Cathy said he was “guilty as charged” of supporting “the biblical definition of the family unit" and that gay marriage invites "God's judgment on our nation."

Now, Chick-fil-A sits at the center of furious debate over same-sex marriage, gay rights and free speech, with politicians, activists, and newspaper editorial boards weighing in from all sides.

The company has remained mostly silent on the issue. On the company's Facebook page, a post declares, "The Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect – regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender." (On the page, the company also maintains that it severed ties with the Jim Henson Company, first). The company did not respond to multiple requests for comment from The Huffington Post, and Dan Cathy has not given any subsequent interviews since the controversy began.


Another group staying mostly silent on the issue are the gay, lesbian and bisexual employees who staff the restaurants. They say that, like most employees of the company, they aren't allowed to speak to the press.

For these employees, the last couple of weeks have been very difficult.

One gay employee who works at Chick-fil-A headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., and asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing his job, says he is getting it from both sides. On the one hand, there is the customer who came in and said he supported Dan Cathy and then "continues to say something truly homophobic, e.g. 'I'm so glad you don't support the queers, I can eat in peace,'" the employee, who is 23 and has worked for Chick-fil-A since he was 16, wrote in an email. On the other hand, he continued, "I was yelled at for being a god-loving, conservative, homophobic Christian while walking some food out to a guest in a mall dining room."

He disagrees with Cathy's views, but the reaction from the public has been just as hard to swallow.

"It seems like very few people have stopped to think about who actually works for Chick-fil-A and what those people's opinions are," he wrote. "They are putting us in a pot and coming to support us or hate us based on something they heard and assume we agree with."

Gabriel Aguiniga, a gay employee at a Chick-fil-A in Colorado, also said the hardest part hasn't been hearing Cathy's comments. Instead, "[it's] constantly having people come up to you and say, 'I support your company, because your company hates the gays,'" Aguiniga, 18, wrote in an email. "It really takes a toll on me."

Management is encouraging employees at the stores to remain neutral, no matter what customers say, according to multiple workers interviewed by The Huffington Post.

"Our managers have recommended just saying 'Thank you for your business' if a customer says they agree with Cathy’s comments, rather than agreeing or disagreeing with them," K, an openly gay Chick-fil-A employee in Louisiana, told HuffPost in an email.

But staying neutral can be difficult when it feels like the world is passing judgment on everyone associated with the company.

"Now, anyone that works there is stuck with a stigma of being homophobic, even when many of us are far from it," K said. One of her coworkers, who supports same-sex marriage, has had people say things like, “Don’t give me that hate sh*t,” and “I hope you choke on that chicken," while she was handing out samples.

But for K, the hardest part hasn't been the actions of customers and protesters, it's the money the company gives to anti-gay groups.

"At the end of the day part of our profits still go towards Dan Cathy, and subsequently, all the organizations he supports," she said. K is now actively searching for work elsewhere. Many of her coworkers, she said, are looking for new jobs, too.

The groups Chick-fil-A gives to include the Family Research Council and Exodus International, according to Equality Matters, an initiative associated with the progressive Watchdog group, Media Matters. The Family Research Council is designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, while Exodus International is a Christian Ministry that has long endorsed ex-gay therapy, a controversial practice of "curing" gay people that mainstream mental health organizations have disavowed. (In recent months, the president of Exodus has tried to distance his group from the idea that gay people can be "cured.")

Several of the gay and lesbian employees interviewed by The Huffington Post said that they liked their work, and had never witnessed incidents of homophobia or discrimination on the job. But Chick-fil-A restaurants are operated by independent owners, and employee experience can vary widely depending on the person running a particular chain.

Kellie, a 23-year-old gay woman from Georgia who also requested her last name be withheld for fear of being outed in the press, worked at two different Chick-fil-A locations in Georgia. She loved working at the first location, she said, where nobody ever said anything homophobic or discriminatory. But at the second location, in Atlanta, "there was a lot of general homophobia." Managers would frequently make homophobic jokes, she said, and she felt that if she were to tell her colleagues she was gay, she would be fired. Eventually, she quit.

Another former employee, who worked at the Chick-fil-A in Chicago, said he thought the culture of the company encouraged homophobia.

"It's a very monochromatic, white, male driven company," said Andrew Mullen, a gay 26-year-old who quit his job last winter after less than a year with the company. Once, Andrew recalled, a company operator leading an employee training session, saw two men kissing on the patio outside the restaurant and proclaimed to the group he was leading that he thought it was "disgusting." Mullen later told the person in charge of corporate training about the incident, and the man was fired. "[This person] was very apologetic for it, and there are a few people here like that, but from what I saw, it's a predominantly pro-ignorant culture."

But the gay employee who works at headquarters in Atlanta disagreed with this assessment. Aside from the occasional homophobic joke or comment outside of working hours, he said, his experience with the company has been "extremely positive."

Asked in June, Andrew, the employee in Alabama, would have said his experience was positive, too. He had never explicitly told any of his colleagues he was gay, but he felt comfortable at work and liked the operator of his store. But recently, Andrew says the atmosphere at work has grown nearly intolerable. Although plenty of his coworkers have said they don't agree with Cathy's views, on "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day," one colleague told him proudly that his friends would be eating the fried chicken sandwiches for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Last week, when he went out to the parking lot to help a trucker (not directly employed by Chick-fil-A) unload a shipment of goods, the trucker turned to Andrew confidentially and said, "If I see one more faggot at a Chick-fil-A protesting, I'm going to be sick."

"I just looked at him and said, 'I don't want to hear that,'" Andrew recalled. "I thought, Chick-fil-A doesn't promote hatred, we don't cuss and we don't hate," he continued. But experiences over the last couple of weeks have shifted his views: "Honestly, I really wish they would just go out of business, I do."

Chick-Fil-A Meets The Real Haters With Love.........
http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/08/chick-fil-a-meets-the-real-haters-with-love/

Again, I give no credit to a person who blogs their one sided view.

This simply makes the point that the gays are NOT the ones making the huge issue out of this. It's the haters with their agenda. The gays are staying home and letting chick-fil-a and it's supporters choke on their own chicken bones of hate.

Again, fine and I don't give allot to you......

Randy, have you noticed yet that you, the homophob are the only one continuing to try and push this? Have you noticed too that you've gathered no support for your agenda here? Let it go man. Go do some good God work. Promoting hate should never be considered God's work. I give a lot to me by way of entertainment and some good laughs at your expense. Thanks for that! :)

Your welcome, and I don't hate anyone as you claim I do and Chick-fil-A doesn't either but when a report shows you that you don't give it any credit....but you keep spreading the hate.

Oh please. Lame attempts to turn the table do you no favors. I have not yet promoted hate. That was a personal blog, not an accredited report. Give it up blind man. Go pray for your salvation or something. Chick-Fil-A supports well known hate groups, you support Chick-Fil-A. Do the math (metaphorically speaking).

I SEE a hate group is a group that don't agree with you.....

A blind man can not see. Anyone who supports keeping civil rights from human beings is a hate group.

You forget Randy. I did not disagree with you that they had every right to speak their mind about gay marriage. You've yet again turned something into an argument even though I agreed with you. You're so hell bent on pushing your agenda that you have no idea when to stop. YOU HAVE NO SUPPORT HERE! You might be blind but I'm hoping you're not completely deaf too. I shouted to make it easier for you to hear.

Reread what the gay employees have to go through just to be able to have a job at Chick-Fil-A. In this economy, people have to keep the jobs they are able to get as there's so few out there. The gay employees are being forced to just quietly take the hate if they want to keep their jobs. while jokes and insulting comments about homosexuals are hurled around the restaurant by the other employees and even managers. This is people who love the sinner? I think not. Love should not hurt and these people are spiteful and hurtful. They love no one but themselves. From the lowest gay hating employee right on up to the owners of chick-Fil_A. It's all there in the article I posted above.

The owners are not doing this and we will SEE if there aren't some jobs lost over this if thats true thats not a christian attitude. As far as support that don't worry me I just come here to see what I can get into.........lol

Randy, the owners of the company are allowing it! The employees spoke in anonymity so they don't lose their jobs so no jobs will be lost. Others quit just to get away from the hate.

Apparently you've managed to get a supporter. I'm not surprised. He loves to stir the pot here too. He appreciates and respects your opinions so hang on to him! Like attracts like :)

Not having everyone agreeing with me don't make me wrong, having everyone agreeing would be more concerning.

Wow, that's incredibly sad. If you truly spoke with God's love in your heart, more people would agree with you. I see no reason why that should concern you,

Your god and my GOD apparently aren't the same, mine has his words in the book called the Bible.

No he doesn't. A bunch of men wrote those words. God wrote nothing.

Oh come on Colleen we've been through that before the Bible is an unique book.
http://www.akaqa.com/question/q19194773-The-uniqueness-of-the-scripture

God did not write it. Your uniqueness of scripture proves nothing to me. I don't drink kool-aid. God did not speak to men and has never spoken to men. God has no voice.

Funny he speaks to me daily.......

Go see a doctor.

We keep thinking life is what it`s not
We keep building this impossible facade
Why do we keep trying to turn people into gods
When God is in the people
God is in the people
God is in the people. - MLE

God is not a people.

You are such a cheerleader rj. Go Randy, go!! Where's Benthere for a Yippy! lmao.

By the way, you're repeating yourself. You might want to get that checked. Could be an early sign of something.

No, no. You look better with pompoms than I. Your slogan is your own. You need something since the questions here are too hard for you to answer. Cheer leading is all yours :)

At least I don't put people down as you do.......

" I choose which questions I answer here based upon my comfort level and interest in the question"

In other words, the easy ones. The ones that do not require research. The ones that are too hard for you to know on your own, you ignore.

My avatar is only misleading to a fool who can not tell the difference between a fun avatar that in no way represents the name attached to the account. I do not call myself Sharon, Prince William and I never speak of her family as my own, Prince William. It was not a joke, it was an insulting dig at my personality.

I'm not trying to make anything difficult. I've taken a look at the questions you answer. An 8 year old can answer them. I merely respond to your posts, as do many others when they call you on your bs. You are not trying to be good, you persist in finding ways to skirt the rules. If I truly wanted you gone, you would be gone. You are still here by the grace of the moderators.