Chick-fil-A faces gay 'kiss-in' protest - Polidicks

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19115250[/url] [quote=BBC News][img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/62030000/jpg/_62030564_62017827.jpg[/img] [B]Some supporters of gay marriage in the US encouraged their supporters to turn out at outlets of a fast-food chain in a protest against its owner's opposition to same-sex unions.[/B] Same-sex pairs kissed outside several Chick-fil-A restaurants on Friday. Chick-fil-A boss Dan Cathy has backed the "biblical definition of a family". The "kiss-in" came two days after "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day", when customers went to the chain's outlets in defence of Mr Cathy's comments. On Wednesday, Chick-fil-A restaurants in cities across the US, particularly in the South where the majority of its outlets are located, were reported to be bustling with supporters. In a statement, the chain said that Wednesday had been "an unprecedented day", but it did not release exact sales numbers. [B]'Guilty as charged'[/B] More than 13,000 people said on Facebook they would be attending "National Same Sex Kiss Day at Chick-fil-A" on Friday. It is not clear how many people actually took take part in the "kiss-in". Carly McGehee, one of the organisers, told the Associated Press she hoped the event would help gay youths "who feel isolated and are victims of bullying". The event had been organised before ex-presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee called on Wednesday for customers to support the chain. In southern California on Friday morning police investigated graffiti painted on a Chick-fil-A restaurant that showed a cow painting the words "Tastes like hate" in the style of the firm's advertising. Photographs from later in the day showed protesters holding signs and kissing outside restaurants in the cities of Dallas, Texas; Los Angeles, California; and Decatur, Georgia. Supporters of Friday's protest include the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (Glaad). "Without question, Dan Cathy has every right to voice his opinions and beliefs," Herndon Graddick, Glaad's president, said in a statement. "But he should meet and get to know the people that he's speaking out against - the people who are harmed by his company's multi-million dollar donations to anti-gay hate groups working to hurt everyday LGBT Americans and break apart loving families." In 2010, Mr Cathy's non-profit group WinShape, largely supported by Chick-fil-A, donated $2m (£1.2m) to groups that oppose gay marriage, ABC News reported. Among those was the National Organization for Marriage, which led efforts to ban gay marriage in California. Mr Cathy's comments came last month in a religious publication, where he said he was "guilty as charged" in backing "the biblical definition of a family". "We don't claim to be a Christian business," Mr Cathy said. "But as an organisation we can operate on biblical principles." In a later radio interview, he said: "I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage."' Mr Cathy is a Southern Baptist and his chain does not operate any of its stores on Sunday, in observance of the Christian holy day. "The Chick-fil-A culture and 66-year-old service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honour, dignity and respect - regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender," the company said in a statement.[/quote] [editline]5th August 2012[/editline] My friend told me that his cousin heard that a dog said the gay terrorists also accepted responsibility for 9/11, the Holocaust and Pearl Harbor

I clicked just for the title: "Gay Terrorists." You can't have a title like that and not have a story that's interesting to read

I expected them to actually look as gay and fabulous as possible and run after each others shaking their arms and giggling. Instead it's a normal protest.

Good god the title

Can't we all just get along?!:words:

[QUOTE=Reserved Parkin;37089556]Can't we all just get along?!:words:[/QUOTE] no becous its in our jeans to do war

Haha the guy in the black shirt is hitting three issues out at once with his Peta anti-homophobic placard and his anti-racism shirt.

What fucking idiots, you don't get your message across on coloured paper. Nobody is going to bother trying to make out thin sharpe on orange paper at 40C

title should be fixed it gives the impression of a bunch of people pounding eachother's assholes with their sausages while in reality they're not

[QUOTE=Marbalo;37089739]yeah 'nobody' not like the fucking bbc just did a story on it, clearly nobody cares[/QUOTE] I meant normal people.

[QUOTE=Chernarus;37089831]I meant normal people.[/QUOTE] your definition of 'normal' is doomed from the start

its likely the protesters called BBC, I'm just saying nobody would bother to read a poorly designed poster and would prefer they do it so its easily legible to the human eye.

[QUOTE=Turtleman;37089568]no becous its in our jeans to do war[/QUOTE] jeans?

[QUOTE=Turtleman;37089568]no becous its in our jeans to do war[/QUOTE] I think you're wrong here... [img]https://nifty-fits.com/Catalog/32420153626.jpg[/img]

Am I the only one who's never heard of this "Chik-Fil-A" thing before all this stuff happened? Also what kind of a name for a restaurant is that seriously

[t]http://gyazo.com/47adc7702487225a1b7df67a144e1327.png?1344176232[/t] This fucking guy must support and hate everything at once!

Didn't work? [b]Back to the pile![/b]

[QUOTE=Persecution;37090499][t]http://gyazo.com/47adc7702487225a1b7df67a144e1327.png?1344176232[/t] This fucking guy must support and hate everything at once![/QUOTE] What the hell is the point in adding PeTA at the bottom? It isn't going to be noticed under the giant "ANTI-GAY".

[QUOTE=Irockz;37090567]What the hell is the point in adding PeTA at the bottom? It isn't going to be noticed under the giant "ANTI-GAY".[/QUOTE] Might as well give it a whiz

God damn, that title makes it sounds like this came from Fox News. Nation Says this post is: Scary

[QUOTE=Ownederd;37089692]title should be fixed it gives the impression of a bunch of people pounding eachother's assholes with their sausages while in reality they're not[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/OARc6.png[/IMG]

[QUOTE=sirdownloadsalot;37089892]I think you're wrong here... [img]https://nifty-fits.com/Catalog/32420153626.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Those look more like sweat-pants than jeans.

What do you call a gay terrorist? ...A suicide bummer :suicide:

I was going to put in the title something about 'millions of children' being raped, but I remembered the golden rule of SH - exaggerate, yes, but lying is highly dishonorabru

[QUOTE=Persecution;37090499][t]http://gyazo.com/47adc7702487225a1b7df67a144e1327.png?1344176232[/t] This fucking guy must support and hate everything at once![/QUOTE] [url]http://weareallafricans.com/[/url] If you check that website, it's simultaneously condemning racism [I]and religion[/I] for furthering racism, so that's four social movements he's expressing.

[QUOTE=Turtleman;37089568]no becous its in our jeans to do war[/QUOTE] We must stop wearing jeans, then.

Cargo pants are superior anyway.

[QUOTE=Irockz;37090567]What the hell is the point in adding PeTA at the bottom? It isn't going to be noticed under the giant "ANTI-GAY".[/QUOTE] They were probably giving out signs for free advertising.

When I saw the title I though it was about Gay guys staging a fake shootout.

[QUOTE=Scot;37093319]They were probably giving out signs for free advertising.[/QUOTE] Peta has their own reasons for hating Chick-Fil-A, I'm sure. One liberal group is riding off the publicity of another.