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Imagine if it were the other way around and a conservative mayor told a pro-gay establishment that they weren't welcome in his state. I think you'd all agree how wrong that would be. This is no different.

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thellama73 wrote:

Slartibartfast wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

This story is extremely upsetting to me because A) Chick-Fil-A is delicious and B) the precedent of governments banning businesses because they don't like their political views is blatantly unconstitutional and could be very, very dangerous if left unchecked.

It's utterly non upsetting to me but it does depend on how atrocious you find the comments. Still let them do business. I will never patronize Chik Ill Fate again. Besides I only get a hungering for CFA sandwich on Sundays anyway. Tongue

No it doesn't. That's the whole point of freedom of speech. You can be as atrocious as you like without the hammer of government coming down on you. At least they have not issued a legal ban...yet. I still find the mayor's comments inappropriate though. If customers want to boycott, that's fine. I encourage that sort of activism, but government shouldn't tell businesses what they can and can't say.

Actually, that would be the best slap in the face. Let them invest in your city. Spend the money to hire employees to build the location, and then protest the hell out of their even existing and chase them out of town. That will send a message; albeit probably on deaf ears.

There is a reason that it is a Cardinal sin for businesses to express political views on positions that don't directly impact their business. Maybe strategically this will increase business as all the religious fanatics that support this point of view might flock to their establishments as a result, but the flipside is that you risk pissing off all of the supporters of the other side of coin.

I am pretty certain that I have never eaten at a Chic-fil-a. I'm pretty certain that there are none in Michigan or at the least in my neck of the woods, and I don't recall having ever eaten at one while I was down south..

The T wrote:

The question that really matters is: how good are that place's fast food offers?

In my view, they beat KFC by a mile and a half. Great food (and milkshakes!) consistently competent and friendly employees and clean dining rooms.

thellama73 wrote:

The T wrote:

The question that really matters is: how good are that place's fast food offers?

In my view, they beat KFC by a mile and a half. Great food (and milkshakes!) consistently competent and friendly employees and clean dining rooms.

I've never eaten there. But they close Sundays. That is enough to earn at least some sort of praise from me.

Tolerance of intolerance is not one of the main strengths of tolerants.

So, bigotry is okay if it tastes good?

What?

Dean wrote:

So, bigotry is okay if it tastes good?

Isn't bigotry neutral? Is there a universal definition for who is and isn't a bigot?

Anyway, good tasting bigotry will probably defeat bad tasting one Tongue

Edited by The T - July 26 2012 at 10:56

Dean wrote:

So, bigotry is okay if it tastes good?

You support bigotry and nasty things every time you purchase anything. There's a tradeoff involved. People can decide for themselves what causes they support and how.

My problem is that people have overreacted to this story because something which ubiquitously happens has been thrust to the front of their awareness. Libertarians always get accused of throwing the baby out with the bath water for what I would view as much more serious moral ineptitude on the part of the government. I'm now reciprocating that criticism.

"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "

Oh- I guess that's less depressing. I usually think of it that I choose to support it by continuing to live here.

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