Gay rights activists plan Chick-fil-A 'Kiss In'

[Bowden]

ATLANTA AP — Gay rights activists and other supporters of marriage equality planned a national "Kiss In" at Chick-fil-A restaurants Friday to protest the fast-food chain owners' opposition to same-sex unions.

Participants are encouraged to come to the fast-food chains and kiss a fellow demonstrator of the same sex. One organizer, Carly McGehee of Dallas, said she hopes the event helps gay youths "who feel isolated and are victims of bullying."

"Without question, Dan Cathy has every right to voice his opinions and beliefs," Herndon Graddick, president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, 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," Graddick said.

"LGBT" is an abbreviation for "lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender."

The gatherings come two days after hundreds of thousands of customers, many of them conservative Christians, recognized "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day" at more than 1,600 locations.

The company said in a statement the turnout Wednesday made for "an unprecedented day," although it says it doesn't release exact sales numbers.
"The Chick-fil-A culture and 66-year-old 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," the statement said.

Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy stirred the controversy when he told a religious publication last month that the company was "guilty as charged" for backing "the biblical definition of a family."
In a later radio interview, Cathy 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.'"
The Southern Baptist Cathy family has long been known for using biblical principles to operate its business, including never opening the company's stores on Sundays.

[Beast In The Basement]

This is crossing the line IMO.

They are bringing/forcing their agenda in corporate establishments, encroaching on other customers who go there to EAT and will be possibly disrrupting business.

I support the right to be gay and union/marry whomever, but this is just too much...

[TheKillerOfSaints]

lame



like they even said gays cant be there


get a life

[PSYCHOPATH II]

ahahahhahah, fags.

[The Celt]

This is crossing the line IMO.

They are bringing/forcing their agenda in corporate establishments, encroaching on other customers who go there to EAT and will be possibly disrrupting business.

I support the right to be gay and union/marry whomever, but this is just too much...

Exactly, this is where the lgbt community loses support and feeds the minds of people into thinking they are "militant" about getting their agenda pushed. again, it was the owners viewpoint if he's not breaking any equal opportunity laws in service or employment then he and the company need to be left alone. I would love to see a list of companies that give to foundations like his do that don't get harrassed every day.

Like OPEC,gays will be driving their OPEC oil fueled cars to Chik-fil-A and think nothing of it....

[mike pulcinella]

How is this any different from the mobs of "Christians" doing the same thing??

[Peri]

I think they ARE being militant about getting their agenda pushed. I'm a "supporter" of gay rights, but they don't get the label "Drama Queen" for nothing.

[Peri]

How is this any different from the mobs of "Christians" doing the same thing??

It's not. That's what makes it ridiculous.

[The Celt]

How is this any different from the mobs of "Christians" doing the same thing??

Its not, which brings them down to the level of the people they are trying to say are so bad.

[mike pulcinella]

Its not, which brings them down to the level of the people they are trying to say are so bad.

You have a point there.

[lou0178]

no one wants to see dudes kissing, women on the other hand, depends how they look.

[Brutal Master]

yeah this is a FAIL. LGBT needs to chill and just let the dinosaurs die off.

[Pitbull9]

ahahahhahah, fags.

HAHHAA

[mike pulcinella]

yeah this is a FAIL. LGBT needs to chill and just let the dinosaurs die off.

It's true. Times are changing. People are changing. The new generation scratches their heads at shit like this. To the majority of the youngsters that I know it's a non-issue.

[The Celt]

yeah this is a FAIL. LGBT needs to chill and just let the dinosaurs die off.

For the record, those dinosaurs think dinosaurs never existed....

[Canucklehead]

For the record, those dinosaurs think dinosaurs never existed....

For the record, no Christian I have ever met thinks that.

[TGC]

ahahahhahah, fags.

I lol'd

I think they ARE being militant about getting their agenda pushed. I'm a "supporter" of gay rights, but they don't get the label "Drama Queen" for nothing.

This.

It isn't going to change a thing. The guy said he doesn't support their marriage, he never said anything else about the issue. The way he said it was preety straight forward and respectful.