Chick-Fil-A is under a lot of fire from gay and liberal groups this week due to an event that happened earlier in January. One of their Pennsylvania stores donated sandwiches and brownies to a gathering of the Pennsylvania Family Institute. This group is one of those conservative things where they are all family values, anti-gay, pro-American, all that awesome Tea Party stuff that people think only exists in the South and West of this country.
Before assailing the good intentions of the boycott, let me say that I am 100% in favor of gay marriage and a devout follower of Ru Paul's Drag Race as many of you already know.
Just for fun, checking out the PFI's whack-job website, I came across a thing they have called The Truth Project. It's a four hour seminar where you get to find out what the Bible "really" says about stuff like gay marriage and money and you get a set of DVDs. Price of admission is only $99 for adults or "married couples" (I'm assuming they mean hetero married couples.) It's worth noting that you can read the Bible yourself for free thanks to Gideons and you can actually find out what it says during the course of your reading.
You can also get information on the PFI website about their Golf Classic and see a list of former sponsors which includes Herr's chips which suck anyway so no loss there. The event is held at Bent Creek Country Club in suburban Lancaster County PA and membership there is only $6,000 a year plus expenses so you get to play a little golf at a nice, exclusive club, do a little gay bashing, have a drink or two. What's not to love.
Anyway, the Chick-Fil-A sponsorship has a bunch of people up in arms and planning on boycotting the company. I could point out here that there are so many people in this country who are anti-gay marriage, the boycott and all the news surrounding this little thing will probably be a boon to Chick-Fil-A. Boycotts like the ones being discussed usually have the complete opposite intended effect.
I would imagine that most pro-gay, boycotting types wouldn't frequent many fast food restaurants anyway, much less a Chick-Fil-A where just about everything is breaded and fried. So, yeah, it might feel good to say you're boycotting something but it's really just pointless.
I'm not a fan of Chick-Fil-A. In my estimation their sandwiches are okay but the chicken is not even close to Popeye's. Anyway, I began boycotting Chick-Fil-A years ago. I never knew that they closed on Sundays until I was near one and hungry on a Sunday afternoon and had one of those WTF? moments (thanks Sarah P.) when I found out it was closed. I thought it must be something with the health department or the plumbing or something.
Then I started to find out more about the Cathy family and their "Christian" values that made it imperative that they close the store on Sundays all over the country. So why do I claim hypocrisy?
I'm sure the Cathys don't just stay in the house on Sundays. I'm sure they expect many people around them to be working on the Lord's day: gas station workers, airlines, hospitals, police and firemen, etc. In my opinion, all they're really doing is reminding the world that they consider themselves to be Christian and not having to pay anybody for a day.
Bear in mind that most of the minimum wage workers hired by Chick-Fil-A would gladly work on Sundays so they could come a tad closer to making ends meet. It's quaint, outdated, BS.
So I still won't be eating Chick-Fil-A and their support of a "family values" group is no surprise to me. It's a shame this couldn't be a company like Whole Foods or Pinkberry where a gay and liberal boycott would really have some teeth. All the news around this event just serves to solidify Chick-Fil-A's base.
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