I like to think of “anti-gay stance” as a humorous visual, but there’s nothing funny about discrimination. So when Chick-Fil-A’s president Dan Cathy recently confirmed to the Baptist Press his company’s opposition to gay marriage, Jim Henson Company CEO Lisa Henson announced that her company would stop providing toys for Chick-Fil-A’s kids meals. After all, if Chick Fil A wouldn’t support marriage between two men, what would they say about a frog marrying a pig while constantly getting fisted?
On Facebook, the company said that CEO Lisa Henson is a strong supporter of marriage equality and decided to end the relationship with the food-maker. The company behind the Muppets will donate the money it received from Chick-fil-A to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).
“The Jim Henson Company has celebrated and embraced diversity and inclusiveness for over fifty years and we have notified Chick-fil-A that we do not wish to partner with them on any future endeavors,” the statement reads.
The controversy over Chick-fil-A’s views on gay rights came to a head after the the company’s president Dan Cathy told the Baptist Press that he was “guilty as charged” when it came to his support for the Biblical definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman.
“We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit,” Cathy said.
What, you mean like cousins knowing cousins, God raping teenagers, and everyone begatting everywhere?
“We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that.”
The company has also reportedly donated millions of dollars to anti-gay Christian groups. With over $4 billion in revenue, Chick-fil-A has continued to stress its religious values by refusing, for instance, to open on Sundays. [TheWrap]
He’s probably just overcompensating for having a girl’s last name. More like Chick Fil-LAME, am I right? But on a serious note, I think there are better ways to support the gays than giving money to GLAAD. Seems a little like supporting blacks by giving money to Al Sharpton these days.
The worst part in all of this? Chik-Fil-A has politicized fried chicken. WHAT THE HELL, CHICK FIL A! Fried chicken is supposed to be a uniter, not a divider. Ever since Colonel Sanders burned his bra in front of congress. If I find out the CEO of In N Out is a Klansman, I don’t know what I’ll do. I support the cause of the liberal progressives, but their food is f**king terrible. I’ll oppress minority groups myself before I start drinking Kombucha, that stuff tastes like bottled farts.
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This is so depressing to me, because Chick-fil-A is so delicious.
Why can’t it be some place crappy, like Burger King?
Seriously.
Though I feel like if I knew the opinions of 90% of the CEOs/Presidents of companies whose products I enjoy I’d probably want to boycott them all.
This is so depressing because Chick-fil-A was such a supporter of women’s golf.
Can’t be fed by people who are oblivious, who knows what they consider food.
Is Chick-Fil-A into daughters getting their dad drunk so he could might knock up one or both of them? (Genesis 19:30-38)
This isn’t surprising considering Chic Fil-A is totally willing to lose out on 1/7th of the income it could potentially earn by being open on Sundays. Basically, only their fries waffle.
Pretty much. While people are feign indignation (and still actually going to chic-fil-a) I’ll be eating me some good chicken and won’t give 2 f’s. later.
I dont give a damn who believes in what and neither should anyone else. Thats the main problem. POLYNESIAN SAUCE OR GTFO.
You got your politics into my Chik-fil-a nuggets!
CAJUN KICK-ASS OR GTFO
Kombucha is woeful.
The thing I don’t understand about anti-gay-marriage organizations is are they really going to change any minds?
I believe in marriage equality and there is literally nothing that would make me decide that consenting adults don’t all deserve the same rights under the law. No one’s going to go, “But God, Leigh. And also the little baby Jesus.” and I’ll suddenly want to deny gay people rights.
Conservatives think they can force regression.
They don’t understand how society evolves and moves forward because they are too busy reading creation myths and avoiding science.
People and their anti-sodomy beliefs. The first time I considered *not* being an atheist was the first time I received oral.
And when I received consensual oral I joined a church.
Like with every other debate or advocacy out there, it’s not really about changing the minds of the people who’ve already thought about it and decided what they believe it. But if you’re an impressionable kid who’s also a tad homophobic, seeing that there is a socially acceptable, not to mention divinely sanctioned, justification for your latent bigotry would probably decisively tip your opinion towards the troglodytes.
Never been in one of these joints. But everytime I drive to In-N-Out I go past one and think “Some day i should go in there”.
I’d like to thank them for removing any need to cut into my steady diet of double-doubles.
1) They had to know about Chick-Hates-Gays stance before it became public. So I’m happy to see them lose the sponsor, on Henson’s end it’s just a PR deal.
2) Anyone who thinks discrimination is never funny has never seen a fat kid in a t-shirt that says “no fat chicks”
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3) I love that the people crying about the backlash are the same ones who screamed their heads off a few years ago when Target was contributing to Planned Parenthood.
…or last year when J.C. Penney hired Ellen.
I’ll just never understand the “I’m only happy if you’re unhappy” mentality of Republicans…..I just don’t get it.
The left says: “I want this. It will make me happy.”
The right says: “I don’t want you to have that. You not having that will make ME happy.”
For some Republicans, it’s all about being a dick.
I know that’s going to get me flamed, but it’s true.
Sorry, but Republicans were pushing for policies like the individual mandate and cap and trade since the late 1980s — and pushing hard, telling us this is what they really wanted, what they really believed in, what the rest of us should accept if we were serious about compromise.
And then Obama embraced those same policies, and they denounced him as a godless commie traitor for whom the proof of his socialism were these free market policies that they themselves had dreamed up.
It’s not just that Republicans don’t want their opponents to get what they want, it’s that Republicans don’t want themselves to get what they want if that would mean their opponents would get something as well.
They’re dicks.
Otto, You mean kind of like getting inbred trailer trash to vote against health care reform by pointing out that they have to give it to the darkies too?
In-N-Out rocks Bible verses on their cups and wrappers. The KKK rock Bible verses in support of white supremacy. Close enough?
How long before someone tries to draw a parallel between the guy eating chicken nuggets on Breaking Bad and the CEO of Chick Fil A.
DAMN LIBERAL AGENDA KILLING OFF THE HEAD OF A FRIED CHICKEN BUSINESS!
You guys have no idea what I had to do to in Niger for Crackle Barrel to put a restaurant in my zipcode.
On another note: Lisa Henson should also add MILF to her title.
Excuse me, is this progressive liberal fried chicken or conservative fried chicken? If the answer is either one of them, I fucking hate you.
“We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that.”
“We don’t know if single people eat [chicken sandwiches], and frankly, we don’t want to know.”
I think it’s safe to say that, being owned by white Southerners, they are also probably racist too.
But good luck broadcasting that and not losing a ton of business.
Although there is something funny about a company that is (probably) racist selling fried chicken.
Or maybe they are pandering to blacks who on the whole are completely against gay marriage. African-Americans nearly accounted for the winning margin of CA’s prop 8 all by themselves. I doubt they are more progressive in the South.
Just mentioning Chik-Fil-A fills my mouth with the taste of peanut oil and the just the taste of peanut oil fills my mouth with vomit.
I’ve never tasted Chik-Fil-A :( *Canadian*
And now I never will.
They would condemn you to Hell for putting mayonnaise on the fries.
It’s in the bible. Somewhere. And if it’s not, it should be.
Mayo on fries? They’d be right.
You don’t know, okay! They pretty much MAKE us do it. No one likes it, but if you don’t do it there’s definitely Hell to pay.
There’s a special circle in hell for poutine eaters. FACT.
(But it’s a delicious circle.)
Heh poutine sounds dirty
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Pretty easy to make at home….I suggest seasoning them with more than just pickle juice though.
The anti-gay stance is when you use a revolver to cover your rear by bending over at the waist and aiming backwards between your legs.
I really hope this doesn’t lead to groups protesting outside Chick-Fil-As. Those places are busy enough at lunch time to begin with.
Isn’t chicken also slang for a gay young man.
Fuck a Chick Fil A. As long as Popeye’s and Roscoe’s (LA) stay open, my chicken needs are fulfilled. Zankou is also legit.
Henson just wants out of the deal because they got offered a way better offer over at Queerburger.
I first read your restaurant name as “Queefburger” and I’m totally ok with that.
I believe Queerburger makes a Queefburger. It’s basically a fish sandwich with a vinegar sauce, served in a farting vagina.
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pickle juice marinade. chik-fil-a, you crafty bastards.
Chik-Fil-A could be against hetro marriage and i’d still eat that shit
Plenty of Christians support gay rights. They just can’t call it marriage. It’s unfair to expect people to choose between their religion and a civil rights movement, and it’s foolish to stick to the “gay marriage” label when the gay rights movement could get a LOT more support simply by using… well, “gay rights” instead. And plenty of gay rights activists will say so. But no, we’re all going to stubbornly refuse to compromise. Progress!
I hear you, and honestly, I would love a compromise because I’m sick of talking about this. We could be fixing some shit, but instead we’re arguing about whether gays can have the same sized room on the Titanic. Still, you realize that saying they can’t get married IS like saying they can’t have the same-sized room as everyone else, right? Of course they’re going to be pissed about it. If Muslims and Jews and Atheists and Wiccans can get married and call it regular-old marriage, how are gay people any different? Marriage is a legal agreement with the government, not a religious agreement with the church. Religious people who don’t want gays getting married because it somehow cheapens their marriage could just as easily call their exclusive church marriage something different. It’s not solely on the gays to compromise, they’ve done a lot of compromising over the years.
People looking to discriminate very often try and minimize their stance by suggesting it is actually about something innocuous….
Like, in this case, semantics.
It’s unfair to expect people to choose between their religion and a civil rights movement
I know you’re not saying this, but you should know that during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, southern racists regularly invoked religion — the curse of Ham, often, but other passages as well — as justification for segregation.
You can find a defense of anything you want in the Bible. And as Vince noted, the idea that there is a single “definition of marriage” in the Bible is nonsense. King David had multiple wives at once, for instance, while other men married their relatives or even children, and at best, marriage is treated as a property exchange.
This isn’t about forcing people to choose between their religion and other people’s civil rights, it’s about some assholes twisting their religion in knots to deny other people their civil rights.
Or as Patton Oswalt said….
Right on, Vince. If marriage is a set of rights and responsibilities bestowed by the government, I good and goddamned well can demand to call it marriage and demand that everyone else do so. And if that makes me stubborn, well, okay.
Otto, I love that Oswalt bit.
It makes me wonder….people really are against gay marriage because thinking about the sex is gross.
But I think it’s grosser to think about your own parents rawdogging. And based on that, people who have kids shouldn’t be allowed to be married. Because it’s gross.
It’s not really asking people to choose between their religion and civil rights. No one is asking them to like it or endorse it. No one’s saying that all Christians would have to get gay married, just that gay people should be allowed to get married. Christians can follow whatever rules they like to keep in line with their religion in their own lives, but frankly not everyone belongs to or cares about their religion so we shouldn’t all be subject to their rules.
Don’t want gay marriage happening in churches? Fine. Don’t want gay marriage happening in the world? Tough titties.
I find it hilarious that the right wingers who piss their pants in fear every day at the laughable idea that some power-mad Muslim fundamentalists are going to install sharia law in Des Moines or someplace are exactly the same ones who insist that the rest of us should tailor our laws to suit their brand of Christian fundamentalism.
Wait, not hilarious. Sad.
So, pro-traditional marriage equals anti-gay? Thanks unbiased media.
Well, if “pro-traditional marriage” means “only the straights can get married, the gays can have something else but it won’t be quite the same and they can’t call it marriage,” then yep. It does. And what the fuck the media has to do with that, I have no idea.
It’s kind of like saying one is “pro-life” instead of “anti-choice”.
You gotta dress it up lest you look like a cockbag.
People give a shit because the money they spend there is funneled to organizations that seek to marginalize and oppress an entire segment of the population.
It’s why I stopped eating at KKKburger.
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Make it at home.
It’s actually quite simple.
Even simpler if you have a wife.
At last the Muppets chicken cast members can sleep without fear.
For the record, I was hoping gay marriage would open the “Man and Chick-Fil-A” marriage door. How disappointing. They have no idea what they’re missing. *Puts on viking helmet and spreads peanut butter over own nipples*
This kind of stuff pisses me off. Pro gay marriage people always tell anti-gay marriage people to just get over it and don’t pay attention. Shouldn’t that be a two way street? I am completely for gay marriage, but I am also completely for people believing what they want to believe. And I think it is ironic that the whole pro gay marriage rhetoric is that people should be able to believe and act how they want, but god forbid if someone wants to believe something that is not inline with how they think.
So if this guy was going off about how he didn’t believe in mixed race marriages and funneling money to groups that campaigned against it, then that’s totally fine, because everyone should believe what they want?
Tolerating equal rights is NOT the same as tolerating bigotry.
There’s a huge difference between “don’t pay attention” and actively interfering with other people’s lives.
“Stop doing that” vs “Leave them alone”. No one is trying to prevent Christians from doing anything aside from bothering people. Gays doing their own thing, minding their own business and living their lives isn’t bothering anyone who isn’t actively trying to be bothered by it.
Mr. Cathy is perfectly within his rights to think that gay people should be second-class citizens and denied the political rights that come with legally-recognized marriage.
And I’m perfectly within my rights to decide that, because he believes that stupid shit, I’m not going to give him my money. Chick-fil-A spent a whopping $2 million on anti-gay rights issues in 2010 alone, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to fund bigotry just because they make a decent chicken sandwich.
Conservatives sure do like to prattle on about the magic of the free market, but they tend not to understand it. Consumers can take their money wherever they want. That’s not censorship. That’s capitalism.
I think everyone here would benefit from slowing down a minute and focusing on what’s important; and that’s that “After all, if Chick Fil A wouldn’t support marriage between two men, what would they say about a frog marrying a pig while constantly getting fisted?” is quite possibly one of the finest sentences ever written.
*Also, I’m not really sure when or how to properly use semi-colons:(
Because my first concern before i spit palm my junk into another man’s furry buttcheeks is “how does the CEO of mu’fuggin’ chik-fil-a feel about this?
As delicious as it is I will never eat their again. It’s people like him that keep driving us backwards instead of forward in the world today. The “biblical” term for marriage? Oh yea, like Abraham in the Old Testament remained failthful to his JUST one wife right? Yea, that’s real good example man…
Here’s Kermit explaining why he’s boycotting Chick-Fil-A.
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It is a shame people can’t give their opinions or beliefs without people getting ugly! This is his belief and he has a right to it. Henson wants to take toys away from kids because Cathy does not believe like her! What a shame! Same with cities that want to boycott chick-fil-a in their cities. Well I say don’t buy any more toys from Henson’s company and don’t visit those cities that don’t like what Cathy said! If you don’t have anything better to do than make a fuss over what someone beliefs then you have really been blessed, I mean look around at all the sickness, people out of work, people trying to make it from pay check to paycheck, and their are people out there that don’t know where there next meal is coming from. Grow up people and lets move on!
So your plan is to boycott Henson to protest Henson’s boycott of Chik-Fil-A? Brilliant argument there.