But Thank You For Waiting in Line and Spending a Lot of Money on Our Food Before We Decided We Like Gays and Hate Christmas.
Remember the War on Gays where Chick-fil-A surrendered after making homophobes stand in line to buy their crappy sandwiches?
Well, now they’ve declared War on Christmas.
In their horrific assault on Christmas, the company released a statement celebrating the “holiday season” that doesn’t once include the word “Christmas” and also pushed out a press release about “holiday gift giving,” again failing to mention “Christmas.”
Really, now? Learned your lesson, did ya?
Thanks to Ralph for the heads up.
Since the only god they worship is MONEY!, all else is only lip service to them.
1Sooo, let me see if I got this:
Papa John’s…bad.
Chik-Fil-B promoted back to Chik-Fil-A….good
Denny’s…bad in some places. Thankfully not Vegas.
Applebee’s…bad mainly in New York?
It’s tough to find out there. If I were feeling the least bit motivated I’d find/download or invent an app that kept track of all the socially conscious places to eat.
Thank god I married a Southern Girl who can cook, otherwise I might starve looking for an honest owner. I’d be the Diogenes of Franchisees.
2LOL. Very clever, daChipster. Just one of many reasons why southern-raised girls are the best.
3How the heck do these people maintain a high level of outrage and constant whining?! What a bunch of losers.
4Uh…..how many DEMs have restaurants or business….THAT ARE NOT LAYING OFF PEOPLE OR CUTTING WAGES??? Playing politics with ordinary people’s lives is just a GAME for these despicable people!
5Dear American Family Association: I think you people misunderstand the real meaning of Christmas. It has nothing to do with whether fast food joints mention it or not. It’s either celebrated in your heart, or (if you have no heart or Christmas isn’t being celebrated in there right this minute) not. In your case evidently not, since you are spreading not joy and peace, but nastiness and hatred.
You, American Family Association, are the ones waging a war on Christmas. Christmas will win. Y’all can go on being grinches about it if you want to.
6There is so much Dumb going around this country, I’m more afraid of going out and catching it, than I am a cold or the flu.
7At least you can feel better by eating some of Granny’s chicken soup for the flu.
Dumb seems to be permanent!
EMoon – it has been going on for years – my sister in law sent such a rant influenced by them years ago about those who send cards leaving out Christ – that I haven’t sent a card to them since then. I am fortunate enough to have friends and acquaintances of many faiths, and have always sent “Seasons Greetings” – I guess good wishes are not acceptable for any outside of todays “Christian” group. Strange misreading of the original,ya think?
8I think I’ll make my own holiday bumper sticker for the season: “My Lord Doesn’t Need Corporate Endorsements.”
9If you follow the article link, and then follow the links in that: you can find the Naughty or Nice list, helpfully provided by the American Family Association.
http://www.afa.net/detail.aspx?id=2147486887
What’s really interesting is: they appear to base this not on whether a company seems to show any traditional Christmas spirit [or any religious message] but on this:
If a company’s ad has references to items associated with Christmas (trees, wreaths, lights, etc.), it was considered as an attempt to reach “Christmas” shoppers.
If a company has items associated with Christmas, but did not use the word “Christmas,” then the company is considered as censoring “Christmas.”
So, if you’re on the nice list, you are willing to use the word Christmas to attempt to sell things to the public. And if someone were to make a conscious decision to not invoke the spirit of Christmas as a sales gimmick, they would fall into the naughty category. How frakked up is that?
10Let’s have a separation of church and retail! Wouldn’t fly well with the greeting card folk, I wager. I’m with EMoon, use the season to brew lovingkindness everywhere and let us smile at the grinches and move on.
11Glyn, I love your bumper sticker. I want one. Anyway, y’all need to know that us old ladies who grew up in very very Christian churches did NOT use the word Christmas hardly atall. We were very virtuous and only sang secular carols and only sent cards that said HAPPY HOLIDAYS or something without Jesus in it. Our church always had a sermon near Christmas about Why We Don’t Celebrate Christmas as Jesus’ Birthday. The counterpoint to that was we always sang Hark the Herald Angels Sing in July. So there! WE showed ’em. Now the same folks’ offspring have a breath-holding tantrum about How We Have to Keep Christ in Christmas. I personally don’t care. I want everyone to have a good time. Sharing might be a good way to do it.
12Well, I may have missed this little point here about chik-fil-a from wiki’:
S. Truett Cathy is a devout Southern Baptist; his religious beliefs have a major impact on the company.[24] The company’s official statement of corporate purpose says that the business exists “To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us. To have a positive influence on all who come in contact with Chick-fil-A.”[25]
Cathy’s beliefs are also responsible for one of the chain’s distinctive features: All Chick-fil-A locations are closed on Sundays.
Whether Dec 25 is the actual birthdate of Christ is unknown as far as I know. But does that really matter compared to what the purpose of this remembrance is about?
13Ah, I just love the smell of overkoch’d chikun in the mornin’! Apparently tis the season to make more $ is by hiding that christiany-cow thingy.
Marge, that’s me exactly. I was raised in a very conservative church and it was always very awkward when Christmas fell on a Sunday. It was common knowledge that Dec 25 was not Christ’s birthday and we celebrated Christmas as a secular holiday. We weren’t allowed to have a nativity scene in our house. But now, my parents, my siblings, my cousins (all of whom still belong to that same conservative church) are all “remember the reason for the season” and boycott the people who declare war on Christmas. At our house, where we go to a much more liberal church, we have a nativity scene, but we tend to wish people happy holidays or joyous holidays. My requirement for my Christmas cards is they must have a bear. My beloved husband was Bear and we had Christmas bears on our cards for 30 years.
14You guys are opening an OT window for me: is this yet another rxn against the papists? Did these churches not celebrate because they couldn’t be SURE that was actually his birthday? This sounds very much like angels dancing on pinheads to me but I am hugely curious! After all Easter moves around all over the place according to the lunar calendar and no one gripes?
15Anyone have a link to the actual statement? Maybe I just missed it but the neither of the two links in this post give any way to find the statement. Nor can I find it on a google search, or on the Chick’s website.
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