I doubt Alabama’s gay population is remotely close to the 750,000 number- that would be 15% of the population, which would mean some kind of causal link between Crisco and gay sex other than as a cheap lube- but it’s in the many thousands obviously. Gay culture here is sort of interesting: there’s a loud minority of Übergays ([i.e. the pursemouths- they take the visiblity overboard and every damned thing they own has a rainbow on it at some point), something frequently associated with college age newly out gay kids but here many of them are middle aged (or older) gays who were very closeted (sometimes married) during their youths and are making up lost time. And then there are a lot of people like I am- pretty much 100% open and if they feel like making an unapologetically gay Facebook post they will but usually they don’t because they don’t feel like it, and then there’s an enormous invisible culture that ranges the gamut from secret allies to the LGBT causes to the most gay-hating self-loathing stereotypes you can imagine.
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Say, if I donate $1000 right now to a pro-LGBT charity can I go ahead and continue eating CFA every month or so for the next few years? I could go as high as $2500 by debit card right this instant if you guys can give me the moral green-light.
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Personally, speaking only for myself, I don’t give a fuck if you eat there or not. I don’t see this as some latter day auxiliary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott; the latter involved thousands of people being legally forced to financially support their own systemic and legalized degraded treatment on the public transportation that their finances made possible and on which their livelihoods depended and the former has to do with pickle flavored chicken. In fact I expect this Wednesday to be a record setting sales day for Chick-Fil-A due to the masses of asses who, impotent as a 94 year old man with no prostate in a room full of rotting meat in almost every other aspect of their lives of loud desperation may somehow see this as validation and effectiveness. This will not be the end of Chick Fil A, nor do I much care if it is.
I will never spend money there again. I find the fact that they contribute money to organizations that disseminate completely and demonstrably false information about gays being child molesters or to places like Exodus that teach gays self-hatred is the only way to Jesus and that is something I will never knowingly support. At the same point, I wear clothes that I’ve no doubt were made in Hell-on-Earth sweatshops and do unnecessary driving even though I know what oil in general is doing to the environment and what the need for foreign oil is doing to the economy and foreign relations and I eat meat even though I know the animals were almost certainly raised in execrable and inhumane conditions and I have worked for any number of places that I found ethically reprehensible in their policies, so I’m sure as fuck not going to judge you or anybody else for eating a pickled chicken breast sandwich and waffle fries.
We all make our own policies and priorities about what we will and won’t support; my own money is all I control and all I seek to control.
I’ve spent so damned much time writing my opinions on the matter on various Facebook pages the last few days (though, I say with an embarrassing degree of pride, I’ve gotten a cumulative total of more than 1,000 likes to my comments) that I won’t spend anymore here other than to say I think I’ve seen every logical fallacy conceivable committed by both sides and a few that are brand new, and that the two things that I find the most ridiculous are
1- *“The president of Chick Fil A voiced his opinion when asked, that’s called free speech, I guess some people are against that!” nonsense. *
In addition to the fact that so many people (on the right this time, but the left is just as bad) seems to have no fucking clue what “freedom of speech” means (hint: it does not now/never has/was not intended to mean “You can say anything you want without any kind of negative backwash from anybody”- which in fact would be the opposite of free speech because it would mean people were being forbiddent to respond to it], it’s not his comments alone that piss me off, it’s the millions of dollars to anti-gay causes. As for the calling people intolerant for acting against something they find intolerant, in the first place I can live with that just fine and in the second I guess that means Rosa Parks was the most intolerant bitch in Montgomery history as far as these people are concerned. (Actually, it wouldn’t surprise me if many of them did believe that, but I digress.) Though I will say his comments would be enough for me personally to never eat there again- it’s a neener-neener that I’m not going to put up with; if he had given a nicely worded statement saying “I love black people and would never treat them unfairly, but personally I believe in white supremacy” or “I would never discriminate against a Jew, I just think they go to hell for not believing in Christ” I doubt anybody but the superfanatics would be defending him, but of course faggots are the last acceptable scapegoat so they’ve got to fight like hell to keep us.
2- Gays cheering that Boston and Chicago have taken measures to stop Chick Fil A from opening there.
Fucking mongoloids all-ah-yah’s if you don’t see the problem with this one. If Nashville or Charleston SC used official power to ban a Ben & Jerry’s or a Levi Strauss & Co. store from opening because those companies are gay friendly you’d be furious (and have every right to be). This is a very bad thing with potentially terrible repercussions. Ironically I associate Chick-Fil-A sandwiches with gay marriages: if you’re against them then don’t get one but don’t stop anybody else from having one.
