Bigoted Organization "Chic-Fil-A" infiltrates facebook

[Woodruff]

When I was in high school and had free time I either jerked off or played video games. You're lame as shit.

I think you have that backward.

[Phatscotty]

You know, I would have been tempted to join this discussion, and add another view (and opinion) to the talking...but seeing all the bad feelings that this discussion is bringing up, and all the name calling that's going on, I don't really think I want to join.

If you guys want to actually have a discussion and talk about this, then the heated arguing is only destroying your chances of doing that. If you actually want to have a name-calling-fest (which I doubt any of you really do), please do it somewhere where other people don't have to run into it while looking for a practical and meaningful discussion.

[Woodruff]

Wanna come back from your divorced reality for one second and make a f'n bet????

This was less than a week ago. 35,000 people showed up to volunteer their time and money in Dallas Texas. These people filled up 14 semis full of food and dropped it off to the 14 worst off communities all around the country. They are filling the semi's again. They have been filling them since before you became the new pimpdave.

These people know exactly what Jesus said about helping the poor and hungry and homeless.

And of course those were all Christians, right? Because you documented their religion while they were there?

are you talking about the original post about Christians? or the reply to the post about Christians?

Do you find it likely that a load of non-Christians would have been patronizing Chick-Fil-A on that particular day?
Likewise, do you find it likely that a load of non-Christians would have been working at a food bank in Dallas on those particular days?
Your answers would probably be educational for you, if you paid any mind to them.

[kentington]

Wanna come back from your divorced reality for one second and make a f'n bet????

This was less than a week ago. 35,000 people showed up to volunteer their time and money in Dallas Texas. These people filled up 14 semis full of food and dropped it off to the 14 worst off communities all around the country. They are filling the semi's again. They have been filling them since before you became the new pimpdave.

These people know exactly what Jesus said about helping the poor and hungry and homeless.

And of course those were all Christians, right? Because you documented their religion while they were there?

When I was in high school and had free time we would go help out at the rescue mission nearby with serving food and what not. We also organized bringing sandwiches to a park with tons of homeless.
We were Christian. But I don't think that the Christian part is the important part of it. We are supposed to love each other regardless of our differences.

I agree that the Christian part isn't the important part...unless one is trying to make the point that only Christians did something (not you). Last year, my cadets did more than 4,000 hours of community service, much of it at places like homeless shelters, food banks and nursing homes. I had to be present for almost all of it, and so I obviously helped out too. I'm not what one would typically call religious in nature. <smile>

4,000 hours is a lot. That's good for them. More than just being willing to do that they gain some valuable experiences. I don't recall my High School JROTC program doing community services.

[Woodruff]

Wanna come back from your divorced reality for one second and make a f'n bet????

This was less than a week ago. 35,000 people showed up to volunteer their time and money in Dallas Texas. These people filled up 14 semis full of food and dropped it off to the 14 worst off communities all around the country. They are filling the semi's again. They have been filling them since before you became the new pimpdave.

These people know exactly what Jesus said about helping the poor and hungry and homeless.

And of course those were all Christians, right? Because you documented their religion while they were there?

When I was in high school and had free time we would go help out at the rescue mission nearby with serving food and what not. We also organized bringing sandwiches to a park with tons of homeless.
We were Christian. But I don't think that the Christian part is the important part of it. We are supposed to love each other regardless of our differences.

I agree that the Christian part isn't the important part...unless one is trying to make the point that only Christians did something (not you). Last year, my cadets did more than 4,000 hours of community service, much of it at places like homeless shelters, food banks and nursing homes. I had to be present for almost all of it, and so I obviously helped out too. I'm not what one would typically call religious in nature. <smile>

4,000 hours is a lot. That's good for them. More than just being willing to do that they gain some valuable experiences. I don't recall my High School JROTC program doing community services.

Presuming it's been a while (I'M NOT CALLING YOU OLD, THOUGH!), times have changed. It's really promoted within the programs now. It's actually 10% of our cadets' grades. And get this...that 4,000+ hours was accomplished by only 82 cadets. And probably half of them did very little. We had about 40 SERIOUSLY community-service-minded cadets last year.

[kentington]

Presuming it's been a while (I'M NOT CALLING YOU OLD, THOUGH!), times have changed. It's really promoted within the programs now. It's actually 10% of our cadets' grades. And get this...that 4,000+ hours was accomplished by only 82 cadets. And probably half of them did very little. We had about 40 SERIOUSLY community-service-minded cadets last year.

I went to High School over ten years ago. I don't consider myself old but my kids do.

It's a good idea to require community service for grades. This should be done just to graduate High School.

[Woodruff]

Presuming it's been a while (I'M NOT CALLING YOU OLD, THOUGH!), times have changed. It's really promoted within the programs now. It's actually 10% of our cadets' grades. And get this...that 4,000+ hours was accomplished by only 82 cadets. And probably half of them did very little. We had about 40 SERIOUSLY community-service-minded cadets last year.

I went to High School over ten years ago. I don't consider myself old but my kids do.

It's a good idea to require community service for grades. This should be done just to graduate High School.

It is in Nebraska (30 hours as part of the Government and Politics class). And I agree.

[PLAYER57832]

Presuming it's been a while (I'M NOT CALLING YOU OLD, THOUGH!), times have changed. It's really promoted within the programs now. It's actually 10% of our cadets' grades. And get this...that 4,000+ hours was accomplished by only 82 cadets. And probably half of them did very little. We had about 40 SERIOUSLY community-service-minded cadets last year.

I went to High School over ten years ago. I don't consider myself old but my kids do.

It's a good idea to require community service for grades. This should be done just to graduate High School.

It is a requirement in our local districts, though I am not sure if it is a general requirement for PA.

One issue I have is that sometimes the definition of community service gets stretched.. but that is another issue entirely (and not the kids' fault, either).

[Juan_Bottom]

Wanna come back from your divorced reality for one second and make a f'n bet????

This was less than a week ago. 35,000 people showed up to volunteer their time and money in Dallas Texas. These people filled up 14 semis full of food and dropped it off to the 14 worst off communities all around the country. They are filling the semi's again. They have been filling them since before you became the new pimpdave.

These people know exactly what Jesus said about helping the poor and hungry and homeless.

The point stands. This was a record sales day across the US, not just in Texas.
These are the Christians of summer.

[GBU56]

Jesus was a Socialist and certainly not a rightwing Republican.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csGzOZ9WggI

[Haggis_McMutton]

Bill Hicks

[Juan_Bottom]

http://www.facebook.com/NationalSameSexKissDay - FB kiss uploads

That takes some guts.

[Juan_Bottom]

[Woodruff]

These are the Christians of summer.

Do they play baseball?

[Night Strike]

Wanna come back from your divorced reality for one second and make a f'n bet????

This was less than a week ago. 35,000 people showed up to volunteer their time and money in Dallas Texas. These people filled up 14 semis full of food and dropped it off to the 14 worst off communities all around the country. They are filling the semi's again. They have been filling them since before you became the new pimpdave.

These people know exactly what Jesus said about helping the poor and hungry and homeless.

The point stands. This was a record sales day across the US, not just in Texas.
These are the Christians of summer.

Considering the Restoring Love volunteer event was the largest ever single mobilization of volunteers outsides a disaster area, I'm pretty sure it would also count as a record.

[Phatscotty]

Wanna come back from your divorced reality for one second and make a f'n bet????

This was less than a week ago. 35,000 people showed up to volunteer their time and money in Dallas Texas. These people filled up 14 semis full of food and dropped it off to the 14 worst off communities all around the country. They are filling the semi's again. They have been filling them since before you became the new pimpdave.

These people know exactly what Jesus said about helping the poor and hungry and homeless.

The point stands. This was a record sales day across the US, not just in Texas.
These are the Christians of summer.

“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.”

[jay_a2j]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/chick-fil-a-presidents-public-stance-against-gay-marriage-surprises-some-advocates/2012/07/19/gJQAtC3vvW_story.html
For those of you who somehow don't know, Chic-Fil-A has positioned itself pretty terribly in the business world after their president took a publicly Anti-Gay stand.

I happen to agree with the above statement, so I guess I am also a bigot.....or just simply someone with morals.

[natty dread]

I am also a bigot

[Woodruff]

Wanna come back from your divorced reality for one second and make a f'n bet????

This was less than a week ago. 35,000 people showed up to volunteer their time and money in Dallas Texas. These people filled up 14 semis full of food and dropped it off to the 14 worst off communities all around the country. They are filling the semi's again. They have been filling them since before you became the new pimpdave.

These people know exactly what Jesus said about helping the poor and hungry and homeless.

The point stands. This was a record sales day across the US, not just in Texas.
These are the Christians of summer.

Considering the Restoring Love volunteer event was the largest ever single mobilization of volunteers outsides a disaster area, I'm pretty sure it would also count as a record.

What does that have to do with Christians?

[Woodruff]

Wanna come back from your divorced reality for one second and make a f'n bet????

This was less than a week ago. 35,000 people showed up to volunteer their time and money in Dallas Texas. These people filled up 14 semis full of food and dropped it off to the 14 worst off communities all around the country. They are filling the semi's again. They have been filling them since before you became the new pimpdave.

These people know exactly what Jesus said about helping the poor and hungry and homeless.

The point stands. This was a record sales day across the US, not just in Texas.
These are the Christians of summer.

“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.”

Why do you continue to talk about freedom as if you believe in it?

[Woodruff]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/chick-fil-a-presidents-public-stance-against-gay-marriage-surprises-some-advocates/2012/07/19/gJQAtC3vvW_story.html
For those of you who somehow don't know, Chic-Fil-A has positioned itself pretty terribly in the business world after their president took a publicly Anti-Gay stand.

I happen to agree with the above statement, so I guess I am also a bigot.....or just simply someone with morals.

Why is something that doesn't affect anyone else negatively considered "immoral"?

[Army of GOD]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/chick-fil-a-presidents-public-stance-against-gay-marriage-surprises-some-advocates/2012/07/19/gJQAtC3vvW_story.html
For those of you who somehow don't know, Chic-Fil-A has positioned itself pretty terribly in the business world after their president took a publicly Anti-Gay stand.

I happen to agree with the above statement, so I guess I am also a bigot.....or just simply someone with morals.

Why is something that doesn't affect anyone else negatively considered "immoral"?

arguing with people like jay is pretty much the most time-wasting thing you can possibly do.


Ten bucks says you get an undesirably inadequate response and this conversation gets nowhere.

[Juan_Bottom]

These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER” and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.

How friggin' weird is it that this Thomas Paine quote is exactly what I was trying to call to the reader's mind?
It's so weird that we can use the same quotation to express two completely different things.

These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer Christian and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their religion; but he/she that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

[Night Strike]

Wanna come back from your divorced reality for one second and make a f'n bet????

This was less than a week ago. 35,000 people showed up to volunteer their time and money in Dallas Texas. These people filled up 14 semis full of food and dropped it off to the 14 worst off communities all around the country. They are filling the semi's again. They have been filling them since before you became the new pimpdave.

These people know exactly what Jesus said about helping the poor and hungry and homeless.

The point stands. This was a record sales day across the US, not just in Texas.
These are the Christians of summer.

Considering the Restoring Love volunteer event was the largest ever single mobilization of volunteers outsides a disaster area, I'm pretty sure it would also count as a record.

What does that have to do with Christians?

What does the Chick-Fil-A event have to do with Christians then?

[heavycola]

This is all a sideshow on the road to equality, because the dinosaurs like this chicken-pusher dude are on the way out. Progress wins over time, and always has.

I suspect it's the same in the US: thanks to the shift in public attitudes towards homosexuality over the past, what, 30 years, most young people these days do not have any issue with same-sex marriage at all. A YouGov survey recently found that 75% of those aged 18-25 say same-sex relationships are just as valid, next to 49% of people over 60 years of age. Who's going to die off first, I wonder?