One thing is for sure: Chick-Fil-A has never gotten so much free publicity. It shall be interesting to see how the chicken restaurant fares after all this controversy. I have never eaten there before, but I intend to pay them a visit in the near future.
Read from Fox News:
Chicago alderman to block Chick-fil-A expansion
A Chicago alderman, angered by the president of Chick-fil-A's comments that he is against gay marriage, said he will block the company from building a restaurant in his ward.
Alderman Joe Moreno said Wednesday that unless the company comes up with a written anti-discrimination policy, Chick-fil-A will not open its first free-standing restaurant in the city as it plans to do.
"They have nothing on the books that says they do not discriminate and they are open to everyone," said Moreno, whose ward is on the northwest side. "I want to see that policy before they go forward."
Moreno's comments follow an interview that Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy gave to the Baptist Press in which he said he was "guilty as charged" in support of what he called the biblical definition of a family.
The fast-food chain later said that it strives to "treat every person with honor, dignity and respect — regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender," the Boston Herald reported. The Atlanta-based company did not respond to a telephone call or email from The Associated Press.
Last week, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino told the Boston Herald he would block Chick-fil-A from opening a restaurant in the city.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel expressed similar sentiments to the Chicago Tribune, which first reported Moreno's efforts this week. He said the comments "''disrespect our fellow neighbors and residents," and therefore building the restaurant in Chicago "would be a bad investment, since it would be empty."
On Wednesday, Moreno did not dispute that Cathy had the right to say what he said. But, Moreno said, "There are consequences for freedom of speech (and) in this case the consequences are... you're not going to have your first free-standing restaurant in Chicago."
Chick-fil-A has obtained a zoning permit for the restaurant but needs approval from the City Council to divide the land, Moreno said. And in a city where the City Council rarely go against the wishes of the alderman, Chick-fil-A needs Moreno's help.
Moreno said holding up construction would be as simple as refusing to introduce an ordinance to subdivide the land where Chick-fil-A wants to build.
He said he was not worried about being sued. First, he said, there are well-documented traffic and congestion issues in the Logan Square neighborhood that he could raise to justify his decision.
He added, "We have a responsibility to look at (whether companies) are responsible actors and responsible means not being discriminatory."
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boycott goes both ways Mayor Thomas Menino, boycotting any products produced in leftwing draconian Boston.
The Anti-Chick-fil-A Jihad !
(This sinister jihad is part of the end-time "days of Lot" - coordinated worldwide by powerful unseen beings - that Jesus predicted in Luke 17. To see if you are part of this soul-damning craze, read on!)
Google “Zombietime” and click on “Up Your Alley Fair.” After recovering, Yahoo “God to Same-Sexers: Hurry Up” on the “ucmpage” listing (even Jesus told Judas to hurry up – John 13:27). Also Yahoo “Dangerous Radicals of the Religious Right.”
Read this before the predicted California earthquake happens a la Rev.16:19 (“the cities of the nations fell”) – and before hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts and other disasters occur! The fast-moving goal of Gaydom is to quietly sneak its depravity on to every Main Street on earth while normal folks stay asleep and do nothing. I wonder how soon San Francisco's underground saint - San Andreas - will get a big jolt out of the public gay porn that goes on over his head in "Madam" Nancy Pelosi's brothel district in front of children! Not one to mince words, Jesus said in Mark 9:42 that anyone hurting a child in any way deserves to be hanged and have his body thrown into the ocean!
It's far from coincidental that the more America elevates gays and senseless violence (see the predicted "days" of "Lot" and "Noah" in Luke 17), the more the cost of gas, food etc. goes up! If America is smart, it will pick up the big dust-covered book everyone owns and almost never reads - no, not the Sears catalog - and find out that the One who made the universe has some rights too! (Also Google "Obama Fulfilling the Bible.")
Gays like to say that Jesus didn't explicitly mention homosexuality. Well, when gays are about to have a birthday, they don't talk about all the things they don't want. Instead they speak positively about what they'd like to receive. In the same manner Jesus, instead of negatively listing every sexual variation and perversion that He knew mankind would invent, avoided an endless list of "thou-shall-nots" and positively stated that marriage was created for only one man and one woman. BTW, by fulfilling the same "days of Lot," gays are actually hurrying up the return of Christ as Judge and helping to make the Bible even more believable!
(Obama and his porn-protecting California friends - including Brown and Pelosi - did NOT approve of this message.)
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