This will be my last comment on the matter, BA, at least with you.
If it wasn't for the donations, even if it's one time, I would still be eating there. I don't mind companies being run with Christian values. I can even agree with pretty much everything they do in the way they handle the business - it's their right, it's a private business, no one else has any say-so in their franchise selection process or hiring practices. In fact, I can respect that they can maintain that, especially in the current economy. And they make a damned fine chicken sandwich by my lights.
But that ends when they make even a single donation to a group aimed against LGBT values, and again, I've gotten indications that was as little as two years ago. And I would suspect that any such later donations are partially masked by the time it takes the bureaucracy to cough up the information for a given tax year. And besides, remember this... once they slap down the gays, which group do they go after next? Divorcees? 40 year old unmarried virgins? (Those may - or may not - be hyperbole.) And even if they've stopped, it may only be for now, until the noise dies down a bit and they think no one's watching.
Like Bob, I have a number of friends throughout the LGBT spectrum. To date, I haven't had any real significant issues with that community.
BTW, "they're not doing it NOW" is somewhat pat as a response. I haven't heard any indication of a trumpeted "donated to a pro-gay cause or group" to counteract any potential damage, at least from their corporate office area. In this case, individual franchise donation doesn't exactly count. Just because they stop, doesn't mean it's now all right.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor
If it wasn't for the donations, even if it's one time, I would still be eating there. I don't mind companies being run with Christian values. I can even agree with pretty much everything they do in the way they handle the business - it's their right, it's a private business, no one else has any say-so in their franchise selection process or hiring practices. In fact, I can respect that they can maintain that, especially in the current economy. And they make a damned fine chicken sandwich by my lights.
But that ends when they make even a single donation to a group aimed against LGBT values, and again, I've gotten indications that was as little as two years ago. And I would suspect that any such later donations are partially masked by the time it takes the bureaucracy to cough up the information for a given tax year. And besides, remember this... once they slap down the gays, which group do they go after next? Divorcees? 40 year old unmarried virgins? (Those may - or may not - be hyperbole.) And even if they've stopped, it may only be for now, until the noise dies down a bit and they think no one's watching.
Like Bob, I have a number of friends throughout the LGBT spectrum. To date, I haven't had any real significant issues with that community.
BTW, "they're not doing it NOW" is somewhat pat as a response. I haven't heard any indication of a trumpeted "donated to a pro-gay cause or group" to counteract any potential damage, at least from their corporate office area. In this case, individual franchise donation doesn't exactly count. Just because they stop, doesn't mean it's now all right.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor