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| | [[File:P08-01-12 12.52.jpg|right|thumb|250px| Chick-fil-A on Customer Appreciation Day August 1st, 2012]] | | [[File:P08-01-12 12.52.jpg|right|thumb|250px| Chick-fil-A on Customer Appreciation Day August 1st, 2012]] |
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| − | '''Chick-fil-A''' is a privately held and family owned fast food franchise that serves chicken with over 1500 locations nationwide. They are a [[Christian]] business and every last location closes on the [[Lord]]'s day, Sunday. Established in 1946 by Truett Cathy, he opened his first restaurant, The Dwarf Grill, in Hapeville, Georgia. In 2010, annual sales were over $3.5 billion. | + | '''Chick-fil-A''' is a privately held and family owned fast food franchise with over 1500 locations nationwide. They are a [[Christian]] business and every last location closes on the [[Lord]]'s day, Sunday. Established in 1946 by Truett Cathy, he opened his first restaurant, The Dwarf Grill, in Hapeville, Georgia. In 2010, annual sales were over $3.5 billion. |
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| | Restaurants can be stand alone locations, mall-based, drive-thru only as well as college campuses, hospitals, and airport "Lunch Counters". They operate themed restaurants known by the names Dwarf House and Truett's Grill. They included the full Chick-fil-A menu. | | Restaurants can be stand alone locations, mall-based, drive-thru only as well as college campuses, hospitals, and airport "Lunch Counters". They operate themed restaurants known by the names Dwarf House and Truett's Grill. They included the full Chick-fil-A menu. |
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| | ==Gay activists== | | ==Gay activists== |
| − | Chick-fil-A is the target of a [[boycott]] by [[liberal]]s who dislike Christians and want to refine marraige. The activists made a mountain-out-of-a-mole-hill regarding a Massachusetts anti-[[gay marriage]] group getting catering from Chick-fil-A. This has upset social misfits dearly and [[gay]]s are to stop giving them business as a result. | + | Chick-fil-A is the target of a [[boycott]] by [[liberal]]s who dislike Christian organizations, including those that support the traditional definition of marriage. The activists made a mountain-out-of-a-mole-hill regarding a Massachusetts anti-[[gay marriage]] group getting catering from Chick-fil-A. This has upset social misfits dearly and [[gay]]s are to stop giving them business as a result. |
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| | In July 2012, Chick-fil-A Chief Operations Officer Dan Cathy expressed his personal Christian opinion to a [[Baptist]] newspaper saying "guilty as charged" for the defense of traditional marriage. An avalanche of liberal outrage ensued and the so-called tolerant [[homosexual activist|No-H8]] crowd demanded future Chick-fil-A restaurants be banned in Chicago, Boston and San Francisco. The Jim Henson Company cancelled their contract to manufacture Muppets merchandise with Chick-fil-A. Liberals took to the internet to slander the chain as "bigots" and "haters". | | In July 2012, Chick-fil-A Chief Operations Officer Dan Cathy expressed his personal Christian opinion to a [[Baptist]] newspaper saying "guilty as charged" for the defense of traditional marriage. An avalanche of liberal outrage ensued and the so-called tolerant [[homosexual activist|No-H8]] crowd demanded future Chick-fil-A restaurants be banned in Chicago, Boston and San Francisco. The Jim Henson Company cancelled their contract to manufacture Muppets merchandise with Chick-fil-A. Liberals took to the internet to slander the chain as "bigots" and "haters". |
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| | Led by [[Mike Huckabee]] and the [[American Family Association]], conservatives rallied and began a Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day on August 1, 2012, where more than 630,000 people signed up to support the event on Facebook and Chick-fil-A locations around the country were packed with patrons who came to support Cathy's stand on traditional marriage and send a message to the forces of [[liberalism]] and [[political correctness]]. Pro-gay liberals held a childish "kiss-in" protest on August 3 at various Chick-fil-A restaurants as a protest of traditional marriage, which largely bombed as it drew barely any protesters. On the same day, one location in Torrance, California was targeted with graffiti by pro-gay vandals. | | Led by [[Mike Huckabee]] and the [[American Family Association]], conservatives rallied and began a Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day on August 1, 2012, where more than 630,000 people signed up to support the event on Facebook and Chick-fil-A locations around the country were packed with patrons who came to support Cathy's stand on traditional marriage and send a message to the forces of [[liberalism]] and [[political correctness]]. Pro-gay liberals held a childish "kiss-in" protest on August 3 at various Chick-fil-A restaurants as a protest of traditional marriage, which largely bombed as it drew barely any protesters. On the same day, one location in Torrance, California was targeted with graffiti by pro-gay vandals. |
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| − | A liberal man made a youtube video where he cruelly yelled at a defenseless Chick-fil-A employee, calling her and her employers hateful. He was later fired from his job as an executive.
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| | ==External Links== | | ==External Links== |
| | * [http://www.chick-fil-a.com/ Official website] | | * [http://www.chick-fil-a.com/ Official website] |