On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:31 PM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > So that's the official stand of the business. But the owner itself, and his > children, are individuals with the freedom to say whatever they want. The > public is free to diverge these sayings from the business itself, as i'm > sure the Chick-Fil-A would wish, or to group them together, as many will > do.
I think the main problem confounding Chic-fil-a at this point it that the founder and his children co-mingle and engrain their religious beliefs into the day to day operation of EVERY ASPECT OF THE COMPANY. The founder and his family's religious philosophy is very tightly wound up into the fabric of everything that the company does and stands for. They have prayers before corporate meetings, they are not open on Sunday, they are an oppressively religious company internally. They are based in Atlanta, I know people who have worked there. They are very very very religious and you will not get a job there unless you agree with their ideals or are willing to pretend that you do. I'm not talking about the franchises, I am sure they are operated in a variety of ways. I'm talking about HQ. Knowing this, and knowing how deep the religious convictions of the entire company go - they absolutely cannot divorce themselves from this issue simply because it's making them look like total homophobic assholes, which it is. They cannot be devout preachy Christians about everything but then sweep that one little thing that people seem to dislike under the rug. They made this bed, and now they are getting uncomfortable and trying to pretend they didn't. -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:353043 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
