First I want to post this:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...media-mob.html
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Los Angeles police were called to a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Hollywood on Friday amid a national "kiss day" related to the company president's opposition to gay marriage.
Authorities said the call was prompted by a heavy media presence at the restaurant that was making it difficult for the business to operate. There were no problems related to protests.
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It eems the greatest problem is the media and not either side in the controversy...
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To be fair, we don't know what the woman working the drive-thru in that video believes. For all we know, she could be gay and/or a supporter of gay marriage. What she was probably believing in at that time was her employment and likely didn't appreciate being harrassed at work over an issue that she neither started nor participated in. All she did was go to work that day.
Whatever personal views we hold, I don't think it is unreasonable to say that vitriol aimed at the people working the counters at these resturaunts is vitriol misplaced.
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Takeda is dead on right. To prove the point, here is an earlier news report about the same Chick-fil-A restaurant cited in the first link dated 7/27/1,2 fully a week ago:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1710913.html
As Takeda pointed out, not everyone involved with the chain is in lock-step with the CEO.
I live in Hollywood and the restaurant is not far from my home. I have passed it many times, but I have never eaten there. I have heard that the quality of the food is much like someone previously posted, "over-priced KFC" (and I am not too fond of KFC chicken, either). I doubt, other than the raving supporters of either side, many people will be influenced by anything other than their preference in food in making a decision to eat there or not.
Interestingly, there is an In-And-Out Burger franchise just down the block from the Hollywood Chick-fil-A. The chain is family-owned and the owners are very religious Christians. They have a long standing practice of printing references to Bible verses discreetly on their food packaging material. The references are very, very small and you would more or less have to seek them out. Here is the Wikipedia article about the chain; scroll down to the "Bible Verses" section to see examples of the packaging and a listing of the relevant verses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-N-Out_Burger
Another somewhat amusing note about In-And-Out Burgers: They used to give away bumper stickers that read "In-And-Out Burger". They soon had to replace the original design because some wags were altering the bumper stickers by removing the 'B' and the 's':
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