Comments for Campus Chick-Fil-A targeted at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 12 out of 12 comments http://www.theind.com Sun, 26 May 2013 00:13:17 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/10896-campus-chic-fil-a-targeted#comment-27043 this is so simple.... marriage has always been and should always be between a man and a woman and is most about procreation..... gay sex is unnatural and therefore wrong..... i admire chik-fil-a tremendously for their courage to profess their beliefs openly..... - Marie Broussard Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:17:27 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/10896-campus-chic-fil-a-targeted#comment-27026 The mentality of 'I disagree with this, it must be banned' is disturbing. It is Ironic that this movement is meeting perceived bigotry with bigotry, and a rabid almost fascist-like mentality. 'Ban it!' that is just as unacceptable to me than if the Westboro Baptist Church, for instance, would begin targeting LGBT owned campus related businesses for removal from campus. Just to show you how bigoted you are, I am a Christian, go to a Baptist church, and support WinShape. I also believe in the right to Gay marriage, and equal protection under the law for everyone in the united states. As a libertarian I have, perhaps, a different view because I wonder why ANY marriage at all must receive the permission of and sanction by any government. Marriage is a religious, or personal commitment. The legal issues of All Domestic partnerships could effectively be addressed using contract law, leaving people's personal moral feelings and beliefs out of the larger legal issues and taking all the damn emotion and drama out of this argument. Agree to disagree on the moral equivalency of gay and straight marriage. You are never going to force some people to believe as you do, both ways! And leave Chick-fil-A alone! If you ask me it is a dumb move to take on a company as popular and successful as Chick-fil-A. You may even cause an anti-gay backlash by doing things like this, which I would hate to see. And educate yourself, please, about this wonderful company and all the good it does. I think it is a mistake to look this company at yourself and the world only through a narrow 'gay lens'. There is much more to a person's worth, to the world and to life than a person's sexual preferences/orientation and the politics surrounding that. - Cristi Racine St Germain Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:51:00 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/10896-campus-chic-fil-a-targeted#comment-27005 'written by Jason Faulk , July 06, 2012 - 01:55 pm Where one's beliefs intersect with my rights there is a conflict.' It sounds to me as if your beliefs intersect with Chick-Fil-A's rights. Like I said, your beliefs are viewed just as radically as theirs. They don't believe you have that right of same sex marriage equality, and you believe the opposite. At this time you are in the minority. Once again, piss and vinegar will not friends make, nor will it take the cotton out of anyone's ears. - Dudley E. LaBauve, III Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:31:53 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/10896-campus-chic-fil-a-targeted#comment-27004 Great point, Mr. DuPuy! All kidding aside; I do like the fact that Chic-Fil-A is closed on Sundays. It allows workers to have a day off. That applies to the Christian, Gay, and Secular workers as well. - David M. Bruce Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:31:26 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/10896-campus-chic-fil-a-targeted#comment-27002 Again, those with "declining balances" can always decline at some other eatery. I'm sure you could research all of the wholesale food vendors which provide ingredients to any restaurant or food service provider and you will find objectionable practices. I admire Chick-Fil-A. They serve a wholesome product. Get a life. - Terry DuPuy Sat, 07 Jul 2012 20:05:17 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/10896-campus-chic-fil-a-targeted#comment-27001 Giving Chik-Fil-A the boot because of the company's Mormon owners' religious beliefs sounds a bit like religious intolerance to me. Who cares if they hate gays? They make a helluva chicken biscuit! And their waffle fries are killer! But; I understand that there has to be a protest of the week and I'm all for diverting my enery to bandwagonesque causes rather than something more important going on in this state so...down with Chick-Fil-A! Boot the anti-gays! What color shall we asign to this revolution? And can I have the contract to make the t-shirts? - David M. Bruce Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:25:45 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/10896-campus-chic-fil-a-targeted#comment-27000 I fully agree with Jason Faulk. Indeed we should also boot out Pizza Hut, Zeus, and other evil ones off the campus. None of them allow their employees, not even the African Americans, to wear saggy pants to work. Showing their "fundament" is their true fundamental right, which is being blatantly violated. - Gomesh Tagore Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:08:15 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/10896-campus-chic-fil-a-targeted#comment-26999 I submit that doing so would be analogous to asking our African-American brothers and sisters to have simply not sat in at Woolworth's or ridden the buses across the south to desegregate discriminatory buinesses. No one is being met by violence currently, but funding organizations that have an intent of perpetuating inequal status in the minds of those they reach, so that inequality of rights under current law will be perpetuated in the body politic and halls of government is totally unacceptable. When the British taxed Indians' salt to pay for their empire and to send a message to Indians as to who was in charge and the basic necessities of life could be controlled, Indians could not choose to take their business elsewhere, they marched to the sea, and evaporated their own salt. This is a fundamental right. Comments like the above serve only to marginalize everyone into powerless individuals, as if we have no right to act together with a shared message. To act alone would be the same as telling every community harmed in Cancer Alley, that the persons within should not purchase plastics or put fuel in their car to go to work if they don't like being polluted on. Such calls seek to reduce me to a powerless individualist consumer. I am a citizen, and I share this community. Furthermore, as a public university, UL should not afford the privilege of access to its audience of captive on-campus residents who are required to purchase meal plans and declining balances for use in such a facility. - Jason Faulk Sat, 07 Jul 2012 01:20:47 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/10896-campus-chic-fil-a-targeted#comment-26998 There is a simple solution. If you have a problem with Chick-Fil-A, then DON'T EAT THERE! - Terry DuPuy Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:14:15 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/10896-campus-chic-fil-a-targeted#comment-26997 You pay for your burger, eat it, and go your way. What they do with their money is their own business. If you don't like them, don't eat there. They serve you without asking if you are LGBT, don't they? Seems like YOU are the bigot, not them? - Gomesh Tagore Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:22:40 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/10896-campus-chic-fil-a-targeted#comment-26994 Where one's beliefs intersect with my rights there is a conflict. In this matter there are Two Words: Marriage Equality. Two More Words: Human Rights. NO ONE, no government, no constitution of this country or state has the right to deny two adults the right to marry. The right to marry is inalienable. I speak as an ally. If two of my friends are denied the same right I would be afforded, even if I choose not to take advantage of that right myself, then it is a society which enforces an unjust, unequal, discriminatory status to its peers. Students living on the campus have the right to expect that their compelled fees for meal plans should not go to a company like this. All others who attend also have the right to boycott. This is not a private business operating solely on its own, it is privileged by the university to have an operation in our public space and we have the right to ask for the removal of a company that funds groups that are against universal rights. Such companies that engage their corporate dollars in activity of this sort should not be afforded this opportunity to prosper at a public institution where the views and beliefs of all intermingle. Let them fend for themselves off campus if they wish. UL Dining Services can direct Sodexo to remove Chick-Fil-A and replace it with a more inclusive vendor. - Jason Faulk Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:55:03 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/10896-campus-chic-fil-a-targeted#comment-26992 So there are no Fundamentalist Christain students on campus? Is the next target the Baptist Student Union? Both groups, LBGT and Christain fundamentalists believe what they believe, oppose each other in many ways, and view each other as equally radical. Unless either group is breaking the law, then why can't they just exist together and just agree to disagree, express each other's beliefs, and whomever is swayed just support the group of their preference. Why is it necessary to put a legally operating business out of business because you don't like them? Sugar and honey is more likely to attract friends than piss and vinegar! - Dudley E. LaBauve, III Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:09:48 +0100