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Originally Posted by HomerMcvie
It's strange here. I live in the most liberal city in my state, and CFA supporters are lined outside our mall(our only CFA is in the food court of our mall). People are posting pics of them on FB. I'm honestly shocked, as liberal as my town is, that that many people would choose to show their bigotry.
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Or it could just be they are standing in a line for free speech...and/or bigotry.
I support & believe in free speech and therefore have no problem with Chick-fil-la's right to take a stand and express their beliefs as a company. But on a macro level what is much more disconcerting to me is freedom of speech being manipulated and co-opted - whoever has the biggest bank accounts also has the biggest megaphone's. And let's face it, there are a lot of citizens of the world who still chose to live their lives in a bubble and believe that they are not affected, or turn a blind eye, to this seemingly big chess game for the soul of the country, if not the world, as we stand by and witness an intensely growing zealousness and divisiveness that Corporations and their super rich allies are perpetrating.
So unlike, super PACs, which thus far (because of a dominant Republican congress) are not required to be transparent and disclose names of donors who are dumping unlimited amounts of money (because of a Supreme Courts decision to lift long standing donor limits in 2010) which help fill the coffers & flood the media with paid free speech to elect candidates whom further their greedy agenda's, I appreciate that a company like Chick-fil-la (which over the last 20 yrs. has grown steadily in franchise visibility and power) openly admits its philosophy and activism towards limiting the civil rights of a portion of their potential customer base (LGBT community AND Woman's rights, etc.). Because armed with that disclosed information I and the public gets a chance to support or boycott that establishment and their beliefs. I wish more companies were that expressive in the press regarding their social and political philosophies and causes they support.