As we all know, Mike Huckabee recently declared his support for Chick-Fil-A after the fast food chain’s president, Dan Cathy, confirmed that his company supported the “biblical definition of the family unit.” Going above and beyond an ordinary amount of support, the former Repulican Governer of Arkansas has declared August 1 Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day in an effort to show off his undying love for those chicken sandwiches.
That’s right. Instead of saying, “I support Chick-Fil-A’s terrible stance as a hateful company who doesn’t want to see people happy if they don’t adhere to ancient scripture of an organized religion,” he is giving Chick-Fil-A an entire day of appreciation.
Here is a list of more important things Mike Huckabee could be doing instead of organizing a day for Americans to eat subpar chicken sandwiches from a fast food joint:
- Teach a young child to read
- Find out where America can cut costs so we can start up the space shuttle program again
- Google “dogs wearing sunglasses”
- Look under fallen logs for salamanders
- Come up with cool nicknames for himself (i.e. Mike “Shoot ‘Em Up” Huckabee, or MC Huckz)
- Clean out his inbox
- Figure out what Donkey Lips from Salute Your Shorts is up to these days
- Anything
- Anything
- Anything at all
Maybe I’m jumping the gun here, but I’m beginning to think that Mike Huckabee is totally gay for Chick-Fil-A.
Mike Huckabee wants to take Chick-Fil-A behind the middle school and get it pregnant. Mike Huckabee wants to re-enact the dirtiest scenes from Fifty Shades of Grey with Chick-Fil-A. Mike Huckabee just met Chick-Fil-A and wants it to to call him, maybe.
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chik-fil-a is NOT a hateful company in the least. the president of that company simply stated his beliefs. why is it that the people who call for more tolerance are so intolerable of those who disagree with them? i support chick-fil-a 100%
Sorry to completely disregard the article Caragh (although i did read it and have a good giggle) but there seems to be a lot of Christian folk here, so i thought i would take the opportunity to ask a question. What is God’s view on lesbians? It seems to me that the dissaproval in the Bible is generally aimed at men, i never hear ‘Thou shall not be scissor sisters’. Not that i’m complaining or anything, i mean, i wouldn’t take sexual advice from a book(well possibly the Kama Sutra… and maybe 50 Shades
) Just something i was pondering.
As a pro-gay rights Christian, I would really just like to remind Christians everywhere that HEY, NOT EVERYONE IN THE WORLD IS A CHRISTIAN. It’s the worst arrogance to assume that just because you believe something is wrong, everyone else should too. It’s so entirely hurtful to see friends of mine attending this event and posting online about it, because I have dear gay friends and I hate seeing this intolerance rubbed in their faces.
For many, many people, marriage has nothing to do with God or the Bible. If we want people to respect the Christian’s right to believe what they want about the Bible, we need to respect their right NOT to.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-badash/chick-fil-a-5-reasons-it-isnt-what-you-think_b_1725237.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008&src=sp&comm_ref=false
The internet: where it’s okay to be intolerant as long as your intolerance is directed at traditional Christians.
And where do you see intolerance towards Christians here? Nobody is saying that he should be put to death for his remarks (unlike what the bible says regarding homosexuals). We’re simply stating that we’re not buying chicken from him anymore and that his lobbying for laws to deny people civil rights is hateful, and it is. You “Christians” can believe whatever you want, no matter how bigoted or hateful it is… Just don’t try to force everyone else to follow you in your “beliefs”.
christians are not hateful! (most of us anyway) we have our beliefs and you have yours and while we may not agree with certain things, we certainly don’t curse everyone and damn them to hell. our hope is to reach out to people, not condemn them
This country was founded on Christian beliefs. The reason you’re not catholic right now is because others wanted to worship God in their own way. The people went to war and won, not so the bible could be ignored, but so it could be followed. Now in the USA, if something has said something that offends others beliefs it seems that it is always the Christians that have to tolerate it. I believe the same as Chikfila. I could care less if a guy person gets married, but I still don’t support it. Same way if your child killed someone, you don’t hate your kid for it, but you don’t support them in their actions.
Do you not realize that because of you, Catholic hospitals are forced to provide contraceptives when iy’s against our religion? Religious freedom- demolished. And when one man expresses his belief and it’s not the same as yours, he’s a tyrant, yet when you decide to friggin occupy Wall Street, you people are modern day gods?! Your so blinded by your beliefs that you don’t see that there are actually other people on this country than yourselves. Youay be a liberal if you hold your fast food restaurants to a higher moral standard than your president. Speaking of him, he wasn’t for gay marraige not months ago, but no one boycotted the White House!! And you say that everyone should have the right to express their opinion, by of it doesn’t agree with yours they might as well be executed. Yeah. You guys are freaking heroes.
Mike Huckabee was attempting to stand up for Chick-fil-A because certain mayors have expressed the desire to ban the restuarant from their cities. In our depressed economy this would leave many people without a job (including Chick-fil-A’s gay employees). So perhaps instead of wasting your time writing this subpar article (and mine reading it) you could have tried doing a few of the things on your list.
Because the perfect way to show that you are the bigger person is by childishly attacking someone’s opinion. If Mike Huckabee supports Chick fil A then that’s his choice. He has just as much right to an opinion as you. And if a town doesn’t allow a restaurant because of their beliefs (everyone knows Chick fil A is a Christian establishment anyways so is it really a surprise they don’t agree with homosexuality?) isn’t that also considered discrimination? And the last time I checked, Chick fil A never committed the act of discrimination. They allow everyone in their restaurants and treat them all equally.
Hahaha. This was funny. Hope some people got the joke.
Oh lawd. I get it, the chick fila guy’s opinion sucks but I am so sick of hearing about this. Boycot the restaurant if that’s what you want to do but I think if you tried to boycot every place where the people running it have a different opinion then you then you will have very few
establishments to go to. Its probably not going to truly change this guy’s opinion. If you truly want to support the rights of all people to marry a more effective way would probably be to vote, write your politicians, and protest.
Okay, this is really offensive. I thought this was supposed to be a positive site! Just because he has a different opinion than you does not mean he should be slandered like that. Aren’t you trying to support complete and total equality? Honestly, you try to impose your beliefs on us, yet when one person says “I actually agree with Chick-Fil-A”, you go totally ballistic. That makes absolutely perfect sense (she said sarcastically). If you want us to keep our religion to ourselves, then you have to stop trying to make us all believe what you think is right. It’s a two way street, sister.
Like it has been stated by one individual numerous times in this article, (and blown over) this is about choosing where our money goes as a consumer. If you are for the bible and its beliefs, go ahead, put your money where your bible is. If not, you have the right to boycott. Simple. No one is suprised about his stance, we all know that if he takes the 7 th day of rest seriously, then he’s probably staunch enough to disapprove of gay marriage. So do what you will to support or not support, that’s your choice as an American. Lucky for him, there are brave gay men and women who served their country to give him the right to any opinion he chooses.
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Yeesh. I think we should all take a moment to go re-read our Pocket Constitutions. You don’t have a Pocket Constitution? UGH. The 1st Amendment protects you from government persecution, not from me. Or a Hello Giggles writer. Or facebook comments. Furthermore, “take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant” is still wildly hilarious and that’s all that matters to me really.
People! Maybe a little lesson in satire would help clear up this whole conversation about hate and the first amendment and corporate freedoms? Satire: the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
I would just like to say, discriminating against people based on their biological make-up is the definition of prejudice and bigotry. And THAT is a hateful practice indeed. So claiming that it’s just his “belief” isn’t gonna cut it. As a society we no longer accept “it’s just his belief to hate black people” as a justification for denying people their basic human rights. I’m sick of listening to people claim they have nothing against gay people while at the same time telling them that they shouldn’t be allowed to spend happy committed lives together. If you had “nothing against them” then you would realize your opinions and agendas smack of bigotry and fear and you would end your war against the legalization of committed, stable and soul-cleansing love.
Stop it. Just stop it.
^^this infinity
okay , its always about one slant of opinion against another. no-one is wrong for thinking he’s idiot for making such a declaration and then going into shock when there is a backlash. No-one is wrong for thinking that to make a day for a company just because of some “see this is what I’m talkin about!” support of an idea is any less pure idiocy.
Here’s where I think you are wrong… to say that someone expressing their opinion about someone who threw HIMSELF under the proverbial BUS – is the one who’s out of line, and trying to crush freedom of speech… is … asinine. Its by far one of the dumber things I have heard all week. Nobody asked him to make his personal beliefs a (rather radical and PUBLIC) business decision… and if anyone did – they (in one way or another) paid him to do it.
Nothing happened to free speech here. Huckabee has every and the exact same rights to make an ass out of himself, as I do to say he’s an ass. no-one’s freedom of speech is being limited or attacked here.
the only thing even remotely close to limitation or attack is chik-fil-a saying “if you don’t believe the way I do – go get your sorta chicken somewhere else”. and in turn Huckabee saying “yes and lets declare this chik-fil-a day and support them for such bigoted and exclusionary action”. REALLY?? reeeallay
this article is ridiculous. Why dont you talk about how there are whole cities trying to ban chickfila from opening there, how is that not equally as unimportant as someone who is standing up to support them? If you think Huckabee is wasting his time and resources, what do you have to say to those people?
Say what you will about their beliefs and contributions, but their chicken sandwiches are NOT subpar. They are delicious.
Well to be quite honest I think that was an unfair-sided post. I will respect your opinion, however, Huckabee also earns a right to what he believes. Along with him, the Chick-Fil-A company, in turn, can also have their own right to opinion. How many times are there rallies, colleges, and different industries that support the facto of Gays? The other side to that is the fact that Huckabee is supporting his notion that family is important. I just think you are attacking something that is, in my opinion, rather unimportant. Rather, this is his way of supporting what he believes just like PRIDE is a way for people to show their own opinion. Those people could be educating children, etc, just the same on those days. I just think that was rather bias and harsh to say from someone simply defending their own beliefs. If people want to be respected for what they believe, they ought to respect what others believe as well.
PRIDE is educating children… And it’s attempting to educate the rest of society. I feel like that’s just a big DUH moment.
Oh my gosh seriously? … shut up… You’re the one being “hateful” who cares if he supports Chick-Fil-A. I think this is a childish, one- sided article… I dont get how people act surprised at chickfila’s opinion. So you’re gonna ask a highly conservative, Christian franchise that is closed on Sunday to go to church what their opinion is on gay marriage and act SURPRISED at their answer? Idiots. Sometimes I think that people are just looking for reasons to cause conflict.