Oh Chick-Fil-A, you delicious bastard! Why have you forsaken me? I’ve loved you since I first discovered your amazing sweet tea when I lived in North Carolina in my 20’s. My family has enjoyed many a family night at your establishment right around the corner from our house.
Little did I know that if one of our children were known to be gay you would have refused her one of those adorable little balloon crowns. Le sigh.ÂÂ
I should have known something was wrong when you were closed every Sunday. I just thought you were an establishment of integrity and family values. I thought it was charming that you were closed on Sundays so that your employees could go to church and spend their day resting, the way God intended.
Now, I know that you are bigots and we can’t get that cat back in the bag, no matter how much you or your PR team try to backpedal out of this PR nightmare. Run, Forest, run.
As if it’s not embarrassing enough that your COO, Dan Cathy, volunteered the information that he was indeed, “Guilty as charged†when asked if he was opposed to gay marriage. I know everyone is entitled to their own beliefs but honestly, if you knew your answer was going to be PR suicide, why not plead the fifth?
Maybe respond with, “Chicken has nothing to do with gay marriage rights so I don’t feel comfortable discussing that topic.†Better to keep quiet and be assumed a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt. Didn’t your mama teach you that?
It’s a strange coincidence that Chiak-Fil-A decided to stop carrying Jim Henson toys in their kid’s meals on the exact same day that the Jim Henson Company decided to pull their toys from Chick-Fil-A restaurants. It’s a case of chicken and egg, I suppose.
Either way, I think it’s safe to say that Kermit and Miss Piggie and the gang are happy to be off that sinking ship. Well, maybe not Miss. Piggie. I am sure that she will miss your delicious deep fried chicken sandwiches, just like the rest of us.
But this latest tactic with the 8-hour old Facebook account held by “Abbey Farleâ€Â, a supposedly very religious teen, coming to the rescue of a national restaurant chain fighting commenters who dare sully your good name is truly unbelievable.
She is quoting Bible verses and using language like “Derrâ€Â(Is that German for “We don’t approve of gay marriage?â€Â). This may have fooled someone back in the 80’s when derr was actually still used in teen lingo. That alone makes me suspect that your great white hope, Abbey Farle, is really closer to being a 45-year-old man than 17-year-old girl.
Anyways, well played Chick-Fil-A and you may have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for two small details, the photo associated with the account is a free stock photo and secondly, we are not all idiots.
Most people in social media can probably run circles around your PR people; after all, while we’re all surfing the net on Sundays your people are taking the day off to fight against gay marriage rights.
Will you continue to patronize Chick-Fil-A after knowing their COO openly opposes gay marriage?
Photo Source: J.Reed
