Because I am pro-business, pro-First Amendment, and pro-tasty sandwiches, I had breakfast at the Madison Chick-fil-A today. Here’s my view before 6:30 this morning (ninth car back):
Glad to get in first thing. Shortly after noon, Madison police were actively warning people off the area because traffic was backed up in both directions.
Because we are pro-business, pro-First Amendment, and pro-tasty sandwiches, Terri and I met at Parkway Place for lunch at Chick-fil-A today:
(At least the photo is good of her.)
I feel compelled to say again that I have supported same-sex marriage for decades, and continue to do so. It is eminently possible to hold this position and still detest the attempted assassination of Chick-fil-A by true enemies of liberty (and that is exactly what they are). That millions of people disagree does not make them thoughtless, unreasonable, and/or hateful. I’ll be happy to explain that further if you need it. Just let me know. (Incidentally, during our extensive visiting today, I met exactly one person who had anything to say about gay marriage. Most that I encountered were there for the same reasons we were there. Remember that when you read the news.)
There were three lines feeding into four registers. Here’s our view:
It took us about 40 minutes to be served after getting in line. Maybe 10 minutes into it, I counted right at 200 people waiting.
Immediately after getting my food, I got back in line to get a photo of that view:
Now there are 300 people waiting, and that’s about as large as it got. The Huntsville Times said “over 100,” which is piss-poor reporting. It didn’t take me that long to count them. Here’s a wide shot of the crowd at its largest that I saw (and remember, there are three total lines of roughly equal length; you only have a decent view of the middle one here):
Looks like I spent $23.79 with Chick-fil-A today (that’s my breakfast and lunch, plus the couple behind me in the drive-through at breakfast this morning):
Hey, I have a free sandwich coming too! Excellent!
I loved this from David French today:
What is remarkable about the Chick-fil-A controversy is the extent to which the company’s entire portfolio of work, its excellent food, welcoming environment, extensive charitable interventions with at-risk families and youth, are nothing but ashes and dust unless Chick-fil-A gets on board with a sexual revolution that places self-indulgence (and defense of that indulgence) over every other cultural value. In other words, no matter your other virtues, in the eyes of the far Left you are a moral monster unless you get with the sexual program.
I’ve had enough mindless jackass liberal outrage. I’ve had enough intolerant leftist bullying. I think a lot of people have. There are civil ways to disagree and discuss differences, and by and large, it’s not conservatives who can’t (or won’t) remember that.
I think there’s a significant vein of that sort of “fed up”-ness in today’s activities, in addition to the First Amendment issues.
Good hanging with you today, lovers of liberty.
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I got email four or five years ago from someone who had seen and liked something I’d written online …
I had breakfast there this morning. Crowded, but easy in and out at 7:30. When I drove by the same restaurant at 5:15 on my way home, you couldn’t get anywhere NEAR the dang building. Fortunately it’s not accessed by the main highway.
It was good, too.
Thank you for succinctly stating what takes me a few paragraphs of warming-up to finally get to.
Kelly, I’m in an oxblood-red state, so I can’t be sure how typical what I’ve seen/heard of is–but there were massive crowds all over the area today. If what I saw/heard is typical, Chick-fil-A might have had their biggest day ever by a factor of five today.
And thank you for the tremendous compliment. I feel exactly the same way about you.
They ran out of chicken at the Madison location on 72. Police were still sending out alerts to avoid the area for 30 mins past closing tonight
Chick-fil-A has confirmed it was a single-day sales record. I’d love to know by how much.
I’d like to put this on my Facebook profile, but I’ll give that a rest and put it here. What a pleasant and poised young lady is Rachel:
Well said! It saddens me that so many people have chosen to use this issue to further polarize America. Our country was founded on ideals which support equal rights, but those same ideals also make it possible to express values and opinions that differ from others’. We are all truly fortunate to live in a nation that empowers individuals to make their own choices. Patronize Chick-Fil-A because you support them, take your business elsewhere because you don’t, or simply decide where to eat based on how good the food tastes… and take your opinions to the polls instead. I certainly will.
My opinions of the whole thing are pretty similar to Bo’s. I’ve no problem w/ Mr. Cathy’s right to express his opinion. At the same time, I support gay marriage. I think the mayors are wrong for wanting to deny Chick-fil-a establishments in their town just like I’d say Chick-fil-a would probably be wrong for refusing to hire someone soley based on their sexual orientation (or firing them for it). But I’m sure in both cases, rather unfortunately, there would be “work arounds” or “legal loopholes” to accomplish the same end goal. Such is life.
A lot of the debate is over the definition of marriage. I think a lot of people don’t really care what it’s called or who owns or defines the term “marriage”. I’m pretty sure most people are just after the legal right to share assets, benefits, and estates and whatever else a couple is legally entitled to once they get that piece of paper from the court house. The piece of paper will probably say something like “Marriage License” at the top, but I don’t think the gays would care if it said “License to share stuff legally” at the top.
Now if gays want to practice a religion that generally does not accept gay unions/marriage, I’d say it’s the religious organizations right to deny the acknowledgment of said union/marriage, but perhaps that religion is not for said gay couple. They should seek religion elsewhere or go start their own. Someone had to start all the religions that are out there today.
/2cents
P.S. Every time I post long rambles here, I feel like I’m comma splicing a lot, but not having to write much outside of technical jargon has numbed my punctuational skills I think.
Tahm, I don’t see any comma splices. All good. 🙂
The Kiss-In must be a total bust, judging from the (lack of) news coverage.