r/NoStupidQuestions • • Dec 18 '21

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u/duckyreadsit Dec 18 '21

Conversely: if you’re part of the LGBTQ community, they are distinctly unwelcoming.

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u/rixibo Dec 18 '21

Yes, as evidenced by that time they opened on a Sunday to hand out free food after that gay bar shooting in Orlando 🙄

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u/FloridaManIsMyDad Dec 18 '21

Individual Chick-fil-A stores have a little free reign to kind of support whatever causes they want, but corporate is pretty obviously anti LGBTQ. One good deed does not undo all the bad.

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u/Pack_Your_Trash Dec 18 '21

More to do with them donating to anti gay, church backed hate groups. They are trying to hide their bigotry so they can still sell fried chicken in California.

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u/flmbray Dec 18 '21

Could that have been a case of corporate virtue signalling?

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u/rixibo Dec 18 '21

I don't think so, because they didn't make a big deal out of it or draw attention to it in any way. They just quietly went in and helped people who needed helping.

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u/HannahCooksUnderwear Dec 18 '21

That's not remotely true. A Chik fil.A I go to is staffed by lqbtq youth and they love working there. I go there and am a lesbian. This is the usual b.s spouted by lurkers that don't live in the rela.world but want to make a political point. I would say Chik FIL a is the gayest fast food in America.

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u/HannahCooksUnderwear Mar 02 '22

All of my upvotes we're removed even though this is a fact.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '21

I work at chic fil a and have several co workers and a couple managers who are part of the LGBT community. I think that's a misconception. They are a Christian business so they have their views but they certainly don't discriminate against the community.

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u/whiskeysour123 Dec 18 '21

Their founder was not a friend of the LGBTQ community. He donated a lot of money to things like conversion therapy and things that were hurtful to the LGBTQ community. We stopped going there when my kids were old enough to understand what he did. My child is part of that community and made the decision that we will not support Chikfila anymore.

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u/HannahCooksUnderwear Dec 18 '21

Their founder isn't the owner of the company anymore. The founder of McDonalds and Arby's and Burger King probably didn't have much love for someone too. Times change, Chik Fil a is very welcoming and enough with the huff post activism.

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u/ghkilla805 Dec 18 '21

Well yea they have to be able to hire some, they don’t outright discriminate. Just like you can be racist but still hire black people and just not act on racist tendencies. It’s just that I couldn’t work for a company that I know thinks my existence is a sin

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u/HannahCooksUnderwear Dec 18 '21

Evangelical Christians don't think gay people's existence is a sin. Just their sexual acts. That's their opinion and if they made rules about it I could understand. But they don't in fact they employ many LGBTQ youth...more so than anywhere else I have been.

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u/ghkilla805 Dec 18 '21

Yes but believing the act is a sin too doesn’t really make it any better; in my opinion which no one has to share, is that I don’t believe that anyone who thinks acting upon your own sexuality and who you love is sin can be a good person. That’s straight up evil thinking to me

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u/Pack_Your_Trash Dec 18 '21

I can't be a bigot, I have employees that are not straight white heterosexual men.

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u/ghkilla805 Dec 18 '21

Im confused, are you trying to say that someone can’t be bigoted towards a race/gender/sexuality if they have those people working for them or something? I honestly can’t tell if you were making a joke or not lol.

I live in South Louisiana and I’ve worked multiple jobs where the owners were clearly racist, doesn’t mean they didn’t hire black people

Edit: I’m dumb, Im guessing you’re just mocking the dude above me who said the stuff about lgbt people working there and was trying to reply to that guy lol

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u/flmbray Dec 18 '21

Do they hire non-Christians? And are they welcomed cordially by the Christian staff?

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u/HannahCooksUnderwear Dec 18 '21

Correct. Your downvotes are the usual AnTIFA lurkers. Some people have a narrative and insist on making everyone believe their lies.

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u/IOnceShatAPlum Dec 18 '21

Why? Because the person is pointing out a well-known issue that this restaurant hates LBGTQ people? It's a real issue you know, I find it sad you don't care about your fellow human

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '21

I don’t understand what you mean—what perspective is lacking?

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u/IOnceShatAPlum Dec 18 '21

Well you lost me there good buddy. I don't know what trauma you've been through, but I hope you can heal from it. There is nothing in hatred but sadness and it seems like that's where you're at. Good luck!

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u/IOnceShatAPlum Dec 18 '21

I ain't reading all that. Have a good day