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Mike Parker
September 3rd, 2008, 07:04 AM
Chick-fil-A, of your local mall, is a $2 billion company. It’s family-controlled, now in the third generation, at a time when most white dynasties have sold out to Jewish finance. Non-family management comes from some sort of Baptist mafia. I see no obvious Jewish names. They’re unabashed Christian conservatives, to the point of requiring their franchisees to close on Sundays. They have some nigger faces on their site, what with selling fried chicken, but their charities don't push overt multiculti.

Otoh, the family supports James Dobson and possibly other Zionists. I wonder whether that’s what gets them a pass. Or maybe they can do as Baptists what the Jews would prevent them from doing as whites or even as Christians. Is this a for-profit version of one of Kevin MacDonald's implicit white communities (http://theoccidentalquarterly.com/archives/vol6no4/MacDonald.pdf)?

One of our Christian friends may want to network in and learn how this sort of thing is done.

http://www.chick-fil-a.com/#bios

http://www.chick-fil-a.com/#officerslist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A

Muslim sues Chick-fil-A over on-the-job prayer (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_44_36/ai_94131554)

John in Woodbridge
September 5th, 2008, 04:08 AM
The shyster outfits often times put out these people just get a lawsuit going. It's common practice. Chick-fil-A is obviously a Christian-oriented business, and the owner makes no bones about hiding that. Why the hell would a muzzy want to get involved with business like that? It makes no sense.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_44_36/ai_94131554

HOUSTON -- A Muslim man who was being trained here by Chick-fil-A to become a franchisee has sued the Atlanta-based company, alleging he lost his job and franchise opportunity because he refused to participate in a Christian-based prayer during a training session.

The lawsuit, filed Oct. 18, claims Chick-fil-A, which franchises more than 1,000 quick-service units in 35 states, violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when Aziz Latif, 25, was fired a day after the training session.

Latif's attorney, Ajay Choudhary of the firm of Coane and Associates in Houston, said his client is seeking reinstatement, attorneys' fees, damages for emotional distress and the lost wages he would have earned had he not been fired two years ago. "We haven't put a dollar amount on it yet," Choudhary said.

Business Plan Sample Don Perry, vice president for public relations at Chick-fil-A Inc. in Atlanta, said the company intends to defend itself vigorously. "We are aware that Mr. Aziz Latif, a former Chick-fil-A franchisee, has filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging religious bias by Chick-fil-A Inc.," Perry said in a statement.

"While Chick-fil-A Inc. has a policy of not commenting on the details of pending legal matters, the company confirms that the decision to terminate Mr. Latif's franchise agreement was not based on his religious beliefs," Perry said. "Mr. Latif's agreement was terminated in November 2000 during his franchisee-training period."

Later Perry said: "We want to make sure we are clear that this decision had no basis in religion or anyone's religious beliefs. We're going to be very active in defending this position and feel the lawsuit is frivolous."

The plaintiff's lawyer, Choudhary, said, "Chick-fil-A's corporate purpose is to glorify God. In practice, it is not nondenominational. It is to glorify Christianity.

Chick-fil-A units have been closed on Sundays in observance of the Christian Sabbath ever since S. Truett Cathy, founder and chief executive of the chain, opened his first unit in 1967.

"Our client is Muslim," Choudhary continued, "He was fired Nov. 10, 2000. On Nov. 9, one day before our client was fired, there was a group prayer to Jesus Christ at a training session to become a manager of a Chick-fil-A store."

Choudhary said Latif was participating in the session when all the trainees were asked to say a prayer in turn.

"Everyone said a prayer, one person at a time, to Jesus Christ," he said. "When it came to our client, who is Muslim, he didn't say anything. There was an awkward silence. Then eventually the next person started praying to Jesus Christ. The next day he was fired."

Choudhary said Latif started working for Chick-fil-A in 1994, "and throughout his time there he received excellent performance evaluations. In fact, just a week before he was fired, he had an excellent performance evaluation. So the reason he was fired, in our view, was not anything work-related. It was because he didn't pray to Jesus Christ the day before he was fired. He didn't conform to their corporate purpose."

The attorney added: "Religion should not be brought into the workplace. Prayer should be, if anything, a private purpose, not a corporate purpose."

Latif's lawsuit also alleges that the company refused to pay medical bills and expenses he incurred while a participant in Chick-fib-A's employee benefit plan.

Jim Sacher, an attorney in the Houston office of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, told the Houston Chronicle that companies may conduct such prayer meetings as long as attendance is not pegged to promotions, salaries or job assignments.

G. Qan
September 6th, 2008, 08:08 PM
One hadji helping another to the White man's pockets.

I say grab them both and stick their toes in the fry vat!

Charles Martel
September 16th, 2008, 09:15 PM
Thanks for the heads up Mike. I'll avoid it like the plague.

I just saw one of these in town yesterday. I was passing by rather fast, I was thinking to myself, "wtf is a chickafilla?".

Now after going to the website, I at least know how it is pronounced. Sounds like something orc-groids would flock to en masse.

centerfire
September 18th, 2008, 06:34 PM
Thanks for the heads up Mike. I'll avoid it like the plague.

I just saw one of these in town yesterday. I was passing by rather fast, I was thinking to myself, "wtf is a chickafilla?".

Now after going to the website, I at least know how it is pronounced. Sounds like something orc-groids would flock to en masse.

I live in an area that has had Chick-fil-A restaurants forever and a day. I have eaten there on countless occasions (last night went through the drive-thru, in fact), and I don't think I have EVER seen a black person or family at one (other than nearly running over one in a Chick-fil-A parking lot once as he was walking through it). That's not to say they are never there, but it is a very rare, and where i live, they are everywhere else. The stores tend to locate in upper middle class areas and are rather expensive, so blacks are not inclined to eat there. They sell sandwiches with fried chicken breast fillets (hence the name) and chicken nuggest and strips, not the buckets of cheap, greasy fried chicken that negroes like to eat.

It's about as 'Jew free' as any restaurant you'll find on the business end, if that's a concern. They are quite self-consciously Christian. My room mate calls it 'Christian-fil-A'.

Charles Martel
September 18th, 2008, 08:40 PM
I live in an area that has had Chick-fil-A restaurants forever and a day. I have eaten there on countless occasions (last night went through the drive-thru, in fact), and I don't think I have EVER seen a black person or family at one (other than nearly running over one in a Chick-fil-A parking lot once as he was walking through it). That's not to say they are never there, but it is a very rare, and where i live, they are everywhere else. The stores tend to locate in upper middle class areas and are rather expensive, so blacks are not inclined to eat there. They sell sandwiches with fried chicken breast fillets (hence the name) and chicken nuggest and strips, not the buckets of cheap, greasy fried chicken that negroes like to eat.

It's about as 'Jew free' as any restaurant you'll find on the business end, if that's a concern. They are quite self-consciously Christian. My room mate calls it 'Christian-fil-A'.

Interesting. Well there you have it from another perspective. I have no problem at all with Christians that are anti-jew. It's the way it should be. Fair enough.

Pastor Visser
September 19th, 2008, 10:16 AM
It's about as 'Jew free' as any restaurant you'll find on the business end, if that's a concern. They are quite self-consciously Christian. My room mate calls it 'Christian-fil-A'.

That's a fact! Moreover, Chick-fil-A is the BEST place to work among fast food (if one must be employed in food prep). Why?

Their employees have free college tuition.
Their employees have health benefits.
Their employees have free child care.
etc. etc. etc.

Those who work at Truett's have even MORE benefits. Who would really boycott a white-owned business because a nigger Muslim was offended? Let's re-examine our loyalties, lol.

EAT MOR CHIKIN!

Charles Martel
September 19th, 2008, 08:01 PM
That's Who would really boycott a white-owned business because a nigger Muslim was offended? Let's re-examine our loyalties, lol.EAT MOR CHIKIN!

I heard that!

centerfire
September 19th, 2008, 11:04 PM
That's a fact! Moreover, Chick-fil-A is the BEST place to work among fast food (if one must be employed in food prep). Why?

Their employees have free college tuition.
Their employees have health benefits.
Their employees have free child care.
etc. etc. etc.



EAT MOR CHIKIN!
Wow, I didn't know about all those benefits. They seem to specialize in hiring good looking teenage girls at the serving counter and drive-thru. It's good stuff, but they are a bit overpriced, esp. if you just order a chicken sandwich.

Mike Parker
January 9th, 2011, 07:09 AM
Chick-fil-A Partners With Rabid Anti-Gay Group

by Michael A. Jones January 04, 2011

You might like the tasty pickles that they put on their chicken sandwiches, but if you're eating at Chick-fil-A, you're also eating at an establishment that partners with some of the most ferocious anti-gay groups around.

Take a look at an event scheduled for February 2011, co-sponsored by Chick-fil-A and the Pennsylvania Family Institute, the leading anti-gay group in the Keystone State and a group that has worked hard to try and pass a constitutional amendment in Pennsylvania banning same-sex marriage.

The February event co-sponsored by Chick-fil-A is called "The Art of Marriage," and it's intended to be a launching point for Pennsylvania to return to "the biblical definition of marriage." Given the work of the Pennsylvania Family Institute, it's hard not to see where this event is going to go -- straight for the jugular of anyone who supports marriage equality for same-sex couples.

The Pennsylvania Family Institute has been a leading opponent of marriage equality, and has condemned the expansion of civil rights for same-sex couples. Speaking to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the group's president, Michael Geer, said that gay marriage is not moral, and should be put up for a vote rather than decided by courts or legislatures.

"The only way that we can get the people to decide this issue is through the ballot box," Geer said. "Marriage as defined as between a man and a woman has proven to be the best for the health, education and welfare of children."

And that's a mild statement coming from Geer. As more and more states have moved to legalize same-sex marriage, Geer has stated that unless Pennsylvania adopts a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, it could be forced to accept same-sex couples as equals.

"Newspapers across the commonwealth editorialized -- and many legislators said -- we don't need an amendment, we already have a law [banning gay marriage]. This [ruling] makes clear that the law is insufficient," Geer said, after California's Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality in 2008. (That ruling was eventually overturned by the passage of Proposition 8.)

The Pennsylvania Family Institute has blasted gay marriage in a number of other ways, too. They've argued that calling committed same-sex couples married is like calling the tail of a dog a leg. They've said that when Judge Vaughn Walker ruled Proposition 8 unconstitutional, that human civilization took a direct hit. They've suggested that discriminating against same-sex couples is perfectly acceptable, because same-sex couples weren't biologically meant to be together. And they've said that same-sex marriage threatens children, hurts families, and punishes all of society by caving in to components of a radical sexual revolution.

And if you're spending money on Chick-fil-A sandwiches, you're helping the Pennsylvania Family Institute deliver this message.

It's not the first time Chick-fil-A has been connected to some anti-gay actors. In February 2009, an Auburn student documented that Chick-fil-A had given money to Focus on the Family, the anti-gay Colorado group founded by the Rev. James Dobson. Focus on the Family, for their part, has a lengthy record of anti-gay extremism, from calling same-sex couples a danger to the planet, to suggesting that legalizing same-sex marriage would be a worse disaster than Pearl Harbor.

Fool me once, Chick-fil-A, shame on you. But fool me twice? Shame on me. That's why it's time to get Chick-fil-A to respond, and figure out whether they're interested in being a fast food restaurant, or they're interesting in being a business that partners and caters to some radical anti-gay elements in our country. Send the restaurant chain a message asking them why they're sponsoring an event in Pennsylvania with a leading anti-gay organization. And let the restaurant know that if they value all of their customers, including their LGBT customers and straight allies, they'll pull their official sponsorship from this event and stop making chicken sandwiches that support extremely homophobic agendas.

http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/chick-fil-a_partners_with_rabid_anti-gay_group

Joe_J.
January 24th, 2011, 10:55 PM
The local one here employs clean-cut White teens who are very polite and who do a good job. One of the few places I don't mind eating out at. The contrast between Chick-Fil-A and the filthy mestizos at McNigger's, or the attitude-laden sheboons at Arby's and other places is obvious.

Based on my experiences there, I have no problem with their Christian stance.

John in Woodbridge
January 24th, 2011, 11:26 PM
The local one here employs clean-cut White teens who are very polite and who do a good job. One of the few places I don't mind eating out at. The contrast between Chick-Fil-A and the filthy mestizos at McNigger's, or the attitude-laden sheboons at Arby's and other places is obvious.

Based on my experiences there, I have no problem with their Christian stance.

I have the same experience here. Mostly whites with a good attitude working there. It's a well-run restaurant with a great chicken sandwich. All their other stuff is very good too.

Mike Parker
January 31st, 2011, 08:40 AM
IUSB: Chick-fil-A not banned from campus after all

January 28, 2011

SOUTH BEND -- An update to a story we brought you earlier this week: IU South Bend says Chick-Fil-A has not been banned from campus after all.

As we told you, Chick-Fil-A brings food to the Courtside café each week. Some students protested when they learned the company was donating food to an event in Pennsylvania that some people say is anti-gay.

University officials say the chain remains approved by Indiana University and can do business on campus. But IU South Bend has suspended the once-a-week service from Chick-Fil-A pending a review of food service policies.

http://www.wsbt.com/news/wsbt-iusb-chickfila-not-banned-from-campus-after-all-20110128,0,4296407.story

Mike Parker
February 9th, 2011, 06:20 AM
Chick-fil-A controversy shines light on restaurant's Christian DNA

By Dan Gilgoff, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor

The ongoing Chick-fil-A flap - which has gay rights groups blasting the restaurant chain for donating food to an anti-gay marriage group - may be a fleeting controversy for a privately held company that is more accustomed to fiercely loyal patrons and generally positive press coverage.

But Lake Lambert, author of the book Spirituality Inc., says the flap may be a sign of more turbulence ahead for Chick-fil-A as it attempts to hold onto its conservative Christian business culture while expanding its chain beyond the Bible Belt.

“If you have a faith-based corporate identity and you want to function in the national marketplace, you’re going to continue to encounter resistance to those values because not everybody is going to share them,” says Lambert. “The only other option is some sort of secular identity and that’s not where Chick-fil-A is going.”

Lambert says Chick-fil-A is the most visible example of an American corporation trying to foster a specifically Christian identity. The company is privately held and family-run, making that task somewhat easier.

Lambert says Chick-fil-A founder Truett Cathy signed what Cathy describes as a “covenant” with his children when they took over the company, to help preserve its Christian DNA.

The current controversy erupted when some college campus and gay rights groups blasted the restaurant chain for donating free food to a Pennsylvania organization opposed to gay marriage.

The Human Rights Campaign, a major gay rights group, launched a letter writing campaign to the company, while the Indiana University South Bend went so far as to temporarily suspend Chick-fil-A service in its campus dining facilities.

The fallout provoked Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy to defend his company in a Facebook video and in a written statement.

“In recent weeks, we have been accused of being anti-gay,” Cathy said in a written statement last Saturday. “We have no agenda against anyone.”

“While my family and I believe in the Biblical definition of marriage,” the statement continued, “we love and respect anyone who disagrees.”

The gestures have not mollified many of the chain’s critics, some of whom are airing their grievances on Chick-fil-A’s Facebook page. The Human Rights Campaign is calling on the restaurant to begin participating in the Corporate Equality Index, which rates companies’ treatment of gays.

Christian culture pervades many aspects of Chick-fil-A’s operations, from its corporate purpose – which includes “to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us” – to its policy of closing restaurants on Sundays to praying at restaurant openings.

According to a recent case study of the restaurant chain by the Yale School of Management, employees are encouraged to attend prayer services.

Chick-fil-A has over 1,500 locations and began moving beyond the Deep South in the last decade or so. Recently the company has expanded its number of restaurants in the Northeast, creating a more serious presence there.

According to its website, there is only one Chick-fil-A store in New York State, at New York University in downtown Manhattan.

Considering Chick-fil-A’s conservative Christian mission, perhaps the most striking feature of the recent controversy is how unusual it is for the company. As the chain continues to grow, they may find it more difficult to avoid the culture war.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/04/chick-fil-a-controversy-shines-light-on-restaurants-christian-dna/

Chris Clafton
February 12th, 2011, 02:13 AM
I wish we had a Chick-fil-A where I live. I used to love the Arby's chicken sandwiches but assume that the ones from CFA would be a whole lot better. Making me hungry (sigh...).