Remember I say "Question everything, believe nothing until proven"? I just spent over an hour trying to find actual facts about the reported Chick-Fil-A discrimination lawsuits. I'm sure someone who really knows how to use the search engines, or someone with access to law databases, would do a better job, but all I came up with were reports of the suits being filed, and every single one from a pro gay publication or writer of one kind or another.
Without knowing the outcomes of the suits, here's what I did learn.
1. Chick-Fil-A is at least partially a franchise operation. I don't know how many total stores they have but I do know 220 are franchisee owned / operated. The franchisor can only directly control certain things. They are not involved in the day to day operations of the stores.
2. One report mentioned a dozen lawsuits over the years. I challenge you to find any other similar sized corporation that has been sued by employees less. Remember, suing is viewed as a way to get rich by half the people today?
2. Nowhere in the reports did anyone mention if the locations the employees worked at were company stores or franchised stores. From comments by several of the litigates it would appear that at least 2 of them were franchise operations.
I did learn that they investigate the lifestyles (now known as vetting) of their potential franchisees to insure that they conform to the values the chain believes in. I ask you this : if you had a billion dollar a year operation, run according to the values you cherish, wouldn't you make sure that the people you partner with share those same values? Believe me, I saw this firsthand with Harley. Any dealer who was arrested for drugs or other felonies had his franchise terminated. Think Chick-Fil-A wants to see a story in the news about after hours orgies at one of their stores?
This mirrors the Trayvon Martin case, remember I said wait till all the facts come out? Once again we see how the news can be manipulated to favor either side of an issue. I doubt I will change anyone's opinion about Chick-Fil-A. What I would like to accomplish is :
1. To get people to think before believing every thing they read and hear.
2. To understand Chick-Fil-A has a right to run their business according to their standards as long as they don't break any laws doing it.
If you don't like what they stand for, don't eat there, but why try and put the whole company out of business? Wasn't it the liberals and especially the gay liberals who espoused "tolerance, tolerance, tolerance"? Oh, I see that's only tolerance for THEIR lifestyle.
Dumb (and getting dumber) Farmer
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