Midwest Voices

Yael T. Abouhalkah

The Kansas City Star

Back on Aug. 1, many Chick-fil-A customers flocked to the stores to show support for the company’s anti-gay stands.

And, yes, to buy some darn good tasting chicken sandwiches.

Meanwhile, gay customers and their supporters called for boycotts of Chick-fil-A and put pressure on government officials to deny permission to build future stores.

But now it turns out Chick-fil-A may be changing its mind and will no longer discriminate against its gay customers by contributing large amounts of dollars to anti-gay groups.

The pressure applied in some cities, especially Chicago and on college campuses, seems to have worked.

Hopefully, conservatives who favor the anti-gay agenda will at least concede in this case that the market worked: City governments and universities that have the power to decide whether businesses can locate in their markets worked with Chick-fil-A to change its ways, and the company responded correctly.

The customers who showed up on Aug. 1 to back Chick-fil-A now have the perfect right to not eat at the chicken franchise because it is abandoning its anti-gay stance.

Or, they can keep showing up to eat some darn good tasting chicken.

Comments

1. 

   George Hunsucker

   Northland

   8 months ago

   Calling oppressive government a working market is laughable yt. FYI, governmental threats of not approving a business location is not a working market. It is merely government once again picking winners and losers, something you libs under the big zero love….

   But, it is a good lib line…..

2. 

   Kathleen Cashion Osbern

   8 months ago

   Yael, your tweet about “gays being able to now eat in peace” was the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read. When has anyone not eaten in peace at Chick fil A? You liberals are hilarious. Always looking for something to whine about.

3. 

   Kent Mueller

   8 months ago

   Look, I am a conservative who supports gay rights. No need to debate that here, but the typical right opposition to gay rights is flat out wrong.

   That being said, Yael, your piece is quite non-nonsensical. You say Chic-fil-A will stop discriminating by now giving money to gay causes? What? So, you are discriminatory if you don’t give money? If that is true, the Kansas City Star absolutely discriminates against young baseball players for not giving money to 3 & 2 baseball!!!! Has the Star given money to Wayside Waifs? If not, then why is the Star discriminating against homeless dogs?

   In other words, Yael, your line of reasoning that they were discriminatory because they didn’t give money is absolutely absurd.

   And what on earth are you talking about when you say cities and universities exerting their authority is market based? That tell me you have absolutely no concept of a market based economy. A market based economy does not evolve out of cities or universities, or any other governmental unit.

   I’m not supporting Chic-fil-A’s past contributions, Yeal, were you even thinking when you wrote this?

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