Comments on: Truth Wins Out Calls Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day a Marketing Monstrosity

By: Truth Wins Out - For Equality Supporters, Every Day Should Be “Marriage Equality Day”

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:10:30 +0000

[...] publication is billing this as a “direct response” to last week’s ugly “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day,” when hordes of LGBT equality opponents flocked to [...]

By: Truth Wins Out - TWO’s John Becker & Husband Michael at Chick-fil-A

Truth Wins Out - TWO’s John Becker & Husband Michael at Chick-fil-A — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:03:57 +0000

[...] much work remains to be done (as the ugly “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” so vividly illustrated), the tide is unmistakably turning against the enemies of equality, including Chick-fil-A. Their [...]

By: Melinda Nelson

Melinda Nelson — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:46:02 +0000

Reyn–like your writing. Business development/evolution undergoes so much rapid and continuous change now I think it very hard to assess effects of boycotts on business. I appreciate actions such as you describe with GAP as it targeted specific business practices for change (versus not liking a socio-political stance of company execs). On the other hand–they do often operate at such tight markets they are hypersensitive regarding any tarnishing force. There are not lots of industries like the tobacco conglomorates that can suffer devastating blows to image, legality, and sales–and still carry on.

By: Reyn

Reyn — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:23:16 +0000

@TruthisStraight I presume you are a troll – since real people don’t talk anywhere near the way that you do. Real people don’t call gay folk “limp wristed” — what’s that? Third grade – at most – 40 years ago at least?

The polls don’t lie. It’s just a matter of time now.

As for Phileas Foff ( what a lousy play on Phineas J. Foxx- Fox that screen name is) – Mike Huckabee is one of the leading GOP politicians in the country – certainly one of the top 10 — however, he wasn’t and didn’t speak to “the conservative electorate” – he spoke very specifically to a subgroup of that electorate that controls some of its primaries but often then loses it the followup general elections.

The test of this, in factual terms is two fold:

1. Will the Left, LGBT people and their allies, stick to their guns and not frequent Chick fil a? If they don’t its moot, but the Left is better at that in general.

2. Will the Religious Right continue indefinitely to consume significantly more chicken than they historically did? Chick fil a appreciation day is laughable. What they will need are sustained sales to core groups. My guess is that a sustained 25% increase in sales to that group will protect them for years.

Boycotts are won or lost over time – usually years, sometimes decades. I’ve been in several successful ones over the years. They are never easy, but when they succeed the change is permanent.

Reyn

(Full disclosure: I wrote “Gaping Injustice,” a report on the situation in the El Progresso Free Trade zone for certain Episcopal Bishops (at their request) during the struggle between the National Labor Committees and Mr. David Wang in El Salvador, and the church’s internal debate on a just response. The Episcopal Church and other Liberal Protestant Churches, largely joined Roman Catholics of a progressive bent, to support the student led boycott of Gap — which boycott led to the formal agreement of Gap with the NLC on human rights at factories they used in 3rd world countries. The agreement was actually signed at First Presbyterian in Brooklyn Heights NY. Unfortunately by the time Gap recalculated and capitulated, it was permanently damaged as a brand.)

By: RainbowPhoenix

RainbowPhoenix — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 01:47:16 +0000

Your racism is showing Phileas.

By: Phileas Foff

Phileas Foff — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 01:36:57 +0000

A passing suggestion from a former Arkansas governer has this much pull with the conservative electorate this year. What chance do you think Rohm, Lee and a village idiot from Kenya have? We silant majority understand that the gay marriage “issue” is just another political wedge for the party of hate and racism. Spit out the cool-aid and have an honest conversation because ocommie is going to do his Jimmy carter immitation in November.

By: Wayne Besen

Wayne Besen — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:50:53 +0000

TruthisStraight:

You are banned from the website for supreme idiocy.

Carry on.

By: Evan Hurst

Evan Hurst — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:32:33 +0000

@TruthIsStraight, you must not read polls, or understand that about 80% of young people, including a majority of young Evangelicals, are gay supportive. Your views, on the other hand, are being bred out of the population like a bad mutation.

By: TruthisStraight

TruthisStraight — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:25:04 +0000

Shows you, Wayne, how wrong you are and have always been about equality of homos with normal people. You haven’t seen nuthin yet. Wait til the rest of America gets stirred up against your limp-wristed approach to that which is normal for men and women and that which is abnormal.

By: Paul in Canada

Paul in Canada — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:10:40 +0000

In a free market, supply and demand determines success or failure.

Hopefully, Cathy’s public position and tying the franchise to an anti-equality stance will result in a decrease in demand and this company will ultimately fail.