Debate Chick-Fil-A Comic

Well, let's face it, this protest is rather silly. I'm pro-gay marriage, but the idea that a CEO's opposition to that position makes his company a place of evil, so much so that they should be boycotted, is absurd. This is hardly the first time a CEO has taken a "controversial" stance, and compared to the terrible things many companies have done, this is positively mundane.

I've seen Occupy-tent camps in London, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. They're all just stoned punks who were bored and wanted to play the boss over someone.

If this goes for Chick-Fil-A, it should go for Starbucks too, or for that matter JC Penney, or any other organization that has come out on the opposite side of the issue and been boycotted by the right.

If you want to criticize the left for boycotting corporations that support stances they don't believe in, you can't go and pick up your pen and clipboard and ask people not to shop at JC Penney because they hired and endorse Ellen Degeneres, or Starbucks because of their public support for gay marriage.

People - even heads of corporations - are allowed to state their opinion. They can even make their opinion the official opinion or stance of their corporation. However, whether that's a wise business decision or not is debatable, because people also have the right not to support or endorse corporations that offend them.

The reason people don't "picket" the president - or any other politician for that matter - is because it is their job to deal with these issues and debate them. They take a stance on such issues for political purposes, and their positions are scrutinized, criticized, and debated by the public. But that's their job. It's not a corporation's job to enter into the political debate on either side in my opinion, but if they do, they have to be prepared to face the consequences of such an action, which is exactly what Chick-Fil-A is doing now, and what JCP did six months ago.

I just saw the Chick-Fil-A affair on the news.

Personally, I think everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But when Chick-Fil-A asked people to come over and show how anti-gay marriage they are, then they're crossing the boundary.