About 50 gay rights advocates picketed at the Friday night to protest the
The group, organized by members of gay rights advocacy group GetEqual, picketed and same-sex couples kissed in front of the restaurant.
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"We all know that Dan Cathy has a right to his personal beliefs and he has a right to support anti-gay organizations that seek to keep our community from getting full equality under the law, but we also have the right to protest," said Liberty Manos, who organized the local event with her partner Shannon Glatz.
The local event was one of many across the country as part of National Same-Sex Kissing Day at Chick-Fil-A, a response to
"We were there just to stand together and say that this kind of discrimination is not going to go unnoticed," she added.
Manos said the event went smoothly, though some drivers passing by shouted obscenities and a few customers were a little "combative."
The national event was scheduled for 8 p.m., but the Cuyahoga Falls protest ran from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Other Chick-Fil-As in the area were not as active. No one protested at the Beachwood Place Mall between 7 and 8:30 p.m., though an employee said he had seen a few couples kiss in protest, without incident, during his shift that day.
No one was spotted when local editors checked the Fairlawn, Strongsville and Mentor locations around lunchtime.
Locally, Friday's protest paled in comparison to the number of customers who patronized restaurants Wednesday in support of the company.
Area Patch sites have been buzzing about the controversy:
- In Beachwood, dozens lined up Wednesday to support the company.
- Similarly, the line stretched out of the door in Mentor.
- And two Cuyahoga Falls Patch bloggers addressed the protest Thursday — and
As for "promoting", no one needs to "promote" gayness. Again -- it just *is*. It's a facet of nature and will continue no matter what you do. Your child is gay or not -- nothing you do will change that -- you might psychologically damage or shame your child but if he or she is gay then that's the just way it is. And if you convince them to pretend to be straight, all you're really doing is ruining not only his or her life but the life of his or her eventual wife or husband (ie, married to a gay person pretending to be straight). How does that help anyone or benefit society? Finally, TOM -- you really need to get some new material or just shut the frack up. "Marrying your dog", "promoting", "the gay lifestyle", etc ... this is not the 1970s. Society has moved on. Please catch up. And if you want to try to be funny or clever, at least come up with something new & actually amusing.
"[H]ow the hell are we supposed to explain all this to our six-year-olds?" - What is "all this"? You don't really explain "all this" of any relationship -- straight or gay - to a six-year-old. I certainly hope you don't talk about sex with your wife, girlfriend, mistress or [in your case] abused dog with a six-year-old child! When/if addressing questions about a same-sex couple, why not just say something like: "Bob & Michael are a couple who love each other very much and share a life just like mommie & daddy."? Not wildly difficult or complicated, is it?
Two people of the age of consent committing to a shared life together is not a threat to anyone -- it is actually of a HUGE benefit to society. The right of civil marriage for same-sex couples *IS* going to happen -- I suggest you deal with it and catch up with the rest of the modern world. You do NOT have to like it. It does NOT have to happen in your place of "worship". It need NOT be sanctioned by the imaginary deity of your choice. All of that is just fine! But as far as civil law, taxation, benefits, rights & privileges go, I assure you, again, that legal marriage rights for all adult couples will become law. [NOTE: I really hate the term "gay marriage". It's not a gay marriage -- it's a marriage. I won't "gay marry" any more than I "gay park my car" or "gay clean the house".]
Also, most people probably don't have time to comment on Patch 24/7 -- I have to do my "gay chores", wash my "gay dishes", do my "gay laundry" and watch my "gay Netflix" -- not to mention the heap of "gay kale" I need to wash & shred.
You are wasting my time and going off on wild, unimportant tangents about words & etymology -- and I don't doubt one bit that it is intentional. Why "gay"? It's not for me to say. Black people are not "black" -- they are brown. Would you like to shove that distraction into this debate as well?
Again Richard, another poster revealing his ignorance and intolerance of an alternative lifestyle.
I BLAME THE WELSH! It makes about as much sense as anything YOU are saying at this point. Society evolves & changes. Always has. If it did not, people like you would still be burning "witches", hanging innocent black men from trees and keeping women "in the kitchen where they belong". If nations don't evolve & adjust, they fall. You see yourself as wildly clever -- get yourself a history book or a political science book and see for yourself.
Marriages under civil law and biblical law have been "redefined" and have evolved many times throughout history and including America -- I encourage you to re-read my posts and see the links I've already suggested on that precise issue.
A heterosexual man cannot marry another man. A homosexual man cannot marry another man. See, we have the same rights.
Is that from the Book of Beavis or the Book of Butthead?
If you don't know what it means to be on the wrong side of history, I will have to explain. Society is progressing whether you like it or not. SSM is going to happen eventually nation-wide, and you will lose your battle....that's what it means. The younger generations are more and more progressive in their beliefs with regards to SSM, so your generation and its outdated beliefs are dying off. Get it? Bottom line: SSM does not affect my marriage with my wife. I don't know why it affects yours!
It's fact.
http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/blogs/lookout/chick-fil-kiss-164759658.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=US&.lang=en-US http://www.roanoke.com/news/breaking/wb/312377 Today's self-titled progressives are on the wrong side of history Dan. In every protest, they always come out looking foolish. All of their grand plans for a great society bring everyone to ruin. And, they always blatantly ignore their own hypocrisy, and insist their way is the only way.
It truly speaks to your own jealousy and/or insecurity. People who are happy with what they have don't feel the need to point out other people in that fashion.