Quote Unquote: A Bad Investment

Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel on one of the decision to block the opening of a Chick-fil-A restaurant in the city's 1st ward…

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"They disrespect our fellow neighbors and residents. This would be a bad investment, since it would be empty."

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If there's one thing that Chicago is known for, historically speaking, it's tolerance for minorities.

Tags: Chick-fil-A, Christianity, Food, Homophobia, LGBT, Rahm Emanuel, Religion

Tweet Untweet: Unhappy Meal

The new kids' meals toy at Chick-Fil-A is a posable Anita Bryant doll and now my kids are crying.

— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) July 25, 2012

Tags: Chick-fil-A, LGBT, Rick Santorum, Tweet Untweet, Twitter

Rick Santorum Live-Panders His Meal at Chick-fil-A on Twitter

In America, we hold our fast food restaurants in such high esteem, that we listen to their stances on important social issues. The only scenario in which Chick-fil-A should have a public position on gay marriage is if chickens were gay marrying. And even then, let the chickens live their lives!

Fortunately, politicians like Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum are willing to fight for the right of a giant corporation to hate gay people. Before I embed these tweets, I should warn you, the only thing grosser than imagining Rick Santorum having sex is imagining Rick Santorum eating food…

I’m joining @GovMikeHuckabee to support @ChickFilA Aug 1. Stand w us! RSVP now:ht.ly/cugl1 #chickfila Pls RT

— Rick Santorum (@RickSantorum) July 25, 2012

Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee have done more to convince me not to eat fast food than Michelle Obama ever could.

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With two of my boys, Enjoying chick-in-strips and an awesome peach shake at Chick-fil-A. See you here next Wednesday!

— Rick Santorum (@RickSantorum) July 25, 2012

At McDonald's they're called Happy Meals. At Chick-fil-A they're called Only-We're-Allowed-To-Be-Happy Meals.

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Three older kids @sarah_santorum @dansantorum @johnsantorum just joined us at Chick-fil-A. They like Chick-fil-A sauce on everything!

— Rick Santorum (@RickSantorum) July 25, 2012

Have you learned nothing, Rick Santorum? You mentioning sauce is not helping people find their appetite!

Tags: Chick-fil-A, Christianity, Food, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Mike Huckabee, Religion, Rick Santorum

Mike Huckabee Comes to Heroic Defense of Fried Chicken, Homophobia

Anybody who's been following the culture wars of late knows that some of the most brutal and bloody battles are being fought along the gay rights front. For too long, a long-suffering minority group has been beaten down and bullied by the more powerful and unsympathetic masses.

Finally, we are seeing a hero emerge to rally the oppressed, raise their spirits and charge into the thick of the carnage to fight alongside God-fearing Christian companies like Chick Fil-A to defend their rights as Americans to be bigoted and discriminatory in the name of their religion…

"I have been incensed at the vitriolic assaults on the Chick Fil-A company because the CEO, Dan Cathy, made comments recently in which he affirmed his view that the Biblical view of marriage should be upheld. The Cathy family, let by Chick Fil-A founder Truett Cathy, are a wonderful Christian family who are committed to operating the company with Biblical principles and whose story is the true American success story.

"Starting at age 46 Truett Cathy built Chick Fil-A into a $4 billion a year enterprise with over 1600 stores. At 91, he is still active in the company, but his son Dan runs it day to day as CEO. It's a great American story that is being smeared by vicious hate speech and intolerant bigotry from the left."

"Vitriolic assaults!" "Vicious hate speech!" "Intolerant bigotry from the left!" When will it end?

Why can't great American companies like Chick Fil-A be left alone to filter money into organizations like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council — good Bible-minded groups that are actively working to curtail the rights of certain U.S. citizens — without having other groups and companies exercising their own rights to point out such donations and encourage people to not contribute their own money to it?

I just feel so overcome with the Spirit knowing that a public figure of Mike Huckabee's caliber has come to their defense. And, hey, if he manages to get a little complimentary fried chicken out of the deal, where's the harm in that?

Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News/Getty Images

Tags: Chick-fil-A, Christianity, Corporations, Family Research Council, Focus On the Family, Food, Homophobia, LGBT, Mike Huckabee, Religion

Our Endorsements: Good For You, Gays

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Tags: Chick-fil-A, Chris Christie, Daily Links, Guns, Jimmy Kimmel, LGBT, Republican National Convention, Republicans