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Quin tells us that he ate mor chikn at Chick-fil-A in response to Boston Mayor Tom Menino refusing to let the Georgia based restaurant chain do business in the Hub. Menino won’t let Chick-fil-A open its doors because of its opposition to gay marriage.
Well, I wish I could say the same. Yeah, I live in Boston.
Now I support gay marriage but I think Menino ought to pluck off.
Menino said, “Chick-fil-A doesn’t belong in Boston. You can’t have a business in the city of Boston that discriminates against a population.”
First, it isn’t for Menino to say who does and doesn’t belong in Boston. If Chick-fil-A has the money to pay the high rents near Fanueil Hall then who is Menino to say otherwise? The location is currently occupied by The Purple Shamrock but it is moving out in mid-September because of a 60% increase in the rent. Does Mayor Menino really want that prime piece of real estate to sit empty for months on end?
Second, who says Chick-fil-A is discriminating against anyone? There’s no evidence to suggest Chick-fil-A has refused to served lesbians, gay and transgendered people. None. It simply disagrees with gay marriage and uses its money to campaign against it. Last time I checked that was protected by the First Amendment.
Third, Menino has been Mayor for nearly twenty years. He thinks he runs the place and certainly acts like he does. Menino is so used to having things his way that he doesn’t think he can be unreasonable.
Finally, whether Chick-fil-A does business in Boston should be up to the people of Boston, not Mayor Menino nor anyone else in the city government. People ought to be free to choose whether or not they spend their money at Chick-fil-A. If it turns out that Bostonians like eating chicken on Sunday then Chick-fil-A might have a problem. No one is forcing anyone to eat at Chick-fil-A. If people don’t agree with their stance on gay marriage then they can eat at Boston Market instead. It’s called free enterprise.
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Lullabys Legends and Lies| 7.25.12 @ 6:30PM
Menino's been the Mayor of Boston for 20 years? Holy crap!! He's the poster-child for term-limits!! Yeah, but he's probably right, who needs another business moving into your city, especially in the economy that we have right now!! Mayor Dead-Fish of Chicago has said the same thing now too, which has to take some balls to say, coming from a City and State that's dying right before our eyes!! Two Democratic Mayors, from two Democratic cities, both Retards!! Who needs a business that pays taxes moving into your dying city, when you can keep them out, and have you city turn into Detroit even faster!! Maybe the Gays will save these two cities from themselves, oh wait, they can't, because they only make up like 2% of the population!!
darcy| 7.25.12 @ 6:33PM
Mayor for twenty years?
Alrighty then, I will not be spending my tourist dollars in a city that is such a slave to INTOLERANCE and is so STUPID as to keep reelecting a DESPOT.
HAH!! You got that right: INTOLERANCE! DESPOT!
The homosexuals want to broadcast their lifestyle? Fine. Chick Fil A wants to broadcast its lifestyle? Fine. But when the Mayor comes out and DISCRIMINATES against the latter, it moves quickly into the TOTALITARIAN category.
To hell with Boston and its Mayor. I will be eating at Chick Fil A wherever I find them if for no other reason than that THEY ARE BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST because of their Christian worldview.
To hell with Boston and its Mayor.
Message to Mayor: The world is not a closed box! It's OPEN. Might does not make right. You're a pathetic tool of progressive postmodernists and your very soul is in jeopardy.
Take that as a warning. Where are our Jeremiads??? Step up to the plate or pay the consequences, you who are intimidated by political correctness.
Bob Grant| 7.25.12 @ 6:40PM
Well put.
You could say Mayor Merino Bloomberged Chic Fil A.
As for me, I will make a special visit to my local Chic Fil A just to show my support. It's easy supporting Chic Fil A, thank goodness, because their food is so good.
Unlike KFC or McDonalds .
darcy| 7.26.12 @ 12:45AM
Ditto that, Bob Grant.
spike59| 7.26.12 @ 5:51AM
and their service is nearly flawless; one Saturday, I took my daughter there during the PEAK of the lunchtime rush. after taking my order, the clerk came around the counter, with another employee taking her place, and somehow found us seats near their play area so my daughter could play while i waited for our food. when our order was ready, she brought it to our table, went into the play area, and brought my daughter back to me. try finding a Mickey D's, BK, or Wendy's that will go to those lengths to sell a couple sandwiches and drinks and an order of waffle fries
fmm| 7.26.12 @ 11:37AM
Chick-Fil=A has never been on my radar screen till this week. With all the commentary, I find that they are a good company which puts out a quality product. They will have me as a customer from now on.
Ventura Capitalist| 7.26.12 @ 11:58AM
Bloomberg as a verb?
EXCELLENT!
Bob S| 7.26.12 @ 1:10AM
I live right next to a mall that has a Chick-fil-a. I will be going there for lunch much more often now. On top of promoting good family and religious values, their food is just so good.
Occam's Tool| 7.25.12 @ 6:41PM
There's a reason I live in Chip Craavack's district in rural Minnesota. I hate big cities.
Bob Grant| 7.25.12 @ 6:58PM
Ice fisherman, eh?
Paul McGrath| 7.25.12 @ 7:25PM
This is a perfect, classic example of how political correctness leads to facism, and this fool of a mayor doesn't seem to realize it. In his effort to show the world what a fashionable, progressive thinker he is, he is using his political office to tell a private business--a private individual really--what it can and can't do. The law does not apply to him. He, the GREAT MENINO, is the maker of law, and all that is just and right.
This is exactly--exactly--the kind of shit that happened in the Soviet Union and Maoist China, and this silly, stupid moron doesn't seem to have any understanding of this. Unbelievable.
Bob S| 7.26.12 @ 1:12AM
It also happened in Nazi Germany. They not only persecuted people based on their ethnicity, they discriminated against people based on their beliefs. It started with refusing business licenses, and look where it ended.
Reggie Love| 7.25.12 @ 7:32PM
Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr calls him mumbles.
kingsmill| 7.25.12 @ 8:37PM
....and his nickname is well deserved. This inarticulate boob is the emptiest of empty suits. One of the stupidest bipeds currently extant. If the Boston Globe yells jump, Mumbles responds immediately "how high?"
Sample audio of this ass at http://www.mumblesmenino.us/
RJ| 7.25.12 @ 10:29PM
Why is it that Massachusetts usually seems to put its worst citizens in office?
Ted Kennedy, famous for getting thrown out of college for having someone else take a test for him; Borking, and or course, Chappaquiddick.
John Kerry who slandered the men he served with in Vietnam and has accomplished nothing in his years in the Senate.
I'll take your word on Mumbles.
And now perhaps Elizabeth "High Cheek Bones" Warren, who has made a farce out of Affirmative Action and diversity programs by claiming she is a Native American while at the same time campaigning on the theme of denigrating personal achievement.
What do the voters in Massachusetts see in these people. Granted it is a liberal state, but can't they find a liberal who has more character than these people?
fmm| 7.26.12 @ 11:39AM
Fools will suffer fools.
Occam's Tool| 7.25.12 @ 11:43PM
RJ: with all due respect to the wonderful Mr. Goldstein, there's a reason they are called Massholes.
RJ| 7.26.12 @ 12:31AM
As a Californian, I readily admit that we elect many empty-suit idiots. Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi quickly come to mind. I can't figure it out. In the past, we had more serious minded liberals such as Alan Cranston.
Bob S| 7.26.12 @ 1:08AM
For all their talk against "intolerance", these city officials are sure being intolerant themselves. Like you said, there has never been an instance reported when Chik-fil-a refused service to homosexuals. There is no discrimination from Chik-fil-a. The company leadership is exercising their free speech right by stating their beliefs, but they are most certainly not discriminating against homosexuals and denying them service.
The ones who are discriminating are the city officials who will refuse to allow Chik-fil-a to do business in their cities for what they believe. That is not only discrimination based on belief, but also infringement on first amendment rights to free speech.
spike59| 7.26.12 @ 5:45AM
Menino said, "Chick-fil-A doesn't belong in Boston. You can't have a business in the city of Boston that discriminates against a population."
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I've not heard one case of Chick-Fil-A discriminating against any 'population' regarding service or employment...HizDishonor is simply standing on the corner with a turd in his hand, insisting that he's holding the 'clean end'
JP| 7.26.12 @ 9:26AM
Cities like Boston can do what the please as far permiting new businesses. I'm wondering if the mayor was under pressure from Boston Market? But, this kind of crony-capitalism is a 2 way street. Do it enough and businesses will not come no matter how much demand there is from the public. Rahm Emanual has also jumped on the Chick Fil-A (however you spell it) ban. Chicago and Boston may still be large markets. But they are decaying markets. And what franchise owner wants to set-up shop amongst large groups of gang-bangers, OWS goons, and political shylocks?
spike59| 7.27.12 @ 6:32AM
Cities like Boston can do what the please as far permiting new businesses
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no, actually, they CAN'T...it's called 'denial of due process'
Arbiter55| 7.26.12 @ 9:47AM
I went to Chick-fil-A yesterday after I first heard about this story, firstly for their great chicken sandwich and secondly to poke a figurative finger in Mumbles' eye. Mumbles can B I O H A, and so can Nannie Bloomberg, for that matter.
Ventura Capitalist| 7.26.12 @ 12:00PM
Chick-fil-A
For lunch today
DRed| 7.26.12 @ 2:32PM
Here's the thing-if Chik-fil-a doesn't belong in Boston, then people in Boston won't eat there. Let the store open.
PCPSmokerII| 7.26.12 @ 10:03PM
Cute headline. Next time try using the name of the city Obama lost his virginity to a man: Phucket, Tailand. As in Menino, Phucket yourself.