User blog comment:PlantyThePottedPlant/Random Topic Blogging II: Electric Blogaloo/@comment-4121682-20120802040457/@comment-3479827-20120802234846

CLARIFICATION GOOD TIME FUN YAY!

1. It was actually the Jim Henson company that pulled their away from Chick-Fil-A as a display of rights support (the company is a supporter of gay rights in the U.S. while the owner of the Chick-Fil-A franchise is a more "traditional" Christian.

2. The story spread on Facebook but was not necessarily a hot topic until someone at Chick-Fil-A had the rather stupid idea of opening up fake accounts and lying about the ordeal to save face. They were quickly discovered by the internet-savvy users and quickly became the fools. That is where Chick-Fil-A made a mistake in this ordeal--rather than issuing a statement citing "professional differences" or simply carrying on (I don't think MANY people cared much at this point), they instead pulled a stunt that would either

A. Be too stupid to work (and it was)

or B. There is no B.

Chick-Fil-A is not doing anything to undermine gay rights or uphold American values. They just did something that was stupid all around by LYING.

Which brings me to my next point.

Tiberius64: Hold your horses, Captain Self-Righteous. Speaking as both a Christian and a supporter of gay-rights--which your comment seems to imply is a combination that is impossible--your comment is pretty one-sided for someone who won't tolerate any hatred. You require some perspective. For example, you say that they think that we hate them just because we merely disagree with them. Well, even though if a homosexual says that all Christians are hateful (which I have never heard in my life), which is a massive generalization, it's not as if there has never been examples of homosexuals being harrassed, beaten, abused and just poorly treated in our country. And though they are, truly, not all Christian fundamentalists, that's not the point. They don't care if they were Christian or Jewish or Atheist or whatever religion that can be observed, if they find someone that doesn't support gay rights, they can argue with them. And, Mr. American "Family values", with freedom of protest, they are completely in their right to do so. Do I agree with their protesting? No, I don't; I couldn't give less of a crap. But if you perceive their activism as "trying to terrify" you, even if they are pointless and idiotic (which this is not, really), then tough luck; they've got the right to complain.

Can they be hateful? Yes. Anybody in the world can be hateful. There's no doubt in my mind that some protestors and some activists and some homosexuals have and will continue to display hateful behavior. But don't forget that just because you're a Christian it doesn't mean that you've been gifted a pair of angel wings and can chastise people for their behavior so passively and smugly, because we fellow Christians can pull our own fair share of crap on occassion.

God bless.