Come Again? Ann Coulter Says Chick-fil-A Stance Isn’t Anti-Gay [Video]
Quick, describe Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy’s stance on gay marriage. Not in favor, right? Wrong, according to Ann Coulter, who said Sunday that Chick-fil-A’s anti-gay marriage stance isn’t really an “anti-gay thing.”
Sitting next to former Obama adviser Van Jones on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Coulter made several bold assertions (as she is wont to do) about the Chick-fil-A controversy, and the greater sociopolitical argument that it nests in.
“He said, look, all the founders of this company are married to our first wives,” said Coulter in response to Cathy’s original comments. “It’s genuinely a pro-marriage position to oppose gay marriage.”
Chick-fil-A has, of course, come under fire for comments by the company’s president Dan Cathy, who said that “We’re inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage,” after it had been revealed that the chicken-chain donates millions to groups that oppose gay rights. Gay rights advocates have called for a boycott of the company, while supporters led by Mike Huckabee called for a “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day,” which showed great turnout and record sales, reports the Huffington Post.
Coulter says that such turnout is reason enough to doubt recent polls showing that a majority of Americans are now in favor of gay marriage. “When you see crowds like that coming out [to support Chick-fil-A], no, I’m sorry, I don’t believe the polls on gay marriage. Let us vote. Those polls I believe, and it makes me suspicious at the polls on the presidential election.”
Fair enough, Coulter, but LGT points out that Chick-fil-A is primarily a Bible-Belt company, with no stores in Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island or New York, two in California and Massachusetts, and one in New Hampshire. So how right can she be about the public’s support (or lack of) on gay marriage?
What do you think? Does Coulter have a point here or is her stance inaccurate? Watch the video and sound off below!
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Posted: August 6, 2012
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Aug 6, 2012
If companies are people and people vote with dollars then the destination of the restaurant’s donations are open for public debate. It very well should be an issue as to where peoples’ hard-earned money goes after the chicken goes down their gullet. This issue has made our little feathered friend the modern martyr as Chick-fil-A laughs all the way to the bank. Watch the poultry be nailed to the cross and pierced by the spear of destiny at the hands of those devious cows on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/08/holy-rollin-poultry-on-cross-chick-fil.html.
Aug 6, 2012
As a Californian, I only checked California, but we have–count 'em–59 Chik-Fil-As in this state. So I don't know where this LGT is getting their "facts". That's a pretty far cry from 2 and I would call that a blatant lie or at least someone who simply doesn't bother to go to a website and look for 30 seconds because they don't want to actually muddle up their version of the truth.
Aug 7, 2012
who cares? chik fil a is a very small company-1600 stores-that doesnt compare to the worldwide companies-the real ones that matter that are worldwide-Microsoft, Coke, Google, Amazon, Disney, etc-in a few years Chik Fil A will die off except in a few religious redneck states. I checked google and it stated 41 stores in CA so a mistake could have been made
and Patricia, this article wasn't written by "the" LGBT-it was written by one person-dumdum
Aug 8, 2012
I didn't say "the LGBT" I said LGT, DUM DUM. Read carefully. The blog is called LGT as quoted in this article. I got the number of stores directly from Chik-Fil-A's website, which I'm guessing is more accurate than Google's. So the "real ones that matter" are only worldwide? How about In-n-Out, Sonic, White Castle, to name a few? They don't count?
Sep 28, 2012
"Does Coulter have a point here or is her stance inaccurate?"
Virtually any criticism of white liberals has a point IMO.
Sep 28, 2012
Coulter is adsolutely right. She is not Black but she is abled to express how most Blacks feel in a nutshell. Whoopie and other rich Blacks that have not contributed to the Black communitie feel guilty. Whoopie tried to escape her Blackness by changing her name to a Jewish name. Whoopie and the other rich Blacks tries to prove their loyalty to white people. This has been going on since slavery, Whoopie would be considered as a uncle tom.The Civil right movement was for Black people and Black people only. Others did not have to march because they already had civil Rights. the liberals tricked the Blacks and changed the Civil Rights movement for everyone, cheating Black Americans again. Thanks Ann Coulter.
Oct 24, 2012
George Will and Ann Coulter made the most sense.