OT/MISC S. FL University Chick-Fil-A Protest for Removal

[Mudkip]

"It's not just college students who want Chick-fil-A off their campuses.

Dr. Scott Ferguson, an assistant professor at the University of South Florida, has started an online petition to get a Chick-fil-A location off the campus. So far, he's collected more than 500 signatures of support."

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link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/29/chick-fil-a-college-protest-usf-petition_n_1839874.html
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The petition reads:

Chick-fil-A currently serves thousands of students a year at the University of South Florida. However, the company has spoken openly against LGBT equality and consistently funded groups that seek to curb LGBT rights. In fact, Chick-fil-A has donated over $5 million dollars to anti-gay organizations between 2003 - 2010, supporting groups such as Focus On The Family, Exodus International, and the Family Research Council.

As a campus that stands for diversity and inclusion, the University of South Florida should not fund a company that supports anti-equality measures. LGBT rights are human rights and no university should cooperate with a group that is openly against human rights. By removing the Chick-fil-A vendor from the Marshall Center, the USF community will affirm its commitment to all of its members.

Students around the country have been protesting against on-campus Chick-fil-A restaurants, after Dan Cathy, the head of the company made controversial comments about gay marriage earlier this year. Chick-fil-A has also donated millions to groups which oppose gay rights.

Also this week, as students at the University of Texas-Pan American returned to campus, a demonstration against Chick-fil-A was held. The protest at UTPA is lead by the school's Atheist Student Organization and the LGBT Alliance.

DallasVoice.com reports:

Chick-fil-A is on five college campuses in North Texas. Both the University of North Texas and the University of Texas at Arlington have started online petitions. A UNT student petition on Change.org had garnered 469 signatures and the one started by an alumnus has 44 signatures. The UTA petition has 155 signatures.

 

[Mudkip]

Other participating Universities:

Removal:
Wichita State Univeristy, Appalachian State University, University of Illinois, University of Virginia, Columbus State University [worth looking at their MS Paint petition,] South Dakota State University, University of Southern Mississippi, University of South Dakota [petition to ban,] University of Tennessee, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, University of Kansas, University of Maryland, Minnesota State University [Mankato,] and Ball State University

Petition to Keep:
Kansas State University, University of Louisville, and University of South Dakota

 

[Dobbin]

Or maybe the University (pick a name) could instead offer up a business position on campus for a competing business organization that SUPPORTS the LGBT movement. This way the students will benefit from the advantages of marketplace competition AND the university will gain as being accepting of all, be it business acumen or moral/spiritual values. (I think I just turned the "open & affirming" nom-de-plume around to the other side of the equation.)

Should one or another of these business entities fail, the reason might be for their avowed support or non-support of LGBT issues - or it might be because they don't make Boston Creme Donuts (or whatever) in sufficient quality or economy.

Either should NOT be of concern to a college, whose business should be education and tolerance.

Dunno. Just one opinion. I am sure there are more.

Dobbin

 

[Ta-wo-di]

Or maybe the University (pick a name) could instead offer up a business position on campus for a competing business organization that SUPPORTS the LGBT movement. This way the students will benefit from the advantages of marketplace competition AND the university will gain as being accepting of all, be it business acumen or moral/spiritual values. (I think I just turned the "open & affirming" nom-de-plume around to the other side of the equation.)

Should one or another of these business entities fail, the reason might be for their avowed support or non-support of LGBT issues - or it might be because they don't make Boston Creme Donuts (or whatever) in sufficient quality or economy.

Competition? Most of the liberal buttholes in those Universities have no clue what that means. They just want to spread their filth and BS liberal ideology. I heard that the University of Maryland was trying to get them booted. Many times I wished I had gone there when I was in college. Now I'm glad that I did not go to that POS school.

/Rant off

 

[Dennis Olson]

The protest at UTPA is lead by the school's Atheist Student Organization...


Yup, there's an organization that will support every base perversion known to the lowest of mankind...

 

[Satanta]

Or maybe the University (pick a name) could instead offer up a business position on campus for a competing business organization that SUPPORTS the LGBT movement. This way the students will benefit from the advantages of marketplace competition AND the university will gain as being accepting of all, be it business acumen or moral/spiritual values. (I think I just turned the "open & affirming" nom-de-plume around to the other side of the equation.)

Should one or another of these business entities fail, the reason might be for their avowed support or non-support of LGBT issues - or it might be because they don't make Boston Creme Donuts (or whatever) in sufficient quality or economy.

Either should NOT be of concern to a college, whose business should be education and tolerance.

Dunno. Just one opinion. I am sure there are more.

Dobbin

Actually they should not be teaching 'Tolerance'. Do some research online of colleges and I bet you won't find a single degree in 'Tolerance'.

These petitions have nothing to do with 'Equality' or fairness or anything else and certainly not 'Tolerance'.

 

[Kathy in FL]

You've got to be kidding me. That professor will be eviscerated if he gets rid of the Chik-fil-A on USF campus. The kids love it and it is always packed. I've got to kids going to USF and there are times when you can't get near the place. And every semester they usually have one day where they give out free food to the students.

They've also got a Taco Bell on campus and a few other brand places. He want to get rid of them too? Jerk. The kids don't have that many options to begin except for the crud in the cafeteria ... and trust me the kids would rather choke down nails than some of the meals served there.

 

[timbo]

Another puke professor left leaning arsehole who brainwashes the kiddies (not all, thank you Lord) into signing the petition to rid them of a Christian based business.

Sure would like to know if some of these campus are doing what good people did for CFA what, a month ago or so?

Too many children are getting a brain washing instead of an education.

 

[naturallysweet]

I support true tolerance. That is when we all learn to tolerate each others differences and viewpoints in the public spear. So we don't demand that the owner of every restaurant on campus gives supports all of our viewpoints. In fact, we don't demand that anyone believes anything, we just ask people to be nice to each other.

 

[Dennis Olson]

What's a public spear?


I know what the public sphere is though...

 

[undead]

ok, I'm calling it... leftist cockroaches

 

[Flippper]

Pretty hypocritical for any of them to still say they're tolerant. Wasn't one of their mantras "were here, were queer, get used to it."?

One day they will have their Christian free utopia, I shudder to think what such a society will truly entail. I hear it's the worst time in human history.

Sadly these deceived folks don't just embrace it, they are running full speed off the cliff to reach it as quickly as possible.

 

[Mudkip]

I just keep going back to the graffiti left on the one Chick-fil-A business.

Also, "Tolerance" is a christian value. I will note one by one that the progressive movement takes a smaller or lesser known teaching of Christianity and perverts it. "Love is a Choice" got a fair overhaul and beating a month or so ago.

I have a great many business, political activists, and liberal/progressive movements friended on facebook. I find it keeps me informed. I was asked to sign these petitions above, thought I'd post it here and let you all know Chick-Fil-A may have left the general media's ire, but it's alive and kicking in the "movement."

THAT chicken is DELICIOUS.

 

[Argonath]

I just keep going back to the graffiti left on the one Chick-fil-A business.

Also, "Tolerance" is a christian value. I will note one by one that the progressive movement takes a smaller or lesser known teaching of Christianity and perverts it. "Love is a Choice" got a fair overhaul and beating a month or so ago.

I have a great many business, political activists, and liberal/progressive movements friended on facebook. I find it keeps me informed. I was asked to sign these petitions above, thought I'd post it here and let you all know Chick-Fil-A may have left the general media's ire, but it's alive and kicking in the "movement."

THAT chicken is DELICIOUS.

Heheh....

Tolerance? In God's eyes there is ONLY righteousness... HIS righteousness.

Most people do not know WHY Yeshua said turn the other cheek, nor WHY we are to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. It's not based on some kumbaya love doctrine, but on the fundamental truth that bitterness and unforgiveness destroys one from within, far more than an external threat from without.

Why would Yeshua say if you don't have a sword, buy one? Its a spiritual idiom for BE armed for conflict, for we battle with a spirtual enemy far more than a physical one. Turning the other cheek simply means that if someone does you wrong, FORGIVE THEM, don't hold in the bitterness or vengeace, for if you cannot forgive others, then He will not forgive you.

Most cancer and disease comes from a spiritual root that we hold in our spirit... sometimes for decades that festers. Mark 6:12-13 is the blueprint for all healing, and IT MUST BE DONE in the order of the verse.

And Yeshua send the disciples out and they had men REPENT - Healing of the spirit
And they cast out many demons - Healing of the Soul (mind/will/emotions)
And they anointed with oils - Healing of the body

Without absolving the ROOT of illness, which always begins in the spirit, then healing the other 2 is meaningless.

But with that being said, tolerance, like morality, is NOT found in the bible. These are manmade terms. There is ONLY righteousness.

 

[CountryboyinGA]

assistant prof of "cultural studies and humanities"


CB

 

[Dobbin]

assistant prof of "cultural studies and humanities"

Dr. Scott Ferguson, an assistant professor at the University of South Florida needs to be exposed to some REAL culture and some REAL humans. He might decide afterwards (while nursing a black eye) that tolerance of humanity generally is more valuable to him than modification of humanity to his mind's eye.

Dobbin

 

[Bumblepuff]

Yup, there's an organization that will support every base perversion known to the lowest of mankind...

"How right you are, sir! These large chicken franchises are evil eateries of iniquity
profiting from the massive slaughter of innocent chickens! After killing, plucking,
gutting, slicing and cooking many poor chickens, people greedily gorge on flesh as
bits of breading and grease trickle down their chubby chins! I am mad as heck and
can't take it anymore! I have joined with PETA to wage bestial warfare against the
savage American carnivores who are eating my feathered friends! I am pleased
to announce that Mister Snuffleupagus and the rest of the Sesame Street gang
are preparing to form a flash mob inside our local chicken restaurant and teach
those bad people a lesson! Kermit was supposed to give an inspiring speech, but
a French chef took him away because his presence was requested at a banquet!"
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[mistaken1]

Another shining example of left-wing tolerance and diversity.

 

[Mudkip]

I have joined with PETA to wage bestial warfare against the
savage American carnivores" [/B][/COLOR]
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I laughed at this whole thing. Then, I reflected on PETA getting involved and it made me instantly blank face. : |

 

[Mudkip]

::UPDATE::

Link: http://www.advocate.com/business/2012/08/31/chick-fil-ceo-meets-campus-leaders-discuss-lgbt-issues

Chick-fil-A President Meets With College Leaders on LGBT Issues
Is Chick-fil-A changing its ways?

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Following the PR nightmare of this summer, Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy met with leaders of universities and college organizations to discuss the company's future involvement with LGBT issues.

Cathy incited the ire of millions when he blasted same-sex marriage and gay families in interviews; his company was already in LGBT crosshairs for giving millions of dollars to antigay causes. The president and chief operating officer is now trying to repair his image with college leaders, who he met with on Thursday in Atlanta, according to a source who couldn't reveal his name because he wasn't authorized to speak about the meeting. The discussion involved "diversity, hospitality, and the opportunity to find common ground," according to the source.

Chick-fil-A is aggressively trying to expand onto college campuses but has met resistance at huge schools such as the University of California, Los Angeles, and New York University.

While it's unclear who Cathy met with, Shane Windmeyer of the LGBT organization Campus Pride has been vocal about calling out the company's policies, which include no protections for LGBT workers.

 

[Kathy in FL]

I spoke with both of my USF students and neither one had heard anything about this, neither had their friends who are also USF students. It may be going on but it has very limited exposure to the majority of students.

 

[Mudkip]

I spoke with both of my USF students and neither one had heard anything about this, neither had their friends who are also USF students. It may be going on but it has very limited exposure to the majority of students.

I would just love to tell you how shocked I am but I'm just not surprised by that. Why is everything so cloak and daggers anymore?!