So, I think that, collectively speaking, we're handling this Chick-fil-a thing the wrong way. We've got liberal companies pulling their toys from their menu, we've got liberal mayors assaulting them verbally, we've got liberal people boycotting them.
Congratulations, you've given bigots, morons, and assholes a haven. Chick-fil-a can now say that their gay parts-per-million is down to levels they can accept. We've created the fast food equivalent of Fox News, a place where conservatives can eat their chicken sandwiches comfortable in the knowledge that nobody around them disagrees with them on anything.
The worst part is, in our efforts to block new locations from opening, we're also probably breaking the law, leaving them in the position of actually being RIGHT!? But there are other laws, ones we can use to our advantage...
Illinois and Massachusetts, two of the states where mayors have hopes of blocking Chick-fil-a from opening, do have another law on the books we can use: a law barring discrimination in employment.
I propose that every time a Chick-fil-a in these states posts a job opening, we flood their inbox with applications from gay people. Just... thousands of rainbow-friendly applications. Pretty much guarantee that, over time, nobody is working at these places but gay folk. Then, instead of a boycott that doesn't do anything, we can know that for all that money Chick-fil-a is donating to anti-gay causes, they're also giving payroll cash to gay people directly.
And if they fire any of these people for being gay, we can sue.
Once that's in place, instead of boycotting Chick-fil-a, I think we should have "gay-ins." People in gay-friendly t-shirts, gay couples with children, homosexuals, transgendered people, every shape and size of gay folk, packing the booths every Saturday. Force the bigoted customers who frequent Chick-fil-a to see, wherever they turn, the faces of the people they discriminate against.
Best case scenario, they start to change their thinking.
Second-best case scenario, Chick-fil-a gets a rep as a "gay hangout" and they take their business elsewhere.
Right now, with our loud denouncements and our boycotts, I just feel like we're giving them exactly what they want, and leaving them comfortable over there. So, let's do the opposite.