Why exactly should a corporation remain neutral? Corporations are made up of people and they have as much right to a social opinion as anyone else. Seeing as there are a disproportionate number of gay people working in the food service industry this makes perfect sense to me for them to support a cause that affects them directly. Seems like a smart move on the part of McDonald's to me. Why alienate a large percentage of your employees when you could instead show support for them?

I've worked in restaurants and know first hand that a large percentage of the people working in those were gay. I also know they were good, decent human beings and I enjoyed working with them.

If a group of people with an agenda want to boycott a certain chain of businesses, I say they should go for it. They have every right to do so and I support that right. I also support the right of the people in those businesses to have their own social opinions and to support those opinions however they see fit.

The AFA is a 501c3 non-profit organization, which is in fact a type of corporation. It's pretty hypocritical of them to demand that another corporation remain neutral on social issues when they are all about social issues. I'm willing to bet there are plenty of other corporations who donate to them that they aren't demanding remain neutral. If that's their stance they should refuse any donations from any corporation. But I'm sure they won't do that. See the hypocrisy here?

Let them boycott. Maybe their kids won't be so fat.

Hey, at least we'll be thin.

Erathoniel,


"there is a thing in business where one should not endorse a political opinion, unless it is a goal of the business, or one of its blatantly state goals."  You're naivete is overwhelming my otherwise adept policy not to engage someone who clearly is out of the loop.  If your very simplistic idea about this THING in business were true, K Street would be lined with hot dog stands and not lobbyists.  What THING in business???!!  Is it an epithet, moral etiquette?  Is it a slogan, a creed, an abridging?  is it an oath, a decree, a social policy?  What THING are you talking about?!  You sound like a novice trying to explain business.  It's as if you're not thinking, immediately going to your predetermined arguments, the left this and the left that.  Your indoctrination is so stifling you fail to properly process my posits.  And like i said your "holier than thou" mantras propel you to regurgitate these self professed judgements all the while failing to see the irony in your own arguments.  the indoctrination runs so deep that you find my assertion that compassion should come first as an afterthought hence you focus on the homosexuality issue.  My issue was moreso against judgemental behaviour in general, but your so indignant and aghast that I could argue against intolerance toward homosexuality you process nothing else.

Oi and these political and religious leaders know the power of persuasion lies not in logical arguments, but in emotional conflagarations, as they are steeped in political win after political win.  The lowest common denominator i.e., you and me suffer because of we fail to realize where the real power lies.  Furthermore, you see my points as an attack and that is YOUR interpretation, I see it as an open call to a better understanding on KFC's part.  The minute I take an opposing stance, whatever it may be, you begin to cycle through your predetermined quips, the left did this the left did that, the sinner is not condemned blah blah blah, another carbon copy argument.  Think for yourself man.

KFC is understanding. You are the one who counts the condemnation of an action as the condemnation of the individual. Are drunkards evil? No. They made a mistake at one point, and fell into drunkenness.

What you call intolerance I count conscience.

"what i call this you call that"  going right back to your holier than thou, bully pulpit standpoints.  Your supposed intolerance is just one single issue I took with your comment and not the major issue either. 

My biggest "concerns" where with

1. What THING in business are you speaking of?  It's not regulatory or policy you speak of since they have not broken any laws.

2. Your thinking is obtuse and programmed, a "regurgitation" of what you've heard.

3. Where is your compassion, live and let live? 

BTW I didn't count condemnation of an action as a condemnation of an individual that was xtine.  That only further confirms my point that you are not PROCESSING what arguments are pointed in your direction.  You automatically, like a programmed robot, begin cycling through your already predetermined arguments.  Try and THINK man!

Sheer nonsense. Businesses have been contributing to political parties, candidates, and organizations since the beginning of time.

so I'm condemning kfc's condemning mcdonald's support of a gay/lesbian support group?

Ok, I can live with that.

 

Masons right and I might say one last thing to you before I stop looking at this thread.

Erathoniel, what you call YOUR conscience I call ignorance.

KFC develop your own way of thinking and stop being such a programmed sheep.

Both of you stop living in your little worlds and maybe do some reading and some fact searching, maybe soul searching because your little world is sheltered by 12 foot thick concrete walls away from reality. 

Bullcrap. It's a "regurgitation" of what I've read and meditated on, and come to a conclusion on.

What is the compassion in allowing the blind to stumble?

Did I put an @psychx before the statement? If so, then I forgot to push the enter button before. Else, I should be known for writing wide-angle responses.

I call it biblical.

What does this have to do with opinions, as opposed to very practical protection from nuclear and conventional bombing?

And it's a total waste.

That may be your opinion, but what about the businesses that contribute to the AFA? Is that also a total waste in your opinion? Or is it only a total waste when it's for something with which you disagree? They are a political lobby group, or didn't you know that?

It was Wal-Mart.

And I was mistaken. They did pledge to give x amount, but there were other allegations made by the AFA regarding WM that were incorrect.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/sexuality/walmart.asp

I was (partially) wrong about that. Sorry.

It's a waste when the darn corporations waste money they're entrusted to make better and cheaper products with on giving out cash to the weak politicians who insist upon recieveing money from corporations and can't use the government fair elections systems and instead insist upon using private cash and being set towards private interests whether they choose to or not.

Really? And who exactly "entrusts" these companies with money to make "better and cheaper products"? You seem to have a very strange idea of what a corporation is and what they do. A corporation's sole function is to make a profit. That's it, nothing more. What they choose to do with those profits is their business.

I'm beginning to think you may live in a different reality.

MasonM, I know I said I wouldn't comment again, but you're spot on man.  Erathoniel, I'm beggining to think, myself, that you have lived a very sheltered life.  For your sake from now on you should repeat in your head, I'm going to do more research on this matter from SEVERAL sources, before I make a decision.  Because you see if you got to a single source and use that sole source as your guide through the very complex world, you will find yourself at odds with reality.  Good luck and good night.

I beg to differ. What does giving do? I give as an individual, sure, but why should a corporation interested only in making profits give? Selfishness? Corruption? Think about it.

Smart Comment: psychx is going to do much more research on this matter from SEVERAL sources, psychx is going to do much more research on this matter from SEVERAL sources, psychx is going to do much more research on this matter from SEVERAL sources. What did that do?

I've never been at odds with reality. I beg to differ. I just am too emotionless, too cold, yet too attatched, too involved, logical and irrational to see everything in your ways. I am the paradox that would build the world into the greatest civilization yet make it lose its soul. Mayhaps you forget that I have half religious, half dystopian backgrounds, and I know the darkness that people are capable of yet I believe in working for the light. Therefore I find what others accept unacceptable.