All right, looks like I have a need to educate some people. Here come the numbered points!
1. For all of you saying that we shouldn't hurt his business due to his personal opinion, that's not the issue at hand. The trouble is that he is using the revenue genrated from the sale of his delicious, delicious chicken to aid in the campaign against gay rights. Hence, any money spent there will have a small percentage going to anti-gay rights groups. It would be like if some small portion of your kills in COD went to the other team.
2. Everyone who claims that hating bigotry makes you a bigot is, big surprise here, wrong. You see a bigot acively hates a person for something they can't control, a la skin color or sexual preference. However, one who hates a bigot hates a person due to that person's opinion, which they can and ought to change. Opinions are a choice, no matter how much one may be influenced by their upbringing and surroundings. It's the difference between hating a guy 'cause he's a newb, and hating a guy 'cause he's a griefer. One of those is a conscious decision.
3. Claiming that boycotts are ineffectual is hogwash. If a sizeable enough potion of people discontinue giving this fucknugget their cash, perhaps he actually will stop funding anti-gay groups. It's not about changing his opinion, but changing what he does with consumers money once he has it. It's just like saying that if a huge group of gamers didn't buy any game with a certain feature, that that feature wouldn't make a discrete disappearance. If the financial repercussions are great enough, people will do a hell of a lot.
4. There is no "slippery slope". Legalizing gay marriage will not result in legalizing marriage to animals or children or objects anymore than giving afro-americans and other racial minorities rights ended up with your hamster voting and your door going on strike. It's like claiming that FPSs switching to a different time period will cause all video games to switch to that time period.
5. For those of you not in the US, I apologize. Those of you who are in the States and say that marriage is just a matter of semantics need to be slapped. Marriage gives the married couple a whole slew of rights and privileges not granted to those in a civil union. The distinction is actually quite important. It's like the difference between Sonic the Hedgehog and Masterchief: one is just clearly far better than the other, even if the other isn't bad.
All right, if I skipped anything, mention it one of the angry-as-hell responses I know I have coming and class will resume session.
1. For all of you saying that we shouldn't hurt his business due to his personal opinion, that's not the issue at hand. The trouble is that he is using the revenue genrated from the sale of his delicious, delicious chicken to aid in the campaign against gay rights. Hence, any money spent there will have a small percentage going to anti-gay rights groups. It would be like if some small portion of your kills in COD went to the other team.
2. Everyone who claims that hating bigotry makes you a bigot is, big surprise here, wrong. You see a bigot acively hates a person for something they can't control, a la skin color or sexual preference. However, one who hates a bigot hates a person due to that person's opinion, which they can and ought to change. Opinions are a choice, no matter how much one may be influenced by their upbringing and surroundings. It's the difference between hating a guy 'cause he's a newb, and hating a guy 'cause he's a griefer. One of those is a conscious decision.
3. Claiming that boycotts are ineffectual is hogwash. If a sizeable enough potion of people discontinue giving this fucknugget their cash, perhaps he actually will stop funding anti-gay groups. It's not about changing his opinion, but changing what he does with consumers money once he has it. It's just like saying that if a huge group of gamers didn't buy any game with a certain feature, that that feature wouldn't make a discrete disappearance. If the financial repercussions are great enough, people will do a hell of a lot.
4. There is no "slippery slope". Legalizing gay marriage will not result in legalizing marriage to animals or children or objects anymore than giving afro-americans and other racial minorities rights ended up with your hamster voting and your door going on strike. It's like claiming that FPSs switching to a different time period will cause all video games to switch to that time period.
5. For those of you not in the US, I apologize. Those of you who are in the States and say that marriage is just a matter of semantics need to be slapped. Marriage gives the married couple a whole slew of rights and privileges not granted to those in a civil union. The distinction is actually quite important. It's like the difference between Sonic the Hedgehog and Masterchief: one is just clearly far better than the other, even if the other isn't bad.
All right, if I skipped anything, mention it one of the angry-as-hell responses I know I have coming and class will resume session.
