Chick-fil-A CEO now regrets dragging the company into anti-equality morass

[ashling]

So does that mean he's had a change of heart, and in his new maturity has grown to accept that marriage equality is not, in fact, the doom of America? No. He just regrets saying it out loud, because money.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/18/1285691/-Chick-fil-A-CEO-now-regrets-dragging-the-company-into-anti-equality-morass?detail=facebook

[Auggie]

1. Dan Cathy can fuck himself

[mnhtnbb]

2. Yeah, he probably has a friend with the Italian guy whose family makes pasta

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lauraheller/2013/09/28/barilla-earns-gay-boycott-learns-taking-sides-is-bad-for-business/

[TeamPooka]

3. Um... "Cathy said he decided to step back from the gay marriage debate after prayer...

"Cathy said he decided to step back from the gay marriage debate after prayer and conversations with co-workers and friends..."

So God told him to back off?

From the original source article.
http://www.myajc.com/news/business/cathy-seeks-to-put-gay-marriage-flap-behind-chick-/nfCHj/

[ashling]

4. And GOD said

thou shalt not engage in any activity which screweth with the bottom line

-Profits 6:6-6

[Skittles]

8. STOP IT ASHLING

YER KILLING ME

[surrealAmerican]

9. You win, ashling!

[Skittles]

7. sanctimonious prick

[mythology]

12. Sometimes you have to accept that people will do the right thing for the wrong reason

Some people aren't smart enough or decent enough to do the right thing for the right reason.

[Lex]

5. Tough shit, Chicken Man, now go stand in line behind the Barilla Pasta Guy

and wait for someone to give a damn.

[Terra Alta]

6. Of course he regrets it, it hit him where it hurts

in the pocketbook.

Now if Cathy really wants to prove he has changed, he can do things like extending employee benefits to same-sex partners, have LGBT Pride days in his restaurants, or partner with pro-LGBT organizations. I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for that to happen, though.

[rurallib]

10. Goddamn gutless Republicans

either issue a sincere apology or own your actions.
fucking gutless - 'gee I wish I hadn't said that it hurt business.'
You should have thought it through before you opened your mouth.
You said it. Either own it or fully retract and apologize.

Aren't you the party of responsibility.

[uriel1972]

13. YESSSS!!

I agree wholeheartedly. Tell it like it is, as they say.

[LiberalElite]

11. I guess they won't be taking up the slack

caused by Guinness and Heineken's dropping sponsorship of the St. Patrick's Day parade in NYC then.