Menino Bans Chick-fil-A From Boston For Being Anti Gay Marriage
I’m getting lots of emails asking me how I feel about Menino banning Chick Fil A from Boston. I’m literally all over the map on this one. For starters I one zilllion percent support gay marriage. I think anybody who has a problem with gays is probably a closet homo themselves and trying to hide it for some reason. I think religious wackos are the scariest people on earth. (IE middle America) If I had to vote on whether to ban Chick Fil-A from Boston I’d vote to ban em. And that’s coming from a guy who loves Chick Fil A too. It’s great shit. But if you ain’t down with the gays you ain’t down with me.
But having said all that I’m not sure it’s fair for Menino to ban an entire restaurant chain by himself because he doesn’t like their religious views. That seems kind of unconstitutional right? Like even though I 100% agree with his stance this seems like something that people need to vote on. If somebody is willing to lease them the space they should be able to come. It’s not like Chick Fil A bans gays from the restaurant. If people want to eat there they should be allowed to eat there. If people want to boycott they should be allowed to boycott. Let the market dictate whether they succeed or fail in Boston not Mumbles just saying they can’t come and making a show of it. What if the situation was reversed and Chick Fil A was pro gay marriage and Menino was anti? Theoretically he could still ban them then too. I mean where do you draw the line in the sand? Menino doesn’t like Blackout Parties so those are banned too? Menino doesn’t like soda so he bans that too? Is Boston a dictatorship or a democracy? Actually check that. We all know the answer. And therein lies the problem.
PS – In all seriousness I think if Chick Fil A sued the City of Boston they’d win. This coming from a guy who literally knows nothing about the law, but I’m pretty sure I’m 100% right.
Menino is fuckin mule. How the hell can he dictate what businesses can and cant do business in his city based on his personal beliefs? Furthermore, the gays are a very healthy people and not ones to frequent fast food joints in any case. So who gives a shit? What do chicken sandwiches have to do with gay or straight marriage?
Menino wants it done it gets done. unconstitutional or not.
how do you think he keeps getting elected? CORRUPT.
im sick of fags ruining my lunch. listen up. NOBODY cares if you blow men. i like chicken,so give me a chick fil a. I don’t understand why it matters to anybody that they don’t support gays. fuckin hate gays now. your ruining everything!!
i agree with his stance but no way is it legal/ethical to ban a restaurant (if you want to call it that) because of their support/non support of various beliefs. if he could do that, he could do the opposite — ban a business because they DO support gay marriage, or anything else (jews, russians, children, those idiots who stand on an escalator like it’s a ride, etc.)
when you’re mayor for life, when you barely speak English. the lemmings keep re-electing you, you feel like you can do whatever the fuck you want. This is proof
Menino is a party stooge, nothing more. It’s too bad an “educated” city like Boston can’t see that. But being against gay marriage (I really don’t care one way or the other) doesn’t mean you hate gays. Hating gays means stoning them to death like they do in Iran or not giving them a job because they’re gay.
“Menino is fuckin mule.” Hilarious. Pres, idea for a T shirt: “LeBron is f–in’ MULE.”
give the man a break, he just died in a plane crash
Menino just annihilating the constitution. Honey badger don’t give a shit. He is like whitey bulger just running Boston not giving a fuck.
Menino’s secretary should be the highest paid employee in the city of Boston, bar none. Could you imagine how difficult it must be trying to type what comes out of that mentally challenged mouth?
P.S. I hope Mumbles gets run over by a truck today. And I hope it’s a Chic-Fil-A truck.
He’s not “banning” the company. Read the letter for crissakes. Nowhere does he say “You can’t come here, I won’t let you, I’m banning you.” He says “there’s no place for you here.” He’s telling them he doesn’t WANT them there. Kind of like Jennie Dell doesn’t want to be associated with you. But that doesn’t stop you, does it?
Menino is a complete donkey. Let the consumers decide for themselves which is the way this Country was formed. If nobody patronizes the restaurant then it will go out of business. If it makes it then people have jobs and the City benefits. He is an utter boob.
Dave, I know about as much about the law as you do, but ”urging” a CEO not to locate their restaurant isn’t the same thing as banning. Maybe it is, who knows.
Papplesmear, I sincerely hope you are under the age of 16 because it scares the shit out of me that there may be adults walking around with the attitude of “gays ruin everything” when a company that contributes millions of dollars to anti-gay organizations wants to expand their resataurant to a city that doesn’t want them. You’re blaming gays for being gay and I can’t even wrap my head around that logic. Read a book.
Typical liberal retards at work. Way to go! Sure if Romney wins he’ll probably ban gay marriage in its entirety but hey lets make a bigger stink because the guy who makes my chicken sandwiches hates gay people. We can get the Muppets and the mayor of Boston involved! Hold rallies create online support.
This guy makes chicken fucking sandwiches. How about you enjoy life and shut the fuck up for a change
Typical liberal retards at work. Way to go! Sure if Romney wins he’ll probably ban gay marriage in its entirety but hey lets make a bigger stink because the guy who makes my chicken sandwiches hates gay people. We can get the Muppets and the mayor of Boston involved! Hold rallies create online support.
This guy makes chicken fucking sandwiches. How about you enjoy life and shut the fuck up for a change
yah, nowehre in that letter does he say “ban”. Im sure he can make it increasingly difficult for them (and honestly, they asked for it), but he knows better than to think he can ban them.
Thank god this was written down otherwise no one would’ve understood what the fuck was coming out of his mouth. That being said, KJ and Hondo are the best Celtics ever! Fuckin Mumbles…
Chick-fil-A has the best chicken sandwiches. They also invite BC to a bowl game every year.
Reading is fundamental.
According to that letter, he hasn’t “banned” anything. He simply “urged” the company to “back out of [its] plans to locate in Boston.” The fat fuck knows that he can’t ban the company from coming. This is just a political ploy to gain more points with the soft-headed fruits on the left.
wait menino calls Boston freedom trail and in the same sentence says to fuck off because the guy who makes chicken sandwiches doesn’t support gay marriage? thats one of the most hypocritical thing I’ve ever heard.
im blaming gays, yes. but only for ruining my chance at chick fillA. ill reiterate: i Don’t give a shit if you blow guys. Where is it that im anti gay or something? I DONT care. i do however like chicken and the fact i wont b/c of homosexual acts. Would gays side w/ sandusky if the boys were 18? ill read book, go back to church, sheep.
chick-fil-a and in and out burger are by far and away the two best fast food places to eat. But they’re both run by religious whac jobs. Damn shame.
Im going to go out on a limb here and say Mumbles did not release this statement because it was 100% coherent and this fucking donkey sounds like the teacher from the old peanuts cartoon. Boston doesnt need any more business anyway Downtown Crossing is in great shape. I love throwing my garbage in the hole in the ground where the old Filenes was
@weststool: What’s really a shame is that the leftists won’t practice the tolerance that they preach. And In-N-Out is awesome.
All you peaheads saying read the letter he didn’t specifically ban them have rocks in your head. If Menino wants you to fail you will fail. There are 9,000 ways for him to interfere and make it impossible to succeed. He banned em
We should just round up all the gays on and an island and let them die, cure two problems, GAYNESS and AIDS
Boom youre welcome America
Gays aren’t ruining anything. Trust me, gay people don’t exist to make sure that you can’t stuff your face with 1200 calories of grease on a bun. If you’re looking to “blame” someone then start with the CEO who publicly stated he supports marriage in the “biblical” sense. You say you don’t care if guys blow guys. I couldn’t care less either, but I’m not going to contribute money to blind ignorance, and I’m ESPECIALLY not going to blame gay people for a company that discriminates against them. Go to BK if you need a fuckin’ sandwich that bad.
Typical hypocritical Boston politics…Chick-fil-A has as as much right to do business here as two jizz guzzling dudes have the right two get married. The Chick-fil-A president may be an ignorant bigot, but Menino is more in the wrong here for trying to block free enterprise.
I wonder if Menino sent a letter to those unwashed layabouts that camped out in Dewey Square for months destroying the park and being a general nuisance.
@civilan listen up guy, if i have to tell you one more time i’m not blaming the gheys for anything other than causing a disturbance of precious chicken sandwiches. I feel like im explaining myself to a gay lawyer.
civilian has got the ghey
What are they ruining? Isn’t it Menino’s call? Write a letter to him. Let me know how the “Hey gay people, stop being gay so I can have a chicken sandwich” campaign goes. I’m not gay, I just have a brain.
I hope the mayor gets butt raped by the cow from Chick-Fil-A!
Prez, aren’t you a heeb? How are you not familiar with law?
I’m sure Chick-fil-A is the only corporation that hates faggots.
I am 100% on board with Dan Cathys beliefs and sandwiches. Out with the gays! In with the Crispy chicken sandwiches with a pickle on wheat buns!
I’d go ghey for a spicey chicken right now….no homo
civilianagency is definitely gay. Not even just saying that. I know for a fact from a very reliable source, and he is trying to deny it. Just own it dude, its all good.
Menino is the biggest ASSHOLE on this planet. Even worse than the Batman shooter in Colorado. The guy who owns Chick-Fil-A didn’t ban gay people from his restaurant. He just expressed an opinion that he supports traditional marriage. WHAT THE FUCK MENINO? Since when is it illegal or wrong to state your opinion. For all the tolerance that you supposedly hold so dear and preach, you have none for people with differing opinions. FUCK YOU MUMBLES! The sooner you drop dead the better off this city will be.
I say we ban hooknose smut peddlers because they may offend someone. (with thier cheap ways and disgusting jew tendenacies not the whores). Wake up asspipe.
this is fucking stupid…hes not letting this place do business in boston based on his personal beliefs….ummm did he not just get mad at that business for THIER beliefs?doesnt add up… who cares what they think about homos, its not like they will be spitting in their food and shit. this story is dumb, rediculous and menino is mumbling drool for a politician.
btw the gays are all over this fucking story and its annoying…”like omg menino you are my hero” blah fucking blah, hes a retard not a hero.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g8nJtWbinh4/UBAws8P9ooI/AAAAAAAACM4/Ujum3JO7_zc/s320/Chick-Fil-A-Hates-Fags.png
this guys a fkn idiot,, chick-fil-a has ever god given right to not support gays, and the they have every god given right to be established in boston.
I wasn’t aware God was a capitalist.
^ pretty sure they dont, since a god given right doesnt exist
by Will I am Not on July 25, 2012 at 1:46 pm
We should just round up all the gays on and an island and let them die, cure two problems, GAYNESS and AIDS
Boom youre welcome America
That’s already been tried, but they won’t all fit on Provincetown
chick-fil-a ain’t got nothin on los pollos hermanos
I would love to see Mr.Chic-Fil-A go on tv and literally wipe his as with the letter.
I hope chick-fil-a sets up their first establishment right next door to Menino’s house. Then I hope they go on to become more prominent than McDonalds and Dunkin Donuts combined in the Boston area. Then I hope Menino’s dies while being force fed a salmonella laced chick-fil-a sandwich. Then I hope paplesmear dies while choking on Menino’s salmonella laced post-mortem semen. That is all
I typically disagree with menino on almost everything but damn good for him. There’s a reason I live in the northeast away from those backward ass southerners. I can live without chick fil a too. If only menino had the same balls to arrest all the trespassers in Dewey sq
I see what you did there jaycutlerschins! Awesome
Chic does not ban anyone from eating there they just disprove of gay marriage, what they can’t speak their minds now?! Fuck you liberals, everyone has a right unless they disagree with your progressive bullshit. I’m buying two sandwiches every fucking time I go in, in fact I’ll pay double!
Not going to bother reading through the comments since its probbaly all racist teaparty faggots
BUT HE URGED THEM NOT TO COME TO BOSTON HE DID NOT BAN THEM
fucking teaparty faggots are the communists they claim to hate for getting mad at a man expressing his opinion
Portnoy-you’re a fucking idiot. Nice try. You used the word “banned” as the centerpiece of the headline. Then when you read everyone’s comments and went back and re-read the letter and realized that he is not in fact “banning” anything (this isn’t fucking China), you now have to come back with “there’s other ways to ban..blah, blah, blah.”
You read the letter wrong and went off. He can’t “ban” shit. If he could, wouldn’t he start banning drug dealers, porn shops, assholes in general? He can’t ban a company from coming to Boston.
Jesus. Stop being an asshole.
Menino has always come across as a real piece of shit. I don’t care about gay marriage either way because it’s such an irrelevant political issue, but the worst is straight people who act like they care just so they can act like they’re more enlightened and be friends with the fags.
Fucking Menino being Fucking Menino. I’m all for same sex couples but have you ever tasted a Chick-Fil-A sandwich? Have you?!?! Now thats a sandwich Kate Upton should be promoting. What if Dunkin Donuts started supporting same-sex marriage bans? Would menino try and shut down all the Dunks in town? See, you can’t fight capitalism
PS – Chick-fil-A spicy chicken deluxe, all day ere day
I’ve never eaten there, but I know will the first chance I get. A lot. Fuck Menino.
@Fartinez: You’re a fucking tool. Go fellate the barrel of a 12-gauge you twink.
Holy fucking shit. Put politics and law in one single post and every doorknob-humping retard that’s taken a Poli Sci class at their community college comes out of the woodwork.
prez sanduskys thornton on the reg
Why hasn’t he banned Catholic churches?
Can’t stand Menino, why is he still in office. go figure we live in one of the most liberal states so probably make sense why morons like him and patrick are still in office, but on to chick fil-a. Like I said to my friends who cares what there politics and religious views are, I want there food not there opinion on life. I support gay marriage but I cannot change peoples minds whether there right or wrong. Menino has no right telling people what they can and cannot do, remember this is AMERICA, the land of the free, or so we thought? What happen to the rights of free speech?
Liberals are the most intolerant people out there. The guy doesn’t support gay marriage, so he shouldn’t open a business in Boston? Most of America doesn’t support gay marriage, for fucksake it was voted down in California, which is as liberal as Massachusetts. Freedom means that if two dudes want to blow each other they can go for it, and if someone thinks it’s unnatural and not acceptable behavior they have the right to feel that way.
Chick-fil-a makes great fucking sandwiches, which is all that should matter
^ Well said.
I don’t like gay marriage because of the influx of whiny annoying gays coming here. Send em all back to Miami where they belong.
ThefirstLadysBoytoy, you can think whatever you want about gays, but legislating your beliefs is a whole different ball game. That goes for both Menino and the folks who want to ban gay marriage. If you wanna marry, it’s not for me to say you can’t. Doesn’t effect me. If you wanna run a restaurant, it’s not for me to say you can’t even if your beliefs go against my own. Gays should marry. Gay haters should be allowed to run restaurants wherever they want. Anyone who believes in one and not the other is a hypocrite.
Mayor menino is FAT AS FUCK. Chick-fil-a DELICIOUS. Mumbles knows if they put one in Boston he will eat it everyday because he can’t resist the juicy chicken and he will get FATTER and DIE
menino is an asshole. i can’t believe the city of boston continues to re-elect him. they are just as bad.
Yah, look at how progressive MA is. We are the first state to have the legislature make the decision for everyone in the state. Last time I checked, I didn’t get a chance to vote on it. Way to go MA. Woo hoo!
nail on the head, pres, both points.
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