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Chipotle Pulls Sponsorship of Boy Scouts Event Over Gay Ban

Mar. 20, 2013 3:47pm Mytheos Holt

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Chipotle Mexican Grill has pulled its sponsorship of Utah’s “Scout-O-Rama” because of the Boy Scouts of America’s long-standing ban on gays.

Chipotle Pulls Sponsorship of Utah Boy Scouts of America Over Ban on Gays

Boy Scout leaders protest over the organization’s gay ban (Photo Credit: AP)

The popular Colorado-based restaurant chain initially signed on to provide about $4,200 worth of coupons to the Utah Boy Scouts’ annual event, scheduled for May 4 in a Salt Lake City suburb. The Boy Scouts’ Great Salt Lake Council is one of the largest in the country, with the majority of troops sponsored by Mormon churches.

Chipotle’s anti-discrimination policy states that the company shouldn’t support organizations that exclude based on sexual orientation. When company leaders found out about the promise to offer coupons, they nixed the idea, Chipotle spokesman Chris Arnold said.

“It was never our intention for this to be this some kind of an endorsement of broader Boy Scout policies,” said Arnold, adding that the company sponsors community events across the country to make connections with residents.

“Ultimately, we decided that the right thing to do was to remain consistent with our policy and terminate the sponsorship,” Arnold said.

Exterior of a Chipotle (Photo Credit: AP)

The rescission of the offer was first reported by Think Progress.org.

The Chipotle decision comes as the Boy Scouts of America’s national executive board ponders a proposal to move away from its no-gays membership policy or a local option that would give the decision to the individual troops.

In late January, Boy Scouts of America leaders announced the proposal. But the organization’s national executive board decided a week later that it needed to more time to make the crucial decision, pushing the vote back until May.

Nationally, some companies have had trouble squaring their own in-house anti-discrimination policies with the Scouts’ gay ban. Several of those, including Intel and 3M, withdrew their financial support for the national Scouts, but continued to direct funds to troops — like one in St. Paul, Minn. — that have publicly opposed the ban and refused to eject gay Scouts or parents.

Earlier this month, the Scouts distributed a questionnaire to 1.1 million adult Scouts that used fictional situations to discern where Scouting’s membership falls on questions of homosexuality, gays camping with children and gays in church leadership. It allowed adult Scouts to indicate a range of feelings, from strong support to strong opposition to the ban on gays. The Scouts haven’t said whether they will distribute the results of that survey. Some individual councils also sent out their own questionnaires.

Chipotle, which has four restaurants in the Salt Lake City area, has sponsored past Utah Scout-O-Ramas and will be watching to see how the vote goes in May, Arnold said.

Leaders in the Boy Scouts’ Great Salt Lake Council and Mormon church officials applauded the February decision by the Scouts to take more time to make the decision.

The Utah Scout’s council is one of the largest in the country, with 5,500 troops and 73,400 youth members. Boy Scouts is an integral part of Mormon culture in Utah. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sponsors 99 percent of the Scout troops in the Salt Lake City area.

Nationally, the Mormon church has more Boy Scouts than any other denomination, with 37,000 troops and 420,000 youth members, according to figures from the Boy Scouts of America.

Rick Barnes, executive of the Boy Scouts’ Great Salt Lake Council in the Salt Lake City area, said he understands Chipotle’s decision. Sponsorship for the May 4 Scout-O-Rama remains strong even without the restaurant’s coupons. They have $65,000 in sponsorship now, a figure that includes cash donations and coupons. That’s about average for the event, Barnes said.

“If that’s what they need to, we respect that,” Barnes said. “The show will go on.”

The annual event plays host to 15,000-20,000 scouts and their family members, Barnes said. There is a pinewood derby and a host of other activities including an indoor zip line, BB gun range and an ice tower.

The Mormon church continues to teach its members that marriage is only between a man and a woman and that same-sex relationships are sinful. But, in December, the LDS church launched a website encouraging members to be more compassionate in discussions about homosexuality. The website instructs Mormons to be loving and respectful toward gays and lesbians, while appealing to gay and lesbian Mormons to stay in the church.

Barnes said the upcoming vote is a hot topic among scout leaders and families in Utah. The Scouts’ future in Utah hinges on it, he said.

“It all depends on how it turns out,” Barnes said.

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wilbstal
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:16pm
Arm the Boy scouts give them full automatic weapons and photos of the bad guys to get

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:51pm
  Chipotle, the new gay restaurant. Mexican weenies served daily.
  
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- Jaycen
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:58pm
  Original Comment:
  Hello, I’m dismayed that Chipotle has chosen to publicly denounce the Boy Scouts of America. It’s fine for you choose to hire whom you like, but it’s not fine for you to offer to sponsor an event and then yank the funding. Were you unaware of the core principles of the BSA? More importantly, do you think it’s appropriate for people to discuss their sexuality with under-aged boys? I find this extremely concerning. As a Scout leader, I’ve never discussed sex with the boys under my responsibility. That’s for their parents to handle. It’s disconcerting to hear that some adults absolutely must talk to boys about homosexuality. That really sounds like pedophilia to me. As a long-term customer of Chipotle, it’s tough for me to to stick to my principles, as I love your food. However, I will no longer patronize any Chipotle locations over this matter. While you are free to do with your money as you please, I will not support pedophiles or those who support them. Homosexuality does not belong in any scouting program.
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- Jaycen
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:58pm
  From: Tim Spong [mailto:tspong@chipotle.com]
  Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 3:49 PM
  To:
  Subject: Reply from Chipotle
  
  Jaycen,
  
  Thanks for sharing your honest opinion with us. This was a difficult decision and we made a principled decision on this one. We’re sorry to lose your business and to have offended you.
  
  Sincerely,
  Tim
  
  Tim Spong | Director, Safety, Security & Risk
  Chipotle Mexican Grill
  
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- skippy6
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:59pm
  Do they sell the flaming taco?
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:12pm
  Good for you JAYCEN…I’ll be doing the same thing. Apparently Chipotle and it’s decision makers are perfectly fine with isolating young males with homosexuals.
  
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- SpankDaMonkey
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:12pm
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  Boycot Chipotle it’s the least we can do…….
  
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- rp454
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:26pm
  Just another name to add to my No Patronize list. Mostly filled with Hollywierd actors, but there is room for Chipotle.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:27pm
  send Chipolte an e mail and tell them that you will no longer support them and tell your friends to do the same. I sent it to friends and family and ask them to Support the Boy Scouts.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:40pm
  RICK..that’s how you do it. You do it the same way the left does it..you don’t make it about attacking someone, you make it about “helping” someone. This makes your cause appear noble, safe and benign. So you’re not attacking Chipotle, you’re supporting the boy scouts. Trust me the more often and aggressively this is done, the more ground we can win back. How do I know? Because it’s worked so well for the left when they do it.
  
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- Pigpen
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:45pm
  RICKC34
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:27pm
  send Chipolte an e mail and tell them that you will no longer support them and tell your friends to do the same. I sent it to friends and family and ask them to Support the Boy Scouts.
  
  Why support the Boy Scouts? They are being pusillanimous. So is the LDS Church. The boys in my LDS Ward were unable to go to Boy Scout camp this year because we didn’t have enough funds, BUT those boys had been out all year on fund raiser after fund raiser BUT NONE OF THOSE FUNDS WENT TO OUR WARD. So guess what: even after raising enough money to send those boys to camp nine times over, they still had to stay home BECAUSE ALL OF THAT FUNDRAISING GOES TO THE BSA HEADQUARTERS?!? Why? For the “leadership” I guess, Well wringing your hands and taking polls and evaluating how much “loss of revenue” there will be if they DON’T lift the ban is NOT LEADERSHIP. So I say, “Hey BSA, Hey LDS Leaders, IF you LIFT the ban on gays. my soon to be cub scout age son will NOT be a part of Boy Scouts. He will join the DeMolays. So stick THAT in you Order of the Arrow Peace Pipe and SMOKE IT!
  
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- Free_Thought
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:53pm
  Yes avengerk but the difference is that the left are smarter than the right. The right will continue to emulate and copy the lefts tactics but everyone sees through that and it just makes the right look like bigger losers. “Well lets do what they are doing.”
  
  At least you admitted you need to win some ground back but is there enough time between now and the 2014 elections? Doubt it.
  
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- Sleazy Hippo
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:59pm
  One Chipotle burrito-sized tortilla is 290 calories. A bag of their chips adds another 570. That is a third a normal six foot man’s daily calories and it’s all fats and carbs. Save your obese self and don’t patronize Chipotle (unless you just consume the salad bowl, with shredded lettuce instead of rice, and have no sweetened soda drink)…AND you avoid the 290 calorie Vinaigrette dressing.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 6:08pm
  Chipotle has some Q_ueer people that want to be Boy Scout leaders. They also want people to quit discriminating against those phedophiles so they can watch those little boys shower. I was a leader in Cubs & Boy Scouts so I could watch my 3 sons. At all the big meets I was chosen to watch the showers as about 10 kids went at a time.They chose dads to keep Q_eers and phedophiles from these 6 to 14 year olds. I now have 4 grand sons and I don’t want them near a Chipotle restraunt or a scout group that allows H_mos in as leaders.This is political correctness gone wild. I don’t care about all this good touchey feeling these folks get but to put kids at risk won’t work. If one of these Q_ueers got ahold of theirs they would change their thinking.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 6:17pm
  Choosing the broken and aberrant over the strong and righteous is becoming commonplace these days.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 6:38pm
  Actually the left is not as smart as the right TURGID_THOUGHT. You’re confusing the left’s willingness to use any means to justify it’s ends as intelligence. The moral relativism of the left is not a virtue or a strength, it is a weakness to be exploited by conservatives and libertarians willing to sully their hands with the left’s filth.
  Your statement here proves me right…you’re clueless.
  
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- Rampart
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 6:50pm
  A new Chipotle recently opened near my house. Guess my family won’t be trying it out…
  
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- Rileydj2
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 7:08pm
  Never heard of the place, but I know that if I ever see one – I will not be eating there!
  
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- OnSheepdogs
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 8:16pm
  I just wrote this letter to Chipotle:
  
  To Whom it May Concern,
  I just read an article reporting that Chipotle had at one time, graciously committed to supporting a wonderful youth/community activity… The Boy Scouts of America Scout-A-Rama, which is scheduled for May 04, 2013. The article then cited that Chipotle decided to yank their generous donation, due to the BSA’s policy of not allowing gay men and youth to participate. This saddens me a great deal. It appears that Chipotle has decided to tell the BSA that all of the great and wonderful things they do for communities and youth, mean absolutely nothing, because they refuse to allow sexual activist into their organization. Wow!!!
  
  Nevermind the fact that millions of BS complete hundreds of thousands of service hours every year. Nevermind the fact they teach boys and young men to be honest, strong, productive members of society. Chiptole has sent a strong and very loud message to America. You are saying, it doesn’t matter how many good things you do, or how many young men you keep on the straight and narrow path…as long as you do not bow down to gay extremism, your organization and the boys you represent mean nothing.
  
  Well…congratulations. Your message has been heard. Hear mine. I live in Las Vegas and dine at Chipotle weekly. The store on E. Craig road is especially used to serving service members from Nellis AFB. I will do everything in my power to sway everyone I know from visiting Chipotle.
  
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- OnSheepdogs
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 8:17pm
  continued…
  
  It will start by me organizing a buycott of BS coupons, which Taco Bell as graciously contributed to. You have lost a very good customer until you publicly apologize to the BSA for making such an ignorant and disingenuous policy.
  
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- The Big Mick
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 8:24pm
  Coulter on “Red Eye” had a good line. The Commieques are demanding the Boy Scouts do the very thing they condemn the Roman Catholic Church for doing, put men attracted to teenage boys in leadership over them.
  
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- RedHarley
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 8:26pm
  On their facebook page Chipotle says they have a non-discrimination policy. I wonder if that policy would result in a gay illegal with AIDS and TB pawing your food before you get it ? Bon Appetit
  
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- dwilco77
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 8:30pm
  That sucks. I used to love to eat there. I am going to have to pull my support due to the fact that it is wrong for them to pull their support.
  
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- piper60
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 9:34pm
  The BSA has survived the gay persecution and fought its case o victory in the USsupreme court. There’s no good reason to surrender to organized lefty perversity when the battle has already been won. Just hinting at did the organization more harm than it internal traitors could manage with their self-righteous now-towing to organized lefty perversity. BSA National is now hinting about a bogus opinion survey to validate surrender-they’d best think twice about another exercise in ‘guided democracy.”
  
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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:03pm
  I really appreciate it when private business remind me where not to shop at anymore, thank chipotle I won’t be visiting your Restaurant ever again and will be telling everyone I know to stay away also.
  
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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 10:26pm
  I’m going to do the right thing. I will not be eating at your place any longer.
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:15am
  I wonder how many boy scouts are out there, current and former. Sounds like an all out boycott on chipotle, that is if you even eat there.
  
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  The Government and your Community Leaders promote Hate to keep the Country divided and easier to control.
  
  Only you can make this Once Great Nation, Great Again!!
  
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  The distinction between Races is no more. I Am Not (insert race,) I Am An American!!!
  
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- From Virginia
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:48am
  People need to start branding this as it really is. It’s NOT pro-gay, it’s pro-child rape!
  
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- jhrusky
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 12:36pm
  These sort of things happen because of the pressure the left wing puts on corporations. That is, the left is far superior to the right in getting things done. Like it or not, thems the facts, jacks.
  
  If the right could ever work together and do something besides bitch and piss and moan, they might be able to get something done, too. Until that time happens, it will continue to get worse and worse.
  
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- STEL
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 12:43pm
  Becides their spokes person stating the PC stance of Chipotle in relation to the BSA; there is a more personal reason of this stance by leadership, as Steve Ells Founder is Gay. The leadership is making a political and personal statement against the BSA.
  
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- Iwillvetalways
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 12:49pm
  Chipolte has a policy , good, now we the American people have a policy,and that is if we don’t like your policy we will boycott and withdraw our patronage from your stores. Take your barrritos and stick them up your chipolte.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 5:19pm
  HAHAHA!!! Amazing! so now all the people complaining about a Chick-fil-A boycott want to boycott Chipotle, a far better restaurant. Hilarious!
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 9:03pm
  New scout motto
  
  Send your young impressionable sons to a week at camp full of fun and enjoyment in the woods with your friendly neighborhood pedophile, a place where screams are not heard, and you have no where to go when the snipes come except the leaders tent.
  
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- yougottabekidding
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 9:12pm
  If you don’t like it then start your own organization, stop trying to ruin a good thing!
  But that’s what perverts do that want everyone to be a pervert so they feel normal, your not or ever will be.
  If they succeed it won’t be the BSA, it will die, and that’s what they want!
  
  Love the sign “Scouts are brave” isn’t that a pedophiles mantra to his love child? Be brave!
  
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- jhrusky
  Posted on March 22, 2013 at 8:47am
  @ keatonc333
  
  “HAHAHA!!! Amazing! so now all the people complaining about a Chick-fil-A boycott want to boycott Chipotle, a far better restaurant. Hilarious!”
  
  Actually, I think the two situations are a bit different. The Chic-fil-A was about the owner supporing organizations with his PERSONAL money, not corporate money. This one with Chipotle is about their CORPORATE money being pulled from what most people know is a very good organization. So, to try and compare the two situations is a bit dishonest.
  
  I’ve never eaten at Chic-fil-A but hear good things about their food. I have eaten at Chipotle, and while I can say their food tasted good, their atmosphere is somewhat akin to eating in a large, hollow tin can – noisier than hell and even a bit disheveled looking.
  
  As to the Boy Scouts, it seems to make sense to not allow gay scout leaders in. I would not want my daughter doing overnight campouts with her troop and a male heterosexual leader any more than I would want a gay scoutmaster out with my son. While that adult most likely would not do anything wrong simply because he/she is gay, why put a possible temptation there? Do we not value our children’s lives more than that than to risk something terrible happening?
  
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pissantno.10
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:12pm
i have eaten there wont breake my heart to never set foot in there agin

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- undrprsr
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:18pm
  Me too, never give them my money again!
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:27pm
  Agreed, time to boyscout-cott Chipolte. Another business on a long list that will not get another penny from me. Attacking young boys for doing the right moral thing, shame on you.
  
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- Kregneva
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:28pm
  Add 7-11 and McDonald’s then. Oh and Burger King, and the City of New York. Meh!
  
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- JRserious
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:29pm
  their food sucks anyway.
  
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- Smokey_Bojangles
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:30pm
  Eat at ‘Moe’s South West’ or Taco Bell instead.
  
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- Kregneva
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:33pm
  “I”
  (it) “won’t”
  “break”
  “again”
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:46pm
  Ditto
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:50pm
  SMOKEY…Qudoba is almost the same as Chipotle and Cafe Rio is along the same lines. Lots of choices available you won’t be denying yourself anything by never going to Chipotle again.
  
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- aproudinfidel
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:52pm
  It’s good that there are other burrito joints, since I am now down with chipotle. I know they don’t care about me, but there are a lot of “me” out there.
  
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GoodStuff
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:11pm
Chipotle also has a history of hiring illegal aliens. They’re one of the worst illegal-alien employers.

Screw em.

Moe’s is better anyway.

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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:15pm
  chipotle is part of the McDonalds empire
  
  McDonalds is famous for their gay clown mascot.
  
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- Jaycen
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:19pm
  I loved Chipotle’s food. Yet another restraunt I can no longer frequent.
  
  I will not support any company that supports pedophilia. I simply can’t understand why homosexuals think it’s so important to talk about their sexuality with under-aged boys.
  
  Worse, I can’t understand anyone who thinks it’s appropriate. My God, when I was a Scout leader, I never talked about sex with the boys, at all! There’s simply no place for it. That’s the parent’s job.
  
  If you want to be gay, be gay till your eyes explode, but you don’t need to talk about it in front of young boys. You sure don’t need to act out your sexual beliefs in front of young boys. And you CERTAINLY shouldn’t be telling young boys your behavior is normal. Cearly, it’s not.
  
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- GoodStuff
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:32pm
  “chipotle is part of the McDonalds empire”
  
  Chipotle is no longer owned by McD’s.
  
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- Kregneva
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:36pm
  Chipotle became a susidiary of McDonald’s in 1999 when McDonald’s acquired the controlling stake of the company. At one point, McDonald’s owned shares accounting for approximately 87% of the voting power of Chipotle’s common stock. In Chipotle’s earlier stages, McDonald’s helped Chipotle’s operations by sharing its own distribution networks.
  
  Currently, Mcdonald’s no longer has anything to do with Chipotle Mexican Grill. They have divested completely from Chipotle.
  
  Source: Joe Stupp, General Manager, Chipotle.com
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:51pm
  GOODSTUFF…HAIRYMETH is a lefty troll, misinformation disseminator and party aparatchik. Nothing it says should be taken as truth or at face value.
  
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- Jaycen
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:08pm
  Just an FYI to those Statists who moronically complain at us regarding our refusal to purchase a specific brand when that brand is owned by a corporate parent.
  
  Just because a corporation purchases another, doesn’t mean the corporate parent dictates what happens at the subsidiary. In some cases this is true, but my experience tells me that most of the time this doesn’t happen. The corporate parent sees a profititable company and purchases it to make more money. Often this is done to gain market share over a competitor, or to consolidate like-minded businesses within an industry.
  
  Most often, the subsidiary is allowed to “keep doing what makes you profitable and we won’t get in the way”.
  
  When you make huge assumptions about how the world (or corporations) works, it makes you look very foolish. Boycotting one subsidiary while consuming another does not necessarily make one a hypocrite.
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:30pm
  Sorry, I knew I should have looked it up. I didn’t know of the 2006 divestiture. I’m living in the past.
  
  So Glenn Beck is a statist because he points out several times a week that GE is the owner of MSNBC?
  
  He even did that today.
  
  I think the term is fascist for Mr. Beck, but not for this reason specifically.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:50pm
  And let’s slow down the tape and see just how HAIRYMETH did that lefty trick.
  
  Notice first..”sorry..I should have looked it up”? That’s a common lefty trick. First you vociferously and adamantly state something to smear or insinuate..make it look as certain and rock solid as possible as if it’s plain and simple. You don’t need the facts on your side and of course once it’s said it can’t be “unsaid”. Like corpulent Candy Crowley’s “no Mr Romney the president did say it was a terrorist attack” at the debate. She was proven wrong and later backtracked on her oh so sure statement, but the damage was done, she said it before millions of viewers while recanting it to a much smaller group. HAIRYMETH’s tactic was along the same lines.
  
  Now here is where the lefty magician does his real magic….
  
  When you’re caught do one of two things..run away, post somewhere else and pretend you never said it (this is SENDTHEMETEORS favorite tactic), or feign correction in a brief allusion to the error (make it also as detached from you as you can) then immediately go for another smear to foment unrest and distraction from your earlier attempt to smear.
  
  It’s a simple trick and easy to do with some practice as HAIRYMETH has demonstrated here today.
  
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- Sleazy Hippo
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 6:05pm
  Master GerK, you could be a little more gracious about someone who at least admits an error. Have you ever made and error that painted you into a corner because you were too proud and stubborn to liberate yourself with the truth? I was like you…
  
  Have you never been mellow? Have you never tried?.. To find a comfort from inside? You? Have you never been happy? Just to hear your song? Have you never let someone else be strong?
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 6:32pm
  Or another trick employed by lefty trolls is what MONICNE does here. Create many different screennames for yourself and disappear for a while until you believe the heat is off you. In this case…it’s the “SLEAZY HIPPO” log in being used.
  
  Using another lefty ploy- the appearance of appealing to nobility while actually attempting to distract from the lies and smears of HAIRYMETH- MONICNE (now posting as SLEAZY HIPPO) attempts to make me appear the unreasonable one. It was the HAIRYMETH troll that attempted the smear hoping no one knew any better and when it was caught, it feigned a quick “oops my bad” and launched into an immediate attack against Beck.
  
  But MONICNE/SLEAZY HIPPO ignores that attack on Beck because as it has to attempt to smear me instead in order to bait me and distract for the HAIRYMETH troll.
  
  Simple tricks employed by the morally bankrupt left.
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 6:47pm
  AvengerK you’ve made up a situation that does not exist.
  The intent of my original post was not contradicted; that there was a mix of corporate cultures while the companies were linked as a possible explanation for Chipotle rescinding their support for the Boy Scouts., even if that link between the companies no longer exists
  
  I am sorry for getting a detail wrong.
  
  The other comment was a different issue, one I didn’t bring up. I didn’t change the subject.
  I could have written separate posts and replied to a response to one of my posts but many of my posts do not make the board, so I combined them.
  
  But no apology necesarry
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 8:31pm
  Sup Sleazy Hippo…
  
  From “theme oink”. LOL
  
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neverending
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:10pm
Liked Chipotle a lot and entire family liked it – oh well not the only place in town. I will never understand how many absolutely ignorant people there are and go crazy over one of the most despicable behoviors and go out of their way to defend it. old commie barry has reined them all in.

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- encinom
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:26pm
  Its more like why do Mormons and other christians attempt to hide their bigorty behide a bible? Why do they wish to force their backward religion on the rest of the nation. In the end the Boys Scouts are proving to be a hate group and are being treated as such.
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:41pm
  encion well im ok with that . no differant than you
  
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- checkingbothsides
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:54pm
  That’s funny, I don’t understand why conservatives spend so much time worrying about other people’s sexual behaviors. Methinks you all dost protest too much.
  
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- checkingbothsides
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:55pm
  Also, why do we defend it? It’s a little thing called belief in human rights. We don’t have Christian Sharia yet, thank you very much.
  
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- nc_writer
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:03pm
  Emincon, it is not bigotry, it is a belief. Why do you practice intolerence in what other people can do and believe? Aren’t you the real bigot?
  
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- TEIN
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:19pm
  “Chipotle’s anti-discrimination policy states that the company shouldn’t support organizations that exclude based on sexual orientation”
  And isn’t a bit ironic or maybe hypocritical, that Chipotle’s excluded support based on the BSA heterosexual orientation stance….I guess it is okay to discriminate against a group that is for heterosexual orientation…Does that not make Chipotle’s a hate group and corp.???
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:37pm
  The only hate group here ENCINOM is you and your assortment of screennames.
  But ENCINOM/MONICNE/SLEAZY HIPPO/KREGNEVA/TROLL gives us a valuable insight into how the left operates. Notice..a benign and harmless organization that’s served young people and the community so well for so many decades all of a sudden is labelled a “hate group” by the language manipulating keepers of ENCINOM/MONCINE/KREGNEVA/ad nauseum? Smear and inuendo this is stock in trade for the morally bankrupt left.
  A great example of their own tactics being used on them is Beck’s “tweet” about Obama looking like the devil in the mini series “The Bible”. We need to do this a lot more often, use the left’s arcane arts back on them.
  The only bigot and hate monger here is ENCINOM/MONICNE/KREGNEVA/SLEAZY HIPPO/TROLL…no one else.
  
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- Sleazy Hippo
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 6:08pm
  Master, gerK, why do you insist that MONICNE and ENCINOM are one and the same person. The two are totally different, are they not? And consistently so, month after month…
  
  Have you never been able to admit you are misunderestimating the good Blaze readership? I was like you.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 6:12pm
  nc_writer
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:03pm
  Emincon, it is not bigotry, it is a belief. Why do you practice intolerence in what other people can do and believe? Aren’t you the real bigot?
  _____________________
  Because Bigots with Bibles are demanding that we impose Christian Sharia law in the US.
  
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- neverending
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 6:13pm
  @ENCINOM – go ahead and choose a perverted lifestyle but just please keep it to yourself and stop shoving at everyone else. Just the thought of it quite frankly makes me want to vomit.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 6:51pm
  Once again MONICNE posting as SLEAZY HIPPO..how did you attempt to cover your blunder in using the reverse spelling of your ENCINOM log in? Oh yes..”MONICNE is the antonym of ENCINOM”…LOL.
  No one can accuse you of ever lacking in pompous, self-congratulatory idiocies MONICNE..but then again…you’re a lefty elitist..your self perception is stratospheric.
  So what’s SLEAZY HIPPO if MONICNE is the antonym? The unmentionable progeny of ENCINOM and MONICNE? No wait..thats’ those “teenagers” you fell over yourself to tell me about during your 5 hour vigil one Friday afternoon while you are scouring the boards for my posts…did you have trouble flushing them or was it a “two flush” job? You were bleating about burrito sized tortillas earlier so I’m guessing it was quite the workout for the commode after you “birthed” them.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 8:42pm
  neverending
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 6:13pm
  @ENCINOM – go ahead and choose a perverted lifestyle but just please keep it to yourself and stop shoving at everyone else. Just the thought of it quite frankly makes me want to vomit.
  _____________________________________
  Would be nice if Christians stopped trying to change the laws to impose their backward views based on their book of fairytales.
  
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- Kregneva
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:32am
  Then you admit that you are Kregneva then, Avengerk? You just said so! Nu?
  
  Oy Gevalt!
  
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- From Virginia
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 12:12pm
  @Encnom – You go on and on and on and on and on about the Catholic church and its mistake in allowing gay men into their priest ranks (for obvious reasons) – yet you want the very same situation here. To allow gay men power over little boys in order to rape them.
  
  What is WRONG with you people?
  
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The-Monk
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:09pm
What’s a Chipotle?

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- termyt
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:16pm
  I thought it was a male dancing group. They shouldn’t be giving boy scouts coupons anyways.
  
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ChrisLRob
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:09pm
This is great news. My little boy is 5 years old and I want to put him in scouts. But I can’t support some homophobic operation, so I’m glad everyone is keeping the pressure on. Hopefully, by the time he’s old enough to join, this nonsense will be long past. Then the Boy Scouts can devote all of that excess energy that they used to keep gays out to focus on the real potential predators–pedophiles.

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- teddyc73
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:16pm
  Perhaps the nonsense is pressuring an organization to do something that is in conflict with it’s beliefs and principles just to appease a small segment of the population.
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:16pm
  ya right lets face the facts you lie
  
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- vaman
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:22pm
  Well done Chris. It is a minority that want to keep gays out and their justifications are questionable at best.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:28pm
  Great father, teaching your son to hate and passing your bible based bigotry to the next generation.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:29pm
  So let me get this right CHRIS…you don’t mind your son being isolated, outside your supervision with a homosexual male for extended periods of time? You’re that confident are you?
  So let’s say you had a daughter..and she’s always on camping trips only supervised by heterosexual men….confident nothing will happen?
  
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- Tallaron
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:46pm
  That’s smart…invite predators to where you are going to have your child. You don’t think they’ll head to a place full of young boys? Next Boys Scout will go bankrupt from all the suing that will happen.
  
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- soldado2187
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:50pm
  Chris, maybe you should not have your son join an organizacion when is clear you don’t know what is all about. Specially if God is not whitin your values.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:53pm
  TALLARON..lefties only think of that when it pertains to the catholic church…apparently homosexuals stop being homosexuals when they are teachers or scout masters in lefty fantasy land.
  
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- ChrisLRob
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:54pm
  Well, I’m mostly concerned about keeping my kid away from pedophiles. Through the years, the Boy Scouts have expended a lot of energy covering up for pedophiles–seen the news lately? This is in SPITE of their anti-gay policy.
  
  I just figure that they can now devote more time to being anti-pedo. What’s the problem?
  
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- soldado2187
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:58pm
  VAMAN… You are right, it is ok for the Gay/Lesbian to force themself on everything and everyone
  
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- DSTSS2010
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:11pm
  The Boy Scout Oath
  On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my Country,
  to obey the Scout Law to help other people at all times,
  to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
  
  Wow, it’s really great that you don’t want to expose your son to that!
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:24pm
  Clearly the problem is you CHRIS. Good luck with that “devote more time to “pedos”" buffoonery. You admit homosexuals have molested boys in the boy scouts but apparently they occupy a particular subgroup that you feel needs more time devoted to it. To quote the great Bugs Bunny..”what an ultra maroon”.
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:30pm
  chris were you a boy scout i very much doubt it. my guess is your a liberal panty waist got your ****** in a lock box
  
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- Just an old soldier
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:38pm
  NAMBLA is an organazition that I think is uniquely suited for your son Chris. They encourage relationships between older male homosexuals and boys. Perfect for the liberal family willing to sacrifice their son on the altar of politcal correctness and so-called tolerence
  
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- From Virginia
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 12:19pm
  Keep you kid OUT of boy scouts. As a supporter of child rape I’m sure you wish to place you child with a gay friendly group that will ensure his rapage.
  
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- From Virginia
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 12:28pm
  @Chris – I don’t suppose it’s occured to you that they are so anti-gay precisely BECAUSE all the gay troop leaders they let in have raped the little boys in their care?
  
  This is precisely the lesson the Catholic Church has learned. Keep gay men out of positions of power with regard to little boys. They WILL rape them.
  
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GoodStuff
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:09pm
Thank you Chipotle for making easy for me to boycott you.

Here’s their facebook page, let em have it:

https://www.facebook.com/chipotle

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- Verceofreason
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 8:34pm
  They have an anti discrimination policy.
  They are not hypocrites.
  
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dwf1
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:08pm
They are Boy Scouts not Fruits.

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airborneoathkeeper
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:07pm
Won’t eat their mexicolonist made crap EVER agian.

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- Hotaman
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:27pm
  Once an avid supporter and customer,
  Now an avid avoider and vocal detractor.
  Thank you for showing your true rainbow of colors!
  Selling my stock too, before it tanks after this brilliant move!
  What a bunch of dumbasses.
  ABC – was “Always Buy Colorado”, now “Always Boycott Colorado”
  
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JeanetteVictoria
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:06pm
Chipotle stands with men who use the anus as a sex organ, men who eat feces and men who are responsible for 30% of child abuse cases. Way to go!

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- teddyc73
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:12pm
  Um Jeanette, I know a few gay people and I’m pretty sure none of them eat feces. Of course, next time I’m there for a party I’ll be sure to find out what’s in the bean dip.
  
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- R1dd1ck
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:14pm
  I just gagged. Thanks.
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:17pm
  I suggest all families who have scout members and past scout member in their families as well as those who support scouts boycott chipoltes. Maybe start a campaign to show that chipoltes is supporting perverts over boyscouts. The perverts that have been complaining about tolerence have become the most intolerent and it time to paint the truth about these buttpiratemudsharkingshrimpingfudgepackers.
  
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- whatthecrazy
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:55pm
  Omg you guys are killing me with this lolololololol
  
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00100111
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:06pm
Chipotle’s food is too froo froo, hippie, leftie for most discerning tastes anyway. Qdoba and Moe’s Southwest Grill make better burritos.

Funny how progs are all “yaaay, tolerance” as long as you agree with them, but they have to pressure others into silence or compliance if you or your business doesn’t fit their narrative.

Progs are so tolerant and accepting, just ask them, they’ll tell you.

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- Patriot72
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:40pm
  Qdoba is fantastic. Great flavors, selection and a bit better value for money than Chipotle, IMO. Never tried Moe’s, though.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:52pm
  Qudoba’s Barbacoa is to die for…you’re missing nothing by never going to Chipotle again.
  
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- Nevertakecandyfromsocialists
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:19am
  I remember the days when family values were a good thing. Now corporate America won’t touch them with a ten foot pole. This type of “diversity” is pervasive in the business world. They will throw all kinds of money at LGBT causes, but refuse to support the organizations that promote family values because they “discriminate” (what those of us with common sense would call discernment). Most will also discipline any employee who voices disagreement with their “diversity” policies, no matter if it was done politely. I agree that we should let them know that we disagree with their ridiculous policies. The Human (only if your an LGBT human) Rights Organization ranks companies based on their compliance with “workplace equality”. The higher the score the more compliant. Maybe I’ll direct more of my business to the stores with lower scores and let them know why. http://www.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/2013BuyersGuide.pdf
  
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dwf1
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:04pm
I have patronized Chipotle a few times probably not again. It’s wrong to force a lifestyle on anyone or any organization. I do still have a right to pick and chose were I go.

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- Marine25
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 9:34pm
  You say…”It’s wrong to force a lifestyle on anyone”, and yet that is exactly what the Boy Scouts are doing. You christians sure are obsessed with other people’s sex lives.
  
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- bshorter
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 11:24am
  Only when it’s forced on us. Keep it in the bedroom where it should be.
  
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- landowner
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 2:38pm
  I personally don’t care one way or another but WHY would you want to join an orginization that clearly is based in something you don’t agree with? BSA is based on that old nasty bible thingy and LGBT is certainly not. Why would you want to be involved in the greoup and why do you feel the need to force your way into the group? Start your own group, join an exisitng group that cherishes YOUR values much as the people here (who granted are not that good at expressing that it is cherished by them) have done. Really people there is plenty of room for all of us to like chocolate or vanilla and not be enemies about it.
  
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whatthecrazy
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:00pm
Seriously if all of you sponsors who dig gay marriage and the like want to leave then LEAVE,see ya wouldn’t want to be ya.Boy Scouts stay strong and defend what you have stood for all of these years,do not cave to these fruits of nature.If you cave you may as well shut it down because people will pull thier children out in droves, but hey maby you can start a new with all the gay peoples children-oh wait, nevermind.

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TX_45_ACP
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:00pm
Bummer, I really liked Chipotle. Taking my biz elsewhere.

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justangry
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:00pm
Well if they don’t want to advertise to people that can actually purchase their stuff…

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Gonzo
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 3:57pm
We must all submit to every desire of the homosexuals or we’re just not good people. I’ve had just about enough of this crap.

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- bobhope
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:02pm
  You’re in for a pretty long remainder of your life then, because I guarantee you that popular opinion is not moving in your favor.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:04pm
  Bob. No, it’s not.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:05pm
  Yea buddy, popular opinion is never wrong. You dolt.
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:08pm
  hey bob only in your little gay mind.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:09pm
  It’s called “jamming” GONZO and it’s a carefully crafted and rigidly adhered to strategy of Gay Inc and it’s enablers. Anyone that does not buy Gay Inc’s line is a bigot and a “hater”.
  This will of course continue if homosexual marriage is ratified at the federal level.
  Take what happened to eHarmony for example….
  Gay Inc. chose to sue the site for not providing homosexuals with their services…something the CEO of the site is against. Never mind that the internet is rife with sites that provide “dating” services for homosexuals as well as venues to find anonymous, no strings sex. No…eHarmony must be brought to heel. Gay Inc is a spiteful, hateful little group of damaged goods liberals.
  
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- JediKnight
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:10pm
  Popular opinion wasn’t in favor of the Jews in 1930s Germany either, was it? Screw popular opinion. I’ll stick with God myself.
  
  I’ve never eaten at Chipotle and it looks like I won’t be now either.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:32pm
  Gonzo and the rest of the bible bigots are dying out, their old hatreds are being ignored by the newer generation. What sad lives these hate filled christians live.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:56pm
  Encinom attacked Christians in the above post, even though there was no mention in the original. This is all you need to know about who is putting out the propaganda. It is the atheistic Joos who sit on the Boards in NYC.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:58pm
  Yes, Encinom, but our lives go on indefinitely. My eternity will be a lot more enjoyable than yours. Enjoy the 60 or 70 years you have left. LOL
  
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perry1980
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 3:56pm
Yet another good reason Not to go to Chipotle

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AvengerK
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 3:54pm
Looks like I’m not eating at Chipotle. Qudoba or Cafe Rio will more than suffice.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:02pm
  Submit AK! You know the desires of the homosexuals outweigh all other things! They must be served!
  
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- jefftavolieri
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:03pm
  To all the bigots who say they’ll stop going to chipotle because of this: I don’t think you realize how hard avoiding pro-gay businesses really is. The HRC even makes a little list for you if you want to try.
  
  There is almost no way you can live your life without spending your hard earned money with a company that will hand it over to the gay agenda. If you don’t like it, you need to move to a less socially developed country.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:13pm
  But they’re the best of us GONZO. If only the whole world was homosexual it would all be spontaneous outbursts of dance numbers, Glee and “fabulous” interior decorating. Don’t look at the higher incidences of depression, HIV infection, drug use and STDs (heck…the government is apparently also wasting millions of dollars into “research” as to why lesbians are disproportionately overweight) …that’s not to be spoken about.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:24pm
  Oh it’s easy JEFF. Pick a few “favorites” and boycot them. There’s lots of choices for similar cuisine to Chipotle’s one will not be denying one’s self anything.
  
  Nice try clownshoes.
  
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- pissantno.10
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:50pm
  avengerk not clown shoes very light loafers.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:00pm
  Ak, don’t forget how fashionably dressed we would all be!
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:17pm
  Absolutely fabulous GONZO. “two snaps”.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:24pm
  I heard that girlfriend!
  
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walnutportconservative
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 3:54pm
Big Deal! I never heard of chpotle

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crusaderx9
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 3:54pm
No surprise, their food sucks anyway.

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fdraiden
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 3:54pm
Ok, thats it, another dumb ass resteurant chain that won’t get my business. Do they ever learn?

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Harlleyflhrci
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 3:54pm
Thats okay,,,,,,I’ll stop eating at Chipotle.

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- nc_writer
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:01pm
  Chick-fil-a is so much better anyway…
  
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philpan4
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 3:53pm
Knock chipotle off the list

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- jefftavolieri
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:08pm
  Check out the HRC’s list of places you should avoid. Good luck! LOL
  
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blanco5
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 3:52pm
Chipolte sucks anyway so who cares.

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phrogdriver
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 3:51pm
I’ve never eaten at a Chipolte Grill.

And it sounds like I never will.

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- naughtycal
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 3:53pm
  Same here.
  
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- moreteaplease
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:02pm
  Who needs them? Losing their sponsorship probably isn’t that big of a deal anyway. They’re probably afraid that they will become the next Chic Filet if they don’t kowtow to the LGBT.
  
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