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Gay Activists‘ ’National Marriage Equality Day’ at Starbucks Has Low Turnout

Following the massive hoopla surrounding fast-food chain Chick-fil-A over its gay marriage stance last week, pro-same-sex marriage activists hoped to show support for Starbucks, a company that has come out in favor of gay rights. But, unfortunately for those organizing the “National Marriage Equality Day” on Tuesday, turnout was relatively low — at least when compared to the number of Americans who came out to laud Chick-fil-A just days earlier.

Gay Activists National Marriage Equality Day at Starbucks Has Low Turnout

(Photo Credit: Starbucks)

Prior to the event, The Christian Post explained the intentions behind the initiative:

Gay marriage activists and their supporters plan to consume more than their daily allowance of caffeine on Tuesday by visiting their local Starbucks in an effort to challenge last week’s “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” that was staged by pro-family supporters to demonstrate their support for the company’s stance on traditional marriage.

Tuesday’s event is being dubbed as “National Marriage Equality Day” and Starbucks was chosen because they offer benefits to the partners of same-sex relationships.

Leading up to “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” last Wednesday, an effort organized by Mike Huckabee, more than 585,000 people were registered to attend and show support for the restaurant chain, which opposes gay marriage. Much like activists’ counter “kiss-in” event that intended to rail against Chick-fil-A’s anti-gay marriage sentiment, the Starbucks event experienced a much lower attendance.

Gay Activists National Marriage Equality Day at Starbucks Has Low Turnout

Photo Credit: Equally Wed

This morning, one day after the pro-gay marriage event was held, the Facebook event page shows that only 37,802 people planned to attend. And the fan page for the “National Marriage Equality Day” has only 970 “likes.” Of course, this dearth in attendance, especially when compared with the Chick-fil-A protest, can be potentially chalked up to a number of factors (and consider that we’re basing actual turnout here upon the number of people who pledged social media support).

To begin, intense controversy led to demonstrations and shows of support surrounding the Chick-fil-A incident. This, of course, came with a great deal of media coverage. As a result of constant chatter about the drama surrounding the debate, people became educated about the issue. The Starbucks event, on the other hand, didn’t receive as much attention and, thus, fewer people were likely aware that it was happening in the first place.

Also, the group behind the latest initiative — Equally Wed, a wedding magazine — ended up expanding the cause and encouraging people to embrace other gay-friendly brands in addition to Starbucks. This may have had an effect in dissuading people from going to the coffee chain, while encouraging them to embrace other businesses and causes that were more difficult to track. The New York Daily News has more:

…it was originally announced as “Starbucks Appreciation Day,” but organizers said the company asked that other corporate supporters of gay marriage, such as Nike and Amazon, be included as well.

The event page includes a long list of “brands that support LGBT rights” to support –Absolut Vodka, Google, Disney, Target and Southwest Airlines are among them – and had nearly 35,000 people promising to take part as of Tuesday afternoon.

In the end, while turnout was low, grassroots movements have a way of growing, especially when it comes to issues that some view as being rooted in “civil rights.”  The magazine’s Facebook page is currently accepting photos from the day for a special contest it is running among participants. There’s no telling if and when another “Starbucks Appreciation Day” could be in the works.

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  • bumfuzeled
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:27am

    Dr. Seuss pegged it in the book ‘The Sneetches’. Read it again and you’ll see. Homosexuals are like the sneetches without stars on their belly and they by gosh want a star on their belly. When they get it, those original star bellied sneetches want to remove their stars and the cycle continues until no one knows who had or did not have stars. In the end the word marriage is just a word. Those of us in Christian Marriage will remain in Christian Marriage even if others call themselves married.

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:49am

      Right, so why do you support denying equal rights to all Americans?

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    • Amarilloan
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:04am

      In the end, the government can decide whatever it wants. Christians will still consider marriage as the Bible considers it. “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesars”.

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:07am

      It seems that what failed in S. Oklahoma was the public school system.

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    • johnjamison
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:10am

      Gays are stupid so are the liberal dou##es supporting the gays stance against chick fil a. They are so self absorbed they think the CFA turn out was about marriage. People came out for CFA FOR FREE SPPECH DUMBA55 NOT TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE. YOU LIBERAL ******* DON’T SEE THE FASCIST MAYORS AND POLITICIAN THAT ATTACKED A COMPANY FOR WHAT A CEO SAID TO A CHRISTIAN NEWPAPER FOR WHAT IT IS EFFING FASCISM A DIRECT ATTACK ON FREE SPEECH FROM POLITICIANS.
      OF COURSE THAT’S ALWAY BEEN THE ONE THING THE LEFT WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF HYPOCRACY. YOU CALL REPUBLICAN FASCIST WHILE IT’S LIBERAL THAT HAVE BEEN TIGHTENING THE NOOSE FOR DECADES.

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    • the_system_disconnect
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:10am

      @ecinom Gays have the same rights right now that hetero people have. They can also marry a member of the opposite sex.

      Women have a right to have children. I am not outraged because I can’t be pregnant.

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    • flaboater1
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:12am

      Homosexual behavior is not a “right”…It is a behavior. You want equal benefits, not rights…You want the same “benefits” that married people have, benefits given by the government. So go out and get your civil union benefits…Don‘t call it ’rights‘ and don’t call it marriage, The Homosexual, Transgender and Bisexual crowd continues to co opt other peoples fights by trying include themmselves into other certain groups…

      a legal union between a male and a female is called “M-A-R-R-I-A-G-E and it has certain “benefits” that people fought for.

      A legal union between a male and a male or female and female is called ” W-H-A-T-?“ and certain ”benefits?” that you need to fight for.

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    • jeffile
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:14am

      ENCINOM: Homosexuals have always had the same right to marry as anyone. In fact, no where in the world or in history have homosexuals been treated differently in regards to marry. A homosexual has always been able to marry someone of the opposite sex just the same as a heterosexual. By changing the definition of marriage, hoosexuals have opened the door and sanctioned everything from beastality to pedophilia.

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:17am

      ‘a legal union between a male and a female is called “M-A-R-R-I-A-G-E and it has certain “benefits” that people fought for.’

      Well, except for the full 50% of American marriages that end in divorce. What an asinine point.

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    • the_system_disconnect
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:24am

      @andyetitmoves Your divorce stats are kind of wrong. It’s closer to 30%

      http://digitalcitizen.ca/2009/06/02/50-divorce-rate-is-a-myth-its-more-like-33-or-one-third/

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    • UpholderOftheConstitution
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:24am

      AndyetItMoves, and how is that point asinine? So what 50% of marriages end in divorce? how does this magical number make the statement asinine? Seem to me the only asinine quotes are coming from your hate-filled comments. You are getting pummeled intellectually here, crawl back to the WaPo and the HuffPo, lol.

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    • COFemale
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:25am

      Because gay sex is not natural, it does not meet the laws of nature and it is a sexual perversion between two people. Marriage is between two people who can naturally procreate, that is the intent of marriage. Two men can’t have sex and produce a baby. Two women can’t have sex and produce a baby. Therefore you are trying to redefine natural laws. We can leave God’s laws out of the argument for now, but they do play an important part as they follow natural laws.

      Marriage is a privilege, not a right. I don’t have a right to marry my dog, my cat or any other animal I might love. Even polygamy is against the law.

      I will not allow sexually perverted people gay or not to redefine marriage in order to make society accept them. They are sick people and giving into their own lust. What they do in the privacy of their own home, I have no problem. When they bring it out into the open for all to see, they have crossed the line and I have every right to prevent them to do so.

      This has nothing to do with RIGHTS, this has every thing to do with sticking their sexual perversion in the face of Christians. If it was about RIGHTS, they would be petitioning companies to accept partners in health insurance, they would create a Power of Attorney should either party became ill giving them the capability to make health treatment decisions. They would petition the IRS to change the laws to allow partners the ability to file a joint return, that opens a new can of worms.

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    • flaboater1
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:26am

      ANDYETITMOVES- HA HA HA…

      No real comeback, can’t justify your case, so the tactic is to try and change the argument…Not asinine, except perhaps your argument

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    • Shiroi Raion
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:35am

      Marriage is not a right; it’s a contract. Marriage is defined as a contractual relationship between a man and a woman. I find homosexual activity disgusting and perverse, but I’m okay with homosexual civil unions. I‘ve had a couple of gay friends and as long as they didn’t do anything repulsive in front of me or to me and my family, I had no problem with them. I even invited a black lesbian to rent a place with me, but she was afraid to leave her all black community in Denver and live with me in a mostly white community. I went with her to a gay bar once, but the environment was too crazy for me. They were friendly while I was there, but I didn’t advertise my heterosexuality… most of them were very, very strange people. Men dressed like women and behaved like giggling flirty girls, the women were stoic and many looked like obese little men. The environment was a lot like those totally bizarre “royalty costume parties” that you see in Hollywood movies all the time.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 12:45pm

      Shiroi Raion

      having gay friends is as bad as having rapist friends, friends that have sex with their dogs, friends that molest children, freinds that have sex with the dead. Sexual perversion is perversion.

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    • mrmo
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 1:18pm

      I’ve never really had a problem with gay’s. I believe that as long as they don’t try sneaking a hand into my pants I diden’t really care, they will need to deal with GOD about it.
      But now they want to stick it in my face, and change are whole country to except there sub human activities as normal and healthy, I say kiss my metaphoric butt..
      It’s time all good christens to STOP supporting the business that support them! I have been told the gay population in are once great country is less than 2%. Who do they think they are. I am not pushing my GOD on then, so do not push your gay crap on me and America. If you do not like it go some were else. Starbucks, J.C. Penneys, Target the list of anti-American business goes on. Stop buying their crap.
      By the Target and Starbucks DO NOT SUPPORT ARE SERVICE PEOPLE EATHER, so stop giving them are money.
      It’s time to stand up and put these commie liberal maggots back in to the holes they crawled out of, and cover them up like a cat covers it’s droppings.
      FOR GOD AND COUNTRY

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    • dblaess
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 1:36pm

      @ encinom
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:49am
      Right, so why do you support denying equal rights to all Americans?
      —————————————————————————————
      Let’s just wait until Muslims take over America to institute their take on gay marriage. They will determine equal rights to all Americans.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:01pm

      ENCIDIOT…homosexuals have EXACTLY the same rights every other American has. They can marry a member of the opposite sex just like the remaining 98% of the population can.

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    • Trollkiller68
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:05pm

      True marriage can only be enjoyed by heterosexual couples. Our ancestors/progenitors were heterosexual married couples. If and when the day comes that America accepts ****, homos, queers and bull dikes getting married, there will be a complete and total separation of the righteous from among the wicked. At that day the wrath of God will be poured out on the homosexuals without measure.

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    • 13thCousinOfTheAntiChrist
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:23pm

      @Encinom — So, you are for legalizing consensual incestuous marriages as well? What about polygamous marriages?

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    • OklahomaBound
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:08pm

      The article seems to be making excuses for why this Starbucks patronage protest didn’t pan out well, but they don’t mention the most likely cause for its dismal showing; Leftist only show up when conservatives are forced to pay for whatever the left is given. In this case leftist would have had to shell out $5 for a coffee from their own pockets. You need a job and money to do that. If Obama had stepped up and redistributed tax dollars stolen from hard working employed conservatives to give away ‘free’ Starbucks coffee to left-wing $exual deviants then the protest would have been attended by thousands.

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    • PMMcBride
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:45pm

      Encinom, gays already have equal rights. What they don’t have are “special rights”. They can get married just like anyone else (to someone of the opposite sex). They have equal rights for jobs, housing and all the rest. What they don‘t have a right to do is take away other people’s rights to give gays special rights. I am a live and let live person, but I draw the line when the person who wants to live a lifestyle most Christians believe falls outside moral, and they want to have a law forcing someone to accept something that falls outside their religious beliefs or something that is outside the biblical definition of marriage or its purpose. What’s next? People marrying the tree in the front yard or their dog?

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    • JeanetteVictoria
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:31pm

      encinom not matter how much you want to wrap disordered behavior in the cloak of “civil rights” people with common sense know that this isn’t a civil right issue it is about homosexuals forcing their unnatural and disordered behavior on to the public.

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    • judymac10
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:19pm

      Hey man they were there in “Spirit” but not in body, they had better things to do with their bodies.

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    • lookatthefactsjack
      Posted on August 9, 2012 at 5:58am

      marriage is not a right, it is a rite. a religious ceremony that civil society accepts and respects. Civil unions are similar to marriages, but without the religious aspect and sanction of the church.
      Just like infant baptism is a rite of the church, civil society accepts this. Certification of live birth is similar, but without the religious aspect.

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    • RWCT
      Posted on August 9, 2012 at 6:40am

      In reply to ENCICOM. Because GOD is against it, Read Romans Ch 1 V 19 on, then get back to us all. America WAS founded as a Nation under God, is case you miss this POINT! Homosexual relationships are condmened by HIM. Argue with HIM, not me. I must say, I don’t like your chances of winning! If you, and others do not want to live in a nation UNDER GOD, you, of course, are free to go where this is not the case. I might suggest China, or Russia, as a couple of possibilities for you.

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  • John 3:16
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:25am

    Mike Huckabee did not bring the crowds out to Chick-fil-A.. Americans tired of having their right to free speech did. Mike H. maybe drew in maybe 10 – 20 % which was more Hetrosexual people than there are homosexuals in America: The rest.80% came on their own. Most of us don’t even listen to Huckabee much if at all.

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:30am

      You’re right, fried food is the only thing that could bring out the christian lunatic fringe in such numbers.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:35am

      Ahh the massive silent majority has spoken…….maybe America has finally had enough of this liberal crap shoved down our throats……

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    • John 3:16
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:39am

      andyetitmoves,,Hey closet boy you’re the fringe element, who is the fringe here??? Got pictures to prove who the fringe is? Where is your proof. LOL!!! I was at Chick-fil-A, they were great Americans too numerous to count.Star Bucks turn out was a joke at the very least.

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:48am

      I suppose the difference between you and me, John, is that I don’t measure the veracity of my worldview by the number of people that show up at fast food restaurants in support of it. Only in America…

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    • encinom
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:51am

      How dare fellow Americans demand equal rights. I bet the typical blazer with have manned the fire hoses or released the dogs in the South during the 50‘s and 60’s as other Americans march for equal rights.

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    • cessna152
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:56am

      Hey Andy,

      We know your types and you’re wasting your time here. However, let me ask you question since you are so tolerant and never a hypocrite.

      Why do you call Christians Bigots when they back up and stand on their beliefs yet you call them hypocrites when they do not? I’d really love to hear your loving, tolerant, rational answer.

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:05am

      A wonderful question. Christians engage in bigotry all the time when they regurgitate bigoted preachments from their holy book and then hide behind freedom of religion. This is cowardice. Do you really think you’re a freedom fighter for standing up to our diminutive homosexual minority that simply wants to be treated like humans?

      Christians engage in hypocrisy all the time when they frantically demand that certain old testament dictates be applied to our society, but completely ignore parts of the Bible that are clearly incompatible with civil society. In other words, they think homosexuality is an abomination, but don’t support the stoning of adulterous women, etc. This is also cowardice. Almost all christians in the western world are practicing a vanilla form of christianity, which is good for the rest of us, but it makes them sound pretty inconsistent when they trumpet about the Bible being the perfect word of God.

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    • johnjamison
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:17am

      ENCINOM, WROTE,How dare fellow Americans demand equal rights.
      What rights do I have that a gay man doesn’t have. As a man I
      1 can marry a woman(so can a gay man)
      2 can only be married to one woman at a time(same rights apply to a gay man)
      3 That woman must be of a certain age(same rights apply to a gay man)
      4 and that woman can’t be closely related to me(same rights apply to a gay man)
      No ONE is denying a gay man the right to marry a woman so long as they meet the requirements I mentioned.
      THAT SOUNDS PRETTY EQUAL

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    • UpholderOftheConstitution
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:22am

      Last I checked I have never seen or heard of a gay person getting put to the back of the bus, or made to go in a different restroom, or told to attend a different school? How are gays not treated like human beings? Back up your rhetoric, because right now you are showing what the gay community will do to every Christian in this country – silence them. Oh also we do not hide behind freedom of speech there bigot we have been martyred, thrown to the lions, burned at the stake, and hung from a cross for what we believe. Please show us how the gay community has gone through this their whole celebrated history. Your a hate-filled little bigot and you have no concept what a Christian is and what we believe in or what we stand for. You merely lump all Christians as hate based on a few. SO if I use your logic, all gay people are hate-filled bigots with the intellect of a jelly bean, but I am not like you so therefore I know that their a lot of good gay people out there, and unfortunately jackasses like you make them look stupid and moronic.

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    • jeffile
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:24am

      ANDYETITMOVES. Perhaps you ought to read and understand the bible before you embarrass yourself. Yes, the Old Testament dictates stoning for adultery but Jesus stated, when confronted with the stoning of a prostitute, “let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” In other words, treat others with love and forgiveness. Love and forgiveness is the basis for Christianity. If Intollerance for homosexuality is bigoted then you sir are exhibiting the same bigotry for your intolerance of Christians. A htypocrite is a hypocrite is a hypocrite.

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    • cessna152
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:52am

      Interesting Andy. You never answered the question….you simply went on to bash Christians. Bye the way some facts on Christians:

      Evil Christians are the most giving of ALL groups combined. Giving of their time, resources, money, etc. No other group comes close. BTW, how’s the Atheists for humanity movement going? That’s right, you simply bash Christians and do nothing to help.
      Next, Christians are the largest group dying to fight against slavery. They were hung alongside blacks. Also they stopped the Salem witch trials in the USA and were key to stopping it in Europe. Do you know who started it? Government …BIG church run governments that you support.
      Jews and Christians are the most persecuted groups of all time…BARR NONE! No groups even come close. Where is your sympathy for all these Christians killed?

      Over the past 100 years over 250,000,000 innocent people have been killed by GOD hating, God bashing world leaders (You)… please explain why you support this?

      Last, Christians have an opinion yet still help gays, broken families and the homeless. The groups you support stone gays, kill them and treat women as trash.

      You are creating a slave world and Christians are protecting freedom. You are on the side of disillusioned evil.

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    • Inlightofthings
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 1:22pm

      ENCINOMICNE:
      You certain that you are not confusing demand for equal rights with demand for acceptance? Have you read much about G. Washington and the founding. Research, I’m sure that wi-fi in your cave can pull up some good information…

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    • AirborneVet
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 5:49pm

      This is NOT a issue based on rights. It‘s a group of pervs that feel the need for acceptance of their wickedness so they don’t feel guilty. Well guess what, there are a whole lot of people who will never accept this perverted behavior no matter what and trying to compare the struggle of blacks to homosexuals is a travesty and a slap in the face of every black person who had to live through that. Homosexuals have a choice and should not have any special rights afforded them just because they choose that lifestyle, they should live with their choices. You want to get married, find someone of the opposite sex and get married.

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    • PMMcBride
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:50pm

      And you base your statistics on what facts? I would say the word spread as things like this do. I would also say since the gay population of the country is around 1.8% to 1.9% that might have hoped for something less than the pro Chick fel-A group (realistically). I certainly have no truck with gays, but I am not in favor of taking freedom of speech and limiting the religious rights of over 70% of the population in favor of 1.8% to 1.9% of the population have the right to marry any sex or anything (maybe trees and pets will be the next horizon for the next group of folks living outside the norm?).

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  • wti6564
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:21am

    If the people supporting Chick-Fil-A followed the people at Starbucks with a protest of their own you might see the real difference in the numbers that really support traditional marriage.
    I suggest that the traditional marriage supporters pick a day and show up at Starbucks to order just a small cup of drip coffee. That way you could have real data showing how people in this country REALLY feel about supporting traditional marriage. I’m thinking Starbucks may then realize they may want to rethink their stance.

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:26am

      I don’t think it would be a shocking revelation for Starbucks or anyone in this country to find out how many imbeciles live here. There’s a lot of them. We’re aware.

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    • Usa1Ing
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:39am

      Typical Liberal .. You lost miserabley and everyone else is an imbecile.

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:49am

      Your spelling of the word ‘miserably’ doesn‘t exactly hammer down the point you’re trying to make.

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    • the_system_disconnect
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:13am

      Neither does your ad hominem argument separate you from imbeciles.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 12:31pm

      I‘ll be meeting my spouse at Wendy’s later this afternoon and buying a cup of coffee there. Normally, I don’t go out to buy coffee, I make it at home. I don’t like Starbucks simply because I drink coffee black with no sugar. Their coffee is a dark roast with a very bitter aftertaste. To compensate for that, they load the things up with calories via the syrups, milk and whipped cream.

      So, I’m making a point of it to go out and buy a coffee elsewhere. Dunkin’ Donuts would have been my first choice, but there isn’t one between the two locations where my spouse and I are.

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    • shorelineliz
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 12:44pm

      Starbucks will never rethink their diva, snotty, “we drink better coffee than you” stuck up stance.

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    • Jan Conroy
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 6:09pm

      While I am “snottier” about my coffee than any drinker of Starbuck’s swill (because I make my own coffee. one cup at a time, using only freshly ground Sumatra coffee, in my very expensive Swiss-made coffee machine), this is all beside the point. The problem is the unreasonable demands of homosexuals in demanding all of society change just to accommodate the sexual fetishes of a micro-minority who wish to wed without making the necessary changes to their anatomy. In this day and age, there is nothing preventing non-related, consenting adults from marrying — except for their homosexual fetishes. Any homosexual in love can choose to have sexual reassignment surgery. Chastity Bono can now marry another woman because Chastity is now Chaz Bono. Gays are not prevented from doing the same — except for their love of their fetishes. Obviously, gays love their sexual fetishes more than they love their partner, whom they allegedly “wish” to marry. Marriage has never been the issue, the issue has always been about forcing society into accepting homosexual fetishes, like “tea-bagging,“ as ”normal” behavior, instead of an aberration.

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  • reliableakura
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:19am

    Gay people trying to counter chick fila appreciation day but now they realize that majority of the population just doesnt care about their digusted lifestyle. Statitstics and all those polling dont mean nothing. Ask the voters and see! No more starbuck for me.

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:28am

      ‘Statitstics and all those polling dont mean nothing. Ask the voters and see!’

      Ask the voters indeed. The problem with democracy is that it inevitably devolves into idiocracy, as evidenced by this little manifesto above.

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    • johnjamison
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:26am

      The problem with liberal do**hey conservaphobes is they think we live in a democracy. Where shear popularity and numbers can distort morality to fit their ideology. Can‘t blame them though as most liberals were educated by other liberals as so gullible they swallow what ever they’re fed

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    • flaboater1
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:33am

      No, democracy generally devolves due to moral decay. Just look at the results of the liberal progressive agenda in the last 50 years…and please don’t include civil rights in your counter argument. There were more democrats and liberals against Civil rights legislation than for it.
      Divorce , poverty, under-education, pornography, violence, abandonment of families, teen pregnancy and sexual perversions. Great things to build a great society upon…

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    • MartyTr
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 12:04pm

      They’ll just get more corrupt politicians to pass more laws “protecting” them. Who’s going to protect the rest of us?

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    • Vandergrift01
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:08pm

      Hey Andy, we HAVE asked the voters over and over and over again, and miraculously… (not) gay marriage goes down EVERYWHERE.. Even friggin Calitoonia.

      You’re brilliant.

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  • JACKTHETOAD
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:17am

    “…You’re the cream in my coffee…”EeeEEWWWW…

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  • Carol1955
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:13am

    I don’t believe that people turned out for the Chick Filet A appreciation because of any hatred of gays, no matter how many times the left claims it; they turned out in massive numbers because politicians were attempting to restrict the business endeavors of a company whose owner has conservative Christian beliefs. His business has never treated homosexuals differently but the left screamed because the man has conservative Christian beliefs and has the courage to live them. Individuas can decide where they want to spend their money; its called freedom of choice.

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:24am

      ‘His business has never treated homosexuals differently’

      Have you seen the interest groups that this clown has been giving millions to over the years? Rest easy, he’s just as much of a homophobic neanderthal as any of you are.

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    • UpholderOftheConstitution
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:43am

      No AndYetitMoves, please by all means show us how this man is somehow homophobic (which this word in itself is laughable and makes no sense, but I digress).

      Seeing how you feel the need to post two sentences of your dribble and somehow educate all of us you hate-mongering, liberal diatribe. Crawl back to the sewers of the WaPo or the HuffPo before someone with a greater intellect (which is about 99% of the folks who post here) squash you pee sized neanderthal twisted rhetoric.

      I find it hilarious that morons like yourself are completely clueless about the real world but yet you feel the need to come on these sites and drop one or two sentences soaked in nothing but rhetoric and baseless attacks. You are one of those morons who screams for “freedom of speech”, but yet feel compelled to silence any opposition to yourself and those like you. And then turn it around and say “well if you want freedom of speech, your words have consequences”, yeah okay sure thing. Just like if we disagree or say something in opposition to your twisted views we then have to close our businesses and be labeled as bigots. Your a f-ing moron like the mayor of Boston and Chicago and your words hold no water and are mere rhetoric dribble void of any logic or understanding.

      But if you would like to actually give some dialogue to the discussion that is grounded in fact and understanding then by all means give your opinion. Otherwise keep your comments to the WaPo and the HuffPo.

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:54am

      But these threads are simply too much fun. Where else am I going to find yokels that can scarcely write and make them angry enough to labor through three paragraph manifestos? By the way, you said nothing in that post to address the fact that Cathy has donated millions to legitimate hate groups.

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    • rp454
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:13am

      @andyetitmoves – Why don’t you enumerate these “hate groups”. I looked at the list on your pro-**** website and the groups listed are merely pro-christian like Fellowship of Christian Athletes. However, because they believe differently than you, they are labeled as “hate groups”. Typical left wing lunatic attacks. You guys keep it up and we in the Chick-fil-A crowd will forget we should be tolerant of the 2%.

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:24am

      Exodus International, the National Christian Foundation, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Family Research Council, the Marriage and Family Foundation, and the Georgia Family Council.

      If Exodus International is not a hate group, then the term scarcely has a definition. Please look into these things for yourself before posting.

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    • rp454
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:40am

      I see. Since Exodus International tries to help Christian families suffering with a homosexual relative that qualifies them as a “hate group”. That must mean the Betty Ford clinic, Alanon and Alcoholics Anonymous are “hate groups” against drug users and alcoholics. Lets not forget complusive gamblers, porn addicts and cleptomaniacs. “Hate groups” all around. Your logic does not hold.

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    • UpholderOftheConstitution
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:42am

      No we already did because many of us on here already support these groups. And the only thing they do is not support your radical twisted views, which in essence is what you do to them. Yet you label them as hate groups.

      Sounds to me the only person here that is screaming hate is you, bigot. I truly hope you apologize to the gay community for making them look like a bunch of ignorant hate-filled bigots on this website. I have already had a couple gay people explain to me that they are not like this, which I promptly explained that I know, but it is shameful that one can make the whole look horrible.

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  • John 3:16
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:12am

    Okay you sexual deviates, where are the pics to show the great support of your sick little lives at your big PLANNED rally. Couldn’t even make a mark. Try having the next big event at the nearest small closet maybe you can fill up a small one if you take the clutter out first.

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:15am

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_homosexuality

      Read up, my friend. No matter how desperately you want to convince the world you’re a macho man, your own psychology betrays you.

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    • LESSONATOR
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:16am

      It doesn’t take much imagination to see why Starbucks supports the “life style”. Take a hard look at the Starbuck trademark. Since when do Mermaids have TWO Tails!!

      Let that be a lesson to them.

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    • Pat Magroin
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:39am

      ANDYETITMOVES-You’re using Wikipedia as a credible reference? You just lost all creds my friend. Go to the end of the line.

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    • UpholderOftheConstitution
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:50am

      Once again, andyetitmoves please refrain from quoting or posting Wikipedia. When you do this you truly show how ignorant you are of giving a concrete fact to your twisted opinions. Well maybe at the left-wing liberal university you went to this supposed scholarly research was applauded, but in the real world of facts and research Wikipedia is a community “encyclopedia” that has no place in the true arena of research and academics.

      So by all means keep posting Wikipedia and each time you do you show everyone here how immature, ignorant, and inadequate you are to hold a honest intellectual conversation with someone. So I suggest, and this is only a suggestion, that you find yourself a true history book that has proven the test of time and then proceed to read it. But please do not even think that Wikipedia is even close to any sort of research. Now I will say one thing the sources found at the bottom of each wiki-page are a great start to do your own research, if you would like, but it sounds like you enjoy having everyone do your own work for you.

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:57am

      You realize that what I posted is not research. It‘s a summary of Freud’s theory of latent homosexuality. Wikipedia is not a credible source for scholarly work, but it’s pretty authoritative as far as summarizing important historical texts. You’re quite the reactionary, aren’t you?

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    • UpholderOftheConstitution
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:07am

      No at all I am merely showing how ignorant your are and how you enjoy wallowing in your own stupidity. Also the three paragraphs are written to help educate your ignorance of the real world. And to also showcase your pathetic little life where you revel in the enjoyment of going to a website and doing drive-by postings of your hate-filled rhetoric. So in essence you have become what you hate. Seems to me your a very pathetic individual, aren’t you?

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:19am

      That’s probably a few too many times to be calling someone ignorant in a paragraph written at roughly a 4th grade reading level.

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    • UpholderOftheConstitution
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:28am

      Seriously? Do you know anything about how to write for the web? LOL, wow you are astounding how pathetic you truly are. You are just getting pummeled on here intellectually and then you resort to attacking my writing comprehension level. Typical left-wing lunatic divert to something else when you lose the intellectual fight. Enjoy bigot.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 4:15pm

      andy

      I had no idea what groups Chick-fil-a supports. I didn’t approve of mayors threatening a business because the CEO expressed his belief in traditional marriage.

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  • perry1980
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:09am

    Less than 10% of Americans are g@y so no surprise there.

    Why are we pandering to them.
    Its a choice not a disability.
    If they want to be g!y let them.
    But don’t make exceptions for them

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:17am

      Extending the equal rights to gay people is not an ‘exception.’ I would argue that we stop making exceptions for Christians. You’re allowed to be an imbecile, but you need to keep your drivel out of my kids’ school.

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    • UpholderOftheConstitution
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:03am

      AndYetItMoves (again), so they are your schools? Somehow you are the only one paying taxes to fund the Department of Education? No you are not, so therefore your premise is completely naive and ignorant.

      Sit down AndYetItMoves and I will educate you. First and foremost are country was founded on the Judeo-Christian principles and our Constitution has the theme of the Creator woven throughout it. Starting with the Declaration of Independence ” We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. Notice that the word Creator does not force an exact God (Christian, Muslim, or whatever), but yet the premise is completely Judeo-Christian, which you would know if you did some research instead of spew out your stupidity. and hatred of Christians.

      Now I want you to do a homework assignment, I want you to locate the phrase, “separation of church and state” in our beloved Constitution, and then, because you play yourself off as a smart Lib, I want you to explain to me how based on our Constitution our country was founded as and is a secular nation.

      And to be honest and transparent I have set you up for failure, because you will not be able to locate this unless you wordsmith it and play with the words somehow, but your a liberal so it should be easy to twist the truth. Happy research liberal and enjoy.

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    • Git-R-Done
      Posted on August 9, 2012 at 2:03pm

      Perry – It’s less than 2% of Americans who are homosexual. The left has used the 10% lie as a means to normalize homosexuality.

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  • the_system_disconnect
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:08am

    The difference between these two ‘appreciation’ days is that one was about gay marriage and the other was about the freedom to say and support what you believe.

    Contrary to liberal opinion, our side does not hate. For hate, look to the progressive liberals and anarchists.

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:06am

    …
    Isn’t EVERY day, GAY DAY at Starbucks?

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:13am

      Isn’t every day horrible christian yokel humor day at the blaze? Seriously, has there ever been a group of people in human history with a worse command of humor than American Christians?

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    • Pat Magroin
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:45am

      ANDY ETITMOVES- You know you have a wonderful sense of humor when you have “command” of it. You must be a laugh riot, my friend. Would love to sit down and have a beer with you but it hurts when beer comes out my nose from laughing so hard.

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    • AndYetItMoves
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:59am

      That’s the other thing. What is it about christian doctrine that makes its adherents impossibly bad with sarcasm? I’m asking in all seriousness.

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    • JulesBee
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 2:32pm

      @andyetitmoves Apparently, your worldview has made you quite cranky and rude. Are you trolling or are you here to be judge and jury for those with whom you disagree? Either way, your attitude isn’t endearing anyone to you or your cause. Get some class.

      Everybody’s equal under the law. You’re not going to get special rights. Heterosexuals can’t marry the same sex and homosexuals can marry the opposite sex. We’re equal. The law doesn’t cater to our wants. That is good for you if you’ll think about it. If it did, society would be in complete chaos. Then your minority wouldn’t be protected. You’d better be careful what you wish for. If you shut down Christians’ rights to speak out in freedom, then there are non-peaceful hardliners in our world that are waiting to fill that void and show no tolerance for those with whom they disagree to unspeakable outcomes perhaps. Thank your lucky stars you live in the only society left on earth that gives you freedom to speak. Give Christians the same respect.

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:58am

    Starbucks? Really?? Aaaaaccckkkk! Who in their right mind goes to Starbucks???

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  • RobbieTLHughie
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:51am

    This might shock some of you Blazers but gay people have lives, like jobs and such. You’re all laughing yourselves to tears on “LOL BUT GAYS ARE STUPID”. You all went to Chick-Fil-A and got fried treats to protest their right to get married, think about that for a second…

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:03am

      Just as you gays having jobs, there were an awful lot working people went to Chick-Fil-A to show their support for free speech, and the Cathy family. The hate speech is coming you gays.

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    • the_system_disconnect
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:04am

      Troll…

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    • Ghandi was a Republican
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:07am

      Okay I thought about it and ….. Gays have all the rights that heteros do. If gays want to get married, which is a hetero Institution- nobody is stopping them. They simply have to marry the opposite sex like the rest of us, because there is no such thing as “Gay” marriage! There is only MARRIAGE!

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    • The Jewish Avenger
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:09am

      Stupid Gays are stupid, not all of them, just the size 15 shoe in their flapper ones.

      Some gays are smart enough to avoid a fools errand and some even pray for them to be enlightened.

      But yes, some are down right stupid.

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  • hi
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:47am

    Instead of supporting political causes, companies should lower the price of their product for the consumer! Even if it is only a penny, I’ll take it! Awesome sneakers shouldn’t be attached to political agendas.

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  • microace
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:47am

    There is a reason for the low turnout, radical gay activists only make up less than 1% of the population…

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  • DrunkGOP_Hack
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:43am

    NO BODY CARES.
    Even the GAYS.

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  • wingnut1955
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:35am

    Let me understand this, “..of course, came with a great deal of media coverage.” When was this? i missed it. NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC. I must have been asleep for days before the event. I don’t remember stories about the Chick-Fil-A event on any MSM outlet. Let’s just say there are less homosexuals than straight people. This is mostly because they can not procreate. They can only recruit people.

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    • DimmuBorgir
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:49am

      And they’re gay

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    • RobbieTLHughie
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:52am

      Yeah, bro, gay people are stupid and stuff.

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    • David Lampo
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:13am

      you have a very appropriate name, wingnut, well-earned since you clearly make up your own facts. The Chick-fil-A boycott and Appreciation Day were all covered by the MSM. Maybe you simply don’t Watch or read MSM; they may account for your ignorance. And of course some gays and lesbians do procreate; they just don’t do it the same way you do. God is producing new homosexuals all the time, so they don’t have to recruit. It comes naturally to millions of people, thank you very much.

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    • UpholderOftheConstitution
      Posted on August 9, 2012 at 11:22am

      David Lampo I think the only thing clear here is that you have no clue on what the word procreate means. Clearly by your words you have no idea what the term’s definition is. Here let me help your ignorance become educated. Procreate means this: “to beget or generate (offspring).” Clearly your definition does not align with the actual definition or biology. Two of the same sex by natural biological law cannot “beget or generate (offspring)” or let’s use a one word term, procreate.

      And please do not come out and start with the born that way speech. People all over the world everyday are born with deficiencies and learn or through medicine how to overcome them. So when you throw out the “we are born this way” you forget very deeply why we have sexual organs and what the use of them are for. Ah there it is! To procreate, pleasure is a byproduct of the natural law to repopulate the earth. As life leaves, so does life enter.

      So please sit down and enjoy being gay but please do not try to banter intellectually with those that will crush you intellectually each and every time. Enjoy the fact that you as an American citizen can marry someone of the opposite sex and enjoy the same equal rights as everyone else while you also have sex with the same sex to fulfill your own lusts and desires without penalty of law. Unlike other parts of the world where they would kill you or at least imprison you for life. Enjoy and do some more reading. I would start with the dictionary.

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  • Bruce P.
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:35am

    Despite claims that a majority of Americans do not support homosexual marriage, polls indicate quite a different story…

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/majority-americans-support-legalizing-same-sex-marriage-poll-101314711.html

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    • M13
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:47am

      If that’s true, why did every voter referendum vote down gay marriage in every state where it has come up for a vote. Bruce you need new information because you make yourself look like an idiot.

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    • Tankertony
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:48am

      Not just a majority, an overwhelming majority of Americans do not support so-called ‘gay marriage’.

      In all thirty-six states where this issue has been brought before the people to vote on, in every case they have overwhelmingly voted to defend the traditional, sacred definition of marriage. spank.

      You obviously didn’t listen to Sarah Palin, who could teach you a thing or two. Polls are for strippers and skiers.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:50am

      Yet, some thirty plus states’ citizens have voted overwhelmingly to not allow homosexual marriage. Apparently proof that polls are manipulated.

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    • copatriots
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:52am

      Won’t even click on it and waste my time. Lefties have proven you can make a poll say anything you want as well as the results.

      The poll was taken last Wednesday with the overwhelming support at Chick-fil-A then again Friday and the article above with the no-show crowd.

      Nice try though.

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    • RightUnite
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:56am

      B as in B, S as in S.

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    • greyguy
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:59am

      Come on Bruce I live in CA and we voted gay marriage down. Get your info up to date!

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    • John 3:16
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:17am

      Polls run by the radical, lying media? Polls make better toilet tissue than fact. Stuff the illegitimate polls Brucie!!!

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    • reliableakura
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 10:25am

      For your information! Poll dont mean nothing. Gay marriage even lost when poll show that majority supported gay marriage when it came up for a vote in a referendum idiot. Polls are just as false as your brain thinks.

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  • kpeters59
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:29am

    Finally a brand I don’t use anyway.

    Nike usually doesn’t fit me properly. I had to give my Nike golf shoes away after just 1 round.

    Makes things easy for me…I’ll show them!

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:28am

    Despite constant indoctrination, I guess America really doesn’t lose any sleep over whether Bill and Steve can get a piece of paper that declares them married.

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  • simplygilly
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:27am

    Aw-gee, the Great American Sodomy Day didn’t pan out.

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:16am

    “… this dearth in attendance … can be potentially chalked up to a number of factors …”

    Well, the main “FACTOR” is that most people don’t support non-traditional marriage, OR, are not interested in associating with obama’s gay radicals. The push for non-traditional marriage is a fringe movement, and, failed, real-world events such as this are proof.

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    • DrunkGOP_Hack
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:49am

      … i’m thinking if they believed in TRADITIONAL marriage, THEY WOULD’NT BE GAY!

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  • jhaydeng
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:11am

    I think most people are turned off by these large demonstrations. If you want to get something done do it through civil discussion. Why must everyone feel compelled to make a ruckuss to get a point across! I don’t need to walk through a sea of signs and screaming to get my grande mochachocalatayaya!

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  • copatriots
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:08am

    Is it possible that this broken record is way, way, way overplayed?

    1) The majority of Americans do not support gay marriage

    2) It isn’t a battle tolerant straights feel compelled to join

    and/or

    3) Very few who support gay marriage can afford Starbucks

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    • shorelineliz
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 12:43pm

      Majority of Americans don’t support gay marriage. Starbucks is over priced snotty designer coffee not worth the money for a burnt cup of coffee.

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  • bdandsl
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:06am

    What, no photos?

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  • Listen_then_think
    Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:04am

    Gays are failures at everything they do.

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    • randy
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:11am

      Sorry. But I have to disagree with you slightly…..
      Homosexuals are failures at everything they do.
      Nothing Gay about them….

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    • DIVINEPROVIDENCE1776
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:13am

      That is truly an ignorant statement.

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    • RobbieTLHughie
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 9:50am

      What is wrong with people like you? You‘re not helping your cause or anyone else’s by acting like a dolt.

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    • Tankertony
      Posted on August 8, 2012 at 11:27am

      Ignore listen. He’s just a troll trying to get a rise out of people.

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