UPDATE: The News has updated its report: The university has decided that because of the vote, it won't allow a Chick-fil-A at the school.
The Huntington News reports the Northeastern Student Government Association voted 31-5 last night to denounce the university's proposal to allow a Chick-fil-A in a remodeled student center.
The association spent four years working to get a Chick-fil-A on campus, but voted last night that the chain should be barred because of its contributions to a group funding anti-gay efforts.
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What.
By eeka
Tue, 02/28/2012 - 10:48pm
Well, you're definitely a homophobe.
Do you really need to be a racist too? Is there some sort of punchcard you're looking to complete?
What in the holy hell does the President have to do with this?
By Michael
Tue, 02/28/2012 - 10:50pm
I swear, the lengths and the convolutions some people go to so they can cast themselves as victims in a perfectly ordinary story about a perfectly ordinary business decision.
Duh
By J. Dunne
Tue, 02/28/2012 - 11:08pm
It's Obama's fault that a private university made a decision to not rent out their space to a private company. Anyone can see that.
Seriously, some people think that a "free market" entitles a company, corporation or business being able to say or do whatever they want without criticism. That's not how it works. Sure, a private company has a right to donate to whatever bigoted cause it deems worthy. But remember, by the same token, a private university has just as much of a right to tell that company to go to hell, and not rent space in their student center.
I'm going to go out a limb and guess that if a school chose not to rent to a company that donated to, say, Planned Parenthood, Fishy and friends would have a completely different response.
Shame when the free market doesn't work the way Republicans want it to, isn't it?
FISH, while I have only once ever agreed with
By Brian Riccio
Wed, 02/29/2012 - 1:21am
anything you've written here, I think it's highly disingenuous for people asking for you to be banned. You have just as much right to voice your opinion here as anyone else, just as they have the right to disagree with you.
Heck, if they started throwing people off this site for being assholes, I would have been bounced years ago.
Strawman defeated!
By Kaz
Tue, 02/28/2012 - 10:18pm
Huzzah!
Who cares if NU effects Chick-Fil-A at all? That wasn't the point of any of this.
Chick-Fil-A doesn't stop with Gay
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 02/29/2012 - 10:04am
They think it is their business to nose into the marital and familial relationships of all their employees.
Source: http://equalitymatters.org/blog/201103220005#2
And this is why
By eeka
Wed, 02/29/2012 - 3:03pm
...it should be illegal to have discriminatory policies instead of the current laws requiring that an individual has been discriminated against and is willing to file a complaint.
If you go on the record and state as a business owner that you think it's a great thing to violate laws that bar discrimination based on religious affiliation or marital status, there should at least be something in place where the EEOC will send a letter telling you that such practices are discriminatory and ordering you to make sure you're following the law.
Raising a family of 6 on a Chick-Fil-A salary!
By Lecil
Wed, 02/29/2012 - 4:29pm
Um. Yeah.
(Unless that is some damned expensive chicken!)
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