Reacting to Chick-Fil-A's increasingly vocal antigay rhetoric, The Muppets have severed ties with the fast food chain. Founder's daughter and current co-CEO Lisa Henson, a strong supporter of gay marriage, directed the fuzzy puppets in the accounting department to forward Chick-Fil-A's final royalty check to GLAAD.
Also, Boston's mayor Tom Menino says he will block Chick-Fil-A from opening a franchaise in the city.
Highlighting the mental in fundamentalist, Mike Huckabee is organizing a Chick-Fil-A APPRECIATION DAY for August 1. Evil queers plan gay kiss-ins at the restaurants nationwide on August 3.
I, alone and unheard, continue to protest the moronic spelling of Fil-A.
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The week after the Boy Scouts unanimously upheld their antigay policy, Major League Soccer announced they are ending their partnership with the BSA.
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After conflicting responses from commanders, on July 19 the Pentagon for the first time ever granted permission for military servicemembers to wear their uniforms in a gay pride parade. The exemption was limited to one time, on Saturday in San Diego [below], while the chiefs review their policy prohibiting uniforms in civilian parades. If next year the soldiers and sailors have to march out of uniform... not complaining.
photo via San Diego Union Tribune
Thank you for being a solid and solitary voice against the spelling of Chick-Fil-A. I was at a cookout yesterday where various pronunciations by learned folk of the name of said organization were offered, none of them correct. I, alone and heard, offered a brief lesson. The last time, I hope, that those words pass my lips. Meanwhile, I love kiss-ins. There are two of these establishments in Massachusetts, neither in Boston. Amen.
Posted by: Sandy | July 23, 2012 at 11:50 AM
The legal trademark on the term "Muppet" and the familiar Muppet characters are currently held by The Muppets Studio, a wholly owned division of The Walt Disney Company, although Sesame Workshop and the Jim Henson Company continue to occasionally use the term on their characters with certain permissions from Disney, which purchased The Muppets in 2004.
The Jim Henson Company, a separate and independent creative entity, is the organization that severed its ties with the offensive bigot chicken merchant.
Posted by: Jeff Kurtti | July 24, 2012 at 06:35 AM