Locals Join in Wednesday's Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day
What's your take on the comments by Chick-fil-A's CEO, and reactions by local officials, which has generated a lot of heated reaction in recent days?
A Wenham man was one of thousands who turned out at fast food chain Chick-fil-A on Wednesday for Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day. The company's president Dan Cathy has been both vilified and idolized in recent days because of the company's stance on gay marriage. And both dueling sides in that argument linined up at Chick-fil-A's across the nation today to either support the company or protest, including at the franchise at the Northshore Mall in Peabody. In Burlington, the line stretched around the food court. And that line included Lancelot Ball of Wenham, who held a sign in support of Chick-Fil-A for a Boston Herald photographer on Wednesday. In recent interviews with news outlets, Cathy acknowledged his company does not agree with nor …
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Paul E. Keith
11:01 am on Friday, August 3, 2012
Thank you, Bill. Thoughtful and appropriate, and that's coming from a member of the "gay voting bloc" no less! I've never met the Mayor of Chicago, but in a past business life I had a number of meetings with Mayor Mumbles in Boston and although I wish he had just stayed out of it - not his place - I got to know him well enough that it didn't surprise me at all that he did. Gays, btw, aren't so … more ›