Other than just trying to rile up commentators? Clickbait much?

I don't consider it real progress that some companies come out in support of gay marriage, while others are against it. I go to Pride, but I wish we didn't have it. Real progress will be when it ceases to matter whether or not you're gay; When it's as natural as not being gay.

It's like black history month. I don't support that either. People call me racist for it, but I don't. There is no black history month; Black history is American history. It's human history. And their accomplishments should be celebrated the same way as every other historical accomplishment is. We don't need a "special olympics" history for people based on the color of their skin, we need to delete those divisions from our history books, mentioning only that there was a period of time (known as the Stupid Ages) when it was relevant, and then we grew up and put a stop to it. Ta-da, the end.

It'll be progress with companies like Chic-Fil A say they don't support gay marriage or homosexuality, and gets no press coverage at all. Like, wait, what? Why the fuck does anyone care what a fast food restaurant owner thinks about a perfectly natural state of being? That'd be like Ford Motor Co., coming out and saying they're against red heads marrying. It would go on the back pages, in the "News of the Weird" section.

That's where shit like this belongs, and until that's where it ends up and people pay it no more attention than as a source of fringe humor and entertainment when companies make announcements like this, we're still in the Stupid Ages of our future history books.

I understand the sentiment, but please reconsider your choice. Chick-Fil-A did not come under attack because of its CEO's statements, although those statements did fan the flames afterwards. Chick-Fil-A came under fire for its funding of hate groups. And I'm not using "hate group" here in a wishy-washy, "anyone who disagrees with me is a hate group" way. I'm talking about groups that are pushing for Ugandan law to make homosexuality a capital crime. There's some confusion out there about much of Chick-Fil-A's millions of dollars of donations research that particular organization, but I would anyone involved in supporting GLBT issues to find any association with that hate group to be reprehensible.

I personally don't want to give my money to hate-mongers and bigots. Thats why. And I generally advocate that no one else should support assholes as well.

This appreciation day thing is creepy, since its supporting them just because they are run by an asshole. I'm glad that hatred can make you the money here in America, for no reason but for the fact that you hate someone who someone else hates. I find this depressing as hell.

Uhhh...I had to take my youngest son out of school because he was being bashed routinely and not only did the teachers know, some encouraged it. the final straw was when a teacher BROUGHT A BIBLE into class and gave a lecture about "sodomites and heathens" because he was gay and his brother catholic and we are in the middle of baptist land.

And before you say "Why didn't you sue" it was because at the time my sister was suffering through a slow and agonizing death due to a rare nerve disorder and frankly there was no way in hell my family could have taken the extra stress of a lawsuit on top of that. Hell we would have probably fallen apart if my GF hadn't told her boss when she heard it was the end "You can write it off as sick leave and vacation or you can fire me, but either way i'm going" and spent a month and a half giving the boys a shoulder to cry on and helping keep us together.

So don't think just because YOU don't see it that bashing isn't happening every, single, day, forget Matthew Shepard? In many places even the cops won't give a shit if you bash away on a gay, and there is a REASON why the highest suicide rate among teens is gay teens, its because their lives are made living hells and frankly nobody in power gives a shit.

I know ALL ABOUT racist bashing, I have a 2 inch scar on the back of my head for daring to give a black man a ride in MS and before being bashed in the head by the cop I heard 'fucking dirty niggers and god damned hippie freaks, i don't know which makes me more sick" and I can tell you the treatment of gays i'm seeing in many places is NO DIFFERENT than how they treated blacks. Lynching wasn't an everyday occurrence,bashing was. Matthew Shepard style murders aren't an everyday occurrence, bashing is.