decodering

Folks,

I get that conflating issues with the company's policies and the merit of it accepting Apple Pay can be objectionable, it's downright shocking and sad how many angry, ill-informed messages defending the company there are in this thread.

It's one thing for the president of the company to publicly state he believes in "traditional" marriage (the term is overly vague and rather random -- Which tradition? From which culture? At which point in the long history of humans creating and living in stable communities?). It's another thing for the company to donate large sums of money to groups that actively work to deny a group basic human and legal rights. To read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/chick-fil-a-anti-gay-controversy-employees-speak-out_n_1729968.html

If the president stated, and acted accordingly, that he did not personally believe in granting marriage equality but left it at that, then that would be one thing. But to actively give lots of money to discriminate against a group whose members have been and continue to be singled out for persecution just for living their lives peaceably isn't something anyone be jumping to defend.

Against same-sex marriage? Don't have one.

And remember: compassion and solidarity will get us a lot further in our collective journey than meanspiritedness and discrimination will.