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Sign at Old Burger King
updated: Aug 14, 2012, 8:48 PM

By Edhat Subscriber

Has anyone seen the new sign at the old Burger King location, on upper state? They put a banner now, that says Chick-Fil-A...and with it, in black letters it reads: "We don't discriminate, we just support it" Or something like that?! I was driving, and didn't get a chance to snap a photo! If you can, submit it so we can see it! I am appalled...I am wondering however, if it's just vandalism! I hope it is just vandalism!

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COMMENT 308315	2012-08-14 08:51 PM
Only sign I'm looking for is the open sign.
COMMENT 308356	2012-08-15 06:12 AM
This is yet another fast food/soft kill outlet for the clueless Sheeple. Eat there often and eat as much as you can. RIP
COMMENT 308374	2012-08-15 07:26 AM
Honestly, the statements and the fuss around Chick-fil-A is so incredibly offensive, I will choose to avoid this place. I contend it was done for publicity and media attention. That's no way to run a business, particularly a fast-food, unhealthy food company. At least they'll be closed on Sundays.
COMMENT 308378	2012-08-15 07:32 AM
Yes, saw the sign yesterday. It's not there now. Santa Barbara ARB was wrong in trying to block the opening of Chickafil for political reasons and were instructed by the City of SB to move forward with project. Looking forward to the opening!
COMMENT 308381P	2012-08-15 07:37 AM
I think you are referring to a photoshopped Internet joke/ parody picture. I can't believe that any corporation as large as BK wants to get into this silly distraction controversy. I will add that anyone who uses the made-up word "sheeple" is almost always referring to themselves, and has no idea what they are talking about in honest debate.
COMMENT 308386	2012-08-15 07:49 AM
It's going to be a gay bar and should be open soon.
COMMENT 308390	2012-08-15 07:50 AM
What's the big deal? It's just another greasy fast food trough for the masses. If ownership chooses to publicize their bigotry that's their business, whether it's to profess their "Christian morality" or to stir up political controversy for the free publicity it can garner. It's still junk food and bad business.
COMMENT 308395	2012-08-15 08:00 AM
Christian morality does not sit on judgment of people, God does. It is the personal opinion of the CEO of the corp that holds Chik-a-fil-a or whatever the name is, and if his beliefs (very wrong in the Christian life) extend to his public hiring system, then that is an issue for the courts, it does not reflect Christianity. He does not represent Christianity anymore than Madonna wearing crosses all over herself at her concerts. The name sounds awful, I will miss Burger King.
COMMENT 308397	2012-08-15 08:01 AM
Vandalism? I call it free speech. If Mr. Cathy has the right to free speech, so do people who oppose his position.
COMMENT 308408	2012-08-15 08:12 AM
Those on the left have increasingly resorted to unethical, illegal and immoral behaviors which in their mind they can rationalize because they think they are "right". This "ends justifies the means" mentality has destroyed the remnants of the classic democratic party and is the mantra of the new left or so called "progressives". Whining, name calling, lies, distortions, demonstrations (occupations) vandalism, abuse of official powers, playing the race card, sympathy card or a whole deck of other "cards", all because they think they are "right" and therefore "the ends justifies the means". The intolerance of a party or political body that used to claim inclusion and tolerance is astounding, and perhaps a sad sign of the times!
COMMENT 308414	2012-08-15 08:22 AM
Well said 408
COMMENT 308419	2012-08-15 08:27 AM
I'd rather have Burger King back..great customer service, everyone spoke good English and that's hard to come by now a days.
REXOFSB	2012-08-15 08:32 AM
Of course I think the allegedly "christian" interpretation of the chicken man is loathesome, but destruction of property is NOT the answer. A word to those who want to spray paint, set fire to, or otherwise harm the chicken man's property: CUT IT OUT!! Don't you realize that by committing acts of vandalism you are playing right into the chicken man's hands? You are setting him and his evil company up as VICTIMS. This then gains him sympathy. Is this really what you want? There's nothing we can do to keep this "christian" and his greasy chicken out of Santa Barbara. This IS a free country. I'm sure that as the time approaches for chicken man's franchise to open, there will be protests and maybe even a picket sign or two. This will be the time and place to vent your frustration. But please do NOT do anything destructive. This just sets the chicken man up to be a martyr. Which I'm sure is something he would love. Let's not give him the satisfaction.
LOLA	2012-08-15 08:38 AM
I try not to patronize companies whose philosophy differs from mine. I will not be eating at Chick Fil-A. Plus, I'd rather spend my money on local Mom and Pop shops, than on National chains. I also do not like controversy that polarizes people. We need more love and understanding of diversity or we'll end up in a civil war! We already have 50/50 to the left and right of the political spectrum. Diversity is the spice of life, live and let live for goodness sake!
COMMENT 308429	2012-08-15 08:45 AM
Well said 408!
COMMENT 308435	2012-08-15 08:49 AM
Getting to annoy pious vegetarians and the faux politically correct for the price of a chicken salad sandwich at Chick-Fil-A sounds like a bargain to me. I wish this business every success.
COMMENT 308443	2012-08-15 08:55 AM
Well said 426.
COMMENT 308451	2012-08-15 09:06 AM
1. I will not eat at Chick-fil-A unless I have a free coupon. I really don't care what this putz CEO says, I just like sticking it to idiot religious types whenever I can. 2. Burger King has the worst food of any fast food restaurant in the world. And it's not even close. They will not be missed.
COMMENT 308459	2012-08-15 09:20 AM
Religion is for loosers.
COMMENT 308470	2012-08-15 09:34 AM
@308381P All words are made up, and the generalizations of your addition are not consistent with honest debate.
COMMENT 308477P	2012-08-15 09:45 AM
Well said 426 !! 408 - Since the 2008 presidential election, I can't tell you how many political converstions I have been in that escalated within minutes to the conservative shouting at me. Do they really think if they, like their TV heroes, interrupt and raise their voices, it will make me change my opinions? We are not whining. We are reiterating our values and our patriotism. Does America really want to be known as the country of the 1% - the country that abandoned its old, its poor, its students? That is the "financial budget package" that Mr. Ryan espouses. Mitt, as usual, doesn't know what financial plan he wants. First he says he picked Ryan for that reason; a day or two later, he says he'll have his OWN financial plan.....not Ryan's. Good 'ole Mr. flip flop. Anyway, I digress. Here's to free speech!
COMMENT 308500	2012-08-15 10:13 AM
Too bad the unions supported (instigated?) the Occupy 99% nonsense because all it did was create a backlash against them. America is tired of demanding union employees and their violence tinged demonstrations along and are ready to throw out with the union-friendly legislator cronies who have sold out America's future. The biggest political conversion going on is young people supporting Romney-Ryan who still stands for the American dream of hard work, thrift, freedom and accountability.
COMMENT 308508P	2012-08-15 10:27 AM
I'd like to point out that it isn't the left who shoot abortion doctors. The left may be intolerant of intolerance, but that's an American value. There is a big difference between putting up a sign and putting up a bomb.
COMMENT 308519	2012-08-15 10:55 AM
WELL SAID 426: and WHY was that banned and not 408's? Conservative filter? Hmmmm...
COMMENT 308524	2012-08-15 10:59 AM
Nanny is just really inconsistent at times, 519. I wouldn't put much stock in it.
COMMENT 308544	2012-08-15 11:20 AM
another thread about chick-fil-a.... these threads bring out the keyboard warriors... I bet half of u in support of chick-fil-a would never say half the words in real life then u do on here...
COMMENT 308554	2012-08-15 11:32 AM
I have never eaten Chik-Fil-A. and i love food. especially new food! :( But I don't want people to be mad at me for trying out a new fast food place. Will you guys be mad at me for buying a sandwich? I mean, some of us don't really care about what this CEO guy thinks. the workers who will be making the food and selling the food just need a job. LOL what to do? good thing the place is not open yet. I just don't want to get egged or yelled at by people who don't know me for just buying myself some lunch.
COMMENT 308590	2012-08-15 12:14 PM
A poster complaining about unions? This is getting good. Even Fox news is poking fun at Romney/Ryan. Dang war mongers. "Peanuts, Popcorn, Soda"
REXOFSB	2012-08-15 12:46 PM
@554: Hopefully no one will bother you if you try out the chicken. But please consider that millions (plural) of dollars from the owner of the restaurant chain are sent to extreme right-wing evangelical christian groups whose sole purpose is to deny, solely on religious grounds, gay people their right to marry. This isn't a free-speech issue. It's an issue of whether you want the $$$ you spend there to promote a highly discriminatory religious issue.
COMMENT 308616	2012-08-15 12:52 PM
@REXOFSB That is the best way I have seen it put.. Thank you ! Hopefully it will make people actually think about it that way...
COMMENT 308634P	2012-08-15 01:10 PM
554, I think you go there at your own risk. You're an adult, you've been informed of what they do with their money. I don't see why you'd bother to go; just the name of that place is gross.
COMMENT 308641	2012-08-15 01:22 PM
554, eat wherever you please. I hate chick fila, mostly because its another junk food paradise (like all other fast food chains that I vehemently oppose), but I won't judge you based upon your choice of food. I will however ask that you reconsider wasting your money on anything that provides such short, minimal satisfaction at the cost of your health.
COMMENT 308642	2012-08-15 01:23 PM
I used to be morbidly obese. I lost the weight through proper diet and exercise. I learned a lot about nutrition and health along the way...sensible stuff....not crazy rumors. There is no fast food place that is okay for me anymore. It's just how it is. This is a fast food place (who apparently couldn't zip it about it's political stance on something that is none of it's business) - they can front all they want to about how they are a healthy alternative but they are not. It's all I need to know. They will be just another place that is not on my horizon anymore.
KIDS	2012-08-15 04:13 PM
Thanks REXSB. You are the voice of reason!
COMMENT 308758	2012-08-15 04:14 PM
642 - sorry to hear that - genetics - I have always been able to eat what ever & when ever - Don't eat fast food that often - But we have a great local list - Nortons - 1/4 Lb. with cheese - appetizers at Harry's - Taco Bell - Lilly's - In & Out - Sam's to go on Milpas - Lito's - Starbucks - SB Brew House Fries - I have had the Chik sandwich - and will have it again - My fathers always told me growing up - all things in moderation and you'll be fine..... As far as the hub bub over this chain - in the scheme of my life - it just doesn't matter - this guy puts in money on one side and there are 5 others on the other side funding the issue - so what
COMMENT 308777	2012-08-15 04:59 PM
Chicken salad sandwich on whole wheat bread sounds good enough for to me at Chick-Fil-A. Comfort food. Note fried.
COMMENT 308841	2012-08-15 08:03 PM
It is clear there are many voices in this town, not just the pouty activists that thought they controlled the politically correct agenda with their oppressive verbal tyranny for so long. Who would have guessed this backlash voice of protest against the ABR misguided action is now registered as also part of the fabric of this town. A town where progressives had hijacked the poltiical agenda for so long, many forgot there were always needs to be at least two sides to every issue. Bravo to all those who saw the wider issues in this pouty ABR stunt of political correctness. Far deeper rights were at stake and they came forth loud and clear: First Amendment Rights; Notice and Due Process Rights; Equal Protection under the Law right. In fact, we just witnessed a constitutional clash over a chicken sandwich and we are becoming a healthier city because of this remarkable dialogue.
COMMENT 308857P	2012-08-15 11:14 PM
There are three problems here: 1. Corporate food served with no regard for health and nutrition. Not just the case at hand, but all of the fast food outlets serving identical menus across the land. America has become a nation of the obese, and corporate feeding bears some responsibility 2. The in-your-face bigotry of Chik-Fil-A leadership. 3. The ABR overstepping their authority. Number three has been addressed. The other two remain.
COMMENT 308861	2012-08-16 06:29 AM
So let's see here.... 1) Business enterprise is bad. 2) Freedom of speech. (A huge no no.) Yup, both are terrible and bringing America down.
COMMENT 308872P	2012-08-16 07:30 AM
@861: It isn't about freedom of speech, it's about supporting a CEO who gives a lot of money to deprive gay people the right to marry because of his religious "values." Would you support a business that openly gave money to the KKK? It's exactly the same thing.
COMMENT 308882	2012-08-16 07:59 AM
You do understand that there are people out there who do not support gay marriage right? Are they wrong? Do they not have the right to their beliefs? There was a time, not too long ago, when people kept their beliefs to themselves. It was borderline rude to ask someone what their religious or political beliefs were. It was more of a private thing. I miss those times.
COMMENT 308901P	2012-08-16 08:22 AM
882: Of course they have a right to their beliefs. But when that directly affects other peoples' rights, they've overstepped their bounds. It's that simple. Believe whatever you want. Just don't force legislation that keeps an entire group of people from getting married just because you don't like it. There are myriad things I find wrong with evangelical christians, but I don't actively campaign against them. Although the way they're comporting themselves these days maybe I will.
COMMENT 308919	2012-08-16 09:06 AM
I wish that Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles would have opened instead of Chick-Fil-A. :D
COMMENT 308920	2012-08-16 09:12 AM
No one forces anyone to eat at Chic-Fil-A. That is clearly a matter of personal choice. Not sure where the Three Point poster is trying to go with this. This poster accuses corporate America ob being a foie gras farmer forcing food down the gullets of all Americans, against their will. Maybe I am missing a point here. Or are we all being victims once again of one more pious, nanny-attack scolding rant by The Chosen, who claim it is their way or the highway.
COMMENT 308921	2012-08-16 09:14 AM
@872P from the sounds of it alot of people in this city would support a business that openly donated funds to the KKK.... I love that analogy...
COMMENT 308973	2012-08-16 10:37 AM
Sounds like a lot of people in this city don't want city review authorities abusing city permit processes by imposing their own private prejudices which arbitrarily deny applicants their due process rights. I am cool with that. That should not be happening and the city needs to make sure it does not happen again.
COMMENT 308985	2012-08-16 11:06 AM
@8973 this thread has nothing to do with review board it has to do with a sign that was hung on the fence... its helpful if u read the intitial post before u comment.
COMMENT 309008P	2012-08-16 11:45 AM
Corporations feed a huge number of people every day. Their customers are attracted by the inexpensive food which is prepared for them. You can't beat the price and convenience, and the taste is rewarding. It is sourced from the cheapest suppliers, who use industrial methods to bring down the costs (In the U.S., four companies produce 81 percent of cows, 73 percent of sheep, 60 percent of pigs, and 50 percent of chickens). Their methods degrade the environment, sometimes spread infectious disease, and deprive the animals of their quality of life. The end product is full of empty calories. Two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese.
COMMENT 309115	2012-08-16 02:16 PM
I agree completely with this statement (901P): 'Just don't force legislation that keeps an entire group of people from getting married just because you don't like it.' which is why I think gay marriage should be legal. But I from the other side, I don't want to support all those social programs: so don't force me to pay higher taxes so they can go to programs I don't like or agree with. If you want to whine about Chick-Fil-A, don't eat there.
COMMENT 309134	2012-08-16 02:29 PM
Wow, 308882. Way to wear that homophobic bigotry on your sleeve. You know, there are people out there that STILL don't support mixed race marriages. Are they wrong? Of course they are. Just like everyone that is against same-sex marriage. They are all DEAD WRONG. 100% wrong.
COMMENT 309142	2012-08-16 02:42 PM
134... that is Soooooooo "just" your opinion. And of course, if somebody doesn't agree with your opinion, then they are simply 100% WRONG. Isn't that basically what you just spoon-fed me?
COMMENT 309344P	2012-08-17 01:47 AM
I live nearly across from the site and have not seen the sign. Just the ugly green cloth attached to the chain link fence they put up around the place. It makes it look very tacky and worn down. I just hope they do something about it soon to get rid of it and not just let it go like they have in other areas of town.

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