Why The Hell Is Lesbian GMA Anchor Robin Roberts Teaming Up With Chick-fil-A?

[Ian David]

Why The Hell Is Lesbian GMA Anchor Robin Roberts Teaming Up With Chick-fil-A?

This is no April Fool's joke: Robin Roberts, a Good Morning America co-anchor, is headlining a leadership conference put on by Chick-fil-A. What is this lesbian smoking?

Reader RJ alerts us that on May 6, Roberts will join other boldface names -- including author John C. Maxwell, finance guru Dave Ramsey, GMA economics contributor Suzy Welch, marketing whiz Seth Godin, and, yes, Chick-fil-A chief Dan Cathy (pictured below) -- at Chick-fil-A Leadercast. The event, which will be broadcast online, was originally called "Maximum Impact" and then "GIANT Impact" before being renamed after the restaurant chain last year. If you can't be among the couple thousand to attend the ticketed event in person in Atlanta (tickets start at $199), then you can attend a local viewing party, many of which are, not surprisingly, hosted at churches; fees appear to be around $59-69 per person, and include a Chick-fil-A lunch at some venues.

That Roberts would even seriously consider an offer from the noted anti-gay company (which refuses to acknowledge its anti-gayness) is profound. That she would agree to take the stage at a Chick-fil-A event is horrifying. (It's unclear if Roberts is being paid to appear, but producers of these type of events, where attendees must pay for tickets, do provide some serious remuneration to their prominent guests.)

Does it matter that Roberts, who to our knowledge has never acknowledged her sexuality in public, is gay? No, not in the sense that anyone who believes in equal rights for all people should be disassociating themselves with the chicken chain that supports hate groups. But that Roberts is gay makes her decision to partake in the event even more unnerving.

More:
http://www.queerty.com/why-the-hell-is-lesbian-gma-anchor-robin-roberts-teaming-up-with-chick-fil-a-20110401/

[Tesha]

1. Doubtless she's doing it for the oldest reason in the world: money. (NT)

[MNBrewer]

2. while practicing the oldest profession

[Tesha]

3. (Thank you for correctly catching my unspoken implication.) (NT)

[MNBrewer]

4. :)

Priest/King being the 3rd oldest profession

[Crowman1979]

5. Because she's a member of the corporate media. Duh!

[thanks_imjustlurking]

6. No one who believes in civil rights of any sort should be associating with them.

Civil rights means civil rights for all. I'm finally going to look up a quote I think about a lot.

“Accept in your mind that anything that can happen can happen to you.”

Can't find it in a list of quotes or anything. Only found a few sites that mention it. This one says it is Pythagoras.
http://lucreziamagazine.com/2008/03/03/inconclusive-aids-or-not-1984/

[Creideiki]

7. Why are their gay and lesbian Republicans?

[thanks_imjustlurking]

8. Isn't that the height of absurdity?

Edited to add that a specialist veterinarian we visited in a desperate attempt to save one of our dogs, a few years ago, knew a gay couple in her neighborhood who adored W. (Pause to :puke: )

She said they were well-off financially, were out and were experiencing little bigotry or discrimination (lucky them!), and so basically saw themselves as part of the mainstream, living the good life.

So screw everybody else. Or at least be totally oblivious to everybody else. I think that's probably quite common.

[Creideiki]

11. And we get back to the Republican motto: "I've got mine."

I don't know why they don't just try to make that the national motto, too.

[thanks_imjustlurking]

12. Ain't it the truth. nt

[MNBrewer]

9. the same reason there are gay/lesbian catholics

[ZombieHorde]

10. Why are there gay and lesbian Christians? nt

[RetiredTrotskyite]

13. Self-Loathing Individuals...

who are brainwashed by patriarchal religion.

[Crowman1979]

14. So they can stay on their rich parent's will.