Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day in Lubbock

Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day wasn’t lost on the people of Lubbock with hundreds of people swarming the 69^th and Slide location of the locally owned and operated chain restaurant.

Lubbock’s First News show host Chad Hasty, producer Ariel Walden and I went today to Chick-Fil-A and by the end of our stay for lunch a few hundred people were inside ordering or in the drive-thru line.

Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day was not created by the restaurant. In a statement, Steve Robinson, Executive Vice President Marketing said,

“Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day was not created by Chick-fil-A. We appreciate all of our customers and are glad to serve them at any time. Our goal is simple: to provide great food, genuine hospitality and to have a positive influence on all who come into contact with Chick-fil-A.”

Some protesters did show up and to them I give them praise as well. The winner today won’t be Chick-Fil-A or the protesters or patrons of the store: The First Amendment was the winner today.

Regardless of your stance on gay marriage or Chick-Fil-A everyone wasn’t denied their right to freely exercise one of most basic rights protected by the Bill of Rights.

We had protesters and those freely going to buy a chicken sandwich with extra pickles and diet lemonade without reprisal from the mob that could be offended by a business run by Christians and operating on Christian principles.

You can read Dan Cathy and his comments in the publication Baptist Press here from this link.