Days of Our Lives Star Melissa Reeves Tweeted Support During Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day
NBC's Days of Our Lives may have made great strides in supporting the LGBT community by penning a powerful coming out story for Will Horton (Chandler Massey), but apparently one of the soap's top stars would rather eat chicken than see gay people afforded equality. Melissa Reeves, who has played the mega popular role of Jennifer Rose Horton Deveraux on the sudser on and off since 1985, tweeted support for Chick-fil-A on Wednesday.
The fast food chain has been under fire for years, due to the millions it has donated to anti-LGBT rights causes. Most recently, Chick-fil-A's COO Dan Cathy confirmed his stance against gay marriage in an interview with the publication Blblical Recorder, resulting in calls from civil rights groups to boycott Chick-fil-A. I guess Reeves sees absolutely nothing wrong with the chain working so hard to deny 10 percent of the population their civil rights. She tweeted:
Reeves is absolutely right. She should be able to express her freedom of speech any way she sees fit. Just like I am free in this country to turn the channel from Days of Our Lives anytime her character comes on my screen — which is exactly what I plan to do.
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25 June 2012
6 days 20 hours
The people who are calling for Melissas' termination are the problem. they are worse than the ones that started this supposed controversy. Remember this is still America, freedom of SPEECH & IDEAS, just don't give them your business, I'm sure they'll survive.
12 October 2011
11 weeks 5 days
How can anyone on here support a company that supports killing people for who they are.
But do they give money to the FRC BECAUSE of that reason? No.
@Tom, feel free.
16 April 2010
9 weeks 1 day
2. I would say that donating money to hate groups, groups that are not only working to stop marriage equality, but also do things aimed at turning gay people straight (as if that's possible) is discrimination.
3. The people in a marriage are the ones who define it. And if the Bible is accurate, a quick reading of it will show that marriage has not always been the way that we view it. Or, we can look at history, and see that marriage used to be a business contract, and had very little to do with love. But, more importantly, there are a lot of things that used to be done in the name of tradition. Thankfully, definitions and traditions have changed. We know that some of the things that we used to do in the past, even in the name of religion, were wrong.
4. Your fourth point couldn't be more wrong. Marriage as it stands now is a legal institution, and as such there are a lot of legal rights that married couples have, and take for granted, that gay people do not have. Because of DOMA there are even rights that are being denied to those gay couples who are legally married. That is not equal. Do a little research on the topic.
Awesome post!!! Thank you for an intelligent informed point of view.
29 March 2010
12 hours 9 min
theroomstops--
I'm sorry that you were bullied in high school, and that you've lost people you know who've taken their lives,
but there are millions of teens across the globe who are bullied and don't end up fatally harming themselves nor do they even contemplate that very thought. This just goes to show that bullying alone isn't the main catalyst in the case of suicide. Unfortunately some people aren't mentally strong enough, are emotionally sensitive, and predisposed to sadness and bullying just adds fuel to the fire. Never once did I make any claims about what bullying was. I've been to school I know what classifies as bullying and how severe it can be.
Another poster requested I do some googling, and I found this very interesting article http://outspokennyc.com/shoutout/how-to-talk-about-lgbt-suicide-in-the-m...
In retrospect, the gay community and their rise against chick fi-la can be considered bullying, a dude gives his honest opinion and he's being attacked.
Bookerman wrote:Posts like this are exactly why "the gay community" continues to be one of the most obnoxious movements in the US. You do not get to tell people how to feel or act. Isn't that what you're criticizing the Chick-fil-A CEO for?
If you make a gay joke it's letters to the network, it's a bitchy complaint from LGBT, it's called "offensive." If anyone is against gay marriage they receive death threats and people call for their jobs. Really, you want someone to be homeless because they disagree with you. What in the hell does that accomplish?
Bottom line: Everyone has the right to be who they are, love who they want to love, and live how they want to live. You do not get the right to tell people what they can and cannot do. The Chick-fil-A CEO has no power to prevent anyone from doing anything, he is just stating his opinion.
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Thank you bookerman for that post
In my first post on this ridiculous thread, my point was that it's not fair for the gay community to demand respect and the rights to express their beliefs and then go and aggressively attack people who are doing the same thing expressing their beliefs because their views are opposing.
Telling someone they should be ashamed of themselves and that they've made an ass of themselves because their views differ from yours...Really? Seriously? After all that huffing and puffing...I have to laugh at that. Pot meet kettle.
All I've seen from the gay community thus far is them doing the same thing they are asking others not to do of them. Even posters on this very thread have resorted to calling people names, bashing those who are religious by calling them zealots, saying one is an ass because of their differing opinion. What's the difference and what are you accomplishing by doing so?
I'm trying to see the other side here and I'm trying to understand the obnoxious outrage, maybe it's because I'm Canadian and gay marriage has been legal nationwide for about 10 years now I believe, and very rarely do I hear about a teen committing suicide under the circumstances discussed here. It's obviously not as prevalent here as it is in the states. Gay rights are not an issue in my country and my cousin can freely plan her wedding to her same sex partner without facing any prop 8 laws or scrutiny and maybe that's why I do not see why a man speaking his honest opinion on his stance or some actress whose life and where she chooses to spend the money that she earns herself and spends at whatever fast food place of choice is relevant, but it's just tiring that every little comment or joke is blown way out of proportion by the gay community. It's like people who say minorities like to play the race card, not everything is about hate. Melissa never made any statement condemning gays.
I'm going to wash my keyboard of this thread as I don't see it going anywhere. If I offended anybody with my opinion I am genuinely sorry. It would foolish of me as a black canadian to be against anyone because of their sexuality, when my ancestors were discriminated against because of the color of their skin in similar fashion. If my post gave off the vibe that I was against gays, that was truly not my intention. This site has always been a fun place where we could respectfully discuss our favorite soaps. And that's what I'll go back to doing. For those of you who want to express yourselves freely, but don't like it when others express opposing beliefs...check yourselves. As Ghandi said, and eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind.
Goodnight.
5 July 2008
14 min 12 sec
How can anyone on here support a company that supports killing people for who they are.
But do they give money to the FRC BECAUSE of that reason? No.
@Tom, feel free.
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CFA gives $$$$ to FRC and FRC does support the UGANDA movement to kill all gays. That is the important thing. here. There is no whitewashing that. They give money to people that want to kill GLBT folks for no other reason than they are GLBT. No one ever should be defending a group that murders another group just for who they are.
Do they know what the FRC does with their money that they give them. They may not but there is one way to fix that, research FRC. It's not that hard to find that info. So Im sorry but I dont buy the whole they dont give the money for that, so its ok BS & anyone who does is disgusting.
16 April 2010
9 weeks 1 day
And at the end of a very long day of your posts, you still don't understand that the point here isnt your first amendment rights, or vocalizing your opinion. It's about discrimination, unless you are the one being treated differently then I wouldn't expect you to understand.
5 July 2008
14 min 12 sec
Im gonna say this and I hate to do it because it shouldnt matter what Sexuality you are, defending CFA who gives dollars to FRC which supports UGANDA's killing of Gays is just wrong cause no human should support murder of anyone for just who they are.
However, I cant get over the fact that there are GLBT people on here who are defending CFA, WTH. They give money and support people who want you DEAD for no reason beside who you ARE. Dont you see how wrong that is?????
22 January 2011
1 hour 42 min
It's amazing how people confuse Hate Speech with Free Speech.
15 January 2009
1 hour 21 min
There are places in the country you can be fired for being Hispanic, black, fat, fired for anything. You are just told you "don't fit the image of the company".
Getting fired for most of these reasons is illegal, but, that's not the case when it comes to being fired for being gay. There aren't just laws against employment discrimination based on race, sex, or national origin, there are also ones that would cover someone who is fired because they are fat, as long as the person's weight didn't inhibit them from carrying out their responsibilities. Obviously that doesn't mean that bigoted employers still won't fire people for these reasons, just that there is a system in place to dissuade them from doing so, and for the employees to seek some relief in case they are discriminated against.
Lawmakers and activist have been trying to get ENDA passed, which would protect gay and lesbian people from being fired because of their sexual orientation.
11 January 2010
5 weeks 3 days
i saw so many great comments today on different news websites about this & a couple of my favorites were a picture of the line into 1 Chick-fil-a & it said "Wouldn't it be nice if all these Christians were lined up like this to help the homeless or help feed the poor like Jesus said to do in the Bible"
& the other one was " i wonder how much money would of been raised if all these people donated the money they would of spent on their food there & donated it to a worthy charity, which is more Christian-like"
i support everyone's right to free speech, i don't support a company that donates money to hate groups & when some of my friends were told what this company donated to they didn't care, they said that these charities help educate gays not to kill them so i don't know if they're just believing what's been told to them by other people who think this way & just don't bother to educate themselves by looking up these charities & see exactly what they really do & how they whitewash their mission to sound like they're helping or they're just burying their heads in the sand & feel like if it's not affecting me who cares.
15 January 2009
1 hour 21 min
People are also free to express their opinions about Chick-fil-A, but what's really troubling is ignoring the fact that it's not what Chick-fil-A's president believes that's the problem, it's the actions that he's taken, which are hateful, and that may have an impact on the lives of homosexual people. I have no problem with the KKK existing, holding meetings, or believing whatever they want to believe, but when they take an action that will have an impact on my life and limit my rights then there's a problem.
It's no longer about free speech at that point, especially since their main issue, just like with Chick-fil-A, is that they have a problem with my existing, period.
Using the Bible to justify their actions doesn't make it right. Bigotry wrapped up in religion is still bigotry.
2 August 2012
42 weeks 11 hours
1) Explain to me why marriage isn't a "right" for anyone. You right-wing loons love to throw out that argument constantly but you can't ever explain it with even a modicum of logic. I could fly to Vegas, ply some idiot stranger with tons of liquor and then bring her to a 24 hour drive-thru chapel...no questions asked. It seems that I have more of a right to marriage than I do just about any "right" articulated in the Bill of Rights...actually, it seems that I have any easier path to marriage than I do life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness. So explain to me, in some legitimate way outside of the bullshit double-speak that your politicians use, how marriage isn't really a right. The only thing that I can come up with is that it isn't a right SOLELY because gays aren't offered the opportunity to marry ONE individual of the same sex.(I emphasize ONE only because you idiots like to bring in the polygamy and bestiality marriage bull).
2) Yes. That's the easy argument. Since you completely discount the shame that any self-respecting gay man or woman would feel working and eating there, I'm not going to bother arguing this point. It's like saying that a woman is free to work for a boss who believes that females are secondclass citizens and that they belong at home wearing an apron. Technically, you are right but you think solely in black and white.
3)The definition of marriage has changed countless times throughout the centuries. People married for dowries. Young teenage girls were betrothed to heathen rulers to promote peace between kingdoms. And, since you are obviously a bible thumper, perhaps you should read about Abraham and his many sons, david, jacob and solomon one more time--they wouldn't have fit your definition of marriage. You are picking the definition of marriage that suits your argument and ignoring thousands of years of human and biblical history where your argument wouldn't hold up.
4)They can still prevent the gays from visiting loved ones in hospitals and making end of life decisions. They are still preventing gays from pensions and inheritances that they deserve just like anyone else. They don't have equal rights if they can't enjoy the many priveleges bestowed upon married couples...and what you idiots forget is that many of the benefits enjoyed by married couples are logistical, legal and financial. If marriage were so sacred to you, you'd marry for the sake of marrying but I'm sure that you check off that dependant box or file that joint tax return and enjoy many of the governmental perks of marriage no matter how fit you might be as a spouse. The covenant of marriage was created for tax breaks.
5)The fact that you use a valedictorian example says to me that you have the thinking ability of a reasonably intelligent APE. And, believe me, no one would ever claim that you were born with the abilities to achieve anything resembling high stature. There are biological studies galore that support gay as inate. WHat you might be pleased to know is that there are also many studies on stupid. If you ever can't pay the rent on your trailer, you might be able to volunteer for one of those studies.
Death threats? A few straight boys strung up Matthew Shepard and left him to die. Harvey Milk was assassignated by a straight man. Religious loons bomb abortion clinics and threaten the doctors. Straight preachers claim that gays should be killed and/or banished to their own island. Gays aren't the ones who resort to violence when they disagree with an opinion.
And, Jennifer Reeves is a twat. I'll be happy to tune her out on the days when I watch Sammy get into some crazy shit.
2 August 2012
42 weeks 11 hours
It's amazing that some people don't realize that hate speech and free speech aren't mutually exclusive.
22 January 2011
1 hour 42 min
GHteenybopper, you claim to not be against gays and yet in your posts you quote and appear to agree with some of the most hateful and asinine posters in the whole thread.
Thank you very much for your support.
9 September 2008
4 hours 3 min
DING! DING! DING! DING! DING!
Only the intentionally deaf can't hear it...
13 February 2010
2 days 3 hours
All speech is covered. Read the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Get educated on the subject before you open your ignorant mouth.
3 August 2012
41 weeks 4 days
All speech is covered. Read the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Get educated on the subject before you open your ignorant mouth.
Really? All speech? So I can say on tv, radio, or in print that Melissa Reeves has killed 6 people in three states? Can I call the Secret Service and threaten the President? Can I tell the judge I am in front of for a traffic ticket to fuck himself and the pig cop who pulled me over?
C'mon. There are obvious exemptions to complete Free Speech. But that is hardly the point is it? Just like SOME Christian do with the Bible, SOME Conservatives like to pick and choose parts of the Constitution that fit their pre-existing beliefs. I sincerely doubt that if this was about flag burning that MR would have tweeted her Freedom of Speech comment about how she was out burning a flag too in support.
After reading some of these hateful comments, it is no wonder so many soap actors stay closeted. Hate is hate.
3 August 2012
41 weeks 4 days
All speech is covered. Read the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Get educated on the subject before you open your ignorant mouth.
Really? All speech? So I can say on tv, radio, or in print that Melissa Reeves has killed 6 people in three states? Can I call the Secret Service and threaten the President? Can I tell the judge I am in front of for a traffic ticket to fuck himself and the pig cop who pulled me over?
C'mon. There are obvious exemptions to complete Free Speech. But that is hardly the point is it? Just like SOME Christian do with the Bible, SOME Conservatives like to pick and choose parts of the Constitution that fit their pre-existing beliefs. I sincerely doubt that if this was about flag burning that MR would have tweeted her Freedom of Speech comment about how she was out burning a flag too in support.
After reading some of these hateful comments, it is no wonder so many soap actors stay closeted. Hate is hate.
3 August 2012
40 weeks 2 days
Hey Missy.....glad you enjoyed your Chik-fil-a. Just curious - did you enjoy it with yout husband Scott and your kids or did you happen to enjoy the meal with Jason Brooks (ex Peter Blake on DOOL) - who you had an affair with a few years back? Just curious. I don't know if an affair is part of a "traditional marriage". I was always a supporter of YOU and your chracter on DOOL....until now. When Jack departs DOOL, he can take Jennifer Rose along with him!
26 May 2012
44 min 4 sec
Getting back to Melissa Reeves, her Twitter account is now protected!
HAHA! Great demonstration of torpedoing your own career in one swift tweet.
3 August 2012
41 weeks 4 days
I noticed that. For such a big supporter of Free Speech that sure seems hypocritical. She obviously can't handle a couple of days of attacks that pale in comparison to what the LGBT community has to endure daily in America.
28 April 2011
5 weeks 1 day
so when does the LGBT community boycott the Gasoline companies that get their fuel from The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) who exterminate homosexuals?
why is it now that if you don't share someone's opinion your opinion is wrong?
I don not care what you do in your bedroom or who you do it with, I just do not care to SEE it or hear about it!
28 April 2011
5 weeks 1 day
That's not why [Chick-fil-A] are being boycotted. Chick is being boycotted because they give money to anti-gay groups.
1) Chick-Fil-A Vice President Launched Marriage And Family Legacy Fund.
2) FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes)- Ministry Leader Application Condemns "Impure Lifestyle" of Gays.
3) Exodus International - that promotes “Ex-Gay” Therapy.
4) Family Research Council- has been designated As An Anti-Gay Hate Group By the SPLC.
5) Georgia Family Council - Argued For Prop 8
6) National Christian Foundation - Donates To Anti-Gay Groups
DING! DING! DING! DING! DING!
Only the intentionally deaf can't hear it...
and it is HIS money to do with as he pleases! just as some of my AA brothers support Muslim activists or drug gangs, or the arts! if you earn the money it is your money.
so you want to tell the owner of Chic-fil-A what he can do with his money, do I have to right to tell you what you can do with yours? how about all the people living off welfare? my tax dollars from ME working paying some asshole to sit on his ass and do nothing!
people amaze me!
28 April 2011
5 weeks 1 day
How can anyone on here support a company that supports killing people for who they are.
But do they give money to the FRC BECAUSE of that reason? No.
@Tom, feel free.
and yet you buy gasoline from OPEC whose members exterminate homosexuals, is the LGBT going to stop buying gasoline, picket at gas stations?
12 February 2009
41 weeks 2 days
I saw so many great comments today on different news websites about this & a couple of my favorites were a picture of the line into 1 Chick-fil-a & it said "Wouldn't it be nice if all these Christians were lined up like this to help the homeless or help feed the poor like Jesus said to do in the Bible"
& the other one was " i wonder how much money would of been raised if all these people donated the money they would of spent on their food there & donated it to a worthy charity, which is more Christian-like"
Read the first page of comments and the last and this struck me - because where was the media last week when 35,000 people converged in Dallas, TX to volunteer their time, energy and money to help those less fortunate?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/exclusive-blaze-vids-see-whats-happening...
So much good happened there - millions of meals sent to food pantries across our country, homes repaired, parks cleaned, etc.
There are people out there trying to lead the way. Let your actions speak as loud as your words, everyone! Lead by example and not just spewing words on blogs. If you don't like that Dan Cathy is giving his money to organizations that you disagree with, than don't give him yours. Give your money/time to support causes that you believe in. It is a wonderful thing to live in a country that allows us to do that!
18 July 2012
2 days 13 hours
So many hateful comments on here...you are no better than the person you are chastising.
I believe Chick-fil-A is a private company, and as such, is entitled to their own views. You don't have to agree with them or buy their food.
So true...
5 July 2008
14 min 12 sec
Actually, I don't drive or have a driver's lisence. I have no car, so I dont buy gasoline.
22 January 2011
1 hour 42 min
GH's Brandon Barash does not support Chick Fil A. He posted the following on twitter:
"Thx Chick Fil A. Seriously. Your abject bigotry and ignorance has prolonged the elasticity of my arteries. #neveragain"
I love this guy!
13 December 2009
19 weeks 1 day
I just find it ironic that it's this that causes people to tune out of watching her when she's been stinking up the screen since her return almost 2 years ago.
I don't agree with her or respect her opinion but I respect her right to have an opinion thats different to mine. Isn't that what America. Is all about. Maybe some should read up about MLK and Ghandi to understand peace, education, and tolerance is the beat way to demonstrate. Folks on the extreme left and right are no diff in their intolerance and lack of willingness to respect the other side has a right to their position just as much as they do.
28 April 2011
5 weeks 1 day
"Thx Chick Fil A. Seriously. Your abject bigotry and ignorance has prolonged the elasticity of my arteries. #neveragain"
I love this guy!
opinions are like assholes, we all have one! too bad some think that only their opinion is the ONLY right opinion
I was once told that my rights end where someone else's rights begin, maybe more people should follow that...