I'll Take A Cheeseburger...Hold The Jesus

As a family, we tend to boycott companies that have business practices that we find deplorable.  For a short time, we boycotted Target because of their financial support of an anti-gay candidate in Minnesota.  Although we would have preferred to see them send a matching contribution to a gay cause, they have since apologized for their actions.

We boycott Whole Foods because of recent comments from their CEO.  He was quoted as saying that Americans "have no intrinsic rights to health care, food or shelter".  In a nutshell, he's a teabagger.  He refuses to keep his opinions to himself, and Whole Foods continues to stand behind him.

We boycott Chick-Fil-A, primarily because they're bigoted evangelical assholes.

And we also boycott In-N-Out Burger.  It's not that we don't like their cheeseburgers, it's the other stuff they try to shove down our throats.  Until recently, I thought the restaurant's Christian connection was an urban legend.  Then I did some reading.  In-N-Out has been printing Bible verses on their cups and burger wrappers for 25 years or more.  Here are some pictures:

On their cheeseburger wrappers:

Their Double Double wrappers:

Their shake cups:

And their soda cups:

In-N-Out has been privately owned by the Snyder family since the 40s.  They have no stockholders to answer to and they don't franchise out their restaurants.  They have a history of donating to GOP candidates and causes, but tend to keep their political views quiet.  They may not go all out guerrilla Christian like their Chick-Fil-A counterparts(playing Christian music in their locations and closing for worship on Sundays), but they like to proselytize in their own subtle way.

I'm not offended that a burger place is owned by a Christian family.  I'm sure the CEOs of Burger King and McDonalds are probably also Christian.  What does offend me is a company that refuses to keep their beliefs out of my food.  I don't want a Sunday school lesson with my dinner.