"Have they really taken bacon off the menu?"

Only in Muslim "neighbourhoods".
Though there's no notification of this anywhere on their corporate website.
So you won't know til you ask at the counter.
Have your camera phone ready.
Upload clerk's hysterical outburst to YouTube.

//Only in Muslim "neighbourhoods".
Though there's no notification of this anywhere on their corporate website.
So you won't know til you ask at the counter.//

Oh, I see. What you're saying is that there is possibly a KFC somewhere that has taken bacon off the menu... but I can't be certain until I've tested every KFC in the land.

I have equal uncertainty that KFC offer unicorn burgers until I've fronted up to every KFC counter in the land and requested a unicorn burger with extra bacon. I haven't got the time or patience for such a pointless quest and I don't really like KFC anyway. Why don't you just come out and tell us where these bacon-free KFC's are, if they actually exist, instead of merely suggesting the possibility of their existence?

ttbn,

>> So, the Northern Ireland Equality Commission thinks that it is doing the right thing to go for a private business, at taxpayer expense, over such a trivial issue.<<

I am afraid it could get worse:

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/heads-lgbt-win-tails-christians-lose/.

The problem is you pitch us LGBTI against religion. But that is not the complete rights in play: it is their religious belief against our religious beliefs and their biology against our biology. And then there is the majority picking on the minority. Remember it is LGBTI, diverse biologies of sex, gender and sexuality, not just 'gay culture'. We want equality for our belief in the moral good of our biology, our LGBTI status. Christians can point to the Bible to say their heterosexuality is moral and we want equal right too. Anything else isn't fair.

I see your concern about difficult decisions and society adapting. But it has be this way, to get peace and harmony you have to take responsibility for your biological diversity first before culture. We already believe this but selfishly not yet willing share.

Tony I'd not heard that particular story before so went to friend Google to see if I could get a sense of the legitimacy of the claims.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1260286/KFC-diner-told-bacon-burger--halal.html "The branch, in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, is one of 86 KFC restaurants which is running trials of a scheme where they sell nothing other than halal meat."

No idea on the credibility of the claims on this site (the name puts me off) but 4 KFC outlets in Melbourne are listed http://www.hotheads.com.au/halal-certification.htm

And some more on the claims for KFC in Australia http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/halal-food-dishing-out-change-in-our-fast-food-society/story-fni0cx12-1226647942182

Not exactly a comprehensive list but an alternative source which appears to provide some support for the legitimacy of the original claims http://halalmaps.com/Australia/Melbourne/KFC,UIE.html

R0bert

Dear Eric,

As you say, it's all biology.

Biology is driven by genes, which are selfish mechanisms:

According to the book "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins, it is in the interest of those genes that a certain (relatively small) proportion of the species is homosexual. They don't do it for you, they don't care about your pleasure or satisfaction, nor about your culture, your morals or your spirit - they only care about propagating themselves: there is nothing moral about them and they drive us mad if we do not reign them, regardless whether they chose the body which carries them to be heterosexual or otherwise.

Peace and harmony will only come when we stop to define ourselves in terms of our genes in general and their sexual-inducements in particular.