Eating more chicken
Customers heeded a call to support the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain, standing in a longer-than-usual line in an outlet in Columbus, Ga. Republicans on Capitol Hill and Sarah and Todd Palin also took part in the one-day support effort.
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Traffic jams in Texas
The drive-through is backed up outside a Chick-fil-A in Longview, Tex.. Just hours earlier in Texas, tea-party-supported Ted Cruz celebrated his U.S. Senate GOP primary victory with a spread of Chick-fil-A for supporters.
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They waited on foot
The line went out the doors of the Chick-fil-A in New Bern, N.C. Company presdient Dan Cathy has said the company is ''very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives.”
Chuck Beckley / AP
Patient lunch-goers in Northern Virginia
Huge crowds of supporters waited at Chick-fil-A at Backlick Center in Springfield, Va. It was standing room only inside. Some cars had been waiting over one hour along Backlick Road to go through the drive-through.
Tracy A. Woodward / The Washington Post
Standing up in Myrtle Beach
Customers wait in line at a packed Chick-fil-A in Myrtle Beach, S.C., during lunch. Opponents of the company's stance are planning "Kiss Mor Chiks" for Friday, when they are encouraging people of the same sex to show up at Chick-fil-A restaurants around the country and kiss each other.
Charles Slate / AP
Success!
A view through the window into the Backlick Center Chick-fil-A in Springfield, Va., shows customers waiting to sit or eating standing up. The company's president has said advocates for same-sex marriage are ''inviting God's judgment on our nation.''
Tracy A. Woodward / The Washington Post
Out-Chick-fil-A'd in Texas
Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst visited a Chick-fil-A in Austin, Tex., the day before Tuesday's Republican Senate runoff. The photo op didn't work -- he was defeated by tea-party-supported Ted Cruz, who served Chick-fil-A to supporters at his victory party.
Ricardo Brazziell / AP
The issues aren't going away
The Chick-fil-A furor has prompted debate about individual religious and free speech rights and the role of commerce on social issues. Another issue: Should stances taken by governmental leaders (mayors of Boston, Washington and Chicago have spoken out against Chick-Fil-A's opposition to same-sex marriage) translate into suppressing the activities of others whose positions they find objectionable? (At left, the drive-through line at lunchtime at a Chick-fil-A in Springfield, Va.)
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