Metro area residents show support for Chick-fil-A

“I just didn't feel like it was right that Mr. Cathy was wrongly victimized for beliefs he held,” David Rader, 55, of Tulsa, said after eating lunch at the Chick-fil-A at 6201 N May in Oklahoma City. “Our family supports the same beliefs that he has held.”

The Rev. Steve Lopp, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Jones, said he and about 20 members of his congregation drove to the Chick-fil-A at 7331 SE 29 in Midwest City to buy lunch in support of Cathy. Lopp and his wife, Diane, said more members of the church who work or live in the Midwest City area met the group from Jones at the restaurant. The church members waited in a lengthy line that snaked around the building, as they and other customers waited to get inside the store to give their orders.

“We just want to support Chick-fil-A and we appreciate their stand on biblical convictions,” Steve Lopp, 58, said.

His wife agreed.

“When the company's president Dan Cathy spoke, he spoke for a lot of us,” she said.

The drive-thru line at the Chick-fil-A on N May ran the length of the parking lot and out onto the street all the way up to NW 63 and May. At the Chick-fil-A at 52 E 33^rd street in Edmond, cars waited in drive-thru lines from at least three different directions. At all three metro locations, many customers parked in nearby shopping center parking lots and walked to the restaurant to dine-in or get their orders to go.