Conservatives lose their minds as Cracker Barrel posts picture of rainbow rocking chair

Cracker Barrel is the latest large business to be attacked by conservatives for supporting LGBTQ+ people during Pride Month.

On Facebook, the country restaurant and store chain posted a picture of a rainbow rocking chair with a Pride Month message: “We are excited to celebrate Pride Month with our employees and guests. Everyone is always welcome at our table (and our [rainbow] rocker). Happy Pride!”

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The anti-LGBTQ+ organization Texas Family Project, though, was offended by the idea that everyone would be welcome at Cracker Barrel.

“We take no pleasure in reporting that Cracker Barrel has fallen,” the group tweeted. “A once family friendly establishment has caved to the mob.”

The group added some screenshots that showed Cracker Barrel’s support for Pride as well as a statement that Cracker Barrel won’t discriminate.

“Discrimination, overt or through unconscious bias, has no place at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store,” one of the offending messages reads.

We take no pleasure in reporting that @CrackerBarrel has fallen.

A once family friendly establishment has caved to the mob. pic.twitter.com/IM0p1NT20S

— Texas Family Project (@FamilyProjectTX) June 8, 2023

Some people expressed their dismay that Cracker Barrel doesn’t hate LGBTQ+ people.

I used to be proud to tell people that Cracker Barrel not only has it's corporate HQ in my hometown, but was home to the original location.

Not so much now.

— Justin Maloney (@JMaloneyLiberty) June 8, 2023

Pride goeth before the fall.

— Lisa Almstead🇺🇸✝️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🖌️🎬 (@LisaAlmstead) June 8, 2023

They said “hold my Bud Light—“

— cody (@codykingo) June 9, 2023

Because all the Pride-friendly grandparents we take out on Sunday morning, right? 🙄

There apparently isn't a damn sanctuary for average people anymore to just enjoy some damn food without being preached to about what they MUST accept. Shove it, rocker world.

— But it's a Dry Heat (@am_constance) June 8, 2023

But others mocked the Texas Family Project.

The Queers have hit Cracker Barrel. https://t.co/2EN5gMp0qV pic.twitter.com/ECWayUFMvG

— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) June 9, 2023

Honestly, if your bigoted movement can’t even win over the fucking Cracker Barrel it’s probably time to pack up and go home https://t.co/zu6mRNvTKU

— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) June 9, 2023

how can you type something like "Cracker Barrel has fallen" and not realize how absurd you are https://t.co/eue2bvNzWr

— DaSkrubKing (@DaSkrubKing) June 9, 2023

Target
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Cracker Barrel
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The Military
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Bad time to be a triggered right wing snowflake pic.twitter.com/iXHSKGEiPB

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 9, 2023

Comrades, we have taken Cracker Barrel pic.twitter.com/VdIRLjEhd7

— gardenin' borbs 🌾🥕🍅🫑🥒 (@ronninator) June 9, 2023

Cracker Barrel has fallen https://t.co/5ynwDtQq3n pic.twitter.com/P1LdrHWVvm

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 9, 2023

Me: “I gotta stop participating in the ridiculousness of modern discourse.”

Me two hours later: “Do you think they’d let me get a ‘Cracker Barrel has Fallen’ tattoo between chemo treatments?”

— Hank Green (@hankgreen) June 9, 2023

The move comes three decades after Cracker Barrel took a firm stance against LGBTQ+ equality. In 1991, the company said that it would not hire gay people and fired at least eleven employees for being gay. Several months after the purge, the company’s shareholders voted to add sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination policy and ended the policy.