Gracelyn Mae Violet Griffin’s birth certificate will always be a conversation starter. 
 
 That’s because in the spot for “location,” it reads, “Born in Chick-fil-A,” according to a Facebook post from her father, Robert Griffin. 
 
 Her dad, who isn’t a doctor, is listed as the attending physician. 
 
 Robert Griffin detailed the Tuesday night of a lifetime in that Facebook post. It all started, he wrote, when Team Griffin pulled into the Chick-fil-A parking lot to drop off their other two daughters with a family friend, on their way to University Hospital. 
 
 SIGN UP 
 
 Be the first to know. No one covers what is happening in our community better than we do. And with a digital subscription, you'll never miss a local story. SIGN ME UP! 
 
 His wife, Falon Griffin, was already in labor, and the Chick-fil-A was closed, but Falon desperately had to go to the restroom. The couple banged on the restaurant’s glass doors around 10:30 p.m., and staff members cleaning up for the night let Falon, who was 38 weeks pregnant at the time according to KSAT, and her husband inside. 
 
 last night I delivered our baby girl IN THE BATHROOM AT A CHICK-FIL-A! Here’s what happened: Maggie and I loaded up the... Posted by Robert Griffin on Wednesday, July 18, 2018 
 
 When Falon began to scream, the night took a sharp turn for everyone involved. 
 
 “I’m about to dial 911, I open the door and she’s just screaming,” Brenda Enriquez, the Chick-fil-A store director, told KSAT. 
 
 Robert came running. There was no way the ambulance was going to get to them quickly enough. 
 
 “I can see just the top of Gracelyn’s head, just barely crowning, but I knew we couldn’t go anywhere,” Robert told KENS. “So I told [Falon], ‘Sweetie, we’re gonna do something great, and we’re gonna do it right here and we’re gonna do it right now.’” 
 
 So, with his wife “straddling the toilet,” they did, Robert wrote. When their daughter’s shoulders emerged, Robert could see that the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck — twice. 
 
 Robert and Falon Griffin delivered their baby girl, whom they named Gracelyn Mae Violet Griffin, in a bathroom stall Tuesday night at a Chick-Fil-A restaurant in far north San Antonio. Robert Griffin Instagram screenshot 
 
 “[I] didn’t want to alert my wife,” Robert wrote on Facebook. “So [I] just told her, ‘Try to relax for a minute,’ and I was somehow able to unwrap the cord from the baby’s neck.” 
 
 The ordeal lasted just six minutes. Robert wrapped Gracelyn in his “Trump 2020” T-shirt before the paramedics arrived, he wrote. 
 
 “I think it’s pretty ironic that a proud conservative, Christian family would have a baby in a Chick-fil-A, and wrapped in a Trump 2020 T-shirt! BOOM #maga,” he wrote 
 
 Robert’s post has been shared more than 76,000 times as of Friday morning, and more than 26,000 people have commented on it. The couple told KSAT that Chick-fil-A was already one of their favorite restaurants and that prior to giving birth to Gracelyn, they had bought her a “Little Nugget” onesie. 
 
 Ben Stover, the franchise owner of the Chick-fil-A along U.S. 281, told KENS that baby Gracelyn will get free Chick-fil-A for life, and has guaranteed her a job when she turns 16. Plans for her first birthday party — yes, it will be chicken-nugget-themed — are already in the works. 
 
 SHARE COPY LINK A Chick-fil-A employee in Austin, Texas, was praised after he rushed to save a choking customer on Saturday, June 23. The customer was fine after the food was dislodged from his throat. ||||| SAN ANTONIO — Robert and Falon Griffin were driving to San Antonio's University Hospital, when Falon told her husband she desperately needed to use a bathroom. The family pulled into the Stone Ridge Chick-fil-A off Highway 281 and Evans. They had no idea this bathroom break would change their lives. 
 
 "Chick-fil-A was closed, it was way past 10," Robert said. "We were able to bang on the door, because she kept saying she kept saying she had to go to the bathroom." 
 
 "And I was very insistent," added Falon with a laugh. 
 
 Even though employees were off the clock, they let the 38-week pregnant mother inside. 
 
 Falon's bathroom pit-stop quickly turned serious. "I couldn't hold anything in," Falon said. 
 
 "I can see just the top of Gracelyn's head, just barely crowning, but I knew we couldn't go anywhere. So I told her, 'Sweetie, we're gonna do something great, and we're gonna do it right here and we're gonna do it right now,'" Robert said. 
 
 The Chick-fil-A employees, who the Griffins guess couldn't have been more than 25 years old, were quick to act under pressure. 
 
 "I hear high pitched screaming and I was like, okay - this is serious. This is happening. And I got on the phone with a 9-1-1 dispatcher," Brenda Enriquez said. 
 
 Brenda is the restaurant's drive-thru director. She's used to delivering orders - but not orders like this. "Assistance to the dispatcher over what color is the baby, is it crying," she said. 
 
 Meanwhile, Robert handled the delivery of his daughter's birth - which wasn't without some scary obstacles. Gracelyn's umbilical cord was twice wrapped around her neck. Robert was able to unwrap the cord, and his daughter took her first breath of air. 
 
 "I couldn't control it," Falon said. "I was basically straddled the toilet - I wasn't even sitting down. I was literally standing giving birth, with one hand on the wall and one hand holding her head." 
 
 The entire process lasted just six minutes, estimates the Griffin family. 
 
 Robert's Facebook post sharing the story has gone viral - receiving thousands of "likes" and "shares" since Wednesday. The parents are grateful for the Chick-fil-A employees who helped handle the surprise situation. 
 
 Baby Gracelyn is receiving some special presents to commemorate her birth. Chick-fil-A has gifted her free Chick-fil-A for life, and has guaranteed her a first job when she turns 16. 
 
 But perhaps the best present here is something that can't be wrapped: a beautiful friendship for life. ||||| Erik S. Lesser/European Pressphoto Agency 
 
 Two days after hundreds of thousands of people packed Chick-fil-A restaurants to demonstrate their support for the fast-food chain’s position against gay rights, supporters of same-sex marriage staged what they called a “kiss-in” on Friday at locations across the country. 
 
 As part of National Same-Sex Kiss Day, more than 14,000 people had signed up for the event on Facebook, which encouraged couples to visit one of the restaurants and photograph themselves kissing. 
 
 While some shared their photos on Twitter and Facebook, others submitted them to a Tumblr page set up for the event. 
 
 In one photo on Tumblr, a young man is pictured with a woman. He said he took his mother to Chick-fil-A because his boyfriend was out of town. 
 
 While the kiss-ins were planned mostly for Friday night, there were some smaller protests and kiss-ins at restaurants earlier in the day. 
 
 In Decatur, Ga., about two dozen protesters, including families with small children, showed up at a Chick-fil-A at lunchtime, some with bags of McDonald’s food. 
 
 The restaurant did a steady business as the protesters stood outside, getting supportive honks from passing motorists and waving rainbow flags and signs with slogans like, “We’re here, we’re queer, and we’re not eating,” and “Eat Mor Equality.” 
 
 Most of the customers said in interviews that they supported gay rights, but that they did not think the food chain’s opposition to same-sex marriage prohibited them from eating at Chick-fil-A. The demonstrators made it clear that they were not protesting local Chick-fil-A employees, who offered free lemonade that the protesters declined to take. 
 
 Phil Skinner/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, via Associated Press 
 
 Among those gathered outside was Marci Alt, who runs a production company that publishes the Gay Community Yellow Pages in Atlanta. Ms. Alt, who was at the protest with her partner, Marlysa Alt, has started a petition on Change.org that invited the restaurant’s president, Dan T. Cathy, to have dinner with her and her family. 
 
 “I make great matzo ball soup,” said Marci Alt, who said she wanted to ask Mr. Cathy whether he really thinks “that we are not the same kind of normal family as you and your wife?” 
 
 Ms. Alt said she was surprised by how many people showed up to support Chick-fil-A on Wednesday. 
 
 Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, used his television show and Facebook to help organize what he called “appreciation day.” He asked people to show up on Wednesday after gay-rights advocates had called for a boycott of the chain because of the millions the company has donated to organizations that are lobbying against laws allowing same-sex marriage, and after remarks from Mr. Cathy, who said that the biblical view of marriage should be upheld. 
 
 Ms. Alt said she believes that many of those who showed up on Wednesday were unaware of how the company uses its money to support groups that lobby against gay rights. 
 
 “A lot of those same people have gay daughters, gay sons, gay parents,” she said. “Knowing that my money is going to be used to oppose gay marriage — I can’t choose that.” 
 
 Throughout the day, people shared photos of kisses being exchanged at Chick-fil-A, as part of the kiss-in event, on Twitter and other social networking sites. 
 
 Jimmy and Sebastion take a moment to kiss at the Lindbergh Chick-fil-A as part of national kiss-in day. #chickfilA //t.co/tMJeaRxB — dyanabagby (@dyanabagby) 3 Aug 12 
 
 Instead of heading to a restaurant to share their kiss, Bria Kam and Chrissy Chambers from Atlanta wrote a song about why they were no longer going to eat the chicken sandwiches and waffle fries they love, and performed it in a YouTube video. 
 
 On Twitter, some people openly displayed their disdain for the kiss-in, including a state legislator from Rhode Island, Representative Daniel P. Gordon Jr. who posted this with the hashtag, #protip: 
 
 A ‘kiss-in’ at Chick-Fil-A? You really think that’s going to help your cause? No one wants to see a mass of anyone mugging-up. #ProTip — Rep. Dan Gordon (@Rep_DanGordon) 3 Aug 12 
 
 The overflowing conversation over Chick-fil-A on social media platforms in recent days reveals strong feelings on both sides of the debate. 
 
 An Arizona man, Adam Smith, lost his job as an executive for a medical firm after he posted a video online of his encounter with a Chick-fil-A employee at a drive-up window on Wednesday. He taped the conversation with the employee, who did not lose her composure as he told her that he did not know how she could “live with herself” working for a company that gives money to hate groups. 
 
 In California, employees at a Chick-fil-A in Torrance found graffiti when they arrived to work on Friday. 
 
 Reuters 
 
 The company has not been discussing the boycott or the appreciation day organized by Mr. Huckabee. In a brief statement on Friday, Steve Robinson, the executive vice president of marketing for the chain, said: “At Chick-fil-A, we appreciate all of our customers and are glad to serve them at any time. Our goal is simple: To provide great food, genuine hospitality and to have a positive influence on all who come into contact with Chick-fil-A.” 
 
 Herndon Graddick, president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, said that people have every right to speak up against Chick-fil-A. 
 
 “As a private company, Chick-fil-A has every right to alienate as many customers as they want,” he said in a statement. “But consumers and communities have every right to speak up when a company’s president accuses them of ‘inviting God’s wrath’ by treating their L.G.B.T. friends, neighbors and family members with respect.” 
 
 Many online have been talking about how they are finding comments about the controversy over Chick-fil-A disheartening. 
 
 On Wednesday night, a Texas man posted on Facebook that he was going to unfriend all of the people who shared photos of their chicken sandwiches, as he said they didn’t understand how hurtful it was to him, a gay man, to see those photos in his news feed. 
 
 A woman from Kentucky wrote on her Facebook page Friday night:
– A Texas family knew they had a new addition on the way, but they had no way of knowing where the baby girl would make her first appearance: in a Chick-fil-A bathroom. Per KENS5, Robert Griffin and his wife were on their way to the hospital in San Antonio when they stopped at a Chick-fil-A to drop their kids off with a friend in the parking lot. Falon Griffin was already in labor, but she told her husband she desperately needed to use the restroom. In order to do so, they had to bang on the Chick-fil-A door, because it was already closed for the night. Employees let them in and, before long, they alerted her husband that something seemed wrong. "The manager said 'she’s in the restroom and she’s screaming,'" Griffin wrote in a Facebook post about the whirlwind delivery. "So there we were.....my wife and I in a tiny stall in the bathroom." As the baby's head crowned and the delivery showed no signs of slowing down, Griffin described how he had to calmly ask his wife to stop pushing for a moment when he realized the umbilical cord was wrapped around the infant's neck. "I was somehow able to unwrap the (cord) from the baby’s neck. With two more strong pushes, and using my shirt for a towel, out came Gracelyn Mae Violet Griffin," Griffin wrote. As the Star-Telegram notes, Griffin suggested there was also someone else in that bathroom, at least in spirit. “I think it’s pretty ironic that a proud conservative, Christian family would have a baby in a Chick-fil-A, and wrapped in a Trump 2020 T-shirt! BOOM #maga," he wrote. The chain has promised Gracelyn free Chick-fil-A for life and a job when she turns 16. (The company's politics have stirred up controversy.)