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- TAKE THAT, CHICK-FIL-A: BURGER KG UNVEILS NEW GAY CHICKEN SANDWICH FOR PRI WH PROCEEDS BENEFG HRC
- GAY CHICKEN
- WHO'S THE REAL WNER 'GAY CHICKEN'?
- GAY PRI PARIS (MARCHE S FIERTéS)
TAKE THAT, CHICK-FIL-A: BURGER KG UNVEILS NEW GAY CHICKEN SANDWICH FOR PRI WH PROCEEDS BENEFG HRC
” In a 2018 terview wh a lol Atlanta TV statn, Cathy reerated his posn on same-sex marriage but said he’s not anti-gay. The tweet generated ntroversy bee of the chief executive officer's (CEO) history of donatg money to anti-LGBTQ groups and his ments opposg gay marriage.
GAY CHICKEN
Over the years, the Cathy fay's charable givg anizatn, the WShape Foundatn, has given money to groups like the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage (which oppos same-sex marriage), the Salvatn Army (which has been acced of discrimatg agast LGBTQ people), Fellowship of Christian Athlet (reportedly bars any "homosexual acts"), and the Pl Anrson Youth Home (teach boys that homosexualy is wrong). Over the years, the fast-food cha has been cricized for s support of anti-LGBTQ anizatns, and Cathy has been cricized for his stance agast same-sex marriage, as well as his fay's history of donatg to anti-gay reached by TODAY Food, a Chick-fil-A spokperson cled to ment on Burger Kg's tweet, but the subtweet seemed to leave an imprsn on many on people were imprsed to see a brand supportg LGBTQ through both words and, a few social media ers said they prefer Chick-fil-A's took a more balanced approach to the bate.
WHO'S THE REAL WNER 'GAY CHICKEN'?
In September 2020, Chick-fil-A announced that would no longer be seekg a San Anton airport lotn after a long battle that had many cy uncil lears opposg the April, Chick-fil-A announced that would be openg a new lotn New Orleans, a cy known for s love of s petor Popey, and some rints weren't thrilled, wh many cg the pany's past support of anti-LGBTQ last week, The Daily Beast published a report tled "Christian Billnair Are Fundg a Ph to Kill the Equaly Act, " claimg that wealthy Christians are tryg to block the act, which would "make illegal to discrimate agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people most settgs. Notably, Chick-fil-A never explicly said would permanently stop donatg to anti-gay groups or anizatns that discrimate agast LGBTQ people — jt said was changg s philanthropic givg mol. In 2012, the Chigo-based Civil Rights Agenda issued a statement claimg that Chick-fil-A had promised to “no longer give to anti-gay anizatns, such as Foc on the Fay and the Natnal Organizatn for marriage.
As ThkProgrs reported 2017, Chick-fil-A ntued to bankroll anti-gay groups like the Fellowship of Christian Athlet, the Salvatn Army, and the Pl Anrson Youth Home through s foundatn. A year earlier, a Pennsylvania Chick-fil-A’s cisn to donate food to a marriage semar nducted by the Pennsylvania Fay Instute, a group known for s anti-gay advocy, prompted a natnwi boytt of the cha. Cathy issued a vio statement rponse to the boytt, which he claimed the pany “serv all people” and that, while he personally believ the “biblil fn of marriage, ” his pany don’t have an “anti-gay agenda.
In 2011, the same year a Pennsylvania Chick-fil-A anchise donated food to a lol anti-gay anizatn, the LGBTQ advocy group Equaly Matters obtaed tax rerds which revealed that the Cathy fay had donated more than $1. 9 ln to anti-gay groups 2010 through the WShape Foundatn, the Cathy fay’s charable givg anizatn found by Tett Cathy 1984.
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1 ln gift to the Marriage & Fay Foundatn, a group that promoted so-lled tradnal marriage and opposed both gay marriage and divorce; $480, 000 to the Fellowship of Christian Athlet, an athletic anizatn that requir applints to agree to a “sexual pury statement” that nmns LGBTQ people for livg “impure liftyle[s]”; and $1, 000 to Exod Internatnal, a group that promot anti-gay nversn therapy. For Chick-fil-A’s opponents, the problem was bigger than Cathy’s anti-gay ments, was that he was apparently puttg his money where his mouth was, and he had a lot of money to go around.
Though Chick-fil-A never managed to fully shed s reputatn as a homophobic purveyor of lic chicken sandwich, ntued to expand s natnal prence, pecially above the Mason-Dixon le. The Cathys’ “dissonant view, ” as one brand nsultant lled , may have fally hurt Chick-fil-A’s bottom le — pecially now that a popular, non-homophobic alternative to Chick-fil-A’s sandwich has emerged.