Chick-fil-A: Gay marriage bate and fast-food chicken? Yup.

Contents:

• CHICK-FIL-A COPYT (ORIGAL CHICK-FIL-GAY SANDWICH)
• A GAY FENSE OF CHICK-FIL-A
• CHICK-FIL-A ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY: GAY EMPLOYE SPEAK OUT
• THE NEXT TIME YOU CRAVE CHICKEN, REMEMBER THAT CHICK-FIL-A IS STILL VERY MUCH ANTI-GAY
• IT’S TIME FOR GAYS TO FIVE CHICK-FIL-A
• IS CHICK-FIL-A ANTI-GAY?
• THE CHICK-FIL-A GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY
• CHICK-FIL-A GAY MARRIAGE CONTROVERSY: CARE AND SHARE FOOD BANK WOULDN'T CANCEL DRIVE
• CHICK-FIL-A GAY
• CHICK-FIL-A, GAY MARRIAGE, AND TROLLS
• CHICK-FIL-A: GAY MARRIAGE BATE AND FAST-FOOD CHICKEN? YUP.

CHICK-FIL-A COPYT (ORIGAL CHICK-FIL-GAY SANDWICH)

Tett Cathy and his wife Jeate Cathy, has donated over $1 ln to groups that actively oppose same-sex marriage, cludg Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Fom; the anti-LGBTQ Christian group Foc on the Fay; the SLPC-certified hate group Fay Rearch Council; the now-funct ex-gay therapy group Exod Internatnal; the exclively for-heterosexuals-only Marriage & Fay Legacy Fund; and the Fellowship of Christian Athlet (FCA), a relig groups whose “sexual pury policy” prohibs any homosexual acts. However, The Chick-fil-A Foundatn’s IRS filgs om 2015 revealed that the foundatn donated $1 ln to the FCA; $200, 000 to the Pl Anrson Youth Home, a Geia-based rintial home for troubled youth which said that child abe homosexualy; and $130, 000 to the Salvatn Army, a relig ternatnal chary that has long opposed same-sex marriage and anti-LGBTQ hog discrimatn protectns while supportg relig exemptns om LGBTQ+ anti-discrimatn laws. One anonymo gay worker disuraged boytts, notg that they would mostly harm the cha’s LGBTQ+ employe, but also acced the rtrant’s anti-gay and Christian supporters of beg self-righteo, arrogant, and bld to LGBTQ+ sufferg.

A GAY FENSE OF CHICK-FIL-A

Several gay employe said some ctomers offered homophobic words of support for the bs while other people yelled at employe for supportg a homophobic pany. Chick-fil-A’s supporters have enuraged the pany to embrace s anti-gay social stanc, while s crics have urged the pany to turn away om s anti-LGBTQ+ practic.

In 2012, gay activists and alli staged a natnal boytt of the cha after one lotn donated food to a semar hosted by the anti-gay Pennsylvania Fay Instute. Too often, those on the left make rporate statements to show support for same-sex marriage, abortn, or profany, but if Christians affirm tradnal valu, we’re nsired homophobic, fundamentalists, hate-mongers, and tolerant. On Augt 3, 2012, however, gay rights activists around the natn held kiss- protts opposn to the rtrant’s anti-LGBTQ+ donatns and Dan Cathy’s views agast same-sex marriage.

CHICK-FIL-A ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY: GAY EMPLOYE SPEAK OUT

Around the same time, gay artist Manny Castro spray-pated a Torrance, California Chick-fil-A rtrant wh a picture of a w and the words “Tast Like Hate” prott of Cathy’s anti-gay statements.

The Amerin Fay Associatn also circulated a petn which stated, “It looks like you (Chick-fil-A) are abandong Christian valu and agreeg wh homosexual activists who say believg the Bible mak you a hater. In September 2022, Alexandre’s Bar the Dallas gayborhood of Oak Lawn announced the sale of s own “Chick-fil-gAy” sandwich that was only available on Sundays (the day on which all Chick-fil-A lotns are closed).

In 2019, Chick-fil-A announced that they changed their missn and donate to different chari than they have the past, not specifilly nfirmg they will stop givg to anti-gay chari.

THE NEXT TIME YOU CRAVE CHICKEN, REMEMBER THAT CHICK-FIL-A IS STILL VERY MUCH ANTI-GAY

The LGBTQ+ activists cricizg Chick-fil-A today are dog a lot more than simply plag about the pany’s perceived views on homosexualy. –the nglomerate of LGBTQ+ inty groups that evolved after the succs of the gay and lbian rights movement – needs a fundraisg villa.

You will not fd many evangelil Christians or proudly patrtic staffers workg at the self-scribed “queer” anizatns, a word many homosexuals nsir a slur.

Thereafter got out that Chick-fil-A provid fancial support to some fah-based charable anizatns who nmned homosexualy and abortn. I would like to see the data on how much money the pani donated to gay rights groups back when we were actually fightg for our gay rights. The activists appear as disterted their hypocrisy wh rporate Ameri as they do about the liv of transners – a growg number of mostly lbian and gay young people who regret beg transgenr.

IT’S TIME FOR GAYS TO FIVE CHICK-FIL-A

Reports of puberty-blockers and synthetic sex hormon beg ed as experimental “nversn therapy” for gay and lbian youth ought to alarm all of . After the gay rights victori, culmatg wh the historic Obergefell and Bostock US Supreme Court lgs–both ma possible by nservative Christian Jtic on the Court–the gay Left lost s way.

If Chick-fil-A had a history of discrimatg agast gay or transgenr employe or ctomers, my gus is the activists would have let know. Chick-fil-A employs gay people and many others of eat there bee their ied chicken sandwich is the bt and their service is A+ level good every time. I give them a plaque that says “Thank you for helpg take re of gay and trans poor people, and for the policy chang you ma allowg this life-impactg work to happen.

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.

IS CHICK-FIL-A ANTI-GAY?

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. 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.

THE CHICK-FIL-A GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY

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.

CHICK-FIL-A GAY MARRIAGE CONTROVERSY: CARE AND SHARE FOOD BANK WOULDN'T CANCEL DRIVE

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.

Elected officials have urged Chick-fil-A to stay out of their ci, the Jim Henson Company has severed ti, and gay rights groups are anizg natnal protts agast the ied chicken cha. Andrew, a gay 24-year-old who has been workg at the northern Alabama Chick-fil-A sce January, sat his r smokg a cigarette and watchg the crowd durg a break earlier Wednday.

"Chick-fil-A has long e unr fire om activists for givg lns to groups that advote agast gay rights and even support ex-gay therapy, but the fire has ratcheted up recent weeks, followg terviews which Cathy said he was “guilty as charged” of supportg “the biblil fn of the fay un" and that gay marriage v "God's judgment on our natn.

CHICK-FIL-A GAY

" Now, Chick-fil-A ss at the center of fur bate over same-sex marriage, gay rights and ee speech, wh policians, activists, and newspaper edorial boards weighg om all pany has remaed mostly silent on the issue. One gay employee who works at Chick-fil-A headquarters Atlanta, Ga., and asked to rema anonymo for fear of losg his job, says he is gettg om both sis.

On the other hand, he ntued, "I was yelled at for beg a god-lovg, nservative, homophobic Christian while walkg some food out to a gut a mall dg room.

CHICK-FIL-A, GAY MARRIAGE, AND TROLLS

Instead, "['s] nstantly havg people e up to you and say, 'I support your pany, bee your pany hat the gays, '" Aguiga, 18, wrote an email. "Our managers have remend jt sayg 'Thank you for your bs' if a ctomer says they agree wh Cathy’s ments, rather than agreeg or disagreeg wh them, " K, an openly gay Chick-fil-A employee Louisiana, told HuffPost an stayg ntral n be difficult when feels like the world is passg judgment on everyone associated wh the pany.

CHICK-FIL-A: GAY MARRIAGE BATE AND FAST-FOOD CHICKEN? YUP.

One of her workers, who supports same-sex marriage, has had people say thgs like, “Don’t give me that hate sh*t, ” and “I hope you choke on that chicken, " while she was handg out for K, the harst part hasn't been the actns of ctomers and protters, 's the money the pany giv to anti-gay groups.

The Fay Rearch Council is signated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, while Exod Internatnal is a Christian Mistry that has long endorsed ex-gay therapy, a ntroversial practice of "curg" gay people that mastream mental health anizatns have disavowed. ") Several of the gay and lbian employe terviewed by The Huffgton Post said that they liked their work, and had never wnsed cints of homophobia or discrimatn on the job. But Chick-fil-A rtrants are operated by pennt owners, and employee experience n vary wily pendg on the person nng a particular, a 23-year-old gay woman om Geia who also requted her last name be whheld for fear of beg outed the prs, worked at two different Chick-fil-A lotns Geia.