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Contents:

• CHICK-FIL-A CEO DAN CATHY SPEAKS OUT ON GAY MARRIAGE CONTROVERSY
• FACT-CHECKG THE FALLOUT OM THE CHICK-FIL-A GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY
• CHICK-FIL-A’S GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY RIS AGA
• YEARS LATER, CHICK-FIL-A STILL FEELS HEAT OM LGBTQ GROUPS OVER ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE REMARKS
• CHICK-FIL-A MAK ANOTHER STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY
• CHICK-FIL-A CEO CATHY: GAY MARRIAGE STILL WRONG, BUT I'LL SHUT UP ABOUT IT AND SELL CHICKEN
• CHICK-FIL-A PRINT TWEETS RPONSE TO GAY MARRIAGE RULGS, THEN DELET
• CHICK-FIL-A GAY FLAP A 'WAKP CALL' FOR COMPANI

CHICK-FIL-A CEO DAN CATHY SPEAKS OUT ON GAY MARRIAGE CONTROVERSY

Tett Cathy and his wife, Jeate, which crics ntend has evinced a bias the Chick-fil-A pany by donatg lns of dollars to groups wh anti-gay agendas:. In the name of tolerance, the anti-Chick-fil-A hawks sneered at the pany's ma product as "J Chicken, " rid s no-Sunday-work policy, and attacked s operators as "anti-gay.

This is not bee they re about wng hearts and mds over gay rights or marriage policy, but bee their re objective is to margalize polil opponents and chill Christian philanthropy and activism. The pany has mataed that neher they nor the anizatns they donate to through WShape has an "anti-gay" agenda:. The stunt senate at Northeastern Universy, Boston, voted to end negotiatns to brg fast-food cha Chick-fil-A to mp after stunts protted over the pany's affiliatn wh several Christian anizatns the stunts say have an "anti-gay" Atlanta-based pany, dogged for months by accatns of homophobia, sists is "not anti-anybody" but stead simply wants to "gracly serve great food and have a posive fluence on all who e ntact wh Chick-fil-A.

None of the anizatns the pany supports has an "anti-gay" agenda, although as Christian groups, they do uphold and support heterosexual marriage, Donald A. Chick-fil-A print and chief operatg officer Dan Cathy's July 2012 terview wh the Baptist Prs generated even more ntroversy over the issue, wh crics matag he had virtually acknowledged the pany supports an anti-gay marriage agenda:. The Jim Henson Company announced would no longer partner wh Chick-fil-A the wake of the fast food pany's acknowledged support of anti-gay anizatns.

FACT-CHECKG THE FALLOUT OM THE CHICK-FIL-A GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY

Meno is vowg to block Chick-fil-A om brgg s Southern-ied fast-food empire to Boston — possibly to a popular tourist spot jt steps om the Freedom Trail — after the fay-owned firm’s print suggted gay marriage is "vg God’s judgment on our natn.

CHICK-FIL-A’S GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY RIS AGA

A uple of wily-circulated piec about Chick-fil-A and other fast food outlets were merely bs of satiril polil humor, not genue news ems:On 24 July 2012, the satiril Onn web se spoofed the Chick-fil-A ntroversy by publishg an article tled "Chick-Fil-A Debuts New Homophobic Sandwich":. As part of s recent efforts to publicly align self wh fundamentalist Christian valu, the Chick-fil-A rtrant cha announced the but of s new Queer-Hat' Cordon Bl sandwich that would be on sale all of the pany's 1, 600 a prs nference to reporters, pany reprentativ said the homophobic new sandwich will clu the natnal fast food cha’s tramark ied chicken filet wrapped a piece of specially-smoked No Homo ham that would be topped wh a slice of Swiss chee and lathered a creamy new Thoand Island-based Fag Punchg sce. Rpondg to Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy's recent ntroversial admissn of the pany's donatns to antigay groups, a statement om petg fast food cha Wendy’s let nsumers know that has long supported same-sex upl and only harbors strong objectns to terracial marriage.

YEARS LATER, CHICK-FIL-A STILL FEELS HEAT OM LGBTQ GROUPS OVER ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE REMARKS

"It's important that Wendy’s ctomers know our rtrant proudly stands by the right of all Amerins to marry whomever they choose, so long as isn't someone of a different race, ” said spokwoman Jenna Knox, addg that while Wendy’s has always backed pro-gay legislatn, found miscegenatn "an abomable offense to God’s will. Followg the Wendy’s statement, executiv om Jack the Box nfirmed that they too had always supported gay rights and the Holot never happened. Some rears asked, "Did Chick-fil-A really spend lns lobbyg Congrs not to nmn Uganda’s 'Kill the Gays' bill"?

We found no evince that Chick-fil-A self spent money (let alone lns) lobbyg Congrs to prevent that body om issug a nmnatn of a ntroversial Ugandan legislative bill which rried the ath penalty for some homosexual acts. 1064, a rolutn seekg to "exprs the sense of the Hoe of Reprentativ" that Uganda's proposed Anti-Homosexualy Bill "threatens the protectn of fundamental human rights.

CHICK-FIL-A MAK ANOTHER STATEMENT ON GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY

1064, they did not support the Uganda bill or the ath penalty for homosexualy, and their lobbyg efforts were not aimed at killg the Congrsnal rolutn but rather at changg s language "to remove sweepg and accurate assertns that homosexual nduct is ternatnally regnized as a fundamental human right.

CHICK-FIL-A CEO CATHY: GAY MARRIAGE STILL WRONG, BUT I'LL SHUT UP ABOUT IT AND SELL CHICKEN

In September 2012, the Civil Rights Agenda group reported that Chick-fil-A had pledged not to fund groups that oppose gay marriage:. Chick-fil-A has pledged to stop givg money to anti-gay groups and to back off polil and social bat after an executive’s ments land the fast-food cha smack the middle of the gay marriage Civil Rights Agenda, which dubs self the largt lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr advocy group Illois, said Chick-fil-A agreed meetgs to stop donatg to groups such as Foc on the Fay and the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage.

CHICK-FIL-A PRINT TWEETS RPONSE TO GAY MARRIAGE RULGS, THEN DELET

"Is Chick-fil-A Anti-Gay Marriage?

CHICK-FIL-A GAY FLAP A 'WAKP CALL' FOR COMPANI

"Chick-fil-A Promis to Stop Givg Money to Anti-Gay Groups. "FRC Lobbied Congrs on Rolutn Denouncg Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill.