Chick-fil-A is endg donatns to three groups that oppose gay marriage an effort to halt protts and broan s ctomer base.
Contents:
- CHICK-FIL-A RPONDS TO ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY ON FACEBOOK
- DRAG QUEENS MAKE HILAR 'COMMERCIAL' TAKG ON CHICK-FIL-A'S ANTI-GAY FUNDG—HERE'S TODAY'S AD BRIEF
- I’M GAY AND I EAT AT CHICK-FIL-A. SHOULD I FEEL ASHAMED?
- CHICK-FIL-A HALTS DONATNS TO 3 GROUPS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
- CHICK-FIL-A PRINT COM CLEAN ABOUT COMPANY'S ANTI-GAY PHILOSOPHY
CHICK-FIL-A RPONDS TO ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY ON FACEBOOK
Chick-Fil-A Vows To Leave Gay Rights Debate 'To The Government And Polil Arena' On Facebook * chick fil a anti gay commercial *
When asked about his pany's reported donatns to anti-gay anizatns like Exod Internatnal and the Fay Rearch Council, Cathy told wrer K. " Add HuffPost Gay Voic blogger and theater profsor Domenick Scura: "Sce Mr. In Febary, Northeastern Universy officials reportedly squashed plans for a mp-based anchise of the fast food cha, after "stunt ncerns reflected [Chick-fil-A's] history of donatg to anti-gay anizatns, " acrdg to The Boston Globe.
DRAG QUEENS MAKE HILAR 'COMMERCIAL' TAKG ON CHICK-FIL-A'S ANTI-GAY FUNDG—HERE'S TODAY'S AD BRIEF
While this lotn is owned by a anchisee rather than Chick-fil-A's parent pany, as is the se wh many of the cha's lotns across the untri, has reigned a now -long nversatn about Chick-fil-A's charable givg and what Vox once scribed as "s reputatn as a homophobic purveyor of lic chicken sandwich" — both of which are important to unrstand as ntext for this se. When did allegatns of "homophobia" agast Chick-fil-A surface? In rponse to a discsn about some of the cha's stanc tied to Cathy's relig beliefs— such as remag closed on Sunday as is "the Lord's Day, " acrdg to an archived Chick-fil-A prs release — Cathy said he felt people were "vg God's judgment on our natn" by supportg the legalizatn of gay marriage.
I’M GAY AND I EAT AT CHICK-FIL-A. SHOULD I FEEL ASHAMED?
But that "wasn't the first time the Cathys were acced of homophobia, " Vox noted.
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.
CHICK-FIL-A HALTS DONATNS TO 3 GROUPS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
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. Tett Cathy, had donated "nearly $2 ln to anti-gay groups" 2010.
CHICK-FIL-A PRINT COM CLEAN ABOUT COMPANY'S ANTI-GAY PHILOSOPHY
In 2012, followg news of Cathy's terviews and Chick-fil-A's charable givg, a number of gay wrers and activists rpond.