Chick-fil-A Print Com Clean About Company's Anti-Gay Philosophy | Media Matters for Ameri

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

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.

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.

DRAG QUEENS MAKE HILAR 'COMMERCIAL' TAKG ON CHICK-FIL-A'S ANTI-GAY FUNDG—HERE'S TODAY'S AD BRIEF

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.

I’M GAY AND I EAT AT CHICK-FIL-A. SHOULD I FEEL ASHAMED?

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. In 2012, followg news of Cathy's terviews and Chick-fil-A's charable givg, a number of gay wrers and activists rpond.

CHICK-FIL-A HALTS DONATNS TO 3 GROUPS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

"Let's face : spe what the pany's print says, Chick-Fil-A is an anti-gay rporatn, " Tyler Coat wrote for BlackBook.

CHICK-FIL-A PRINT COM CLEAN ABOUT COMPANY'S ANTI-GAY PHILOSOPHY

"And, on that note, I'm jt gog to have to assume that anyone who spends their money there are pletely fe wh the fact that an anti-gay rporatn not only exists, but ph money to other groups to ntue the wispread practice of discrimatg agast everyone the LGBT muny.

Acrdg to CNN, some participants noted that they had planned to pay wh dollar bills marked "gay money, " while others circulated the phrase "tast like hate. In a parody vio of Wilson Phillips' "Hold On, " drag queens Willam Belli, Detox, and Vicky Vox have created this hilar "mercial" takg on Chick-fil-A's $2 ln fundg of anti-gay (the UK versn of Axe) is sponsorg panda matg season at Edburgh the ncellatn of The Rosie Show, Oprah's OWN has laid off 30 staff is on the lookout for a new agency that will help crease s populary among a young and multicultural dience, Ad Age reports.