Chick-Fil-A Gay Flap A 'Wakp Call' For Compani : NPR

Contents:

• I’M GAY AND I EAT AT CHICK-FIL-A. SHOULD I FEEL ASHAMED?
• GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS TO HOLD KISS PROTTS AT CHICK-FIL-A RTRANTS
• CHICK-FIL-A GAY FLAP A 'WAKP CALL' FOR COMPANI
• CHICK-FIL-A AT CENTER OF NTROVERSY VIEW SLISHOW A GROUP OF GAY-RIGHTS AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SUPPORTERS PROTT ONT OF CHICK-FIL-A RTRANT HOLLYWOOD ON FRIDAY. LGBT SUPPORTERS CLARED FRIDAY TO BE NATNAL SAME SEX KISS DAY AND ENURAGED OTHERS TO SHOW UP AT CHICK-FIL-A RTRANTS NATNWI TO STAGE A “KISS-.”   (ALLEN J. SCHABEN / LOS ANGEL TIM) A GROUP OF GAY-RIGHTS AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SUPPORTERS PROTT ONT OF CHICK-FIL-A RTRANT HOLLYWOOD.   (ALLEN J. SCHABEN / LOS ANGEL TIM) PROTTERS TAKE PHOTOS WHILE JASON AR, LEFT, KISS JAM MAYS, BOTH OF LOS ANGEL, ONT OF CHICK-FIL-A RTRANT HOLLYWOOD.  (ALLEN J. SCHABEN / LOS ANGEL TIM) PASSENGER A VEHICLE SHOW THEIR SUPPORT FOR A GROUP OF GAY-RIGHTS AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SUPPORTERS PROTTG ONT OF CHICK-FIL-A RTRANT HOLLYWOOD.   (ALLEN J. SCHABEN / LOS ANGEL TIM) GAY PRI FLAGS ARE HELD UP DURG PROTT ONT OF THE HOLLYWOOD CHICK-FIL-A RTRANT.   (ALLEN J. SCHABEN / LOS ANGEL TIM) AN ANTI-CHICK-FIL-A PROTTER HOLDS A SIGN OUTSI A RTRANT HOLLYWOOD. THOANDS OF AMERINS TURNED OUT WEDNDAY TO FEAST ON IED CHICKEN A POLILLY CHARGED SHOW OF SUPPORT FOR THE FAY-OWNED FAST-FOOD CHA WHICH OPPOS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. LONG L AND TRAFFIC JAMS WERE REPORTED THROUGHOUT THE AMERIN HEARTLAND AFTER 630,000 PEOPLE CLARED ON FACEBOOK THEY WOULD TAKE PART A “CHICK-FIL-A APPRECIATN DAY.”  (ROBYN BECK / AFP/GETTY IMAG) ANTI CHICK-FIL-A PROTTERS HOLD SIGNS OUTSI A RTRANT HOLLYWOOD.   (ROBYN BECK / AFP/GETTY IMAG) HUNDREDS OF CTOMERS LE UP TO GET THE CHICK-FIL-A RTRANT LAGUNA NIGUEL.  (DON BARTLETTI / LOS ANGEL TIM) TAMMY WEAVER, CENTER, PLAC HER ORR AT THE CHICK-FIL-A RTRANT LAGUNA NIGUEL. SUPPORTERS OF THE PANY WHOSE EXECUTIV MA MENTS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE TURNED OUT HUGE NUMBERS HERE AND ACROSS THE NATN. WEAVER, WHO DROVE 20 OM HER HOME LARA RANCH TO SUPPORT THE E SAID, “I’M FAVOR OF BIBLIL MARRIAGE.”  (DON BARTLETTI / LOS ANGEL TIM) HUNDREDS OF CTOMERS LE UP TO GET THE CHICK-FIL-A RTRANT LAGUNA NIGUEL. SUPPORTERS OF THE PANY WHOSE EXECUTIV MA MENTS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE TURNED OUT HUGE NUMBERS ACROSS THE NATN.  (DON BARTLETTI / LOS ANGEL TIM) THE CATHY FAY FOUND CHICK-FIL-A. IN THIS DEC. 14, 2009, PHOTO, FOUNR S. TETT CATHY, LEFT, AND SON DAN CATHY CELEBRATE PASSG THE $3-BILLON DOLLAR MARK SYSTEM-WI SAL.  (ELISSA EUBANKS / ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTUTN) 1/11SHOW SLI INFORMATN CHICK-FIL-A AT CENTER OF NTROVERSY
• CHICK-FIL-A THST BACK INTO SPOTLIGHT ON GAY RIGHTS

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

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.

But the 2012 cint wasn’t the first time the Cathys were acced of homophobia.

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.

GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS TO HOLD KISS PROTTS AT CHICK-FIL-A RTRANTS

9 ln to anti-gay groups 2010 through the WShape Foundatn, the Cathy fay’s charable givg anizatn found by Tett Cathy 1984. 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.

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

In a 2014 terview wh the Atlanta Journal-Constutn, Cathy admted he regretted gettg volved the gay marriage bate. 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.

CHICK-FIL-A AT CENTER OF NTROVERSY VIEW SLISHOW A GROUP OF GAY-RIGHTS AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SUPPORTERS PROTT ONT OF CHICK-FIL-A RTRANT HOLLYWOOD ON FRIDAY. LGBT SUPPORTERS CLARED FRIDAY TO BE NATNAL SAME SEX KISS DAY AND ENURAGED OTHERS TO SHOW UP AT CHICK-FIL-A RTRANTS NATNWI TO STAGE A “KISS-.”   (ALLEN J. SCHABEN / LOS ANGEL TIM) A GROUP OF GAY-RIGHTS AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SUPPORTERS PROTT ONT OF CHICK-FIL-A RTRANT HOLLYWOOD.   (ALLEN J. SCHABEN / LOS ANGEL TIM) PROTTERS TAKE PHOTOS WHILE JASON AR, LEFT, KISS JAM MAYS, BOTH OF LOS ANGEL, ONT OF CHICK-FIL-A RTRANT HOLLYWOOD.  (ALLEN J. SCHABEN / LOS ANGEL TIM) PASSENGER A VEHICLE SHOW THEIR SUPPORT FOR A GROUP OF GAY-RIGHTS AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SUPPORTERS PROTTG ONT OF CHICK-FIL-A RTRANT HOLLYWOOD.   (ALLEN J. SCHABEN / LOS ANGEL TIM) GAY PRI FLAGS ARE HELD UP DURG PROTT ONT OF THE HOLLYWOOD CHICK-FIL-A RTRANT.   (ALLEN J. SCHABEN / LOS ANGEL TIM) AN ANTI-CHICK-FIL-A PROTTER HOLDS A SIGN OUTSI A RTRANT HOLLYWOOD. THOANDS OF AMERINS TURNED OUT WEDNDAY TO FEAST ON IED CHICKEN A POLILLY CHARGED SHOW OF SUPPORT FOR THE FAY-OWNED FAST-FOOD CHA WHICH OPPOS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. LONG L AND TRAFFIC JAMS WERE REPORTED THROUGHOUT THE AMERIN HEARTLAND AFTER 630,000 PEOPLE CLARED ON FACEBOOK THEY WOULD TAKE PART A “CHICK-FIL-A APPRECIATN DAY.”  (ROBYN BECK / AFP/GETTY IMAG) ANTI CHICK-FIL-A PROTTERS HOLD SIGNS OUTSI A RTRANT HOLLYWOOD.   (ROBYN BECK / AFP/GETTY IMAG) HUNDREDS OF CTOMERS LE UP TO GET THE CHICK-FIL-A RTRANT LAGUNA NIGUEL.  (DON BARTLETTI / LOS ANGEL TIM) TAMMY WEAVER, CENTER, PLAC HER ORR AT THE CHICK-FIL-A RTRANT LAGUNA NIGUEL. SUPPORTERS OF THE PANY WHOSE EXECUTIV MA MENTS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE TURNED OUT HUGE NUMBERS HERE AND ACROSS THE NATN. WEAVER, WHO DROVE 20 OM HER HOME LARA RANCH TO SUPPORT THE E SAID, “I’M FAVOR OF BIBLIL MARRIAGE.”  (DON BARTLETTI / LOS ANGEL TIM) HUNDREDS OF CTOMERS LE UP TO GET THE CHICK-FIL-A RTRANT LAGUNA NIGUEL. SUPPORTERS OF THE PANY WHOSE EXECUTIV MA MENTS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE TURNED OUT HUGE NUMBERS ACROSS THE NATN.  (DON BARTLETTI / LOS ANGEL TIM) THE CATHY FAY FOUND CHICK-FIL-A. IN THIS DEC. 14, 2009, PHOTO, FOUNR S. TETT CATHY, LEFT, AND SON DAN CATHY CELEBRATE PASSG THE $3-BILLON DOLLAR MARK SYSTEM-WI SAL.  (ELISSA EUBANKS / ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTUTN) 1/11SHOW SLI INFORMATN CHICK-FIL-A AT CENTER OF NTROVERSY

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.

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. Others said that their Chick-fil-A -workers and supervisors didn’t tolerate homophobic behavr om lleagu.

CHICK-FIL-A THST BACK INTO SPOTLIGHT ON GAY RIGHTS

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.