Gay rights activists are planng to hold a “natnal same-sex kiss day at Chick-fil-A, on Friday.
Contents:
- CHICK-FIL-A GAY FLAP A 'WAKP CALL' FOR COMPANI
- HOW CHICK-FIL-A'S SOCIAL-MEDIA BUNGLE FUELED A GAY-RIGHTS BACKLASH
- CHICK-FIL-A THST BACK INTO SPOTLIGHT ON GAY RIGHTS
- CHIGO OFFICIAL ASKS CHICK-FIL-A TO CLARIFY GAY MARRIAGE STANCE
- FACT-CHECKG THE FALLOUT OM THE CHICK-FIL-A GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY
- CHICK-FIL-A CEO CATHY: GAY MARRIAGE STILL WRONG, BUT I'LL SHUT UP ABOUT IT AND SELL CHICKEN
- GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS TO HOLD KISS PROTTS AT CHICK-FIL-A RTRANTS
- CHICK-FIL-A OWNERS UGHT CROSSFIRE OVER GAY MARRIAGE
CHICK-FIL-A GAY FLAP A 'WAKP CALL' FOR COMPANI
Chick-fil-A's print has publicly fend his pany's ntroversial stance agast gay marriage. The fast-food cha is hardly the first bs to get ught the crossfire of culture wars. * chick fil a gay scandal 2012 *
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.
HOW CHICK-FIL-A'S SOCIAL-MEDIA BUNGLE FUELED A GAY-RIGHTS BACKLASH
Here's how Chick-Fil-A tried to make ntroversy over s support of anti-gay groups go away wh a Facebook-only prs to see backfire and e a massive viral backlash. * chick fil a gay scandal 2012 *
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.
CHICK-FIL-A THST BACK INTO SPOTLIGHT ON GAY RIGHTS
A Chigo alrman asked Chick-fil-A on Sunday to clarify what he says are nflictg statements on the pany’s gay marriage stance. * chick fil a gay scandal 2012 *
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.
CHIGO OFFICIAL ASKS CHICK-FIL-A TO CLARIFY GAY MARRIAGE STANCE
* chick fil a gay scandal 2012 *
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.
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.
FACT-CHECKG THE FALLOUT OM THE CHICK-FIL-A GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY
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 fac gay marriage backlash.
The Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), meanwhile, is promotg a Natnal Same-Sex Kiss Day to be held at Chick-fil-A rtrants across the untry on Augt 3. Roughly 250 participants rried signs emblazoned wh rabows and msag of support for gay rights. The number of Amerins who say they have a close iend or fay member who is gay, meanwhile, has jumped om 49% 2010 to 60% today, the first time CNN pollg that a majory of Amerins have said that.
CHICK-FIL-A CEO CATHY: GAY MARRIAGE STILL WRONG, BUT I'LL SHUT UP ABOUT IT AND SELL CHICKEN
In the 1990s, most Amerins said they did not know anyone close to them who was gay. In 1998, a majory believed that someone who is homosexual uld change their sexual orientatn if they chose to do so. Today, only a third feel that way, and the number who say that gays nnot change their orientatn is almost six 10.
Chick-fil-A’s stance on gay marriage isn’t banng anyone om their rtrant or refg to serve them. Protters om the Human Rights Campaign chant agast Chick-fil-A Print Dan Cathy's anti-gay marriage stance ont of a Chick-fil-A food tck Washgton, D. But when s print, Dan Cathy, went public to fend his pany's stance agast gay marriage, he set off a nsirable ntroversy that has everyone om policians to puppets weighg .
GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS TO HOLD KISS PROTTS AT CHICK-FIL-A RTRANTS
The nnectn has long been clear to gay rights groups, which have tried to ll attentn to the lns of dollars Chick-fil-A, through s charable arm, has donated to opponents of same-sex marriage.
Helms' tweet: "Chick-fil-A don't like gay people? Hate to thk what they do to the gay chickens!
CHICK-FIL-A OWNERS UGHT CROSSFIRE OVER GAY MARRIAGE
" July 19, 2012 On the Chick-fil-A Facebook page, the pany posts a statement sayg 's stayg away om further discsn of the gay marriage bate.
Meanwhile, gay and lbian groups have lled for same-sex upl to kiss at Chick-fil-A stor on "Natnal Same Sex Kiss Day" Aug. Support For Gay Rights But other pani see the risks of gog public on ntroversial issu differently. He explaed the ffee giant's pro-gay posns were about makg s employe proud — and aligng wh s rporate valu.