Chick-fil-A CEO Cathy: Gay Marriage Still Wrong, But I'll Shut Up About It And Sell Chicken

Contents:

• CHICK-FIL-A’S GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY RIS AGA
• THE NEXT TIME YOU CRAVE CHICKEN, REMEMBER THAT CHICK-FIL-A IS STILL VERY MUCH ANTI-GAY
• FACT-CHECKG THE FALLOUT OM THE CHICK-FIL-A GAY MARRIAGE NTROVERSY
• CHICK-FIL-A CEO DAN CATHY SPEAKS OUT ON GAY MARRIAGE CONTROVERSY
• CHICK-FIL-A GAY MARRIAGE FLAP HIGHLIGHTS HOLLYWOOD’S PLACE CULTURE WARS
• CHICK-FIL-A ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY: GAY EMPLOYE SPEAK OUT
• CHICK-FIL-A CEO CATHY: GAY MARRIAGE STILL WRONG, BUT I'LL SHUT UP ABOUT IT AND SELL CHICKEN
• YEARS LATER, CHICK-FIL-A STILL FEELS HEAT OM LGBTQ GROUPS OVER ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE REMARKS
• CHICK-FIL-A BENEFED OM SUMMER'S GAY MARRIAGE FLAP WH MORE CTOMER VISS
• CHICK-FIL-A GAY FLAP A 'WAKP CALL' FOR COMPANI

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

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 NEXT TIME YOU CRAVE CHICKEN, REMEMBER THAT CHICK-FIL-A IS STILL VERY MUCH ANTI-GAY

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. 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.

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

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. "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"?

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

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. 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.

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

"Chick-fil-A Promis to Stop Givg Money to Anti-Gay Groups. "FRC Lobbied Congrs on Rolutn Denouncg Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill. "NYU Decid to Keep 'Homophobic' Chick-fil-A Long Before Petn Lnched.

CHICK-FIL-A GAY MARRIAGE FLAP HIGHLIGHTS HOLLYWOOD’S PLACE CULTURE WARS

Lol officials other ci are enuragg protts of proposed lotns, cludg San Mateo County California, where County Supervisor David Canepa said the pany’s logo “might as well say ‘we hate gay people, ’” acrdg to the Daily Journal. It has done so well New York, fact, that the cha opened a 12, 000-square-foot lotn there last has neverthels worked to distance self om the gay marriage ntroversy. In 2014, Dan Cathy vowed to “shut up” about gay marriage, notg that was a mistake to wa to the ntroversy.

The pany has equently sisted that do not endorse homophobic views and earlier this year the head of s charable arm told Bs Insir that he would be open to workg wh an LGBTQ statement this sprg fend s foundatn’s donatns, sayg that s donatn to FCA was targeted to summer sports mps for ner-cy youth who are not required to sign one of the group’s sexual pury pledg.

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.

CHICK-FIL-A ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY: GAY EMPLOYE SPEAK OUT

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.

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

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.

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

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

CHICK-FIL-A BENEFED OM SUMMER'S GAY MARRIAGE FLAP WH MORE CTOMER VISS

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 GAY FLAP A 'WAKP CALL' FOR COMPANI

The pany gave $1 ln to the Fellowship of Christian Athlet, a relig anizatn wh “a strict ‘sexual pury’ policy, prohibg any homosexual acts.