Amid recent protts and boytts om the LGBTQ muny, Chick-fil-A announced will no longer donate to anizatns wh anti-gay views.
Contents:
- IS CHICK-FIL-A ANTI-GAY?
- CHICK-FIL-A ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY: GAY EMPLOYE SPEAK OUT
- CHICK-FIL-A'S ANTI-GAY DONATNS TOTALED NEARLY $2 MILLN IN 2010: REPORT
- A GAY FENSE OF CHICK-FIL-A
IS CHICK-FIL-A ANTI-GAY?
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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.
CHICK-FIL-A ANTI-GAY CONTROVERSY: GAY EMPLOYE SPEAK OUT
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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.
CHICK-FIL-A'S ANTI-GAY DONATNS TOTALED NEARLY $2 MILLN IN 2010: REPORT
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. 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.
A GAY FENSE OF CHICK-FIL-A
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. In 2012, the fast-food cha me unr fire for givg money to the sce disband ex-gay group Exod Internatnal, as well as the Southern Poverty Law Center-signated hate group Fay Rearch Council (FRC). The FRC is a stnch advote for the bunked practice of nversn therapy, and s print, Tony Perks, has likened homosexualy to dg addictn and those donatns were lled out, Cathay nfirmed that the pany was dited to the “the biblil fn of the fay un.