Chick-fil-a doesn't give a fuck

It's officially true that Chick-fil-a doesn't care that it's been donating to anti-LGBT organizations. Glad it's been made crystal clear because I know none of us were real sure. My only question is: Do the managers follow each employee home to make sure they're not sleeping with someone of the same sex? I mean how else ya gonna know? It's also good to know that they see nothing wrong with lying to people, but hey that's how Christians roll. LIE LIE LIE

The head of Chick-fil-A’s tax-exempt foundation addressed the growing backlash against its continued giving to anti-LGBTQ organizations on Wednesday, telling Business Insider that it does not intend to change its ways. He dismissed concerns about the Chick-fil-A Foundation giving millions to organizations that discriminate as an unimportant “political or cultural war that’s being waged.”

ThinkProgress reported in March that the Chick-fil-A Foundation distributed $1.8 million in 2017 to non-profits with a history of anti-LGBTQ discrimination — contrary to repeated promises that it was winding down its giving to groups that discriminate. This included more than $1.6 million in contributions to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, a religious group that works to spread an anti-LGBTQ message to college athletes, requiring a strict “sexual purity” policy for its employees that bars any “homosexual acts.”

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TX lawmaker says Chick-fil-A has a right to have a store in every airport

I read some bullshit story earlier, that I won't be sharing here, because frankly it made my blood boil. In a nutshell, though, it claimed that Christians do not hate LGBT folk. Yeah right. When you encourage violence against any group of people - LGBT or otherwise - that means you have "an intense or passionate dislike" of that group of people. I know that there are some Christians who don't hate the LGBT community. I have a very dear friend whom I'd trust with my life and she is a genuine Christian who attends church every Sunday. I know there are more like her, but they are in the minority. When I read stories like this about a Texas lawmaker who believes that Chick-fil-A has the "right" to open locations wherever they want, no matter how people feel about the anti-LGBT community and their clear hatred of it, I know they are the first kind of Christian. They do hate LGBT folk and you will never convince me otherwise.

Texas state Rep. Jeff Leach (R) said Tuesday that lawmakers had an obligation to ensure Chick-fil-A was able to have stores in every airport across the country.

His comments come one day after the Republican-controlled Texas state Senate revived a bill that would prevent local governments from impeding Chick-fil-A and other companies based on their religious beliefs, moral convictions, and anti-LGBTQ views.

“People love Chick-fil-A. You can’t argue with Chick-fil-A’s food and I don’t think you should be able to argue with the organizations that Chick-fil-A chooses to support either,” Leach said, speaking with Fox & Friends.

He continued, “It’s our obligation as policymakers, as lawmakers, is to protect that right of Chick-fil-A to do that and to protect their right to exist and to have an establishment in any airport, in any city, in any community across the country.”

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Minor League Hockey Team Blasts Protesting Fans

With all the shit going on in Ohio, pretty soon no one is going to want to visit there, let alone live there. Their governor just signed into law the strictest and most non-sensical anti-abortion law. And their minor league hockey team is cozying up to one of the largest anti-lgbt groups in the country. Protests - peaceful protests - are indeed family friendly as it teaches children that they can protest something which is wrong (something Ohioans clearly don't believe in) and do so without destroying someone's property.

A group of fans in Cincinnati protested their professional hockey team’s partnership with Chick-fil-A on Saturday, holding signs calling the restaurant chain “anti-gay.” The team responded by blasting their peaceful protest as not “family friendly,” reaffirming their partnership, and barring the fans from coming back.

ThinkProgress reported last month that Chick-fil-A’s foundation donated $1.8 million in 2017 to groups that discriminated against LGBTQ people and that the company is one of a small number of major American businesses with a non-discrimination policy that does not protect employees from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Since then, the company has lost deals to open locations in airports in two different cities and the city council in a third city voted to place rainbow flags and blue, pink, and white transgender flags near the company’s airport spot.

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Chick-fil-A donated to anti-LGBT group

I confess that it's difficult for me to stay away from Chick-fil-a because I bought into the lie that they had changed their ways back in 2013. I see, now, that Mr Cathy is a liar and will never change his ways. This is totally unacceptable. There are plenty of LGBT individuals, myself included, who you'd never suspect of being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender just to look at them. At my last job, I think I told one of my co-workers once that I am a lesbian and the subject never arose again. He didn't ask, it was just something I said during the course of a conversation on the subject. How, then, do you know if an employee is committing homosexual acts outside of work unless they, themselves tell you?

Chick-fil-A has taken great pains to downplay its anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and giving, seven years into a national boycott by LGBTQ and allied diners. But contrary to the company’s latest claims that it has no political or social agenda, newly released tax filings show that, in 2017, the Chick-fil-A Foundation gave more than $1.8 million to a trio of groups with a record of anti-LGBTQ discrimination.

The donations — $1,653,416 to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, $6,000 to the Paul Anderson Youth Home, and $150,000 to the Salvation Army — actually represent a slight increase from the previous year. The foundation’s funding comes almost entirely from the corporate treasury and shares leadership with the company.

The Fellowship of Christian Athletes is a religious organization that seeks to spread an anti-LGBTQ message to college athletes and requires a strict “sexual purity” policy for its employees that bars any “homosexual acts.” Paul Anderson Youth Home, a “Christian residential home for trouble youth,” teaches boys that homosexuality is wrong and that same-sex marriage is “rage against Jesus Christ and His values.”

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