Chic-Fil-A loves the Gays?

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

If this is true, it appears the company is changing its ways.
Or at least ceasing its funding of anti-gay organizations.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/chick-fil-a-anti-gay-organizations-funding-ceased_n_1896580.html

 

[Bob Cook]

Gay people buy chicken nuggets, too.

-- Michael Jordan

 

[dreunc1542]

Did you really just mess up its/it's twice in two sentences?

 

[heyabbott]

Did you really just mess up its/it's twice in two sentences?

their you go again. Who wood believe it?

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Did you really just mess up its/it's twice in two sentences?

Yeah I did.

 

[Chef2]

This ain't gonna end any kind of well.

 

[User 11148]

Maybe I was confused, but wasn't the issue Cathy's contributions? I don't recall CFA proper making any controversial contributions. Rather, it was what Cathy did with his money (admittedly, he and his make the majority of CFA corporate profits, so it's sort of a wash).

 

[Bob Cook]

Maybe I was confused, but wasn't the issue Cathy's contributions? I don't recall CFA proper making any controversial contributions. Rather, it was what Cathy did with his money (admittedly, he and his make the majority of CFA corporate profits, so it's sort of a wash).

I believe his personal fortune AND company money were used.

 

[hondo]

Maybe I was confused, but wasn't the issue Cathy's contributions? I don't recall CFA proper making any controversial contributions. Rather, it was what Cathy did with his money (admittedly, he and his make the majority of CFA corporate profits, so it's sort of a wash).

I believe his personal fortune AND company money were used.

If he had donated money to Planned Parenthood, no one would have uttered a peep.

 

[deskslave]

Company money has long been funneled to these organizations. It's definitely not just Cathy's own money.

 

[User 11148]

It's kind of a distinction without a difference, because CFA has a great degree of "creedal" homogeneity among its franchisees. The kinds of people running those locations are the kinds of people who'd tend to donate to those causes anyway. I just think the HuffPo article was off base, because it implies that because: A) CFA (the company) is not going to be donating to those organizations anymore; then B) those organizations are going to experience a hit to their incomes. Not sure that's necessarily the case.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Maybe I was confused, but wasn't the issue Cathy's contributions? I don't recall CFA proper making any controversial contributions. Rather, it was what Cathy did with his money (admittedly, he and his make the majority of CFA corporate profits, so it's sort of a wash).

I believe his personal fortune AND company money were used.

If he had donated money to Planned Parenthood, no one would have uttered a peep.

I don't follow.

Hypothetical: Tomorrow, the CEO of, oh, Wendy's, comes out and announces that he's a big donor to Planned Parenthood.

Rush Limbaugh doesn't make a peep?

Sean Hannity doesn't make a peep?

Rick Santorum doesn't make a peep?

The Wall Street Journal doesn't make a peep?

And if they didn't, that's on them. In the Chick-Fil-A situation, what amounts to a grass roots gay rights lobby reacted strongly and loudly. Why don't you think that pro-lifers would do the same, under parallel circumstances? And, if they didn't, wouldn't the blame lie exclusively with them? Who is this hypothetical "no one" you refer to?

 

[deskslave]

Maybe I was confused, but wasn't the issue Cathy's contributions? I don't recall CFA proper making any controversial contributions. Rather, it was what Cathy did with his money (admittedly, he and his make the majority of CFA corporate profits, so it's sort of a wash).

I believe his personal fortune AND company money were used.

If he had donated money to Planned Parenthood, no one would have uttered a peep.

Walt Disney. Southern Baptists.

You just seriously couldn't be more wrong.

Also note: This follows on from the Komen/Planned Parenthood kerfuffle, in which the, er, "family values" crowd also came off distinctly second-best. It's almost like the market's speaking here ...

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Business decision all the way. Probably hated taking blowback from the initial stance.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Business decision all the way. Probably hated taking blowback from the initial stance.

Bingo. Follow the money. Clearly revenues took a hit after the one-day white bluehair festival in August and they felt the need to adjust.

 

[Dick Whitman]

That's surprising.

As I understood it, he was a man of real principle. And this stance was only going to help him, not hurt him.

Poor evangelicals, the man you lined up around city blocks for, your principled hero, your block of granite, is just another dime-a-dozen sell-out.

 

[YGBFKM]

Seems he took a similar path to that of the president.

 

[Boom_70]

Seems he took a similar path to that of the president.

His position has evolved.

 

[LongTimeListener]

So this is the Komen Foundation of fast food? One-day burst of donations followed by widespread rejection of the asshattery?

Sounds good.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Maybe I was confused, but wasn't the issue Cathy's contributions? I don't recall CFA proper making any controversial contributions. Rather, it was what Cathy did with his money (admittedly, he and his make the majority of CFA corporate profits, so it's sort of a wash).

I believe his personal fortune AND company money were used.

If he had donated money to Planned Parenthood, no one would have uttered a peep.

I don't follow.

Hypothetical: Tomorrow, the CEO of, oh, Wendy's, comes out and announces that he's a big donor to Planned Parenthood.

Rush Limbaugh doesn't make a peep?

Sean Hannity doesn't make a peep?

Rick Santorum doesn't make a peep?

The Wall Street Journal doesn't make a peep?

And if they didn't, that's on them. In the Chick-Fil-A situation, what amounts to a grass roots gay rights lobby reacted strongly and loudly. Why don't you think that pro-lifers would do the same, under parallel circumstances? And, if they didn't, wouldn't the blame lie exclusively with them? Who is this hypothetical "no one" you refer to?

If Wendy had been aborted, the fast food chain might be called Bertha's