Posted on 11/19/2019 5:44:29 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
In 2018, the Chick-fil-A Foundation gave $225,000 to Covenant House, $1.65 million to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), and $115,000 to the Salvation Army. In the same year, the company’s revenues were about $10 billion. The donations amounted to just under 0.02% of revenue. It’s literally a drop in the bucket.
Now the company has changed its giving profile for 2020, eliminating those items, yet keeping with its corporate charge to give back. In 2020, the Chick-fil-A Foundation plans to give $6.4 million. The largest recipients are Atlanta-based charities Grove Park Foundation and Westside Future Fund. In 2019, Westside Future Fund received $1.7 million.
But the story is “Chick-fil-A Revises Giving Policy After Antigay Outcry.” Because somehow the Salvation Army, the FCA and other notable Christian aid organizations are, by definition to many LGBT advocates, “anti-gay?” I don’t think so. I think there’s more here.
In the online letter by Rodney Bullard, executive director of the foundation, nowhere does he mention “gay” or “LGBT” or even “Christian.” So what happened is some journalists have combed the list of charities in the Chick-fil-A Foundation’s giving plan, and compared it to 2018 and 2019, looking to see what religious organizations receive money, so they can plaster that all over the media. Now they plaster that they’ve been vindicated because the Salvation Army is no longer on the list.
Remember, the Salvation Army was the subject of a short-lived kerfuffle involving Ellie Goulding and the NFL Super Bowl halftime show. She initially indicated she’d refuse to perform because the “red kettle” folks are somehow not committed enough to LGBT causes. It’s not enough to feed the hungry, or house the homeless, or help the needy anymore, a charity has to be woke to everything, meaning, a Christian ministry is automatically in opposition to wokeness.
The backlash about Chick-fil-A caving in to LGBT demands is an engineered response to a nothingburger, that the company decided to get ahead of the media and remove a tiny percentage of its official giving, without changing anything else.
Dan Cathy is still the Chairman and CEO. He still gives to Christian organizations. The other executive leaders, including the president and COO Tim Tassopoulos, have been with the company for decades.
Chick-fil-A is still closed on Sundays.
And buried at the bottom of the “Who We Are” page, but featured prominently, framed on the entryway wall in most restaurants, Chick-fil-A’s corporate purpose remains the same:
“To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us and to have a positive influence on all who come into contact with Chick-fil-A.”
Until this changes, those who now plaster the media with “Chick-fil-A caves” stories still want the company to fail. They want Christians to react with spittle-flecked tantrums and threats. They want to bring out the worst in Christians so they can gleefully watch the company’s fans turn on their favorite chicken sandwich restaurant.
The activists want to continue to ban it, heckle it, provide lists of other places to eat chicken, and force the company to change. If tomorrow Chick-fil-A opened on Sundays, and removed God from its corporate purpose, I still don’t think it would satisfy the blood lust of those who hate the company. They still wouldn’t eat there, because the mere mention of “my pleasure” stings in their ears.
There’s nothing different about Chick-fil-A. They haven’t really caved. The Salvation Army will be just fine without the $115,000 it received in 2018. In fact, I recommend giving to them right now. I bet Dan Cathy is.
Don’t give in to the engineered hype of a blown-up story. That only plays into the hands of people who want our outrage for their own purposes.
I did not even ready anywhere that they were never donate to the Salvation Army again, but that they were not going to continue with multi-year commitments and that they were focusing on more targeted groups helping children this year.
As Tucker Carlson said several years ago we need to quit jumping to questionable claims of hysterical hypsters on twitter etc. Let them make their absurd claims and then move on.
“Cathy’s comments sparked organized boycotts, but they backfired as loyal Chick-fil-A customers showed up in droves to show their support.
But, that all changed on Monday when Chick-fil-A decided to cut ties with the Salvation Army. As Chick-fil-A President and Chief Operating Officer Tim Tassopoulos explained it, the company plans to stop donating to organizations that are considered anti-LGBT because they want to “be clear about their message.”
“The new initiative will no longer include donating to organizations like the Salvation Army, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Paul Anderson Youth Home, Chick-fil-A says, all of which sparked criticism in the past from the LGBT community due to the organizations’ stances on homosexuality,” reports BisNow.com.”
The quotes you have in your post is Townhall quoting Bisnow. Those are not quotes from CFA executives!
The Angel Tree program of the Salvation Army helps children. Even if CFA is not going to make multi year commitments, the public wants to know if CFA will donate to the SA for that program and if not, why not?
My grandfather told me over 40 years ago that the salvation army were the one charity worth supporting.
We have CFA’s official statement. It is a lie with a lot of pretty packaging.
Read it. CFA caved.
It’s so heart rending that we now have to take the same attack stance against CFA as the left. But it’s necessary.
So write and ask them.
CFA runs their own Winshape group and foster care program so for all I know, they are choosing where their donations go the farthest.
Yeah! THAT’S IT! NO MORE CHIK-FIL-A! Bunch of God-hating anti-Chritian Communists! Yeah,that’s what they are! Satan has taken over at CFA, THAT’S why it took them a half a day to respond!!! Screw them! I’ll find somebody else to stuff my pie-hole with junk food! Popeye’s, sho’ nuff!
Um... “nipped on the butt”? No.
That’s what happens when Rover chases the mailman.
::face palm::
If anyone wants to really see what direction CFA is headed lets wait and see who they give to next year.
The article is whitewashing a cave. It appears obvious that anything with a clear Christian base such as the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, SA, etc. that the Board has decided to sanitize this in favor of bland secularism in their giving. Poor decision.
The great thing is that outraged citizens can give Salvation Army a nice LARGE donation and make up the difference..That will show them....
The statement is damning.
Good idea. Every dollar that I considered spending at Chick-fil-A will now be donated to the Salvation Army.
I’m going to wait for the first A TO Z wedding to occur at CFA before I get wound up....
I guess you didn’t actually read the article did you? Or at least comprehend
Incredibly poor decision and unnecessary cave.
Christians went out of their way to publicly support them and counter the protests,showing up in droves at their restaurants when the protests were taking place. It likely saved the company at the time. And this is how Chik Fil A thanks them.
Welp, one more nail in the coffin. Once they get rid of Trump they’ll be nothing left holding back the tide.
So glad I’m about one year from completely checking out of this society
We don't need for Berman to explain what CFA President Tim Tassopoulos said, or the timing and context of his announcement. Everyone knows what Chick-fil-A has done, and why they did it. It was a capitulation, and the company has disavowed ministries who publicly defend biblical marriage by promoting families.
Anyone who knows the Cathys is certain that they will continue to give personally to pro-family organizations like Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which was a favorite of Truett's and is probably still a favorite of his sons. But the sad fact is that the Cathy family's high-profile business has publicly disavowed pro-family ministries, and sent a clear message to anti-family radicals that their hateful pressure tactics work. Chick-fil-A has fled the field, and their former compatriots must defend themselves without their old champion's once-steadfast support.
I still love Chick-fil-A, but I find this transparent action both disappointing and shameful.
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