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The Chick-fil-A Story is Blown Up to Satisfy Those Who Want to Destroy the Company
The Resurgent ^ | November 19th, 2019 | Steve Berman

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.


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To: ground_fog; All

Cheese-its did anybody here actually read the entire article???

CFA didn’t ‘cave’ it was just liberals in the media who want to give the impression that they did.

you knee jerkets should know better than that by now not to swallow liberal media’s lies wholesale


41 posted on 11/19/2019 6:37:10 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: LilFarmer
What Chick Fil A corporate flacks issued was just word salad, a poor attempt to disguise their surrender to the leftist and homosexual mob. Christians and real Americans need to boycott the fast food chain. Middle America made Chick Fil A. We can break them.
42 posted on 11/19/2019 6:37:47 AM PST by Wallace T. ( .)
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To: LilFarmer
The quotes you have in your post is Townhall quoting Bisnow. Those are not quotes from CFA executives!

The quotes are from Chick-fil-A President and Chief Operating Officer Tim Tassopoulos, and you can find them in almost every business publication, including Forbes.

43 posted on 11/19/2019 6:39:21 AM PST by Always A Marine ("When you strike at a king, you must kill him" - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Mr. K

I read the article.

I also read CFA’s statement.

The company caved.

I’m done with CFA.


44 posted on 11/19/2019 6:39:31 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Bayard

Exaclty this whole story was a hit job by the lavender mafia and thelr lackeys in the media, in an attempt to hurt CFA....

Don’t fall for it folks


45 posted on 11/19/2019 6:40:04 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

bump


46 posted on 11/19/2019 6:40:39 AM PST by foreverfree
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To: HamiltonJay

No it wasn’t. They caved. From their own statements and financial reports.

You should be the last person telling folks to not fall for something, I’ve read your consistently wrong election analyses and predictions here for years.


47 posted on 11/19/2019 6:47:15 AM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Chick-Fil-A should just ask the Boy Scouts how caving into the Left helped their organization. In the next 10 years the Boy Scouts will be History.


48 posted on 11/19/2019 6:50:21 AM PST by EC Washington
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
"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."

The author of this article is delusional if he/she/it believes nothing has changed. He SPECIFICALLY indicates Salvation Army WILL NOT be receiving a contribution.

49 posted on 11/19/2019 6:50:35 AM PST by moovova
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Our local morning show news radio person covered this for over an hour today. He called Chick Filet, and was eventually sent to the marketing department.

He’s really pissed and announced he was no longer going to do business with them. It’s a pretty big deal because we have a fairly large Chick Filet presence here.

https://wflafm.iheart.com/content/2019-11-18-chick-fil-a-will-no-longer-donate-to-organizations-seen-as-anti-lgbtq/


50 posted on 11/19/2019 6:52:00 AM PST by Nifty
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To: RoseofTexas
The idiots should have not even released a press note on this.

You will never appease the Left until you give in to them.

51 posted on 11/19/2019 6:57:06 AM PST by ealgeone
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Starting next year, the Chick-fil-A Foundation plans to give $9M to
organizations like Junior Achievement USA to support education, Covenant
House International to fight homelessness and community food banks for its
hunger initiative in each city where the chain operates. The company intends
to dedicate $25K to a local food bank each time it opens a new location.

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3794689/posts


52 posted on 11/19/2019 6:58:45 AM PST by deport
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To: mewzilla

How did they cave?

When they are talking about 0.1 percent of its total donations, and they STILL give to other Catholic charities..?

Nothing says they have to give the same amount to the same charities every year...

Some of the lying liberal media compared the list of last year and this year and said “AHA! WE WON” and you fall for it?


53 posted on 11/19/2019 7:04:08 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Always A Marine

Ok, so show me this actual quote from a cfa executive in the Forbes article:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2019/11/18/chick-fil-a-stops-donations-to-anti-lgbtq-groups/#57792263253b


54 posted on 11/19/2019 7:15:24 AM PST by LilFarmer
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To: Always A Marine
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55 posted on 11/19/2019 7:17:01 AM PST by moovova
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To: Mr. K

Thank you for your reasonable response. I am amazed that a company can be critized for giving to one charity over another... these are all people doing good work! Who knows what factors went into these decisions. It is the liberal press that is assuming it has something to do with LGBT. The executives said nothing about that.

I know Winshape is a huge recipient and they are very pro traditional family.

Plus, the Cathy’s themselves are very pro-traditional family and their stand has not changed. On top of that, each store owner gives to charities of their own choosing. My local CFA gives to churches, mission groups and faith based charities around here.


56 posted on 11/19/2019 7:20:12 AM PST by LilFarmer
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To: heshtesh

The preview of giving for this year is on their website.

https://dynamix-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/chick-fil-afoundationorg/chick-fil-afoundationorg_478780728.pdf


57 posted on 11/19/2019 8:48:09 AM PST by Cecily
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To: LilFarmer
From the Forbes article:

“There’s no question we know that, as we go into new markets, we need to be clear about who we are,” Chick-fil-A president and COO Tim Tassopoulos said in an interview with Bisnow. “There are lots of articles and newscasts about Chick-fil-A, and we thought we needed to be clear about our message.”

He's made it pretty clear as to their new direction.

58 posted on 11/19/2019 8:48:49 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

Forbes copied that statement from Biznow, and no, his statement is not clear because it was posted without any context other than the journalist’s framework. I assume most conservatives understand by now how the liberal media works, seeing as how they do this to us time and time again trying to get us to eat our own.

Liberal media could quote any conservative saying, “I want to be clear in my message” and then frame the rest with their own innuendo. They do it everyday.

Here is message from CFA :
“Beginning in 2020 the Chick-fil-A Foundation will introduce a more focused giving approach, donating to a smaller number of organizations working exclusively in the areas of hunger, homelessness and education. We have also proactively disclosed our 2018 tax filing and a preview of 2019 gifts to date on chick-fil-afoundation.org. The intent of charitable giving from the Chick-fil-A Foundation is to nourish the potential in every child,” a Chick fil-A representative said in a statement emailed to CP Monday.

“Our goal is to donate to the most effective organizations in the areas of education, homelessness and hunger. No organization will be excluded from future consideration – faith-based or non-faith based.” the spokesperson said, noting “I also wanted to add that Chick-fil-A will not be opening on Sundays.”

https://www.christianpost.com/news/chick-fil-a-denies-capitulating-to-lgbt-activists-christian-groups-wont-be-excluded-from-donations.html

If you want to learn more about it, there’s all kinds of info on the CFA foundation page.


59 posted on 11/19/2019 9:04:13 AM PST by LilFarmer
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To: LilFarmer
Well, these folks sure understand the meaning of CFA's statement:

GLAAD

@glaad

“If Chick-Fil-A is serious about their pledge to stop holding hands with divisive anti-LGBTQ activists, then further transparency is needed regarding their deep ties to organizations like Focus on the Family, which exist purely to harm LGBTQ people and families"

https://mobile.twitter.com/glaad/status/1196490637681537024

60 posted on 11/19/2019 9:08:04 AM PST by ealgeone
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