Posted on 05/10/2017 10:08:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I was about to dip a nugget in some Chick-fil-A Sauce the other day when I received an urgent message on my phone.
“Student Groups Shut Down Chick-fil-A Proposal,” one headline blared. “Catholic University Caves to LGBT Pressure, Rejects Chick-fil-A,” screamed another.
A cavalcade of anti-chicken headlines blurted from my phone – but the most succinct came from Food and Wine magazine: “Fordham University Rejects Chick-fil-A after LGBT Student Concerns.”
However incredulous it may have been, the Jesuits had indeed banished the Chick-fil-A cows.
As I pondered that reality, I nearly choked on a delicious, hand-spun Chick-fil-A Icedream milkshake topped off with whipped cream and one crucial cherry.
Fordham’s Rainbow Alliance took great offense over plans to install a Chick-fil-A in the campus dining hall. The LGBT group had a laundry list of complaints, but they still have their feathers ruffled over an incident that occurred back in 2012.
That was the year Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy told a Baptist newspaper that he believed in the biblical definition of marriage.
Mr. Cathy’s comments sparked “The Great Poultry War of 2012.”
Fierce critics accused the family-owned restaurant chain of all sorts of heinous behavior. One elected lawmaker accused the Cathy family of peddling “hate chicken.”
In spite of the vicious attacks by the mainstream media and the militant LGBT chicken-haters, the restaurant chain continued to provide delicious food served with cheerful attitudes.
As a matter of fact, Chick-fil-A graciously offered to collaborate with Fordham’s Rainbow Alliance – an invitation that was rejected.
“We’re not going to partner with an institution, a corporation that has so strongly supported other institutions that work to destabilize and demolish movements for queer equity,” Rainbow Alliance co-president Renata Francesco told the Fordham Observer.
Such childish insolence has become the norm on university campuses these days.
The Fordham Observer reports that other student groups, including the United Student Government and the Residence Hall Association, also objected to the campus Chick-fil-A.
The Rainbow Alliance said they were “very happy with the decision.”
“Part of me is hopeful that they’ll start taking this attitude of listening to queer student and queer voices, because there are so many on this campus and just in life,” Francesco told the newspaper.
It seems LGBT students are still perturbed because the Catholic school is not kowtowing to “queer issues” – most notably “the hesitation and denial to create trans-inclusive spaces.”
I’m not exactly sure what a trans-inclusive space means – but whatever.
So, there you have it, folks. Chick-fil-A has been banished from campus, the LGBT students won the day, and the anti-poultry bigots at Fordham University have been spared the indignity of suffering through the throes of a raging microaggression at the mere presence of a waffle fry.
They should ban the church and bible while they’re at it. Celebrate sin and March for gay pride and atheism.
The Roman Catholic Church lost it’s moral authority when it ushered in Vatican II.
It’s telling — and pathetic — that you’re more likely to see Catholic principles at work inside a Chick-fil-A than inside the walls of a Jesuit institution.
He Gaystapo needs to be resisted and told to shove off.
Offend a homosexual: it’s your right.
The Catholic Church would do itself a big favor if it pulled the “Catholic” designation from about 90% of “Catholic” universities in America.
He should have got his pink slip the day he came out of the closet.
I guess the Queer alliance types would rather have something else shoved in their mouths.
Are they equally opposed to the purchase of petroleum products from countries where homosexuals are thrown from the tops of tall buildings?
“He should have got his pink slip the day he came out of the closet.”
He probably has several pink slips(and other articles of female clothing) in his closet.
In what sense is this still a “Catholic” school?
The Vatican should simply disown it and be done with it.
That is — if the Vatican still wants to exercise ecclesiastical and moral authority.
Catholic University Caves to LGBT Pressure
Gee what’s wrong with this picture?
Also, they banned one of the few businesses which honor’s the Lord’s day.
I don’t care what The LGBT group thinks, says or feels.
I do care if they harm me or my family in any way.
Act accordingly.
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Chick Fil A puts a bible on the Missing Man table when they do it. Not sure if they do it in California
Just an FYI, Fordham has not been a Catholic institution since my junior year in 1968. After being denied state funds to endow a chair for Marshal Mcluhan the school’s President, Leo McLaughlin SJ received the approval of the Provincial of the NY Province to create a lay Board of Trustees and hand over governance of the school to it. Its identity as a Jesuit university is more related to maintaining a semblance of the Ratio Studiorum than of its adherence to Doctrine. In addition its policies and curricula are structured to reflect the more recent Jesuit social goal of having its graduates become A Man for Others. As a graduate I am disappointed in Fordham’s capitulation here, and in other areas but I believe a dispassionate history is warranted.
Sadly, your comment is so well put.
Fordham is a Jesuit school. I am not sure if that is the same thing as a Catholic school.
RE: Fordham is a Jesuit school. I am not sure if that is the same thing as a Catholic school.
OK, the Pope is a Jesuit Priest....
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