Posted on 10/18/2019 7:23:44 PM PDT by Ennis85
A US fast-food chain will cease trading at its first UK outlet amid a row over donations to anti-LGBT groups.
Gay rights campaigners called for a boycott of Chick-fil-A, which opened its first branch at The Oracle shopping centre in Reading on 10 October.
A spokeswoman for the centre said "the right thing to do" was to not extend the restaurant's lease beyond the "six-month pilot period".
Chick-fil-A said its donations were purely focused on youth and education.
The family-owned company, founded in Atlanta in 1967, is one of the biggest fast-food chains in the USA and boasts about 2,400 outlets across North America.
According to US news website Think Progress, in 2017 the Chick-fil-A Foundation donated millions of dollars to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Paul Anderson Youth Home and the Salvation Army.
Campaigners from LGBT organisation, Reading Pride, said all three organisations have a reputation of being hostile to LGBT rights.
In 2012, the company's chairman sparked a US boycott when he said he opposed gay marriage.
The Oracle said: "We always look to introduce new concepts for our customers, however, we have decided on this occasion that the right thing to do is to only allow Chick-Fil-A to trade with us for the initial six-month pilot period, and not to extend the lease any further."
Reading Pride said The Oracle's decision was "good news", adding the six-month period was a "reasonable request... to allow for re-settlement and notice for employees that have moved from other jobs".
But the organisation said it would continue to campaign against the outlet until it left.
Chick-fil-A had previously told the BBC: "Our giving has always focused on youth and education. We have never donated with the purpose of supporting a social or political agenda.
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Land of hallal and homo hallal... make your bets
Ha! Perfect!
The goal here, like with the Boy Scouts, is to get Chick-Fil-A to bend the knee so that *we* will abandon them. They won’t pick up the faggots (I wouldn’t even use that word, but they earn disrespect), but they will be hurt and limp to obscurity. That’s the plan. It’s up to CFA to not fall for it.
If these faggots were forcibly converted to Islam, would they still remain faggots ? I mean which mental disease would win out - Islam or faggotry ?
You forgot to add the "Q." LBGTQ
No silly, not Queer..."Questioning." Whatever that means.
The media would never allow it. They pull all the strings
Chick Fil A accounts for more than a seventh of Americas GDP? Wow.
They don’t deserve it. British cuisine is an oxymoron.
When this was an 80 percent issue on OUR side, a few judges in a few states and eventually the supreme Court made laws for everyone else. Then shows like Modern Family helped to soften the sheeple up for the kill. The Catholic Church and many ither churches turned the other cheek while we got this shoved down our throat and once corporations got scared of lawsuits the demon rainbow mafia left knee they had us by the throat. It will take a lot of pain to get oit of this hell unleashed.
“It will take a lot of pain to get oit of this hell unleashed.”
Or we could do what these people did and unleash our own hell on them.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3787284/posts
We have the numbers and the power, but we lack the will and the leadership to do what needs to be done.
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