Posted on 11/26/2019 8:23:18 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There’s a lot of talk about Chick-fil-A. Most of it is generated by the #fakenews establishment that wants nothing more than to demonize an organization that, historically, has publicly professed its Christian faith that is inseparable from its business practices.
“[We are] based on biblical principles, asking God and pleading with God to give us wisdom on decisions we make about people and the programs and partnerships we have. And He has blessed us."
Those were the words of Chick-fil-A’s CEO, Dan Cathy, to the Baptist Press back in 2012 as he confirmed his biblical belief that marriage is between one man and one woman.
Days later, a disgruntled activist violently took out his disagreement with Chick-fil-A by trying to kill as many people as possible inside of Family Research Council’s (FRC) D.C. headquarters. According to the FBI interrogation, Floyd Lee Corkins chose FRC as a target because “Southern Poverty Law [Center] lists anti-gay groups. I found them online.” So, Corkins stormed inside FRC’s building, armed with a backpack full of Chick-fil-A sandwiches and 50 rounds of ammunition to “kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-Fil-A sandwiches in victims' faces, and kill the guard."
His heinous attack was stopped by FRC’s security guard, Leo Johnson—a hero who was shot while stopping the terrorist attack. In 2012, Corkins was sentenced to prison for 25 years.
In 2017 Chick-fil-A donated money to the same corrupt SPLC that still outrageously lists FRC as a “hate group.”
The Chick-fil-A Foundation’s recent announcement about its future funding again reaffirmed its redirection and capitulation. It just so happens that the same three groups targeted for years by LGBT organizations as anti-LGBT “hate groups” just happened to be the same ones that would no longer be funded: The Salvation Army, Paul Anderson Youth Home and Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Chick-fil-A’s press release acknowledges that these groups were “characterized as anti-LGBT groups” but never dispels that. They give excuses, basically, as to why they had funded these three remarkable organizations but would no longer continue to do so.
For those defending Chick-fil-A and pretending we haven’t witnessed their progression of capitulation, the Salvation Army sees it for what it is, stating in a press release: “We're saddened to learn that a corporate partner has felt it necessary to divert funding to other hunger, education and homelessness organizations.” The Salvation Army does all three on a massive scale. But they don’t espouse an LGBT ideology.
In explaining Chick-fil-A’s funding decisions, Rodney Bullard, VP of Corporate Responsibility and Executive Director of the Chick-fil-A Foundation said: “We don't want our intent and our work to be encumbered by someone else's politics or cultural war. If something gets in the way of our mission, that is something that we are mindful of and cognizant of.”
Has their mission drifted way to the Left? Out with organizations that do not espouse a pro-homosexuality ideology and in with those who do, like Covenant House. Don’t let the Catholic association fool you, though. Covenant House, a homeless shelter for youth, takes pride in its promotion of all things LGBTQ. They even marched in the New York “Gay Pride” parade to show their inclusivity cred. Guess the Salvation Army (which admittedly has an issue with partially supporting abortion in cases of rape, incest and “life and health” of the mother) should’ve flown some co-opted rainbow colors to keep their hundreds of thousands in funding. Whoops. Looks like Covenant is the new Salvation.
Chick-fil-A funds the deeply political YWCA, a radically pro-abortion and pro-LGBTQ organization that repeatedly partners with Planned Parenthood.
Chick-fil-A also funds the DC-based New Leaders Council that identifies as a “hub of progressive millennial thought leadership” which exists to “support one another along their individual path to a more progressive political and cultural landscape.”
Chick-fil-A has given a sizable donation ($50k) to The Pace Center for Girls, yet another pro-abortion organization. The education and advocacy group featured radical pro-abortion feminist Gloria Steinem (the “I Had An Abortion” activist who declared that birthing children is the “fundamental cause of climate change”) as their keynote speaker for their most recent girls’ Summit.
Or, how about Usher’s New Look, R&B star Usher Raymond IV's liberal non-profit? The group’s Disruptivator Summit is all about progressive community organizing on pivotal social issues, and Chick-fil-A funds it ($38,700 in 2017).
Chick-fil-A also gives tens of thousands to Chris 180 ($27,500 in 2017, $25k in 2019), a pro-LGBT behavioral health and child welfare service agency. The organization boasts of being awarded the “Leader in Supporting and Serving LGBT Families and Youth from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC).” Nothing promotes human degradation quite like the pro-abortion HRC—the multi-million dollar LGBT powerhouse that recently pushed for the legalization of prostitution in D.C.
You can always love and serve the broken without affirming the brokenness.
And then there’s Junior Achievement (JA), which inarguably does some phenomenal work with education and entrepreneurship. They’re the recipients of hundreds of thousands a year from Chick-fil-A. In 2016, though, JA joined a coalition (Georgia Prospers) of pro-LGBT organizations in their “Too Busy to Hate” campaign to politically oppose religious liberty legislation (specifically the First Amendment Defense Act) from passing in Georgia.
So much for “not being encumbered by someone else’s politics or cultural war.” These groups, and many more funded by Chick-fil-A, are clearly political on the Left. Of course Chick-fil-A funds a lot of great initiatives, but they’re being publicly dishonest about their corporate evolution. And the millions of families who’ve supported them over the years, because of the fast food chain’s principled stand, deserve to know the COWardice that the company has shown in the face of LGBT activism.
I usually go on Tuesdays but no longer.
chik 0’s cave in to the leftist mob treads the same ground as other huge money corporations (see nfl).
Realizing the average citizen’s forgetfulness, the rationale is the sheeple’s money will eventually return.
So in the space of the last three years, conservatives have lost full trust in #1. Fox News #2. Drudge Report #3.Chick fil A.
All three still quite valuable, just not as much as before.
Meet the New Bosses, not at all the same as the Old Bosses.
Jelly side down (on the dirty floor).
Ditto to the max.
Once they took a stand, I started eating there five or six times a month, even though I don’t particularly like their food. I have seen a large number of people in there that appear to be doing the same thing - showing support versus appetite.
Guess we’ll see how this works out for them.
Why?
That is how it used to be. Most big companies stayed neutral or out of any political controversy.
Basketball great Michael Jordan stays mostly out of such issues even now. Otherwise, you lose business from half the country.
Of course, staying neutral was much easier years ago, when most Americans agreed on a few specific things.
Fewer played their Triggered-Victim Cards 15 years ago.
I wonder if they will also decide to be open on Sunday’s?????
Because “Bikers at Waco got what they deserved”.
Check its posting history if in doubt.
The Hussein Head CFA trolls are BAAACK, and stalking to check replies here.
It seemed like some of the pro CFA folks posting last week had personal associations with CFA franchise operators who stand to lose massively as word gets out about CFA’s support of progressive issues like abortion.
WOW here is a company that just really doesn’t get it. Every Chick-fil-a I have been to has been incredibly busy. They are this busy not because of their food!!! Their chicken is mediocre at best. IT IS BECAUSE THEY STOOD UP TO THE LEFTISTS AND CHRISTIAN HATERS!!! Now we will watch as they dwindle away.
Agree completely. They do have nice restaurants, too. Clean bathrooms, etc. But it was mainly politics that drove their brand growth and now it will be there undoing. It’s easy to forget now that before the “controversy” CFA was not a national brand.
I am going to Chic-fil-a for lunch today!
That’s great. Enjoy your side of abortion organization funding.
I like their:
good food
great service
friendly staff
You are a sick puppy.
Trans Chic Fil A.
“innocent” “ignorant” response qquestions, just like in 2016, primarily by posters who joined SINCE TRUMP WAS INAUGRATED, followed by mild to serious condescension for posting my POV.
I’m guessing a few here were associated with CFA, and the others thought that this was THE big uprising against Trump and America.
They STFU real quick after others began to take notice and comment.
Don't choke on your plate of SUCK.
Uhmmm. Who gives a crap about a fast food joint ?
What’s next. In n out ?
This is stupid
Letter people need to be put back in the closet. Now.
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