Posted on 10/20/2019 7:41:42 AM PDT by marshmallow
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.
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The owners of the mall where this CFA outlet is located are from a country that tries and executes homosexuals. But the Brit activists are attacking CFA?
Cut-n-paste background on the above:
The LGBTQ woke-leftists are mad at Chick-fil-a for the fact that, at worst, the family who runs the company donated money to Christian charities which, among other things, lobbied for against the legal recognition of gay marriage (Vox: http://archive.is/xDfF2
The store is being closed by the mall it operates in, called The Oracle, Reading. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/10/19/britains-first-chick-fil-a-shut-down-after-lgbt-lobbying/
The Oracle, Reading is owned 50% by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oracle%2C_Reading
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is owned by the government in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, in the UAE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Dhabi_Investment_Authority
The UAE is one of the most oppressive places in the world for homosexuals, women, migrants, and general human rights. Flogging is a legal punishment for premarital sex, stoning to death is a legal punishment for adultery, homosexuality is illegal and is punishable for up to 14 years in prison or death. Apostasy is legally punishable by death. Free speech is heavily curtailed and even hugging, kissing, or dancing in public is banned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates#Law
http://www.lawyersuae.com/court-cases/criminal-law-of-dubai
So, these people are so woke that they won’t tolerate a company owned by people who don’t support the legalization of gay marriage, but they’ll overlook a company owned by people who directly order the imprisonment of nearly every person in a gay pride parade.
“Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Paul Anderson Youth Home and the Salvation Army.”
Yeah real fascist hate factory’s all three.
UK is sold out to the IslamoNazi invasion of EU, anyway
no point trying to save it anymore
Leftists ruin everything.
So they will pack up and move to a community that deserves excellence, not the abyss.
Strike another country off my list that I will never visit again... the UK has been on that list for a long time but what has gone on with Tommy Robinson and things like CFA just confirm that things are getting worse.
I guess Brits will now have to visit the US to find out why normal Americans like Chick-fil-A.
So yet again the homo nazis decide what should open , or close, who should lose jobs, and take away the peoples choice of food.
The hypocrisy of these homosexuals is breathtaking. They shout love, tolerance, co-exist and say they want to be left alone.
They are no different from the brown shirts of the NAZI party.
Rights for us but not for you. Well, it’s the UK so it figures.
The only part of Europe I would focus is on is the Eastern part of it.
“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.”
Every time they do this, Chick-fil-A’s business increases. Keep up the good work queer folks.
When the fags tried to harm Chick-fil-A in America a few short years ago in an attempt to shut them down nationwide Americans came out by the hundreds of thousands and supported Chick-fil-A and they had the most financially successful day in its history and it has never been topped since. The fags were extremely out numbered and shown to be a small bunch of hateful bigots.
The homosexual mafia does not want the youth to be educated. They want to indoctrinate them!
“Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Paul Anderson Youth Home and the Salvation Army.”
Yeah real fascist hate factory’s all three.
= = =
If you look carefully at all the letters of their names, you will find numerous “n”s, “a”s, and “i”s.
Where’s the “z”, you ask?
They have been deceptively hidden as “n”s, turned on their sides.
So Yes. Hate factories.
God bless Chick-fil-a!
Can Muslims eat at Chick-fil-A?
Tucker Carlson was the first person I saw who said Never Trumpers were projecting their sins/crimes onto Trump. Apparently, projection affects LGBTQWERTY, too.
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