If you listen to the music played in the restaurant (at least in our local restaurants), it's Christian Contemporary. And CFA is closed on Sundays.
But, you're right, otherwise, there was never anything overtly Christian there. It was always just a family place selling popular food.
If not for Mr. Cathy's remarks, there might never have been a "controversy" (and CFA might not have made so much profit at that time).
Now CFA execs have stepped into politics again. How strange that they donated to the SPLC, especially after the shooter was influenced by SPLC. Maybe CFA donated to SPLC to stay off their "hate list."
Still not holding it against local operators, though, but we probably won't buy there as often now.
I never heard any music in any of the Chick Fil As I have ever been to, must be a local thing for you.
Being closed on Sunday isn’t exactly new to New Jersey, some areas of NJ still have the old blue laws that prevent malls from being open anyways (Paramus).
I think corporate was stupid to “step into this” and I stated before, Chick Fil A should separate its corporation from its foundation and keep the individual decisions on donations out of the corporate boardroom and let the foundation deal with it. To me, that would be smart.
This way it would isolate the foundation from whims of CEOs/marketing types.
Initially I wondered if the SPLC donation was a Jesse Jackson style extortion plot, but the payout was only $2500.
Sure is sad for CFA to lose so much credibility over about 30 seconds worth of profit.
I was somewhat ambivalent about the initial story. Part of it is the right of a private company to spend their foundation money any way they wish and part of it was my supposition that the whole controversy was just SJW’s being SJW’s and lying about everything. But supporting SPLC changes the game a lot.
Dan Cathy has a choice to make. He needs to make a very strong public statement and get rid of the staff and executives who control the foundation, or he should immediately sell the company and cash out.
I’ve had a very small personal correspondence with him and left impressed. I hope he does the right thing (choice one)