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The Tolerance and Diversity Politics of Chik-fil-A

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There is exactly one Chik-fil-A in New York City. Which is striking, because New York City is big and lucrative, and Chik-fil-A is a big and lucrative brand. And, as I discover during lunch at its sole location on the New York University campus, it’s decently tasty, too. The menu is just what one would expect from the name: Chicken in various states of fry served on buns, with fried potatoes in various different cuts on the side, and pop and milkshakes for drinks. It’s cheap, quick, and charmingly kitschy, with a menu spare enough to limit the anxieties of choice.

This simple business model has made Chik-fil-A very successful — it is to the South what In-n-Out is to California — and its founder, 92-year-old Samuel Truett Cathy, very rich. Forbes estimates his worth at $1.2 billion. And he’s devoted his considerable wealth to a life of philanthropy. He has distributed more than $35 million in scholarships to help Chik-fil-A employees go to college, another $26 million to scholarships for students at Berry College, and another $18 million for foster homes throughout the United States. He’s been honored by the Children’s Hunger Fund, and won the Horatio Alger award and the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership, for his charity.

Incidentally, Cathy is also an enthusiastic Baptist, and one domain of his charitable giving reflects that fact. Chik-fil-A is closed on Sundays, includes religious language in its mission statement, and donates some money to causes like the Campus Crusade for Christ. Consequently, a meme has developed on left-leaning and pro-gay-rights websites in the past year that Chik-fil-A is virulently anti-gay. Since then, the nonagenarian Samuel Truett Cathy has gone from a noted philanthropist to a hate-figure — in two senses of the phrase — for many liberals, and has gotten a string of very negative press.

It’s become a prickly issue. The company will no longer take requests for comment regarding its donations, philanthropy, and political or religious activism. Cathy issued one statement when the controversy began to congeal: “In recent weeks, we have been accused of being anti-gay. . . . We have no agenda against anyone. While my family and I believe in the Biblical definition of marriage, we love and respect anyone who disagrees.”

Nonetheless, when a Chik-fil-A opened in Chicago last year, activists affiliated with getequal.org protested to “stop the hate” and distributed flyers styled with a pun on its name, “Bigot-fil-A,” that the organizers apparently found clever. Elsewhere, college students have tried to get Chik-fil-As removed from their campuses. Which might have something to do with the fact that there’s exactly one Chik-fil-A in New York City: If the chain wanted to open another store here, it would likely face similar protests.

But the dirt that activists have dug up on Cathy isn’t really that incriminating, even from a pro-gay-rights perspective. His top sin, according to the agitprop flyers produced by getequal.org, is financial support for the National Christian Foundation and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Also among Cathy’s anathema affiliations is Campus Crusade for Christ. (When you think Campus Crusade for Christ, you think homophobia, right? Me neither.) There is no evidence that Chik-fil-A has funded groups that are primarily devoted to opposing same-sex marriage, such as the National Organization for Marriage (which is not to imply that such a donation would demonstrate anti-gay animus).

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Matthew Shaffer
NRO

Eet Mor Chiken!
 
Now, if he were Muslim, the left would be pushing the brand like there was no tomorrow. Muslims aren't bigots or anti-gay, after all.
 
Seriously. Why don't the gay mafia spend as much energy demanding everybody boycott Muslim businesses?
 
when you hear the word

RACIST hurled

you can be certain the hurler is RACIST!
 
when one is called IGNORANT

you can be certain the speaker

has been caught

and cant respond
 
I suspect plenty of Leftist organizations are shills for corporate dirty-deeds.

Several years ago I was involved in a local scandal that sent most of the county commissioners to prison. The scandal took the following form:

A syndicate of rich Republican developers owned all of the water-sewer utilities in the county and fucked all their customers with frequent rate hikes. The rate hikes paid for all the new regulations and codes enacted by the county commission. The law allows utilities to pass the costs on the consumers.

Every member of the county commission was a Democrat. They made the high prices for sewer and water an election issue. They wanted to confiscate the utilities from the Republicans, and promised to sell the sewer and water cheaper once the county owned the utilities. Voters approved a huge bond issue to buy the utilities, and the commission and developers went to court.

After all the fighting the commission paid the developers gozillions for the utilities. Then someone discovered that none of the sewer treatment plants were 'real.' None of them treated the sewage. It was all bogus.

Then someone discovered that all the Democrat commissioners took lotsa money from the GOP developers, and the whole fight over the utilities was a scam to inflate the prices of the utilities.
 
Rediculous. As if there's nothing else out there to protest, they really need to pick their battles more seriously otherwise they end up looking like this. Like a bunch of whining brats.
Chik-fil-a's waffle cut fries are awesome, if it's the touch of Christ that makes them that crispy, I'll take it.
 
They could always pay a million dollars to some fags and call it a day. I'm certain they'd make their money back with interest.
 
Sean Renaud said:
They could always pay a million dollars to some fags and call it a day. I'm certain they'd make their money back with interest.
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They don't want money, they get all they need from Soros, the Ford Foundation, Tides, etc. They want to destroy anyone who doesn't agree with them.
 
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