still, a good first step is admitting you have a problem.

...to steal a line from Stephen Colbert

Why else would they do this??

The numbers are in and they're not good.

homophobia is trumped by the almighty dollar

because Chick-Fil-A is, after all is said and done, a business. Profits before the people, the American way.

The accounting sheets were looking bleaker and bleaker (after the huge sales by homophobes, that is) and the corporation, as a good American corporation would always do, chose to do away with their anti-gay stance because the numbers were getting worse.

this is all I found:

The boycott of chic-fil-A have anything to do with it?

You don't say

The upper management is still fundamentalist. Tomorrow, they may give to anti-birth control or anti-science causes.

Fuck 'em.

fuck them and the chicken-eating cow they road in on. I don't believe there's a repentant bone in their body.

Bobbie Fleckman

Their souls have already been tarnished by their hate.

new businesses in the neighborhood. It's been a rough few recent years here, but I guess we'll be getting a Chick-Fil-A soon

If they have to be forced to treat LGBT people as human beings, they're still miserable shitheads that I want nothing to do with.

I have never had anyone in that store be rude to me, and the food is very good. I boycotted, but now I want my chicken sandwich.

with the personalized Chik-Fil-A vanity license plate and spray painted anti-gay signs all over his pick up truck gonna do now? Where will he eat?

We've been experimenting in our kitchen, and the closest we have come is marinating the chicken in pickle juice before coating it. I know it's probably six of one, half a dozen of the other, but next time we make AOTFNOTH (I call our recipe "all of the flavor, none of the hate&quot I will try putting the pickle juice straight into the batter. Thanks for the suggestion!

itd be hard not to print out a copy of the article , put it in an envelope , and send it to his mail box

just to make sure he found out


thats just me tho lol

Do it do it do it

You know you want to.

n/t.

well done.

n/t.

but you shouldnt call them cows

My boycott broke my addiction and I'm not going back.

I don't trust them, I hope they go out of business soon.

Grab a couple Drag Queens and let's go order some chest of chicken!

Is this just a Chicago story, or does it apply to stores nationwide?

mikey_the_rat

needs to post original news article on FR, so we can watch the Freepers go berserk.

not.

I haven't stepped foot in a Chik-fil-A since I found out what you were about. I also fired off a letter to my youngest child's elementary school telling them it was wrong to have school spirit night at your hateful establishment. And they dropped you too. We go to a local Zaxby's now. It's no more than a tiny blip on your balance sheet, but I hope there are several such blips. I want to hear a mea culpa before I come off any of my hard-earned money.

I never minded my money supporting the livelyhood of my neighbors. It was the contributions to bigoted causes that I refused to support.

The company itself won't donate to anti-gay causes, but their CEO will.

Romney would not like this.

but the headline is that Moreno is relenting on his pledge to keep CFA out of Chicago. They do include a one sentence pledge by CFA to stop giving to "pro-family" orgs. It's a mixed bag over there. Some are calling it a defeat for CFA. Some are saying that Moreno declared victory and called the troops home.

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“Although we are encouraged by their internal statement, we still would like for the company to adopt an anti-discrimination policy at the corporate level,” said Rick Garcia, policy advisor for The Civil Rights Agenda. “It is one thing for a company to say they respect everyone they serve and employ, it is quite another for them to put that into their policies and demand that all employees adhere to that behavior. As we have heard from gay employees that work for Chick-fil-A, there is a culture of discrimination within the company and we would like to ensure that employees can speak out and call attention to those practices without fear of reprisal. It takes time to change the culture of any institution and steps like a corporate policy ensure that progress is made.”

More:
http://www.towleroad.com/2012/09/chick-fil-a-promises-to-no-longer-donate-to-anti-gay-organizations.html

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The apparent decision by the chain's WinShape Foundation would mark a retreat from the summer's culture war pitting advocates of marriage equality against conservative claims that the chain was under assault for simple free speech. The comments came, the group The Civil Rights Agenda said, in correspondence with a Chicago alderman who had opposed the chain's expansion to the city.

“The WinShape Foundations is now taking a much closer look at the organizations it considers helping, and in that process will remain true to its stated philosophy of not supporting organizations with political agendas," the chain is said to have written in a letter to Alderman Proco Moreno. The Chicago group added in a press release: "In meetings the company executives clarified that they will no longer give to anti-gay organizations, such as Focus on the Family and the National Organization for Marriage."

The company did not contest the report in a statement from spokesman Steve Robinson emailed to BuzzFeed on Wednesday — though it also would not confirm the new report.

"We have no agenda, policy or position against anyone. We have a 65-year history of providing hospitality for all people and, as a dedicated family business, serving and valuing everyone regardless of their beliefs or opinions," he said in a general press statement emailed to BuzzFeed by another Chick-fil-A spokesman, Jerry Johnston, who said the company's press statement is not new. "The genuine, historical intent of our WinShape Foundation and corporate giving has been to support youth, family and educational programs."

More:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/chick-fil-a-promises-to-stop-funding-anti-gay-gro

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I've seen the press release on The Civil Rights agenda website, released yesterday, but that's the only place you can find it. Chick-Fil-A will have to not only stop its anti-gay donations, but will have to make up for that by donating to gay friendly causes before I consider even walking into one of their stores. Call me cynical, but I think this probably has more to do with trying to get stores in the Chicago market than with a change of heart. That's not good enough, but it's a good first baby step.

??

This is one CEO worth his salary. I could not believe how they milked the Fundies here like Jersey cows for days, and now they are swinging to the left?

Brilliant.

And as it becomes ever more impossible to refute, the Catholic Church -and Religion in general?- will find itself weakened further, which can only benefit us all!

They're just 2 miles from me, an easy bike ride. In fact they are the closest restaurant to me. But they're too expensive and this whole ordeal has actually helped me break the habit. Hey Chick-fil-a, I relish your hatred. Thank you.

I work in a volunteer position where we feed dinner to the high school band every Friday afternoon before the football game. We have to work within a very strict budget. The local Chic-fil-a has been all over me to buy from them. I mean really, really pushy, calling me on my cell, etc. They are pissing me off. It was this whole big guilt trip about how much they support the local high school, but we never buy anything from them (which is totally untrue). It has nothing to do with Mr. Cathey's bigoted politics, I just don't react well to that kind of pressure. Plus, they are too expensive.

have any stores in Milwaukee. But, all is not lost! They are planning to open a store on South 76th street. I still will have to think twice about going there.

Non-bigots won't eat there because of their long history.

Bigots now won't eat there either.

Soon very few people will be eating at Chick-Fil-A.

Oops.

This, plus how they source their food.

a little less change in the register. Fuck those idiots. They have about as much integrity as the Republican Party, which is Zilch.

you've already done the damage. Even many of us heterosexual individuals won't tolerate your hateful ways.
You are dead to me, Chick-fil-A.

And yes, I am a lawyer, but I don't play one on TV.

Penalties and sanctions and promises are legally unenforceable without reporting behavior to a legal authority.

There are no Chick-fil-A restaurants near me so I won't be able to show gratitude with my wallet.

No surprises here. A business makes money at the end of the day. Being silly by exluding a nice size segment was never going to last.

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