Perhaps a little back ground on Chik-Fil-A and its owner who has, according to people here, done nothing but state his opinion, would prove interesting. In 2010, Chik-Fil-A gave over $2 million dollars to anti-gay groups such as the Family Research Council (FRC). The FRC is listed as an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non profit civil rights organization that keeps track of hate groups in the United States. Quoting from the SPLC site, "The Family Research Council (FRC) bills itself as “the leading voice for the family in our nation’s halls of power,” but its real specialty is defaming gays and lesbians." Another group suppported by Chik-Fil-A was Exodus International, a group which advocates reparative or conversion therapy which operates on the basis that through therapy you can become "ex-gay". According to the American Psychological Association, such therapy "for gays is useless and harmful." Additionally the man who was just stating an opinion on marriage admitted in an interview with Forbes magazine that things he considered sinful were reason enough for terminating an employee. Despite the company's claims they treat all employees the same, they do not offer gay employees the same benefits they offer straight ones.
As so often happens here, since most of you won't like the facts, they will be irrelavent to the topic at hand and so I apologize for wasting your time.
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