Dan Cathy is not only President of Chick-fil-A, he owns Chick-Fil-A. In addition, the actual company Chick-Fil-A donates a lot of money towards anti-gay causes. I actually selected an article that was fair to Chick-fil-A as no other article displayed both sides. But, Dan Cathy is Chick-FIL-A. I was attempting to make sure that every one was aware of all angles. Cathy can step down, but he will he will still own, control Chick-Fil-A as it is his family owned business. Therefore, to be perfectly clear, it is Dan Cathy's family that owns Chick-Fil-A and it makes them richer by the day. I hope you now understand. Chick-FIL-A is currently the most hateful - anti-gay fast food chain in in the USA. I can not even think of a more hateful "for-profit" anti-gay company in the nation. ...Jake West --- In
Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com, Master Adrian <masteradrian@...> wrote:
>
> Jake,
>
> Seems to me that mr. Dan Cathy wanted to pleasure the Baptist Press when he said what he said, and forgot that the company exists by the grace of the customer and not the will of his god...... and that he depends on what the consumer buys........... and spends at his company.......
>
> I think it is stunning to see a President say one thing, and the company saying another thing, shows to me that he is a bad President and should be replaced with someone who really represents the company....
>
> Anyway, just my thoughts........
>
> In regard to:
>
> Chick-fil-A has Anti-Gay Owner
>
> By Josh Israel on Jul 19, 2012 / Think Progress
>
> On Monday, a Baptist Press story quoted Chick-fil-A's president Dan Cathy admitting his company's anti-gay ideology --
> a stance the company previously attempted to deny. But after two days
> of Cathy boasting about the story, the company's Facebook page now
> features a message flatly contradicting its head.
>
> In
> his interview with the Baptist Press, Cathy admitted that the company
> indeed has an anti-gay political agenda. When asked about reports that
> the company was against same-sex marriage, he told the paper "Well,
> guilty as charged," adding:
>
> We
> are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of
> the family unit â•Å" We intend to stay the course. We know that it might
> not be popular with everyone, but thank the Lord, we live in a country
> where we can share our values and operate on biblical principles.
>
> Cathy
> reinforced his views in a radio interview, in which he asked "God's
> mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to
> think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about." He
> continued his anti-LGBT campaign Wednesday on Twitter, twice bragging
> that the Baptist Press interview had "lit up the gay community."
>
> Today's statement on the the Chick-fil-a Facebook page takes the exact opposite view. The company now claims:
>
> The
> Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to
> treat every person with honor, dignity and respect -- regardless of
> their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender. We will
> continue this tradition in the over 1,600 Restaurants run by independent
> Owner/Operators. Going forward, our intent is to leave the policy
> debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena.
>
> The Chick-fil-A corporation has long funded anti-gay organizations. According
> to an Equality Matters analysis of public records, in 2010 the
> company's foundation distributed nearly $2 million to anti-LGBT groups
> including the Marriage & Family Foundation, the Family Research
> Council, and Exodus International -- and millions more in previous
> years. But this past March, when Northeastern University rejected
> a proposed contract to bring a Chick-fil-A restaurant on campus, a
> Cathy bizarrely claimed that the company had "no political agenda." He
> said in a media statement "we are not anti-anybody and Chick-fil-A have
> [sic] no agenda, policy or position against anyone as some reports
> continue to represent."
>
> Chick-fil-A
> is one of a very small number of major national companies that refuses
> to offer any employment protections to LGBT employees. In fact, the
> company received a 0 rating from the Human Rights Campaign and has a
> record of firing employees it believes engage in "sinful" behavior. This
> is hardly a tradition of treating everyone "with honor, dignity, and
> respect."
>
> Either
> the company is once again trying to conceal its anti-LGBT activism or
> Cathy's intention to "stay the course" lasted just three days.
>
