Chick-fil-a re-evaluates funding for anti-gay marriage groups
After weeks of negotiations with city Alderman Joe Moreno, the fast-food restaurant agreed to take “a much closer look” at which groups receive donations from the WinShape Foundation, a non-profit created by the Cathy family and funded almost entirely by Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A, the company told Moreno.
“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,” Chick-fil-A’s senior director of real estate said in a letter to Moreno.
Between 2008 and 2010, the WinShape Foundation gave $3.2 million to groups that advocate against same-sex marriage, according to the group’s tax reports. That included $2,000 to the Family Research Council, which was designated as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2010, and $2,500 to the Alliance Defense Fund, which supported California’s Proposition 8 to outlaw gay marriage.
If true, they either A) got enough bad PR that it became a real problem or B) actually lost a lot of money. Either way, boycotts work!
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tlexx said:
Whoop whoop, he’s my alderman!
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newyorketc reblogged this from apsies and added:
If true, they either A) got enough bad PR that it became a real problem or B) actually lost a lot of money. Either way,...
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waxeygordon reblogged this from apsies and added:
I really hope this happens. Then I can say a definitive “FUCK YOU” to all my friends who supposedly support gay rights...
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elbuhocongafas reblogged this from apsies and added:
One small, tiny, step for common decency and equality. But a step forward is better than nothing.
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sweetturtleberry reblogged this from apsies and added:
I’m still not eating there…
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encapture said:
Translation: We lost a lot of money and got a lot of bad PR.
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apsies posted this