Posted on 09/24/2012 10:10:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Chicago alderman says Chick-fil-A's president is publicly contradicting what company executives personally assured him for months -- that the fast-food chain is changing its stance on gay marriage -- and he asked the company Sunday to clarify.
Alderman Joe Moreno made news last week when he announced Chick-fil-A has ceased making donations to anti-gay groups and has enacted workplace protections for its employees against discrimination.
Moreno said the two concessions were the result of 10 months of negotiations he had with Chick-fil-A executives as he weighed whether to support a new Chick-fil-A restaurant in his Chicago ward. He said the executives gave him documents backing up the new positions.
Chick-fil-A, in a statement Thursday, affirmed the workplace protections. Friday, however, company President Dan Cathy denied the company has ceased making donations to groups that oppose gay marriage and said Chick-fil-A "made no such concessions."
"There continues to be erroneous implications in the media that Chick-fil-A changed our practices and priorities in order to obtain permission for a new restaurant in Chicago," Cathy said in a statement to Mike Huckabee, the former Republican presidential candidate who now runs a conservative website. "That is incorrect." Moreno said Sunday that Cathy's statement "at the least, muddied the progress we had made with Chick-fil-A and, at the worst, contradicted the documents and promises Chick-fil-A made to me and the community earlier this month." Moreno said Chick-fil-A executives gave him a letter earlier this year saying the company's non-profit arm, the WinShape Foundation, will not support organizations with political agendas. "We were told that these organizations included groups that politically work against the rights of gay and lesbian people," Moreno said.
Cathy's conflicting statement, Moreno said Sunday, is "disturbing."
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My last reply to you.
By any measure you are insane.
The guy’s facebook page. He’s quite proud of his fascism.
https://www.facebook.com/aldermanjoe.moreno
The guy’s facebook page. It’s open (for now). He’s quite proud of his fascism.
https://www.facebook.com/aldermanjoe.moreno
“My last reply to you.
By any measure you are insane.”
Scary insane. Isn’t there some kind of rule at F.R. against advocating violence? I’m through talking with him too.
I’m sure you have read all the relevant comments on this thread. He has yet to answer my question about this.
Deuteronomy 22, v.8.
When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
I am beginning to believe that he may well have that battlement on his roof top, to help thwart the roving bands of homosexuals.
Thank you for your input.
No problem and you are probably correct about the battlement.
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