Posted on 12/01/2019 7:05:36 PM PST by Morgana
November 29, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Chick-fil-A has betrayed its Christian customers, and emboldened the LGBT mob. If you’re still defending them, then please, read on.
Chick-fil-A provoked the ire of the LGBT lobby in 2012 when its CEO Dan Cathy affirmed the Biblical view of marriage. But in the process they became a cultural icon for Christian conservatives, who flocked to the restaurant in droves. With their support, Chick-fil-A’s sales have more than doubled since 2012.
But after seven years of attacks from the LGBT mob, Chick-fil-A announced Nov. 18 that it would cease funding its remaining grantees that oppose same-sex “marriage,” including the Salvation Army.
Many of Chick-fil-A’s supporters, including LifeSite, have decried the decision as a capitulation.
At LifeSite, we have run countless articles over the years touting Chick-fil-A, and now we have taken a leading role in raising the alarm. We launched a petition to the company, garnering over 40,000 signatures so far. The American Family Association launched a petition that has grown even larger, with 102,000 signatures.
But Chick-fil-A has gone on the offensive, denying that it capitulated and claiming that its Christian mission remains as strong as ever. They managed to convince Franklin Graham, who sought to reassure Christians of Chick-fil-A’s commitments.
As a result, Chick-fil-A’s supporters have claimed the capitulation narrative is fake news, and have accused LifeSite and others of perpetuating a false story.
But that is wrong, and naïve.
Chick-fil-A did cave. Sure, they have kept God in their mission statement. Yes, they say they will remain closed on Sundays. They are keeping a soft Christian identity, for now. But where it’s hard – where the Gospel butts up against our culture of death and sexual licentiousness – they have indeed caved. And that’s where it counts.
Let’s remember that Chick-fil-A was clear when they announced the decision on Nov. 18 that defunding these groups was about rebranding in order to expand into new markets. The company’s president, Tim Tassopoulos, said:
There’s no question we know that, as we go into new markets, we need to be clear about who we are. There are lots of articles and newscasts about Chick-fil-A, and we thought we needed to be clear about our message.
The decision comes as Chick-fil-A is beginning to expand out of the U.S., into Canada and the U.K. Their new restaurant in Toronto faced immense backlash. And in London, England, the backlash was so severe that they are closing their first restaurant.
With a massive push from its Christian fan base, Chick-fil-A has skyrocketed to the third largest restaurant chain in the U.S. – behind only McDonald’s and Starbucks – with over $10 billion in revenue. Of course they want to expand now outside the U.S. But it appears they are willing to abandon their core customers to do it.
This was a flash point – a big cultural moment when the mob can declare victory in the public eye. But the reality is Chick-fil-A went off course very soon after Cathy’s comments in 2012, when they began withdrawing funding from the most ardently pro-family of the Christian groups they had been supporting, like the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family. In 2014, Cathy said that while he maintains his personal opposition to same-sex “marriage,” he had decided to keep quiet about it:
The bottom line is we have a responsibility here to keep the whole of the organization in mind and it has to take precedence over the personal expression and opinion on social issues.
Now, as supporters dig deeper, they’re seeing that Chick-fil-A has quietly been betraying their Christian customers for years. According to the Chick-fil-A Foundation’s IRS filings they have already been giving money to pro-abortion and leftist groups. Most shocking, as revealed Nov. 26 by pro-life leader Ryan Bomberger, Chick-fil-A donated $2,500 to the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2017.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a virulently anti-Christian group, and arguably one of the biggest agents of the soft persecution of faithful Christians in the U.S. today. It is famous for its “hate map” targeting pro-family groups that promote Biblical teaching on homosexuality.
In 2012 domestic terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins cited their hate map as his inspiration after he entered the Family Research Council’s DC headquarters with the intention of gunning down its employees. In his backpack Corkins was carrying Chick-fil-A sandwiches, and intended to rub them in the faces of his victims. Thank God for the courage of FRC’s security guard Leonardo Johnson, who was shot while subduing Corkins.
And we learn now from the Family Research Council that Chick-fil-A never reached out to them even privately after the attack.
Yet five years later Chick-fil-A gave money to the very anti-Christian group that inspired the attack.
Chick-fil-A is continuing to tout its Christian values, remaining closed on Sundays, but as they abandon their principles, it’s beginning to appear that they are using the Gospel as a marketing tool.
This isn’t about the groups they are defunding. The Salvation Army, in particular, is not fully pro-life and I would not advocate giving them money. It’s about the message Chick-fil-A is sending by defunding them – and that is that they are distancing themselves from organizations that uphold a Biblical view of sexuality. They are capitulating to the LGBT mob, and emboldening them, showing that their persistence pays off. That we will cave if they come at us hard enough and long enough. And thus, Chick-fil-A is, in fact, encouraging the persecution of faithful Christians who cannot and will not capitulate.
The persecution is growing in Europe, North America, and around the world, and we need to be ready. It will take a heroic faith – deep conviction, and a willingness to give up everything. Christ is clear in the Gospel:
They will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake. … You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends, and some of you they will put to death; you will be hated by all for my name’s sake.
You know what we should fear more than persecution? That the persecution would come, and we would miss it because of our own apathy. That our faith is so lukewarm that we’re not deemed worthy of suffering for it. We don’t seek out martyrdom – but we should make sure our conviction is worthy of it.
READ MORE:
Chick-fil-A sales have doubled since LGBT boycotts began: report
Chick-fil-A caved in, gave the rainbow mafia the victory they wanted
Chick-fil-A pulls support from Christian groups branded by LGBT lobby ‘anti-gay’
Chick-fil-A betrays Christians, surrenders to LGBT forces
Chick-fil-A HQ forbade two restaurants to host me, says conservative author Todd Starnes
Amid Chick-fil-A controversy, pro-family and LGBT groups find rare agreement: ‘Gays have won’
Chick-fil-A was already moving left, but nobody noticed until it caved to LGBT lobby
Cowardice and capitulation: Some shocking things Chick-fil-A funds
Chick-fil-A funded anti-Christian org that inspired shooter to target Family Research Council
Get Woke,
Go Broke!!!
.
I’ve been at odds
with SPLC for decades
and the Fact that
Some Nut inspired by
SPLC attacked a
Conservative group
That’s no longer supported
by ChickFila
And
Then ChickFila,in turn
Donates to SPLC
IS LUDACRIS!
.
Jack in the Box
Has a better
Chicken Sammy!
“Drifting left” happens when you hire leftists. Personnel is policy.
I know i’m being simplistic but why risk your base?
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Yes the base is important at least to some level of support.
How large varies I’d guess with the product. If they lose X percent but gain X plus some percentage then income/profit
wise they are not failing. Time will tell.
They donated to SPLC?!?!?!?
Yeah, no.
They just lost the business of 40 Italians. And that’s just close family :)
Once I email the clan, no one will eat there anymore.
I must have missed that part.
Thanks for letting those of us who didn’t know in on it
Ah, conservative give in kind of easy.
I STILL won’t buy at Target but I saw after a few year their stock rocketed again.
Chick keeps God in their mission statement just like the Boy Scouts do. Both limp writed entities that have capitulated. They can sell their sandwiches to the scouts.
Duh. Maybe trying to expand into cities filled with leftist perverts isn't the business model. Try Calgary and Cardiff next time.
I never cared for Chick-fil-A’s food but appreciated their family and business stance. Sad to find out that was an apparent lie. Seems like they really blew it, don’t gain anything with the pervert community and have now destroyed credibility with the rest of us.
I have not been in Target at all this year, only once the previous year. Same with Dicks and others.
I have never understood the logic of pissing off 30% of your customers to try and expand into a 2% market.
It’s been years since we have enjoyed KFC. They really mucked up their formula over the years. That said, it’s only been a handful of times we’ve gone to Chick-fil-A. It’s okay. A bit overpriced and nothing special.
LOL HAHAHAHA A Staten Island dago jonesing for some Deep South soul food. It’s cool. This Mason-Dixon Kraut would give his left one for a good slice of NY pie. My first wife and I visited Manhattan during the holidays about 25 years ago, and we found a pizza joint that was supposedly the original Improv there. Can’t remember the name, but the food was incredible. I just know it was within walking distance of Times Square, and the old Ambassador Hotel, where my father lived in the 50’s when he was a radio broadcaster and was an understudy at the Met. That was some funky parking. I lived in DC for fifteen years but never saw parking garages use car elevators to stow your ride.
So how does Huckabee
Feel Now?
.
Boycott the
Chicken Shiffs?
Yup,
That’s what I’ve
Read here and elsewhere.
Chicken Shiffs!
We certainly cannot deny absolutely every retail outlet our consumer Dollars these days, but we can remain steadfast to some degree. I have not gone to Target since I put them in my sights, nor do I ever indulge Dicks in years already. I am never going there.
I am boycotting JC Penney for years now because it made cents to me, and the NFL can continue to take a hike.
Let them all fail. They decided to insert themselves into the Social discourse, now let them contend with the consequences.
Boycotts don’t work
That’s some pretty cool stuff.
Great story about pop.
Yeah I wish I had a SOUTHERN transplant in the neighborhood to show us how to make those dishes well. :)
But NO ONE goes north!!!
Me neither. No more Gillette either.
But my hypocrisy is using amazon so much.
Franklin Graham’s defense of CFA was all over the internet.
This weak tweet hardly sets the record straight.
I called Samaritan’s Purse and told them I’d be looking for a strong rebuke of CFA and this tweet is not that. I packed 4 Christmas boxes for them this year. Hopefully Franklin Graham will smarten up before next Christmas.
CONSERVATIVE boycotts don’t work because they don’t stick with it.
There are MANY companies that changed policy under just the THREAT of boycott by the left.
Because the left pushes hard and goes in for the kill.
Trump is the first R in a while that I feel acts like that.
He’s got the killer instinct. Thank goodness.
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