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
Well, I can’t boycott them very well in the rural where I live. No Chick-fil-A within hundreds of miles of here I understand. I have never patronized or even seen one of their restaurants anywhere.
Good.
With the back stabbing of Salvation Army, CFA is dead to me.
Oddly enough, our CFA is always lines of cars spilling into the adjoining parking lots, especially on weekend nights.
The last two times I drove by, probably a third of usual crowd.
Pity.
Probably the same as I do; conned and used.
Thank you. Got a classic boiler plate reply. I suspect it will take a hit to their sales numbers to drag them back to their roots.
Merely not funding truly Christian orgs will not be enough to achieve the good nationwrecking seal of approval, for what is required is essentially saluting the flag of Sodom by publicly affirming sodomy and proactively funding the homosexual agenda.
Bump
Covenant House, CFAs new charity, has a pride page with all their sponsors listed below photos of their NYC pride parade participation.
Soon CFA will have their name under the covenant House rainbow flag page. Maybe then Christians will see the betrayal. Maybe.....
Pretty much the same thing all companies do when it comes time to go big. Look at walmart. Made in the USA is how it started. The ole man dies, kids take over, board members change and the old business model changes to fit the global model.
In addition, for their biscuits, they offer a sweetener that they call "honey sauce," which includes some honey but mostly high fructose corn syrup, something I try to avoid like the AIDS virus. Why can't they just use plain old honey?
Same here. What was a constantly packed house wasn’t so much this past weekend.
Those here claiming that boycotts don’t’ work are proved wrong by the fact that Left-wing boycotts and political pressure are what caused Chick-Fil-A to change their policy. To argue otherwise makes me wonder if these same naysayers work at Chick-Fil-A.
The boycotts don’t work for the left either
Chick Fil A did not change policy because of boycotts, they changed policy because of the the change in management. Leftists took over a couple key rolls and made leftist decisions, that is what it looks to me
And boycotting isn’t going to do a darn thing.
As long as they make a great sandwich, at a great price, quickly, 99.99999999% of their customers don’t care about the internal political battle that is going on. That is true with just about all companies.
Apple is leftist and is run by a LGBTQpXYZ freak and most freepers still buy iphones, sure some of us buy androids for whatever reason, but my reason for an Android is because they are cheaper, a lot cheaper and I am always afraid of dropping it so I would rather drop a $100 phone then a $1200 one. Has nothing to do with the guy in charge being gay.
I haven’t bought anything since a leftist fruit took over.
Some people’s values mean more to them than others.
Also, budweiser putting out ads about vets after their disastrous gay marriage ads during nfl games several years ago
Gillette putting out ads about actual MEN shaving after the TS ads.
there’s more
a blanket statement that they don’t work is wrong.
I’m there too.
I avoid Apple because they are leftist anti-Christians.
Same reason I will now be avoiding CFA.
You may say that boycotts don't work, but they stop me from spending my hard earned money at a business which has the goal of destroying me , my children and my lifestyle.
1. AT&T
2. Marriott International
3. ADP
4. Hilton
5. Eli Lilly and Company
6. Comcast NBCUniversal
7. Accenture
8. Mastercard
9. KPMG
10. Abbott
11. Cox Communications
12. BASF
13. Wells Fargo
14. Target
15. TIAA
16. Nielsen
17. Northrop Grumman
18. Toyota Motor North America
19. TD Bank
20. The Walt Disney Company
21. The Kellogg Company
22. Procter & Gamble
23. General Motors
24. Exelon Corporation
25. The Hershey Company
26. AbbVie
27. CVS Health
28. Colgate-Palmolive
29. Aramark
30. Randstad
31. Sanofi
32. The Boeing Company
33. Southern Company
34. Walmart
35. Medtronic
36. KeyBank
37. Dow
38. JCPenney
39. AIG
40. HSBC
41. McCormick & Company
42. Humana
43. Allstate Insurance Company
44. Express Scripts
45. HP Inc.
46. U.S. Bank
47. United Continental Holdings, Inc.
48. BBVA
49. Tata Consultancy Services
50. Intel Corporation
So why do the big-bucks global-power corporate creeps support organized, aggressive sexual perversion?
It has long been called the "Mystery of Iniquity" --- the counter-intuitive way many people and institutions choose wickedness even when it does NOT pay off for them in terms of the logic of their own advantage. (Who wants to stifle normal reproductive behavior and thus shrink heir market???)
I think some of it is just capitulating to pressure. They settle under threat (malicious lawfare) or even pre-emptively.
Some of it is ideological. They really do hope to smash the binary.
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