Chick-fil-A has emboldened the LGBT mob. If you’re still defending them, watch this

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.

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.

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Hey gang, go to @chickfilA and give them a piece of your mind.. Looks like the anti-Chick-Betray vote is about 20 to 1.

Here are some of my fave comments:

Chick-fil-A - - -left a bad taste in my mouth. Cowardice and Capitulation: The Shocking Things Chick-fil-A Funds

Chick-fil-A: No guts. No heart. Lukewarm. Squishy. And yes--- absolutely chicken.

They took my $, disrespected my conscience, dropped their best people-helping charities, and started funding scummy organizations I wouldn't want to give a nickel to. Read it and weep.

Looking up the facts on the internet. Wow. I mean, wow!

Talk about stupid: Dick's Sporting Goods: stops selling guns, alienates base, loses millions of dollars. NFL: caves to National Anthem protests, alienates base, loses millions of dollars. @ChickfilA: CAN WE GET SOME OF THAT ACTION?!

I'm not eating at CFA either. Like I told my girlfriend, "ChickFilA used to ="corporate conscience" to me. But now they're just chicken."

Here's what we like wa-a-a-ay better: Zaxby's, Bojangles, and Raisin Cane.

I try to spread the blessings around. Really I do. I make my own tortilla soup and -- & nuggets & the rest of the CFA menu, enough for my husband and son and myself -- & send the $$ we save to Salvation Army, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and other groups cut off by CFL.

An unnamed informant high up in Chick-fil-A corporate headquarters has leaked that you're getting a new mascot in place of the traditional Chick-fil-A cows: a *fabulous* *golden* *calf*! The new motto: Eat More LGBT. I just want to thank you for the new, crystal-clear messaging!!

Perfect without! From Day 1 Chick-fil-A always treated customers &associates with respect/courtesy regardless of sex, sexuality or etc. But now they bow to pressure and dump good charities in favor of ONLY LGBT groups? No nuggets. And shame on 'em and their chickens, too

Then -- Pro Tip --- don't use Chick-Fil-A. From Day 1 they always treated customers &associates with respect and courtesy regardless of sex, sexuality etc. Great. But now they bow to pressure and give charitable $$ in favor of ONLY LGBT groups? No nuggets. And what a shame.

I'll take no sauce, no nugget, and no Chick-fil-A. - From Day 1 they always treated customers &associates with respect and courtesy regardless of sex, sexuality etc. Great. But now they bow to pressure groups and dump good charities in favor of *ONLY* LGBT.

Being a freedom-loving, free-wheeling, civic-minded activist and doing my community a good deed. That's why I blow the whistle on the lamentable behavior of Chick-fil-A. They dishonored themselves. You know, just chicken.

How very nice. Good day to you. But have you tried the KFC? It's excellent.

Chick-fil-A don't be ray-ciss, but dey sho be chicken.

Hello my friend, I guess I'm even *more* disappointed than you. Because I'm not going until Chick-fil-A apologizes to the Christian groups and publicly repents of their moral collapse in the face of LGBT pressure tactics. Chick-fil-A: Kinda squishy, but really, really chicken.

Excuse me, but I believe you misspelled that. It's LGBT-STD-HIV. Or the favorite new term for the new BFF's: LGBT-Chick-fil-A.

The LGBTQ bullies *demanded* that U stop contributing to 2 Christian charities, annnd...Chick-fil-A stopped. But you say you didn't cave? Right. My family used to go out of our way for Chick-fil-A. For us, you were the corporation with *conviction*. Now... you're just chicken.

Just want you to know the LGBT will never be satisfied. You've alienated your strongest cultural supporters but have not even remotely appeased the passions of GLAAD and the other hostile activists. So you'll be alone.I'm getting a rotisserie chicken at Kroger, thanks. It's sad.

I have never thought harm, spoken harm or done harm to anybody because of them being gay If this makes me a homophobe, then that word is meaningless. LGBT activist orgs are in permanent attack mode, and none of us deserve that. Leave ChickfilA alone. Leave Salvation Army alone.

Chickfila Always treated LGBT customers and employees exactly the same as everybody else. No discrimination. But your bullying activist organizations pushed them til they finally dropped Salvation Army, whichsaves the lives of gay youth/runaways. IDK why you punish the good guys ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The nearby ChickfilA has good food, I know the local owner, decent guy and super employees. THEY feel so bad that the "shirts" at Corporate caved in to LGBT. ChickfilA always treated EVERYBODY fairly but now they are discriminating against Christian groups like Salvation Army.

Let's put short chicken recipes on this twitterfeed. I can do wonders with generic grocery rotisserie chicken, bet you can too. I do feel the local CFA owners and associates have been treated unfairly by the new corporate giving policy. Hey, long live homemade chicken salad! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

LuvU guys but..The Fellowship of Christian Athletes received $1.65 million from y'all last year. The Salvation Army $115,000. The 'LGBTQ' 'community' demanded that Chick-fil-A stop contributing to these two Christian charities. Chick-fil-A stopped... But they did not cave. Right.

Love you guys but...want to open more in TN? Then stop discriminating ag. Christian charities. We're going to give the $ we normally spent at ChickfilA to the Salvation Army. If enough people do that, it'll make up for the rather stingy $100K that ChickfilA took away from them.

I useta(heart) ChickfilA's friendly attitude to all. But sadly, now I say "You are the boycott to my boycott Chickfila" because they dumped Salvation Army which serves everybody of every color, sexuality, language or whatever, fairly and without discrimination. Not fair to S.A.

How I used to feel about @ChickfilA ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) How I feel now ﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿ O'RLY? ಠ╭╮ಠ Let's see how many of their customers find betrayal unappetizing...And how many CFL jobless managers and laid-off employees will be eating their Christmas dinners at Salvation Army.

Waiting to see how many of their customers find betrayal unappetizing...And how many CFL jobless managers and laid-off employees will be eating their Christmas dinners at Salvation Army.

ChickfilA's "associates" should have a voice in the matter. I'm SURE they wouldn't kick out Salvation Army. Next the LGBT's are going to demand that they give free out sandwiches at Drag Queen Day. Q: What's a kid sandwich? A: Two Drag Queens and a 3-year-old.

I was just reading about how fair, caring and giving Salvation Army is to all people in need, no matter their race, sexuality or whatever, without discrimination. ChickfilA kicking them out is just despicable. Pass it on. - I SERIOUSLY THINK THEY DON'T CARE. THEY EVEN THREW OUT SALVATION ARMY. Yeah, tis the season to kick out Salvation Army, apparently Christ and Christmas too. The "reason for the Season" is not peppermint chocolate chip anything. I'm going to take my chicken-and-shake $ and give it straight to Salvation Army. Merry Christmas!

Useta like their milk shakes too, but now it's so political, it's all-politics all the time. And of all people to antagonize, Salvation Army?! Why throw shade on them? They help everybody, gay straight or whatever. Gonna just make chicken salad at home! Make my own milkshake too.

I am SO tempted by your great chicken, but you could do better. Why do pressure groups who use coercion to enforce cooperation-- GLAAD, Lambda Legal --- have such a hold on you? I esp. dislike how you shafted Salvation Army. So do better, or I'm outta here-- to Kentucky Fried.

The devil has cheated them. They're not even going to gain the world. I give it 2 months before @ChickfilA's business in the USA is cut by 30%. In a year? Maybe they think they'll fly in Gay Paree, but I doubt it. So it's a lose-lose for them. Losing your soul & gaining bupkis.

You used to be my best pal, @chickfilA. For 5-6 years. But now I feel our relationship isn't based on trust anymore. I need to know: is it true that organizations who *agree* with CFL's founder on the nature of marriage, are now not eligible to receive CFL's charitable funding?

I don't get why LGBT organizations who use coercion to enforce everyone's cooperation with their program-- I'm talking about ActUp, GLAAD, GLSEN, HRC, Lambda Legal --- get to be called "progressives." It's a word that used to have such positive connotations. Live and Let Live.

You have a point there. Think I'll get me a generic rotisserie chicken at the grocery store and make some of my incomparable chicken salad with sliced gherkins and --- shh, don't tell ---a drip of beer. Yum,

Seems that ChickfilA has been drifting from is corporate mission principles for years now since founder retired. Truett Cathy gave $35 million in scholarships for Chick-fil-A employees to pursue higher education. Present management, meh.

Ha! That actually did make me laugh! Thanks, I'm going to take my chicken-sandwich $ and pay it straight to Salvation Army. In dozens of countries, "Hey Mr. can you tell me, where a man might find a bed?" --will get you to a City Mission or a Salvation Army. They help everybody.

Do not underestimate the power of the social media. Already triggering a stampede to Popeye's! Chick-Fil-A Trades Adoring Christian Fans For Outraged Mob That Won't Be Appeased Until Their Every... U.S.—Chick-fil-A has said it will stop making donations to Christian groups that oppose the LGBTQ movement. The move is said to be a "good trade" as Chick-fil-A has sacrificed its Christian fans in exc. for gays who still hate them.

I must have missed some context here, so help me. Who's hating whom, & what is the evidence? I did shelter work in 2 cities, and saw Salvation Army as a reliable and respectful resource for emergency shelter, food esp. with the gay street/homeless/runaway youth. They saved lives.

Let's talk about fairness. How is insulting @SalvationArmy ,*THE* *largest* *provider*of shelter/food services to needy LGBT people, without exception, in every country, social justice? Why discriminate against those who do not discriminate against you?

Don't worry, the free market will do its wonderful work. I give it 3 months before @ChickfilA's business in the USA is cut by 30%. In a year? Maybe they'll fly in London and Gay Paree, but I doubt it. They'll look at that pathetic chicken-ism and say "Je ne sais quoi...."

2..without discrimination (sex, sexuality, sexual expression or identity.) They save lives, they don't turn anybody away, and they do this all over the world, even when the surrounding culture is hostile, e.g. majority Muslim or Sharia areas. Enuff for me!

But I've gotten an education! I learned that "The love of $ is the root of all manner of evil" and that there are lots of good chicken places like Bojangles and Caines, where I can get a good sandwich without being reminded how for years I was made a fool of by Chick-Full-Lies.

ChickfilA left a bad taste in my mouth. Sorry.

But I've gotten an education! I learned that "The love of $ is the root of all manner of evil" and that there are lots of good chicken places like Zaxby's and Caines, where I can get a good sandwich without being reminded how for years I was made a fool of by Chick-Full-Lies.

An incomplete honesty is never good! You turn your backs on e.g. Salvation Army, cut them off cold, then insinuate they're not good enough to be associated w/ you and your new message. Which is? "Forget the Lord, get right with SPLC"? They're a 10 on the bigotry Richter Scale!

But tens of 1000'a of people will eat for free on Thanskgiving at Salvation Army, and I wish ChickfilA had not insulted them and cut them off cold. -ChickfilA slandered this groups' mission and intent--- like they're unworthy of support because the LBGT activists can't tolerate actual honest-to-God Christians.

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