chick fil a controversy
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Chick-Fil-A Controversy
Does having a Chick-Fil-A on FSU’s campus discriminate against the gay community?
The president of the company is now Dan Cathy
Chick-Fil-A
was started in
1946 by S.
Truett Cathy
The claim is that Chick-
Fil-A donates
millions of dollars to
foundations that are
against gay and lesbian
rights.
This controversy started in 2008 when Chick-Fil-A donated food to a group called Family Life. This group is very outspoken against homosexuality
Dan Cathy says “providing sandwiches and brownies for a local seminar is not an endorsement or a political stance”
This foundation has expressed
anti-homosexual views and gives money to other
foundations who do as well
One of the
main
groups that
Chick-Fil-A
donates to
is
WinShape
Foundation
Chick-Fil-A started this foundation in 1984
Because Chick-Fil-A
gives money to these charities, the LBGT
community at FSU would
discriminated against if a Chick-Fil-A were to be on campus
All of these foundations
have expressed anti-gay
views
WinShape gives money to groups such as Alliance Defense Fund, National Christian
Foundation, and Exodus International
Opinions
Andrew Spice (Student at FSU): “I just have a problem with their obvious, and unfortunately socially accepted, bigotry. I don’t understand why America allows a company that openly discriminates against a group of people, in this case the LGBTQ people. And so I refuse to eat their chicken, and I hope that others do the same”
Frank Jaffe (Executive Director of FSU’s PRIDE): “There is very little direct discrimination to the LGBTQ community, [but] we knew there was enough behind the scenes discrimination going on.”
Jose Diaz (Student at FGCU): "I don't go there because they're a Christian organization. I go there because they make good chicken sandwiches," he said. "Just because the campus has a Chick-Fil-A doesn't mean that they're saying they're anti-gay."
Also, Dan Cathy says that while his family believes in the biblical definition of marriage, they support and respect anyone who does not share this belief
President Barron of FSU says that this restaurant got the most support from students but they can also choose not to support it by not eating there, he says “there is power of the pocketbook in where students decide to spend money”
Tolerance is a two way street
FSU encourages a type of tolerance
where if two groups have different
views they can just agree to disagree
Students are saying that the gay and lesbian
community is not being tolerant of this companies religious views
One student and Chick-Fil-A employee says “if one company says ‘we have the right to donate to something we
believe in,’ then by banning that [company], you’re saying, ‘no, you
don’t.’ So in that effect, their aim to be tolerant is making them intolerant”
These schools include, NYU, FGCU, and
University of North Texas
Similar instances have been arising at other schools in
the country Students at these schools have held protests and started petitions to ban
the restaurant from coming onto their campus
In a recent special
election, 58.7 percent of students
at FSU voted “no” to banning
Chick-Fil-A from campus
Solution
Ultimately there could be a solution of choosing a different restaurant go on
campus but it is pretty certain that the Chick-Fil-A is going to be built at FSU