🚀 go-pugleaf

We endorse this upstanding organization with correct moral views and
it needs your support. We're having Chick-fil-A sandwiches for dinner
tomorrow. And how nice it will be to have a franchise w/NO faggot
patronage! We won't have to be so diligent with wiping our table with
Lysol to kill potential AIDS germs left by the sodomites.




 Over the past few weeks, the Chick-fil-A's  chain's deep ties to the
anti-gay movement have been exposed and uncovered by a number of
activists, most notably Jeremy Hooper at Good As You. Whether it's
Focus on the Family, the National Organization for Marriage, the
Pennsylvania Family Institute, or Exodus International, Chick-fil-A
ties run deep.

Of course, the President of Chick-fil-A wants gay people to share no
hard feelings. The restaurant will gladly feed homosexuals gobs of
chicken sandwiches, after all. But when it comes to marriage, Chick-
fil-A believes strongly that same-sex couples just don't deserve equal
rights.

As we wrote about a few weeks ago, Chick-fil-A's charitable arm, the
WinShape Foundation, has been particularly active in the fight against
marriage equality. They've hosted conferences with some of the leading
opponents of gay marriage in this country. A higher up at WinShape has
even praised the efforts of anti-gay activist David Blankenhorn for
working against marriage equality, and for articulating a solid reason
why American culture should reject same-sex couples.

Now comes some email correspondence that Good As You has shared on
their blog, where the WinShape Foundation's Retreat Center -- a center
run by the charitable arm of Chick-fil-A -- admits that they have a
severe distaste for LGBT people.

The email correspondence goes a little something like this. Someone
writes WinShape an easy question about whether their retreat center is
open to LGBT people. WinShape's response:

"WinShape Retreat defines marriage from the Biblical standard as being
between one man and one woman. Groups/Individuals are welcome who
offer wholesome, educational conferences and programs that are
compatible with Biblical values and WinShape's purpose," WinShape
wrote back.

Kind of some corporate speak, right? So the activist wrote back: can
you just give a clear-cut answer? And WinShape confirmed:

"We do not accept homosexual couples because of the statement in our
contract."

And so it goes like this: Chick-fil-A is a restaurant where franchises
frequently donate to anti-gay organizations like the Pennsylvania
Family Institute, Focus on the Family and others. The restaurant's
charitable arm, WinShape, holds conferences for opponents of gay
marriage and praises their work. And this charitable arm's Retreat
program puts a blanket ban on gay couples using their facilities,
because they "do not accept homosexual couples."

Yet the President of Chick-fil-A still says that all people, including
LGBT people, are treated with respect by the restaurant? Huh, what a
funny definition of respect.

Meanwhile, check this story out. So the Human Rights Campaign's
NOMExposed project tried to submit an equality-minded video to the
Ruth Institute's "Reel Love Video Challenge." The Ruth Institute is an
affiliate of the National Organization for Marriage, and they're
running a contest where folks can submit videos talking about what
love means. The video below was originally accepted, but then promptly
booted out of the project once the Ruth Institute became aware that it
actually championed equality for same-sex couples.