Chick-Fil-A no longer to fund antigay groups

[texassmith]

news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/chick-fil-funding-anti-gay-groups-175154249.html?_esi=1

My browser is not letting me copy the body of the article to paste here, wtf?

Anyway, for those that boycotted, is this enough to make you un-boycott (if you missed the food)? Curious...

[wawa]

pandce.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=60286

for me, no, not quite. I want to hear confirmation from the horse's mouth, but I'm very encouraged.

[laurenpetro]

holy crap! where have you been???

(i meant that in the "HI! how are you doing? sort of way)

[texassmith]

Sept 19, 2012 15:10:30 GMT -5 wawa said:

pandce.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=60286

for me, no, not quite. I want to hear confirmation from the horse's mouth, but I'm very encouraged.

Oh, oops! Thanks for the link

[tlh]

That's nice. They'll probably just start a separate corporation with another name and fund through that instead.

[Deleted]

My guess is that their sales declined with the bad publicity.

[keylimepie]

Well, if this is true, it certainly shows that protest can still have quite an impact. But I'm still wary.

[texassmith]

Sept 19, 2012 15:11:04 GMT -5 laurenpetro said:

holy crap! where have you been???

(i meant that in the "HI! how are you doing? sort of way)

Hi! I never made the move when everyone went to the new NJ board. Then I moved from NJ back to TX and life has been sorta crazy. Haven't been on any boards at all much lately. Trying to rejoin the land of the living now though!

[debatethis]

Snopes updated today and says this:

In September 2012, the Civil Rights Agenda group reported that Chick-fil-A had pledged not to fund groups that oppose gay marriage:
Chick-fil-A has pledged to stop giving money to anti-gay groups and to back off political and social debates after an executive’s comments landed the fast-food chain smack in the middle of the gay marriage debate.

The Civil Rights Agenda, which dubs itself the largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy group in Illinois, said Chick-fil-A agreed in meetings to stop donating to groups such as Focus on the Family and the National Organization for Marriage. Such groups oppose same-sex marriage.

Chick-fil-A said that its nonprofit arm, the WinShape Foundation, “is now taking a much closer look at the organizations it considers helping, and in that process will remain true to its stated philosophy of not supporting organizations with political agendas,”
Last updated: 19 September 2012

Maybe I'll believe it when their corporate giving reports are published and don't donate to any anti-gay groups.