During this recent Chick-fil-A mania I keep hearing about
the supposed “hate groups” that Chick-fil-A donates to. Who exactly are these
groups of hate that benefit from CFA?
Well, I guess I am one of them. CFA on several occasions had
donated food for our youth ministry and even college Christmas parties. The
teenagers hear a message about how the two most important commands of Jesus are
to love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself, and then
they eat chicken. CFA has been contributing to other such hateful events all
over the country.
CFA also sponsors the hateful bigots at Victory Junction
Gang Camp, (http://www.victoryjunction.org/)
which is a charity that puts on camps for terminally ill children.
The media is leading the public to believe that the Cathys
are the first business owners to donate to anyone. Remarks about how
corporations should not be giving away money from their customers are filling
up social media. So just to see the other side of the coin, here are a list of
companies that give money towards gay rights:
Allstate, Amazon,
American Airlines, Apple, Applebee's, Best Buy, Clorox, Coca-Cola, Costco, Delta
Airlines, Ford, Gap, General Motors, Gerber Baby Products, Hilton Hotels, Home
Depot, IMB, Levi's, Marriot International, McDonald's, Microsoft, Nationwide, Nike,
Olive Garden, Pepsico, Proctor and Gamble, Red Lobster, Rite Aid, Sears, Southwest
Airlines, Starbucks, State Farm, Target, United Airlines, UPS, Walgreens, Walt
Disney Company.[1]
We also need to realize how incomplete this list appears to
be, as several of these companies are actually mother companies. Pepsico, for
example, is more than just Pepsi products; Pepsi owns Gatorade, Taco Bell,
Pizza Hut, KFC, Grandma’s Cookies, Oberto, FritoLay, and Quaker; there is also
Disney, which practically owns the world. Spending money at any of these places will eventually put
money into the hands of gay marriage supporters.
There are also companies that will match their employees’
personal donations to the Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD).
Some of the more popular companies on this list are:
AARP, Allstate, American Express, Bank of America, Ford,
General Electric, Gillette, Hewlett Packard, IBM, JP Morgan Chase, John
Hancock, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Pfizer, Polaroid, Prudential, Starbucks, and
Verizon.[2]
Please don’t misunderstand the point of this blog. I am NOT
calling for a boycott of all or any of these companies. If you choose to do
that, that is up to you. My point is very simple: if each and every one of
these companies have the legal right to donate to/support causes that they
believe in (which they do), then Chick-fil-A and companies like it should be
afforded the same right and respect to use their proceeds in like
manner.
Now here is my Chick-fil-A finale and I will be finished
with this topic. Christians, stop criticizing other Christians for going to
CFA. I understand the need to be cool and relevant by being the few who didn’t
go there, but all the posts about judgmental, intolerant Christians are
actually both judgmental and intolerant. Judgmental in that you are judging someone’s motives, which you can’t know, and intolerant in
that you are not tolerating their right to eat at CFA.
In other words, you are doing exactly what you are bashing
others for doing. And while opining about how CFA consumers are not showing
love to homosexuals, please realize that you are not showing love to CFA
customers.
There. I’m done posting about Chick-fil-A. But I will
continue to eat more chicken there.
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