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Published On: Fri, Jun 22nd, 2018

HuffPo: Noah Michelson says ‘If You Really Love LGBTQ People, You Just Can’t Keep Eating Chick-fil-A’

Noah Michelson took to HuffPo, attacking the outlet: “If You Really Love LGBTQ People, You Just Can’t Keep Eating Chick-fil-A.”

He offers up disturbing images: “…as delicious as the Georgia-based company’s fried foods were, they weren’t my only weakness as a kid. When I wasn’t fantasizing about grease, I was spending my young swishy days doing a really shitty job of hiding my insatiable hunger for other boys.”

So it’s the opinion of the president and CEO Dan Cathy which mattered more to Michelson:

So you can imagine how upsetting it was for me when Chick-fil-A’s president, Dan Cathy, proudly came out as a homophobe in 2012 by claiming, “We are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage,’ and I pray God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about.”

Even worse, the company put its money where Cathy’s vile mouth was by donating millions of dollars each year to anti-LGBTQ organizations via its Winshape nonprofit organization.

As disappointed as I was to learn the chain I had loved as a child was working to make my life and the lives of my fellow queers a living hell, I was heartened by the swift response from the queer community and its supporters. For several years, the only time you’d catch an LGBTQ person or an ally at Chick-fil-A was for a protest.

Michelson is distraught that some gay people still eat at the chicken restaurant, saying “people can be disturbingly indignant and defiant when faced with giving up their beloved chicken sandwiches.”

“If you care about queer people ― or you yourself are queer ― you have absolutely no business eating at Chick-fil-A. Ever. It’s really that straightforward.”

I’m not saying that in order to be a “good” person or ensure you don’t support despicable businesses, you have to hermetically seal yourself inside your home and only eat food you’ve hydroponically grown and only wear clothes you’ve woven on a loom built using recycled popsicle sticks and the stickier variety of bodily fluids you have handy. I’m saying that when you know a company is anti-queer ― and, what’s more, when a company like Chick-fil-A goes out of its way to tell you as much ― you shouldn’t support them no matter how delicious a reason you can order up.

Michelson says “it sucks that we can’t have waffle fries. But you know what sucks even more? Not having equal rights and contributing to the profits of a company that wants to ensure you never do because it believes you’re fundamentally disordered or unnatural or sinful or some delightful combination of all three.”

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In March 2014, Cathy told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that it had been a “mistake” for the WinShape Foundation to “support political or social agendas” in the period before 2012, when this was reported and a national controversy broke out at a time of debate about same-sex marriages.

He has been working with LGBT activist Shane Windmeyer of Campus Pride since 2012. Windmeyer stated that WinShape and the Chick-fil-A Foundation had “dramatically” cut donations to groups considered to be anti-gay by gay marriage supporters.

Cathy said that,

“While we evaluate individual donations on an annual basis, our giving is focused on three key areas: youth and education, leadership and family enrichment and serving the local communities in which we operate. Our intent is to not support political or social agendas. This has been the case for more than 60 years. The Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect and to serve great food with genuine hospitality.”

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