After months of protests, boycotts and even threats by local politicians to block the infamously anti-gay restaurant group
Chick-fil-A from opening new outlets, in a
statement released today by the Civil Rights Agenda, the fried chicken slinger has agreed to stop funding anti-same-sex-marriage groups. Additionally, Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno, who had previously blocked the chain from opening new locations in his area has also announced that he will now allow them to do so. Read more about this story
here.
If companies are people and people vote with dollars then the destination of the restaurant’s donations are open for public debate. It very well should be an issue as to where peoples’ hard-earned money goes after the chicken goes down their gullet. This issue has made our little feathered friend the modern martyr as Chick-fil-A laughs all the way to the bank. Watch the poultry be nailed to the cross and pierced by the spear of destiny at the hands of those devious cows on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/08/holy-rollin-poultry-on-cross-chick-fil.html
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