So Chick-Fil-A got a black eye in 2017 when it’s tax returns showed it donating huge sums of money to anti-LGBTQ organizations. In the wake of all the bad press, Chick-Fil-A promised not to do that any more, but Republicans made eating Chick-Fil-A a merit badge in the culture wars. Now Chick-Fil-A’s 2018 tax returns are out showing $1.8 million in new donations to anti-LGBT causes.
“There’s no question we know that, as we go into new markets, we need to be clear about who we are,” said Chick-fil-A President and Chief Operating Officer Tim Tassopoulos. “There are lots of articles and newscasts about Chick-fil-A, and we thought we needed to be clear about our message.”
He said that Chick-fil-A had made a multi-year commitment to some organizations that continued to get money, and Tassopoulos later told Vice, “No organization will be excluded from future consideration–faith-based or non-faith-based.”
The message seems clear to me. Eat at Popeye’s!!!!!