Chick-Fil-A as An Anti-Gay/Lesbian Business
Robert LaSerre
BCOM/275
July 19, 2012
Eveyln Hollis

Chick-Fil-A as an Anti-Gay/Lesbian Business I recently read an article that has apparently caused a huge ruckus in the continuing debate about inclusion of gay and lesbians in the modern United States business world. The President and Chief Operating Officer of Chick-Fil-A, Dan Cathy, who is also the founder’s son, in a recent interview the Baptist Press stated that his company supported the traditional family versus the new same gender family. The part of the article that I disagree with concerns whether or not Mr. Cathy’s statements amount to “hate mongering”.1 CNN was not the first to post this article but their article was the first one that I saw. The article starts off mentioning that the company’s president responded “guilty as charged” when he was asked about his company’s stance regarding traditional family units. The article goes on to talk about how the social media networks are on fire with the news. The article implies that Mr. Cathy, and by proxy, Chick-Fil-A have been hiding their Christian values and hate for years and that it is a relief that they have finally come out in the open showing their discriminatory practices. The statement that Chick-Fil-A has hidden their beliefs until now is a false statement, they have been closed on Sundays for their employees to worship and spend time with their families since 1967, the founding of the first Chick-Fil-A.2 There is a lot of hyperbole in the article that I read, the author never takes a stance on her beliefs but she leans heavily on sources that are completely against Mr. Cathy and his business. I do not know how reliable of a source the opinion of random internet social sites, there are just too many people out there that post a dissenting comments just to get the web