/Chick-Fil-A will no longer fund anti-LGBTQ organizations
Technology18th November 2019

Chick-Fil-A will no longer fund anti-LGBTQ organizations

Fast-food chain Chick-fil-A is no longer funding two organizations that oppose same-sex marriage, the company said Monday.

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The Atlanta-based restaurant chain has come under fire from LGBTQ+ activists for donating millions of dollars to two Christian charities: The Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

PHOTO: Prepared chicken sandwiches sit in a piie before being served to guests during an event ahead of the grand opening for a Chick-fil-A restaurant in New York, Oct. 2, 2015.Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE

Prepared chicken sandwiches sit in a piie before being served to guests during an event ahead of the grand opening for a Chick-fil-A restaurant in New York, Oct. 2, 2015.

“We made multi-year commitments to both organizations and we fulfilled those obligations in 2018,” a spokeswoman for Chick-fil-A told the Thomson Reuters Foundation Monday.

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