In June 2012, fast-food chain Chick-fil-A was placed in an extremely unfavorable light following a series of public comments made by its chief operating officer and son of the company’s founder, Dan Cathy, who vehemently opposed same-sex marriage. Gay civil rights activists called for a protest of the chicken eatery, while staunch anti-gay-rights supporters stood […]

In the wake of a public relations disaster set into motion by Chick-fil-A president, Dan Cathy, the vice president of corporate public relations for the company, Donald A. Perry, has died of a heart attack, reports the Huffington Post. He was 60-years-old. “Don was a member of our Chick-fil-A family for nearly 29 years,” a […]

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In light of its discriminatory stance against the LGBT community, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino says that he does not want Chick-fil-A, a business “that discriminates against a population,” in his city, reports the Boston Herald. In a radio appearance on “The Ken Coleman Show,” Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy voiced his personal stance on marriage equality: […]