From the moment the popular American fried chicken vendor Chick-fil-A opened its inaugural UK branch in Reading, gay rights activists started mobbing it with complaints and calls for it to close.
Why?
Well according to Reading Pride who led the campaign, the food outlet’s charitable donations to ‘anti-LGBT’ organisations such as The Fellowship of Christian Athletes and, God forbid, The Salvation Army, was indicative of their unforgivable bigotry. The Fellowship of Christian Athletes are opposed to same-sex relationships and marriage equality, and the campaigners say several charities Chick-fil-A gives money to are hostile to LGBT rights. And so, cancelled they must be. Chick-fil-A’s first batch of specialty chicken and waffles had barely been dunked into the fryer when Reading Pride announced a call to arms in the form of a boycott.
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‘We respect everyone’s freedom to eat where they choose,’ they qualified, ‘however, we ask the LGBT+ community (including its allies) to boycott the chain in Reading.
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