After opening its first U.K. location in early October, Chick-fil-A has already announced that the restaurant will be closing at the end of the its six-month lease.
According toBBC, the fast food chain — which has faced criticism in the past for supporting anti-LGBTQ groups — recently opened in the Oracle shopping center in Reading, where it quickly received backlash from pride organizations.
Reading Pride, a localLGBTQ rightsgroup, pressured the U.K. restaurant location and called for a boycott.
The group called Oracle’s decision to close the location “good news” and was a “reasonable request…to allow for re-settlement and notice for employees that have moved from other jobs,” BBC reported.
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes requires a “sexual purity” policy for its employees, according toits job application, which states: “The Bible is clear in teaching on sexual sin including sex outside of marriage and homosexual acts. Neither heterosexual sex outside of marriage nor any homosexual act constitute an alternative lifestyle acceptable to God.”
Meanwhile, the Paul Anderson Youth Home allegedly “teaches boys that homosexuality is wrong and that same-sex marriage is ‘rage against Jesus Christ and His values,’” ThinkProgress reported.
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The Chick-fil-A Foundation releaseda statementappearing to respond to the ThinkProgress report, in which they asserted that they “do not have a political or social agenda.”
In their statement, the foundation did not deny that they had donated to the groups mentioned in the ThinkProgress report, but the statement also did not reference the groups’ alleged history of anti-LGBTQ behavior.
The foundation added that, as of June 2017, they “no longer support” the Paul Anderson Youth Home.
source: people.com
