Chick-fil-A said Monday that it has stopped donations to a pair of Christian organizations after receiving backlash over the last several weeks from LGBT rights activists.
The U.S. fast food chain said it will no longer donate to the Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which opposes same-sex marriage. The company’s charity, the Chick-fil-A Foundation, has donated millions of dollars to the organizations.
"We made multi-year commitments to both organizations and we fulfilled those obligations in 2018," a representative for Chick-fil-A said, saying the franchise will focus its charitable donations on "education, homelessness and hunger."
"There's no question we know that, as we go into new markets, we need to be clear about who we are," Chick-fil-A President and Chief Operating Officer Tim Tassopoulos told Bisnow. "There are lots of articles and newscasts about Chick-fil-A, and we thought we needed to be clear about our message."
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