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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm very progressive and work for a very progressive organization that is usually at least 20% LGBTQ. I personally do not buy food at Chick-fil-a and complained to my kid's school when they did a CFA fundraiser. I wouldn't hold it against someone who worked for CFA. I don't discriminate in hiring based on religion. We have a few evangelical Christians and a Jehovah Witness on our staff. We make it clear in hiring that we hire and serve a very diverse group of people and if you can't work with people who hold different views, even views you may strongly disagree with than this is not the place for you. In the interviewing process, we might ask questions such as how would you respond to a student who disclosed a pregnancy? how would you respond to a student who came out to you? how would you respond to a student who couldn't participate in org activities because of religious obligations. In those answers we would be looking for respect, compassion, and a not overly directive response.[/quote]

I think your perspective is great, but I'd like to caution associating bigotry with religion.  Yes, they sometimes go hand in hand based on interpretation of religious texts (Bible in this case) but many Christians do not hold these views and many who disagree on gay marriage theologically would not take the actions the owners have. The issue with them was donations to anti-gay organizations,  including gay conversion ( last and most objectionable from the owners' foundation,  not a corporate donation). They were Christian groups, but that doesn't make anti-gay a Christian view.

FWIW,  cfa has said it won't make any donations to anti-lgbtq groups any more. Of course, the owners may donate out of their foundation.

I have a gay kid and don't patronize them because I don't want to add to the owners' personal wealth, but I'm sure the employees are great and would think the job was an overall asset.[/quote]

The owners beliefs do not appear to trickle down to the actual stores.  I've never heard of a LGTBQ person being treated differently while working at CFA.  Most are independently owned franchises and managed by them.  Quite frankly, while I disagree with the owners beliefs, there are lots of other places that I also disagree and it would be hard to avoid utilizing all of those places.  I prefer to avoid places that actually treat their LQTBQ employees differently, or don't provide BC because of their beliefs (thinking Hobby Lobby, etc).    CFA is a great place to work (known 10s of teens who have worked there, know the family that owns 50% of the locations in the Howard county/AA county area and they are great people to work for).  [/quote]

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