[Wildcat2016]

I don't know if anyone covered this because I only read a couple pages but.... Everyone I know personally who chose to not go to Chick Fil A did so based on the way the company spends their money, not the way that Dan Cathy expressed his opinion in an interview.

Chick Fil A donates millions of dollars to anti gay hate groups like the one that believes gays should be exported from America and one that believes in "praying away the gay" (a practice that is extremely emotionally harmful to young people, as it almost never works). Not to mention that the restaurant has recently had 7 lawsuits filed for their treatment of employees (firing a woman so she would stay at home with her kids!?!) People know that their money is being spent this way when they buy a chicken sandwich and so they have every right to deny CFA the right to spend their money on such an atrocious cause. I find it amazing that the man spent 5 million dollars hurting other people instead of using it to buy food or send kids to school or ANYTHING AT ALL more helpful than fighting an entire group of people who are doing no harm to anyone.

Even though I already don't eat at CFA for other reasons, I probably would stop if I did. I just wouldn't want my money to be used for those causes. And more everyone I know who chose to boycott the restaurant, that's why they did it. It's not about free speech at all. At least not for Dan Cathy. No one can prosecute him for what he said, and they arent. It is, however, freedom of our wallets. To choose how our money is spent. And for many, not eating at CFA is a vote in favor of Mr. Cathy being more compassionate and spending his money in more useful ways. To me, that's a real exercise in freedom of speech.