Dan T. Cathy

Currently, it's Andrew Cathy.

His dad, Dan Cathy, was the man who ran Chick-fil-A for years, and in the course of the conversation, this came up.

Have a listen.

They were protesting.

It's good.

So on the Today Show, they have been interviewing different CEOs, and they interviewed the CEO of Chick-fil-A, Andrew Cathy.

That last name should make you go, "Oh, okay, he's part of the Cathy family that started Chick-fil-A." It's actually his grandfather.

And Chick-fil-A, the headline says this on NBC News: "Chick-fil-A bet on chicken in the 1960s.

Now it's one of America's biggest restaurant chains.

The family-owned company," listen to this, "reported nearly twenty-four billion dollars in sales last year and recently expanded to Singapore and to the United Kingdom.

They have around three thousand locations around the world, but the global giant came from humble beginnings." I didn't know this.

Uh, Andrew Cathy says, "My grandfather grew up in extreme poverty.

She said, "A non-answer.

This is what his father, Dan Cathy, said in 2012, 'We are very much supportive of the family, a biblical definition.' A good follow-up would've been, 'Do you agree with your father?'" And I would say, "And a good answer would be, 'Why, of course I agree with not just my father, but my heavenly Father.' And so we support marriages.

There are too many divorces, so we support marriages.

We support workshops and programs and things that build up marriage.

The victim in this case is, is a, is a young boy, whose dad listed their home for sale.

Santiago Perez contacted him to arrange a showing.

Shortly after his arrival, the father and victim began giving him a tour of the home.

He isolated the child in the bathroom and proceeded to sexually abuse the child.

Chick-fil-A's mouth-watering chicken sandwiches and friendly workers make customers want to come back for more, but it still can't escape an unpleasant part of its past.

In a new interview, Cathy didn't take a hard stance against the LGBTQ+ community as father Dan Cathy did when he was leading the fast food chain.

The elder Cathy caused a public uproar in 2012.

Okay, I totally had my years mixed up When he spoke out against gay marriage, Chick-fil-A was also shown to have made donations to organizations viewed as anti LGBTQ plus, leaving a bad taste in customers' mouth.

We talked about it.

He just did an interview, um, Dan Cathy did an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in which he now says that he regrets that the company became a symbol in the debate and that, um, they feel like they paid a price, that they alienated potential customers.

The bottom line is he's, he's saying, "We really didn't have to get into this fight," and they didn't.

But I think he misunderstands how you get into these fights.

The comments and financial disclosures unleashed a culture war with protests, boycotts, and political pushback on both sides.

Dan Cathy never changed his stance on gay marriage, but he did express regret for involving the company in the debate.

There were folks who were, they were protesting, they were boycotting Chick-fil-A.

They'd say, "Oh, at Chick-fil-A they don't, they don't stand with the LGBTQ+ community." What would you say to those folks?

The comments and financial disclosures unleashed a culture war with protests, boycotts, and political pushback on both sides.

Dan Cathy never changed his stance on gay marriage, but he did express regret for involving the company in the debate.

There were folks who were protesting, they were boycotting Chick-fil-A.

Chick-fil-A, they don't stand with the LGBTQ plus community.

We don't have to do this anymore, Mr. Andrew Cathy.

Well,

apparently somebody internally, like Dan Cathy, I would assume he has to be his own man, and then it's whatever PR firm that convinced him that this was the right way.

Can that be publicized so I can make sure that everybody I know in the Christian conservative space or any media space at all never hires them ever again? And I don't care if I find out it's people I know, because I know lots of people in the Christian PR space.

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when Andrew's father, Dan, publicly stated the company was opposed to gay marriage.

Public documents revealed Chick-fil-A had donated millions to conservative Christian organizations opposed to LGBTQ rights.

Chick-in-State! Chick-in-State! Why do you gotta discriminate?