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Does Chick-fil-A Gay Issue Influence Your Choice of Chesterfield Fast Food?

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Chick-fil-A restaurant President Dan Cathy says he brings his beliefs to work with him every day.

 

The company, founded by his father Truett Cathy in 1967, is known to use some of its profits on campaigns against gay marriage.

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Also the company's chief operating officer, Dan Cathy took to the airwaves recently to admit "guilty as charged" when asked whether he supported traditional marriages and family.

"I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage'. I pray God's mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about," Dan Cathy reportedly said.

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UPDATE: The company's chief public relations spokesman, Don Perry, 60, died suddenly Friday of an apparent heart attack, after some two weeks in the national spotlight, defending what he described as the company's Biblical-based mission.

Perry is from the Atlanta, GA area, and worked for Chick-fil-A 29 years, the company said. He first worked for General Electric.

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