I Hate To Say I Told You So, But .....

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Lats week the blogs were all a'twitter and the Twitter was all a'blogger because word had come down that Chick-fil-A-hole had "promised"  a Chicago alderman, Joe Moreno, that it would no longer donate money to groups fighting to block same-sex marriage.

There was hootin' and hollerin' and lots of yippees. But I was a bit reluctant because to me, if the message didn't come from the head bigot of the Hate Chicken, then I didn't trust it 100%. And now it's turned out that, while it might be "technically" true, there is this giant anti-LGBT loophole in the company's still-unconfirmed new policy that will allow them to continue to work against the LGBT community.

See, although the company's charitable arm, the WinShape Foundation, might not be donating directly to anti-LGBT, and anti-marriage equality, Chick-fil-A-hole President Dan Cathy is still a major player on the bigot circuit. 

In fact, Cathy Tweeted a photo last week from the 2012 WinShape Ride for the Family. That ride is a fundraiser for an organization that helps lobby against marriage equality, and the registration forms that WinShape used asked that donations be sent, not to them because they want the appearance of clean hands, but sent directly to the Marriage and Family Foundation. at an address that group conveniently shares with, wait for it, Chick-fil-A-hole's headquarters. 
The donations forms quote the ride "fee" as $3,500 per individual or couple, but there are sponsorship packages for "Silver" at $5,000, "Gold" at $10,000 and "Platinum" at $15,000. And Chick-fil-A-hole's logo accompanies everything, as does the WinShape name.

In other words, they're still anti-LGBT but they're trying to hide it.

Kind of. See, because also late last week, Chick-fil-A-hole's COO, and Head Bigot, Dan Cathy, talked with Mike Huckabee, Fox News host and twice-failed presidential candidate, who was the organizer of that  "Chick-fil-A-hole Appreciation Day", and assured Mikey that the Hate Chicken is still the Hate Chicken, no matter what any alderman in Chicago said.
Cathy posted a statement on Huckabee's website--and not on Chick-fil-A-hole's interestingly enough, that read:

"There continues to be erroneous implications in the media that Chick-fil-A changed our practices and priorities in order to obtain permission for a new restaurant in Chicago. That is incorrect. Chick-fil-A made no such concessions, and we remain true to who we are and who we have been."

Anti-gay. That's who they are and you heard it straight from the homophobic horse's ass.
But, let's not start with kiss-ins and protests again. Let's just stop eating there and ask our friends and allies to stop eating there. If Dan Cathy wants to hurt the LGBT community, and marriage equality efforts, by giving cash to hate groups, then don't give Dan Cathy any cash.

Chick-fil-A-hole is a hate group, they just mask it with fried chicken.

via Slate.com and The Advocate