Last summer’s uproar over Chick-fil-A head Dan Cathy’s defense of the company’s support for organizations opposed to gay “marriage” didn’t hurt the company’s bottom line.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the fast-food giant took in $4.6 billion in sales in 2012 — up 14 percent from the previous year — and opened 96 new stores, four more than in 2011.
Chick-fil-A, a family-owned company based in the Atlanta suburb of College Park, Ga., does not have to publicize its earnings but made the information available at the newspaper’s request.
Comments last year by Cathy in an interview with a Baptist state newspaper — later picked up in the Southern Baptist Convention news service, Baptist Press — sparked protests and talk of a boycott by pro-gay activists already at odds with the Southern Baptist layman for donating millions of dollars to groups like the Family Research Council and Exodus International that are on record as opposing same-sex “marriage.”
Alan Blum, the Biblical Recorder editor who conducted the interview originally published July 2, faulted the mainstream media for construing as a political statement Cathy’s plea of “guilty as charged” to criticism of Chick-fil-A’s past support for pro-family causes.
(ABP)
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