Chick-Fil-A's Hard Left Turn

Timothy Birdnow

So, what happened to Chick-fil-A?  The Christian run company, which is closed on Sundays and stoop up to the bullying by the LGBtQEIEIO gang has seemed to cave in a spectacular fashion to Progressive thugs when they summarily dumped the Salvation Army and Fellowship of Christian Athletes but kept funding Muslim refugees and social justice issues.

Well, it turns out they put a liberal who donated to both Obama and Hillary in charge of the Chick-fil-A Foundation.

From Daniel Greenfield:

Like many corporations, Chick-fil-A branded its charitable giving as a form of social responsibility. Bullard became its Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility. Unlike charity, corporate social responsibility is a leftist endeavor to transform corporations into the political arms of radical causes. Like other formerly conservative corporations, Chick-fil-A had made the fundamental error of adopting the language and the infrastructure of its leftist peers. And that made what happened entirely inevitable.

In an interview with Business Insider earlier this year, Bullard emphasized that the Chick-fil-A Foundation had a "higher calling than any political or cultural war." The foundation boss was preparing the way for the shakeup that was coming in the fall. Even while he claimed that the CFA Foundation had a higher calling than a political or cultural war, he was preparing to accommodate the Left’s cultural war.

Bullard would have been seen as a safe bet. The CFA Foundation and the Christian groups it supported were so entangled that Bullard serves on theSalvation Army’s National Advisory Board and was on the National Board of Trustees of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. But Bullard’s vision was not that of charity, but of corporate social responsibility. And the two things are fundamentally different.

As indeed Social Justice warriors always seee charity as a tool for Progressive social change. There is no charity outside of a revolution in society, in their minds.

After chronicling the money spent on left-wing causes by the Chick-fil-A foundation, Greenfield concludes:

Organizations don’t trend rightward. They trend leftward. Any organization that isn’t closely watched will go the way of the Chick-fil-A Foundation. If this can happen at Chick-fil-A, it can happen anywhere.

And indeed it can. We are swimming against a very powerful tide, as it seems all of corporate America has hitched their neo-fascist wagons to the Progressive horse.
This is the exact technique employed to swallow higher education a number of decades ago. Create an environment where you get no respect if you don't say and do the approved things, then filter in moles to hollow out the institutions. Finally banish all opposition as "fringe" and voila!  You have control of all of the institutions, and a huge amount of money to be put at the service of the Left. It doesn't matter if it is a business started on Christian principles or not; in the end the tug leftward will be followed, if for no other reason than to avoid a nasty fight.

But if you are a Christian organization you are supposed to have nasty fights; it's the nature of Christianity, which is a belief that is fundamentally at odds with a sinful world.

It sure would have been nice to have had a company that we could feel good about patronizing.

BTW Andrew Young, the old Leftist from the Carter years, sits on the board at CFA. Huh?  How on God's Green Earth did they allow that commie creep a seat there?

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