Anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research Council is airing Chick-fil-A’s dirty laundry

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Fast food chain Chick-fil-A has anguished conservatives after announcing they will no longer give to organizations that oppose LGBTQ rights. No group has taken the decision harder than the anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research Council (FRC).

“To a lot of Americans, the company’s decision to walk away from years of biblical truth is upsetting,” FRC President Tony Perkins wrote in a message sent to supporters and posted on the group’s website. “To us, it’s personal.”

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In 2012, blowback to the founder’s vocal opposition to same-sex marriage (and the subsequent revelation that the privately owned chain was donating large amounts of money to groups that actively campaigned against LGBTQ rights) had reached fever pitch.

Christian conservative groups like FRC had turned the boycott by supporters of LGBTQ rights into a crusade to “save Chick-fil-A.” Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee organized a “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” that drew thousands of customers ginned up by the religious right.

In August, Floyd Corkins, a mentally disturbed gay man, walked into FRC headquarters in Washington, D.C., intent on killing the staff after seeing a photo of them posing behind a bunch of the chain’s chicken sandwiches. A security guard stopped Corkins before the domestic terrorist attack could claim any victims.

While LGBTQ groups decried Corkins’ actions, Perkins is pointing out that the chicken chain didn’t respond publicly to the attack – or privately.

“In the days and years after that, we…

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