Chick-fil-A’s profits are being used to push anti-trans state laws & kill the Equality Act

Chick-fil-A in Fairlawn, Ohio
Photo: Mark Turnauckas – Wikimedia Commons

Christian millionaires – including Dan Cathy, an heir to the Chick-fil-A fortune – are behind one of “the most sophisticated dark money operations” ever seen to pass anti-LGBTQ legislation and stop the Equality Act.

Chick-fil-A has been assuring customers for nearly a decade that it has stopped donating to anti-LGBTQ causes, only to be caught doing so time and again. Now the fast food chain’s billionaire co-owner is using the company’s profits to fund hate groups that are passing anti-transgender bills all over the country and a campaign to stop the Equality Act from becoming law.

Related: Chick-fil-A donated another $1.8 million to anti-LGBTQ groups

A new report from The Daily Beast exposes the operation being run through the National Christian Charitable Foundation (NCF), the sixth largest charity in the U.S. The group’s donors include some of the wealthiest social conservatives in the country, like Chick-fil-A CEO and chairman Dan Cathy, former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s family foundation, Hobby Lobby, and the Anschutz family.

The report comes as the Equality Act stalls in the Senate. The Equality Act would add sexual orientation and gender identity to existing federal civil rights legislation. It polls well – 70% of voters said they supported it in a poll this past March – but it’s still far from getting close to the 60 votes necessary in the Senate to pass.

That the bill hasn’t passed after being introduced in Congress in some form for decades has been something of a mystery. Sources in the Capitol said in April that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who has not come out in support of the bill, has been subjected to a massive call-in campaign organized by Christian groups and that the calls have been “a thousand to one” against the Equality Act.

Meanwhile, dozens of states are considering and passing legislation to limit…

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