Dakota Beacon

A week or so ago, the chickenchain made a big announcement just in time for Christmas: they were withdrawing their charitable support for a couple of the organizations to which they had been giving – The Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Salvation Army. Chick-fil-A fans were shocked. Their go-to fast foodery, the place they could eat and feel good about it just pulled the rug out from under them.

Corporate heads of Chick-fil-A claimed they are going to re-direct and focus their giving in the areas of help for the hungry and the homeless. Well, to a lot of us, the first organization which springs to mind that relieves hunger and shelters the homeless would be . . . um. . . the Salvation Army! Right? So, what are they doing instead? Who better to help those in need?

Well, that depends upon what they need. But Chick-fil-A found an answer, one which should have made their LGBTQ detractors happy. Covenant House.

Covenant House began life as the creation of a Catholic monk who was going to help “wayward” youths. He was subsequently charged with rape and was drummed out of the corps, so to speak, and the facility eventually found its way into the hands of LGBTQ-friendly providers who have turned it into a secular magnet for gay activists. One service they apparently provide at Covenant House is to shuttle young girls to abortion mills.

Chick-fil-A is no innocent victim of bullying here, though. And that is a large part of this story. While many Christian and other conservative patrons have made the fast-food house their go-to place for a quick lunch or family outing, all the time its board of directors has been in the pocket of the far leftist groups who hold Christian customers and Christian beliefs in utter contempt. PJ Media has published a concise exposé which sums it up pretty well. First we were told that poor Chick-fil-A just couldn’t withstand the “pressure” to quit giving to the Salvation Army, next we were told that they were going to help the homeless, then that their entire corporate structure is a Swiss cheese of far left activists. Now we have this – a phone call by none other than Franklin Graham to reassure the flock that Dan Cathy, the Chick-fil-A CEO, has not abandoned his principles and his faith – he is simply finding more and better ways to serve Christ. Oh, and boy are those chicken sandwiches and waffle fries delicious.

Trouble is, Cathy won’t talk with any other Christian spokesmen or leaders. He isn’t taking calls. Franklin was good enough. No more. So are we to believe he has a headache? I would say that Franklin must have been in need when he made that call. Doing the Lord’s work as he does is expensive, no doubt. But the coffers of Chick-fil-A are not infinitely deep, so probably one Christian leader is all they feel they can afford right now, what with the demands of Covenenant House, et al howling at the door. At least this is one possible scenario.

Those who have believed in Chick-fil-A have now been largely disabused of their error. Those who have followed Mr. Graham might now wish to look further for leadership. He has revealed himself as well. The dirty story here wasn’ t ever the bullying and pressure of the LGBTQ faction, or even the covert agenda of the executive board of Chick-fil-A, but perhaps the worst was, in fact, that phone call by Franklin Graham which tells us all we need to know about just how far the system can go to destroy the soul of a country.

For years Chick-fil-A has been consuming Christian dollars and funneling donations to the very causes which most deeply offend those Christians. Christians have made Chick-fil-A huge success in view of their championing of Sundays off for employees and their highly publicized fight with Obamacare over not being required to provide “services” which Christians found unacceptable. They played the role of an heroic resister of demands, taking the slings and arrows of various college campuses, airport authorities and City Hall. Every time they were attacked their value to Christians went up. This really made an impression. While their food was good, so is everyone else’s food. It was this polarization of political stance which attracted so much attention and so much Christian custom. They became a rallying point for anti-big-government people, the fly-over tea party types who object to gay marriage and Planned Parenthood. All the time it was a fraud. It is difficult to see whether this intangible aura of heroism was seen by the left as a greater threat than the benefit of filching a lot of Christian dollars through the agency of Chick-fil-A. Perhaps someone thought so. Or maybe simple-minded greed motivated it, but the high profile demand that Chick-fil-A drop its support of the Salvation Army – really a fig leaf, along with the Sunday closing and objection to Obamacare – was a catalyst.

Now the curtain has been drawn aside and what do we see? A little man who has posed as the head of a righteous empire, just pulling strings for the left, taking in a lot of earnest Christians, serving as a phony Emerald City of virtue, an empty symbol. Was that symbol worth more to the right than the insiders on the left believed? Was it time to order Dan Cathy to pull the string? Or was it a miscalculation, believing that $115,000 was more than they wanted the Salvation Army to get for its Angel Tree drive? In any case, Chick-fil-A’s day is likely done. It is too late to for them to attract the mob on the left and they have betrayed their long-standing customers on the right. Now we all know that Chick-fil-A’s money is going to provide abortions. Wanna contribute?

And Franklin Graham? Just as Dan Cathy seems to have sold his good name for pottage, so, it appears, has Franklin Graham. Time for Christians to be more discerning. Maybe instead of thinking of themselves as dependent sheep they should really consider that they are intellingent beings being hunted by an assortment of wolves. The activists of LGBTQ have just rolled over the rock. It’s up to the rest of us to identify what was under it.

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