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[[File:P08-01-12 12.52.jpg|right|thumb|250px| Chick-fil-A on Customer Appreciation Day August 1st, 2012]]

[[File:P08-01-12 12.52.jpg|right|thumb|250px| Chick-fil-A on Customer Appreciation Day August 1st, 2012]]

'''Chick-fil-A''' is a privately held and family owned fast food franchise with over 1500 locations nationwide. Established in 1946 by [[Truett Cathy]], he opened his first restaurant, The Dwarf Grill, in Hapeville, Georgia. Chick-fil-A has performed strongly despite being targeted by left-wing activists.<ref>Duke, Selwyn (December 22, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/sectors/item/31001-good-food-good-morals-good-business-boycotted-chick-fil-a-crows-in-triumph Good Food+Good Morals=Good Business: Boycotted Chick-fil-A Crows in Triumph]. ''The New American''. Retrieved December 22, 2018.</ref>

'''Chick-fil-A''' is a privately held and family-owned fast food franchise with over 1500 locations nationwide. Established in 1946 by [[Truett Cathy]], he opened his first restaurant, The Dwarf Grill, in Hapeville, Georgia. Chick-fil-A has performed strongly despite being targeted by left-wing activists.<ref>Duke, Selwyn (December 22, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/sectors/item/31001-good-food-good-morals-good-business-boycotted-chick-fil-a-crows-in-triumph Good Food+Good Morals=Good Business: Boycotted Chick-fil-A Crows in Triumph]. ''The New American''. Retrieved December 22, 2018.</ref><ref>Maidenberg, Micah (May 8, 2019). [https://www.wsj.com/articles/chick-fil-as-lean-menu-helps-chain-bulk-up-11557313200 Chick-fil-A’s Lean Menu Helps Chain Bulk Up]. ''The Wall Street Journal''. Retrieved May 8, 2019.</ref>

Restaurants can be stand alone locations, mall-based (including in food courts), drive-thru only as well as college campuses, hospitals, and airport "Lunch Counters".  They operate themed restaurants known by the names Dwarf House and Truett's Grill. They included the full Chick-fil-A menu.  

Restaurants can be stand-alone locations, mall-based (including in food courts), drive-thru only as well as college campuses, hospitals, and airport "Lunch Counters".  They operate themed restaurants known by the names Dwarf House and Truett's Grill. They included the full Chick-fil-A menu.  

Their brand campaign since 1995 has been a cow (symbolizing hamburgers) with a sign that reads "Eat Mor Chikin".

Their brand campaign since 1995 has been a cow (symbolizing hamburgers) with a sign that reads "Eat Mor Chikin".

==Targeting by homosexual activists==

==Targeting by homosexual activists==

Chick-fil-A is frequently the target of a [[boycott]] by [[liberal]]s who dislike Christian organizations, including those that support the traditional definition of marriage. The activists made a mountain-out-of-a-mole-hill regarding a Massachusetts anti-[[same-sex marriage|same-sex "marriage"]] group getting catering from Chick-fil-A. This has upset social misfits dearly and [[homosexual]]s began organizing to boycott as a result.

Chick-fil-A is frequently the target of a [[boycott]] by [[liberal]]s who dislike Christian organizations, including those that support the traditional definition of marriage. The activists made a mountain-out-of-a-molehill regarding a Massachusetts anti-[[same-sex marriage|same-sex "marriage"]] group getting catering from Chick-fil-A. This has upset social misfits dearly and [[homosexual]]s began organizing to boycott as a result.

In July 2012, Chick-fil-A Chief Operations Officer Dan Cathy expressed his personal Christian opinion to a [[Baptist]] newspaper saying "guilty as charged" for the defense of traditional marriage. An avalanche of liberal outrage ensued and the so-called tolerant [[homosexual activist|No-H8]] crowd demanded future Chick-fil-A restaurants be banned in Chicago, Boston and San Francisco. The Jim Henson Company cancelled their contract to manufacture Muppets merchandise with Chick-fil-A. Liberals took to the internet to slander the chain as "bigots" and "haters".  

In July 2012, Chick-fil-A Chief Operations Officer Dan Cathy expressed his personal Christian opinion to a [[Baptist]] newspaper saying "guilty as charged" for the defense of traditional marriage. An avalanche of liberal outrage ensued and the so-called tolerant [[homosexual activist|No-H8]] crowd demanded future Chick-fil-A restaurants be banned in Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco. The Jim Henson Company canceled its contract to manufacture Muppets merchandise with Chick-fil-A. Liberals took to the internet to slander the chain as "bigots" and "haters".  

Led by [[Mike Huckabee]] and the [[American Family Association]], conservatives rallied and began a Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day on August 1, 2012, where more than 630,000 people signed up to support the event on Facebook and Chick-fil-A locations around the country were packed with patrons who came to support Cathy's stand on traditional marriage and send a message to the forces of [[liberalism]] and [[political correctness]]. Pro-homosexual liberals held a childish "kiss-in" protest on August 3 at various Chick-fil-A restaurants as a protest of traditional marriage, which largely bombed as it drew barely any protesters. On the same day, one location in Torrance, California was targeted with graffiti by pro-homosexual vandals.

Led by [[Mike Huckabee]] and the [[American Family Association]], conservatives rallied and began a Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day on August 1, 2012, where more than 630,000 people signed up to support the event on Facebook and Chick-fil-A locations around the country were packed with patrons who came to support Cathy's stand on traditional marriage and send a message to the forces of [[liberalism]] and [[political correctness]]. Pro-homosexual liberals held a childish "kiss-in" protest on August 3 at various Chick-fil-A restaurants as a protest of traditional marriage, which largely bombed as it drew barely any protesters. On the same day, one location in Torrance, California was targeted with graffiti by pro-homosexual vandals.