In his first interview since his infamous “guilty as charged” comment sparked a fast-food war, Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy continued to dodge direct answers about whether he’s still supporting anti-gay groups.
But this week Cathy told Atlanta’s WXIA that his chain is definitely “focused on families.” (A subtle nod to Focus on the Family, perhaps?)
“Chick-fil-A is focused on families. We’ve always been that way—we’re a family-owned business. We’re led by a family and our restaurants are operated by families, and we serve millions of families every week at Chick-fil-A, so we’re focused on the family.”
Repeating the word “family” like a mantra, Cathy went on to say, “Families are very important to our country. They’re very important, I think, to all of us that are concerned about being able to hang on to the heritage that we have, and we support biblical families, we’ve always been a part of that.”
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Oh, is that biblical families like the ones polygamists patriarchs Abraham, Jacob and David belong to?
andy_d
I knew he would renege. Scumbag!
Ogre Magi
Christians are such jerks
MikeE
ah yes, the latest addition to the world list of religious fundamentalist countries: Americastan.
LaTeesha
There are simply too few lions in the world.
Jonny Quander
Old Testament Patriarchs and Prophets aside from Abraham, Jacob and David to practice polygamy are Lamech, Esau, Gideon, Saul, Solomon, Rehoboam, Elkanah, Ashur, Abijah, nd Jehoiadah, Ahab, Ahasuerus, Ashur, Belshazzar, Benhadad, Caleb, Eliphaz, Ezra, Jehoiachin, Jehoram, Jerahmeel, Joash, Machir, Manasseh, Mered, Nahor, Shaharaim, Simeon, and Zedekiah.
Chick-Fil-A says it focuses on “family,” to be that have had a rather narrow definition of the term as of late.
LaTeesha
Lousy dude. Lousy food.
Cam
Biblical Marriages??
The first polygamist mentioned in the Bible is Lamech, whose two wives were Adah and Zillah (Gen 4:19).[1]
Abraham’s 3+ wives were Sarah, Hagar (Gen 16:3, 21:1-13), Keturah (Gen 25:1), and concubines Hagar (Gen 16:3, 25:6) and Keturah (Gen 25:6, I Chr 1:32).
Jacob’s four wives are Leah and Rachel (Gen 29:28) and despite an oath with their father Laban to not take any additional wives (Gen 31:48-54), Jacob took Bilhah (Gen 30:4) and Zilpah (Gen 30:9).
And so on and so on and so on.
So Chik Fil Et supports Polygomy and multiple concubines.