Back in February, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), along with other civil rights and LGBTQ organizations, objected to the Air Force Academy inviting Chick-fil-A’s Rodney Bullard to speak at its annual National Character & Leadership Symposium (NCLS), an event described as “the United States Air Force Academy’s flagship event on character and leadership.” At that time, I sarcastically wrote, “who better to deliver a lesson on character and leadership to our future Air Force leaders than a representative of a company that openly denigrates a whole segment of our country’s — and our military’s — population, right?”
As I reported, Chick-fil-A had claimed to have distanced itself from the anti-LGBTQ cause, but its tax returns told a different story. Although its WinShape Foundation was no longer funnels millions of dollars to overtly anti-LGBTQ organizations, the Chick-fil-A Foundation, of which Rodney Bullard is executive director, was still bankrolling other, not so obvious, anti-LGBTQ organizations, most notably the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Salvation Army.
Now, according to CNN, Chick-fil-A has once again vowed that it will stop funding anti-LGBTQ organizations, something that it claimed it had already done.
Chick-fil-A’s new not-so-anti-LGBTQ policy wasn’t true before, and it remains to be seen if it’s true this time.