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DUNWOODY, Ga. — A former Chick-fil-A employee is speaking out, and says that the fast food chain “is a safe place for people to go in and hate, and they expect to get patted on the back for it.”
In an interview with WGCL-TV in Atlanta, Steve Cammett of Dunwoody, Ga., who said he worked at a Chick-fil-A restaurant and at its corporate headquarters over the past nine years, said he was orginally “a Chick-fil-A enthusiast.”
WGCL-TVSteve Cammett
“We don’t have enough time to go over all the things I liked about Chick-fil-A,” he said, but that his attitude about his former employer changed in August when he resigned in protest over the company president’s anti-gay messaging.
“I felt hurt by those statements,” said Cammett, 60. His late sister, Carol, was a lesbian.
Cammett said that he couldn’t continue to work at Chick-fil-A because he would be disrespecting his late sister’s memory.
“Chick-fil-A allowed a mindset to continue, especially amongst their customers that seemed to think that Chick-fil-A didn’t like homosexuals,” he said.
In July, Chick-fil-A came under fire when its president, Dan Cathy told the Baptist Press that the company was “guilty as charged” of supporting anti-gay groups.
“We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives,” he said at the time.
Chick-fil-A, based in College Park, Ga., donated nearly $2 million to anti-gay organizations in both 2009 and 2010 through its charitable arm, the WinShape foundation, founded by the fast-food chain’s founder Truett Cathy and his family.
“I want Dan Cathy to make a public statement that said that Chick-fil-A, their leadership team and the Cathy family love all of God’s children including gay and divorced children,” Cammett told WGCL-TV.
Chick-fil-A has not responded to various media requests for a comment.
On its website, the company states that “the Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect – regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender.”
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… KFC’s-BETTER!!!
Good man
There is NO PLACE for hate!
Can we just drop this whole thing? I mean honestly. People know where Chick-fill-A stands on the matter. They will eat accordingly. Good grief.
may the haters choke on a chick-fil a bone
I will never step foot in a chick-fil-a restaurant.
HATE … in the name of “family”.
Okay okay okay! If you are a restaurant….just be a restaurant. If you are an actor…just be an actor. Now. If you want to be an advocate, a protester, a politician, a spokesperson, then be it! If you are selling chicken I don’t care what your stand on gays is. I only care if your chicken taste good!! If you are an actor than be an actor! I don’t care if you are a democrat a republican or if you like chicken!!! Do not use your position to further your personal agenda’s!! You might be a good restaurant or a good actor but that doesn’t mean you know s_ _ _ about a certain issue! And some people are so gullible that they think the 2 things are somehow connected!!! PLEASE! Enough already!!!