From airports to college campuses, Chick-fil-A has been under increasing scrutiny in recent months for upholding traditional views on marriage.
In March, the San Antonio International Airport became the latest in a string of several businesses to ban Chick-fil-A from its premises based on the assumption that the Atlanta-based chain has a “legacy of anti-LGBTQ behavior.”
Earlier that month, Rider University in New Jersey denied the proposal to bring the restaurant on campus due to what they perceived as the restaurant’s “opposition to the LGBTQ+ community.”
And now, in what must amount to the most outlandish statement made about the Christian-owned company, a faculty chairperson at California Polytechnic State University compared having the fast-food chain on campus to selling pornography in their bookstore.
The vice chair of the university’s academic senate, Thomas Gutierrez, told the school newspaper, “We don’t sell pornography in the bookstore and we don’t have a Hooters on campus — we already pre-select those kind of things based on our existing values.”
“This is a similar thing,” Gutierrez added. “The difference is we’re actually profiting from this. So our money, every dollar a student is spending at Chick-fil-A, is going to these causes that are in violation of our values.”
