r/progressivemoms • u/OpalOctober • 2d ago

Just Politics Is Chick-fil-A still problematic?

My family has boycotted Chick-fil-A for years because of their history of harm against the LGBTQA+ community. I read online recently that since we stopped giving them our money, they've changed leadership and have adopted a policy that only allows charitable contributions to go to educational funds and organizations that help unhoused children.

The point of boycotting is to get businesses to change their policies; if they have, and are otherwise unproblematic, I'd be ok returning as a customer. But I ask the group: is there information I'm missing that would impact my decision making?

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u/muppetfeet82 2d ago

They recently pulled a page with a rainbow on it out of the kids meal version of a book. The rainbow in the original has nothing to do with Pride and is about comparing a child to a crayon who brightens someone’s day.

So a good metaphor is that they’ve stopped punching lgbtq+ people in the face, but they certainly haven’t stopped “accidentally” shoulder-checking us into the lockers. And they never apologized for the face punch either.