Internal Revenue Service (IRS) records show that Chick-fil-A is not only stopping donations to Christian organizations but is funding left-wing extremist groups, including the anti-Christian Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Chick-fil-A’s 2017 990 IRS filing shows the fast-food franchise made a $2,500 donation to SPLC, among a laundry list of pro-abortion and pro-LGBT orgs, Townhall reports. The Chick-fil-A Foundation has come under conservative scrutiny since its decision to stop supporting Christian charities such as the Salvation Army, caving to disingenuous pressure campaigns from far-left activists.
The SPLC is most infamous for inspiring an attempted domestic terror attack against the Family Research Council (FRC), a group that lobbies for pro-marriage and pro-life policies.
In 2013, Floyd Lee Corkins II was sentenced to 25 years in prison in the first-ever conviction for domestic terrorism under Washington, DC, law. Corkins pled guilty to assault with intent to kill and committing an act of terrorism for entering the FRC’s office in August 2012 and shooting a black security guard, who ultimately thwarted his attack. Corkins used the SPLC’s “hate map” — an error–filled digital map giving the addresses of entities that the org deems “hate groups” — to locate the FRC for his planned massacre.
Corkins was carrying a bag of Chick-fil-A sandwiches when he entered the building and started shooting. He later told prosecutors that he planned to smear some of the food on the faces of his would-be victims.
FRC President Tony Perkins swiftly denounced the Chick-fil-A Foundation’s support of “one of the most extreme anti-Christian groups in America.”
“Not only has Chick-fil-A abandoned donations to Christian groups including the Salvation Army, it has donated to one of the most extreme anti-Christian groups in America,” Perkins said in a statement. “Anyone who opposes the SPLC, including many Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and traditional conservatives, is slandered and slapped with the ‘extremist’ label or even worse, their ‘hate group’ designation.”
“It’s time for Christians to find a fast food alternative to Chick-fil-A,” he concluded.
In addition to the FRC terrorism episode, the SPLC has suffered a number of other setbacks and humiliations, but it has not backed down from its extremist agenda, refreshing its “Hate Map” in 2018 and putting mainstream conservative activists in the same category as neo-Nazis and the alt-right.
The FRC remains a target on the map, even after the listing nearly got some of its staff killed. Other supposed “hate groups” include the Center for Immigration Studies, Center for Security Policy, Federation for American Immigration Reform, and the Clarion Project.
After Corkins’ prosecution, federal agencies began distancing themselves from the then-discredited SPLC. The Department of Justice scrubbed its hate crimes web page of any association from the org in 2014, and the Department of Defense soon followed suit in its training materials. In August 2018, then-U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions called out the org while speaking at the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) — which SPLC has labeled a “hate group.”
The SPLC’s broad-brush approach to political smearing has caused it more PR headaches in recent years. In December 2017, its “Hate Tracker” — a tool ostensibly set up to monitor the conversation topics of online extremists — flagged the hashtags “#Christmas,” “#MerryChristmas,” “#Jesus,” and “#ChristmasEve.” At the time of this writing, the “Hate Tracker” website is no longer functional.
Just months earlier, the org committed an even bigger blunder, including British Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz in a “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists.” Nawaz sued for defamation and won a $3.375 million settlement plus an on-camera apology from SPLC President Richard Cohen.
After the Nawaz fiasco, the floodgates opened with bipartisan scrutiny of its practices. Washington Post columnist Marc A. Thiessen wrote a piece titled “The Southern Poverty Law Center has lost all credibility,” calling the org a “caricature” of its former self and urging donors to halt their support.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) wrote to the IRS in April 2019, asking for a review of the SPLC’s nonprofit 501(c)(3) status in light of its obviously partisan activities which have yielded hundreds of millions of assets and “lavish salaries” for its management.
“Recent news reports have confirmed the long-established fact that the SPLC regularly engages in defamation of its political opponents,” Cotton wrote, citing the Nawaz settlement and the org’s Hate Map. “In fact, the SPLC’s defining characteristic is to fundraise off of defamation.”
In March of 2019, the SPLC fired its founder Morris Dees, suggesting some kind of misconduct. A local reporter said several sources told him Dees had been accused of sexual harassment. In addition, SPLC employees reportedly accused management of being “complicit in decades of racial discrimination, gender discrimination, and sexual harassment and/or assault.”
Even amid all this controversy, the SPLC continues working with tech and finance companies like PayPal and Alphabet’s YouTube to silence and blacklist conservatives from banking services.
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I got an idea… everyone raise your own damn chickens in your backyard or in an abandoned parking lot. You’ll be a lot healthier and we won’t have to hear about it every time someone else’s chickens come home to roost.
Learn to kill the vermin instead of giving them handouts. Learn the difference between sympathy, empathy and guilt.
Works for me!
Oh Mags!! I just love it when you’re like that.
And those abandoned parking lots have just the right amount of roughage growing out of the cracks in the asphalt.
Sad to see them prostitute themselves for $ now that they are trying to move into snowflake lands. I guess it will be Raising Cane’s when available for me and I will throw some extra $ in the Salvation Army kettle.
So we can say goodbye to Chik-fil-A along with a host of other virtue signalling companies. No Christian, conservative or otherwise decent person is going to support a company that not only tossed them under the bus but then turned around and supported atheist, hate-filled and lying organizations that won’t eat their food anyways. What fool makes these decisions? How many billions has Gilette lost?
It’s pressed chicken parts, full of antibiotics, steroids and arsenic.Only a fool would eat that poison anyway.
Apparently Satan doesn’t accept direct donations.
Ha!
But the Clinton foundation will take your donation (hey, it’s expensive living the NY life!).
Stopped eating corporation processed fast food over 10 years ago.
Fast food today consists of almonds, walnuts, raisins, hard boiled eggs, etc.
SPLC is one of a number of organizations that should have ALL assets seized and ALL top and mid echelon traitors tried and convicted for treason.
True on the fast food, though I often go with peanut butter and banana-always better to go with two food groups if you can.
Nigger food! Full of pressed and rejected chicken parts, antibiotics, hormones, Canola oil. Dem mafah niggas eet dat sheet, an luv dat stuff.
What White person in their right mind would eat this shit???
Had a fellow from Louisiana tell a story of his first summer working at the local chicken processor. Once in a while something would go wrong-maybe an incoming shipment would have the reefer unit go bad or the plant could not unload fast enough and the live chickens would no longer be live. In extreme cases (remember, it was summer in Louisiana) the tractor trailer would go from good to bad very quickly. He, being the newest employee (and not having white privilege) would have to empty the fetid cargo and then disinfect the trailer before it would be allowed to leave the parking area next to the dock.
Looking back, I wonder who made the call to process the dead birds or not, and how often was their decision wrong?
Roper.
That’s the problem, finding white men in their right minds.
Apparently “keep your friends close….and your enemies on the payroll” is what they are teaching the idiots over at Chick-fil-A.
Let us hope that the backlash against the Coca Cola company is as harsh for this new advert: (my apologies in advance).