{"id":298038,"date":"2021-07-13T21:17:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T18:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/new-york-lawmakers-want-to-ban-chick-fil-a-from-rest-stops\/"},"modified":"2021-07-13T21:17:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T18:17:19","slug":"new-york-lawmakers-want-to-ban-chick-fil-a-from-rest-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-york-lawmakers-want-to-ban-chick-fil-a-from-rest-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"#New York lawmakers want to ban Chick-fil-A from rest stops"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#New York lawmakers want to ban Chick-fil-A from rest stops<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Chick-fil-A is getting skewered by a group of New York lawmakers who are looking to block the company\u2019s bid to open restaurants at state highway rest stops because of its owner\u2019s anti-LGBTQ stance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Atlanta-based fast-food chain is among a handful of restaurants that were awarded contracts by the New York State Thruway Authority to be part of a $450 million plan to renovate 27 service areas.<\/p>\n

But Chick-fil-A\u2019s chief executive, Dan Cathy \u2014 whose father, S. Truett Cathy, founded the $8.4 billion company in 1946 \u2014 has publicly disparaged LGBTQ rights, which some legislators say should disqualify the privately owned company from opening eateries at state-run highway rest stops.<\/p>\n

Assemblyman Harry Bronson, a Rochester-area Democrat, sent a letter to Thruway Authority Executive Director Matthew Driscoll asking him to \u201cre-examine the list of app<\/a>roved concessions\u201d for the rest stops because of Chick-fil-A\u2019s past support of anti-LGBTQ groups, according to the Auburn Citizen.<\/p>\n

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Assemblyman Harry Bronson urged the Thruway Authority to \u201cre-examine\u201d its selection of concessions, which currently includes Chick-fil-A.<\/figcaption>
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Bronson and two other legislators who signed the letter \u2014 Deborah Glick and Danny O\u2019Donnell \u2014 are openly gay, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Chick-fil-A\u2019s foundation has given money to anti-LGBTQ organizations and supported opponents of same-sex marriage ballot initiatives, according to the report. Chick-fil-A\u2019s restaurants are also closed on Sundays \u2014 missing out on more than $1 billion in revenue \u2014 so that its employees can go to church if they choose to.<\/p>\n

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio also tried to ban Chick-fil-A from the city over Cathy\u2019s stance. His efforts flopped and the Big Apple is now the home of the world\u2019s largest Chick-fil-A.<\/p>\n

Chick-fil-A disputed that it currently has a political agenda, pointing to a 2019 announcement in which it pledged support to just three causes: education, homelessness and hunger.<\/p>\n

\u201cChick-fil-A is excited about the partnership and the opportunity to further serve the residents of New York,\u201d the company said in a statement. \u201cWe want to be clear that Chick-fil-A does not have a political or social<\/a> agenda, and we welcome everyone in our restaurants.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chick-fil-A denies that it has a political agenda.<\/figcaption>
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Assembly member Linda Rosenthal (D-Manhattan) also said in a statement, \u201cBigotry and discrimination are not New York state values. New York state has long worked to advance LGBTQ+ rights, but inviting a restaurant that is committed to blocking equality to open on state property will undermine our continuing efforts toward true equality.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Thruway Authority said in a statement that it supports an \u201cinclusive environment that treats the tens of millions of people that travel<\/a> our system with dignity and respect,\u201d adding that \u201cthere are no state taxpayer dollars or toll payer funds\u201d being used to fund the redevelopments.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery restaurant brand included by Empire State Thruway Partners has a contractual responsibility, and is legally required, under New York State law, including the New York State Human Rights Law and Executive Orders, to adhere to the inclusive and non-discriminatory standards that New York State embraces,\u201d the agency added.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#New York lawmakers want to ban Chick-fil-A from rest stops” Chick-fil-A is getting skewered by a group of New York lawmakers who are looking to block the company\u2019s bid to open restaurants at state highway rest stops because of its owner\u2019s anti-LGBTQ stance.\u00a0 The Atlanta-based fast-food chain is among a handful of restaurants that were…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/chick-fil-a-ny-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[111736,87081,71693,70978,13188,23261,3885],"class_list":["post-298038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-7-13-21","tag-chick-fil-a","tag-discrimination","tag-fast-food","tag-lawmakers","tag-lgbtq","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}