"We Were Always There... Gay at Chick-fil-a"

Huffington Post has an interesting article today following yesterday's "Chick-fil-a Appreciation Day."  As we know, GLBT people are everywhere, we are a part of every family, every community and we work in every field.  Upon that truth, Huffington Post sought out GLBT employees of Chick-fil-a to share their thoughts on the company, it's operators and it's positions on GLBT people and gay civil rights.  As I read it, I wasn't surprised by much of what I read, but there were some unexpected moments of truth in the things that some of their gay employees had to say...

One gay employee who works at Chick-fil-A headquarters in Atlanta, Ga., and asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing his job, says he is getting it from both sides. On the one hand, there is the customer who came in and said he supported Dan Cathy and then "continues to say something truly homophobic, e.g. 'I'm so glad you don't support the queers, I can eat in peace,'" the employee, who is 23 and has worked for Chick-fil-A since he was 16, wrote in an email. On the other hand, he continued, "I was yelled at for being a god-loving, conservative, homophobic Christian while walking some food out to a guest in a mall dining room."

He disagrees with Cathy's views, but the reaction from the public has been just as hard to swallow.

"It seems like very few people have stopped to think about who actually works for Chick-fil-A and what those people's opinions are," he wrote. "They are putting us in a pot and coming to support us or hate us based on something they heard and assume we agree with."

Read the rest of the article here.

"Fear Eats the Soul"