By Zanub Saeed
After it was announced that Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy said his fast-food chain was against same-sex marriage, the Jim Henson Company parted ways with them, and told readers to donate money to GLAAD instead.
Cathy told the Baptist Press last week that while Chick-fil-A was not a Christian business, the company did operate on "biblical principles." To this extent, during that interview, he said that he was "guilty as charged" for being against same-sex marriage, which caused for outrage from the general community against the franchise chain.
"We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that," Cathy told the Baptist Press. "We operate as a family business ... our restaurants are typically led by families; some are single. We want to do anything we possibly can to strengthen families. We are very much committed to that."
After the comment made by Cathy, Lisa Henson, CEO, of the Jim Henson Company, chose to part ways with Chick-fil-A due to their religions viewpoints and closed-minded nature when it came to the institute of marriage.
"The Jim Henson Company has celebrated and embraced diversity and inclusiveness for over fifty years and we have notified Chick-Fil-A that we do not wish to partner with them on any future endeavors. Lisa Henson, our CEO is personally a strong supporter of gay marriage and has directed us to donate the payment we received from Chick-Fil-A to GLAAD, "the Jim Henson Company posted on their official Facebook on Friday.
Conservative Republican former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee defended Chick-fil-A's decision to be biblically family-friendly, and thus took their side, said CNN.
"I have been incensed at the vitriolic assaults on the Chick fil-A company because the CEO, Dan Cathy, made comments recently in which he affirmed his view that the biblical view of marriage should be upheld," Huckabee wrote on his Facebook page.
"No one is being asked to make signs, speeches or openly demonstrate. The goal is simple: Let's affirm a business that operates on Christian principles and whose executives are willing to take a stand for the godly values we espouse by simply showing up and eating at Chick-fil-A on Wednesday, August 1," Huckabee said.
