Ex-CFO on food stamps
after expressing views on Chick-Fil-A
At first, I thought this (now poor) guy had worked for Chick-Fil-A
when he opened his yap to have his say,
but he was working for a medical tech firm called Vante in Tucson
before he decided to publicly air, and then film, his views on
that company. Which led to so many bomb threats
he was fired and now his family lives in a trailer with debts,
because few companies, it seems, won't take the risk to hire him
only having then under duress to fire him.
The moral of this sad story
is now clear to see:
The Truth in our Land of the Free
does not always conquer bigotry ,
especially when it comes to the economy.
So, if having your say was your Plan-A
you may be safer with a quieter Plan-B.
hzl
3/27/15
Dan Cathy interview with the Biblical Recorder
Chick-fil-A found something even better than cows to advertise their holy products.
On July 2, 2012; Dan "Jesus is my homeboy" Cathy, the son of S. Truett Cathy and the president and chief operating officer of Chick-fil-A, was interviewed by the Biblical Recorder, a Conservapedia-like weekly newspaper. When asked about his opposition to gay marriage, Cathy replied:
 | Of course I'm against gay marriage. The gays are even worse than the Jews! Sure, they don't steal your money, but they transform your children into perverts! And while we're talking about marriage, we should probably get rid of interracial marriage too. That stuff's just messed up. |  |
Even conservatives thought this was a bit much, and the Biblical Recorder replaced the quote with the three words, "Guilty as charged."
(NEWSER) – Things haven't gone too well for the former CFO who criticized Chick-fil-A in a video heposted on YouTube.
Unable to find lasting work, 37-year-old Adam Smith is living on food stamps with his wife and four kids in the RV they call home, he tells ABC News. "I think people are scared," Smith says of potential employers. "I think people are scared that it could happen again."
Back in the summer of 2012, as thousands of people were opposing Chick-fil-A's stance on gays, Smith rolled into a Chick-fil-A drive-thru for a free glass of water and slammed the female attendant: "Chick-fil-A is a hateful corporation," Smith told her as he filmed the exchange. "I don't know how you live with yourself and work here. I don't understand it."
Smith posted the video before returning to work at Vante, a Tucson-based medical manufacturer — and the proverbial you-know-what had hit the fan by the time he got there.
The receptionist told him "the voicemail is completely full, and it's full of bomb threats," he says. Fired that day, Smith lost his $200,000 salary and more than $1 million in stock options. He and his family moved to Portland, where he got a CFO job, but lost it two weeks later when they realized who he was.
He says he has since been honest in interviews, but companies have been too wary of fallout to hire him. "I don't regret the stand I took, but I regret… the way I talked to her," an emotional Smith says of the worker.
The interview coincides with his recent digital release of a memoir, A Million Dollar Cup of Water (a paperback version is out April 21), which chronicles his professional collapse and years of soul-searching. It's not faring so well on Amazon, which Smith addressed on the site on Friday. "Regarding the many 1-star ratings my book has received today and yesterday, I would like to note that I have only sold 17 digital copies thus far, yet there are 23 1-star ratings on my book. This fascinates me! LOL!"
This article originally appeared on Newser: Ex-CFO Who Slammed Chick-fil-A Lives
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California's Ventura High School Scraps Chick-Fil-A From Fundraiser, Citing Chain's Gay Marriage Stance
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A California high school has nixed a student-run booster club's plans to sell Chick-fil-A sandwiches during a back-to-school night because of the restaurant chain'scontroversial stance on same-sex marriage.Ventura High School Football Principal Val Wyatt said that she wanted to keep outside organizations from selling or advertising during the Sept. 10 event, according to the Ventura County Star, but also referenced the 2012 media firestorm which erupted after Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy confirmed his company's support of the "biblical definition of the family unit" in 2012.Still, she said, "With their political stance on gay rights and because the students of Ventura High School and their parents would be at the event, I didn't want them on campus."Still, the decision has divided parents and students, particularly since the booster club expected to raise $1,600 for the school's football team. The Ventura location has already donated $21,000 to area schools, according to CBS Los Angeles."Everybody is embraced,” one parent told the news station. “And Chick-fil-A should have been allowed to be here.”Fox News' Todd Starnes was also among those to decry the decision, noting, "What, pray tell, could people find offensive about a plump juicy chicken breast tucked between two buttered buns?"He added, "This is a classic example of those preaching inclusivity and diversity being the least inclusive and diverse of all."It isn't the first that Chick-fil-A has prompted outcry in an educational setting. In 2012, the student government at North Carolina's Elon University voted 35-11 to ask the school's food vendor, Aramark, to find another restaurant to take the fast food chicken chain's place, the Times-News reports.Similarly, St. Mary's College in Maryland and North Carolina's Davidson College have both opted against serving Chick-fil-A products at school events.
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