(TRUNEWS) – The discovery that the popular fast food restaurant Chick-Fil-A has been listed as a sponsor of a so-called faith based homosexual film and arts festival has shocked customers and resulted in the launch of an online petition.
The festival, called Level Ground, branded as the world’s “first faith-based Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender film Festival,” now running in six cities across America, including not only film but music, visual arts, comedy, theater and a number of workshops.
The stated goal of the festival is to “elevate the public discourse around the otherwise polarizing topics of gender identity and human sexuality.”
Aside from various church sponsorships in cities where the festival is held, Level Ground lists a number of corporate sponsors, including the Whole Foods grocery chain and Chick-Fil-A.
The restaurant chain came under fire in 2012 from homosexual advocates after company CEO Dan Cathy spoke out in favor of biblical marriage. In addition, the Washington Post quoted Cathy as saying on a radio broadcast that he believed that the promotion of homosexual marriage was evoking the wrath of God upon America.”
A concerned patron of the restaurant chain has launched an online petition to bring the sponsorship to the attention of the company’s corporate headquarters, citing the sponsorship of Chick-Fil-A as “many other groups that promote an agenda which is contrary to Chick-Fil-A’s corporate stance on Christian values regarding marriage and stewardship.”
The petition seeks a response from the company’s corporate leadership.
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