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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: i-node who wrote (665756)8/5/2012 12:53:49 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) of 1574097
 
Eat Chick-fil-A Guilt-Free With 'Chicken Offsets'

OFFSET MONEY GOES TO SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS

By Liam Carnahan, Newser Staff
newser.com
Posted Aug 5, 2012 11:44 AM CDT

(NEWSER) – If you love the taste of Chick-fil-A but loathe the company president's recent statements against gay marriage, you may want to head over to ChickenOffset.com, a website that allows you to donate money to gay rights campaigns after you've wolfed down that spicy chicken sandwich. The website was started by Washington, DC, lawyer and activist Ted Frank, who says he loves the restaurant's fare but not "the guilt of indirectly supporting Chick-fil-A's stance on gay rights."

Frank tells the Huffington Post that giving money—$1 per offset—to groups like It Gets Better and the Williams Institute is a lot more effective than "depriving Christian groups of $0.0001 by boycotting Chick-fil-A." Frank isn't the only gay rights supporter coming up with creative ways to strike back at the eatery...
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