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Claim: Chick-fil-A donated $1.8 million to Anti-LGBTQ groups after promising not to (Viral post, 2023-04-20)
Evidence (2019-11-22): Despite the report that Chick-fil-A was promising to no longer fund groups hostile to the LGBTQ community, both prominent and everyday folks just weren’t buying it. [...] Unfortunately, that was just talk. In that same year, the company launched the Chick-fil-A Foundation to fund groups which matched its Christian values. As Zack Ford reported year after year at Think Progress, and his colleague Josh Israel reported at that same site in March 2019: the group kept giving millions to discriminatory groups, including $1.8 million in 2017, despite reportedly claiming it was winding down that practice. [...] I will admit I was once a patron of Chick-fil-A. And I have had earnest conversations with local franchisees about the company’s funding of anti-LGBTQ groups. Those conversations were a lot like the one I had with my local Roman Catholic church pastor, who assured me I was welcome, and that they would always welcome me, no matter what was said by the corporation (or in the church’s case, the bishop or pope).
Claim: Chick-fil-A donated $1.8 million to Anti-LGBTQ groups after promising not to (Viral post, 2023-04-20)
Evidence (2020-06-30): The claim: Chick-fil-A donated $1.8 million to anti-LGBTQ groups [...] The creator of the original viral post could not be reached for comment, but the claim appears to be based on this 2019 blog post, titled "After Promising Not to, Chick-fil-A Donates Another $1.8 Million to Anti-LGBTQ Groups." [...] The claims in the post have been rated FALSE. Chick-fil-A did not recently donate $1.8 million to anti-LGBTQ groups. The donations in question were made in 2018 and are verified by the company's tax documents.
Claim: Chick-fil-A donated $1.8 million to Anti-LGBTQ groups after promising not to (Viral post, 2023-04-20)
Evidence (2019-12-13): American fast food chain Chick-fil-A has donated another $1.8 million to anti-LGBT+ groups after backtracking on its promise not to do so anymore. Chick-fil-A has a long history of opposing LGBT+ rights. The Baptist-owned company has given millions of dollars to anti-gay groups, leading to protests, boycotts, and several new branches being banned from opening. [...] A statement on the Chick-fil-A website said the franchise was "happy and proud" of its 2018 donations, which include several Christian organisations that discriminate against LGBT+ people. And new tax documents from 2018 reveal more donations than previously thought.
Claim: Chick-fil-A donated $1.8 million to Anti-LGBTQ groups after promising not to (Viral post, 2023-04-20)
Evidence (2022-12-22): Did Chick-fil-A just donate "another $1.8 million to anti-LGBTQ groups"? No, that's not true: The claim is a copy of a headline first published in 2019. The old story reported the fast food chain donated a combined $1.8 million to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Salvation Army. Chick-fil-A has since announced a "more focused giving approach ... giving to a smaller number of organizations working exclusively in the areas of education, homelessness and hunger." [...] The WOW Report, citing tax documents from 2018, said that Chick-fil-A donated a combined $1.8 million to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) and the Salvation Army, organizations that had come under fire from LGBTQ groups. [...] The FCA and the Salvation Army were out, as were a number of other groups. Contrary to the 2019 WOW Report's story, however, Chick-fil-A did not explicitly promise not to give to anti-LGBTQ groups. In its 2019 statement, the company said its future partners could include "faith-based and non-faith-based charities."
Claim: Chick-fil-A donated $1.8 million to Anti-LGBTQ groups after promising not to (Viral post, 2023-04-20)
Evidence (2019-11-19): On Nov. 18, CNN published an article with the headline "Chick-Fil-A Will No Longer Donate to Anti-LGBTQ Organizations," which reported that: "Chick-fil-A is making major changes to its charitable foundation, ending donations to two organizations that have been criticized for being anti-LGBTQ. The fast food chain announced Monday that beginning next year it will only donate to a certain group of charities. That list no longer includes the Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA). Both organizations have taken controversial stands on homosexuality and same-sex marriage." [...] "Chick-fil-A is shifting its charitable donations in the new year as the fast-food chain looks to avoid the spotlight that came with its history of financing evangelical groups that opposed LGBTQ rights, including same-sex marriage. The Atlanta-based company in 2020 plans to funnel more of its donations to fewer charities, targeting issues like homelessness, hunger and education, the Chick-fil-A Foundation said Monday."
Claim: Chick-fil-A donated $1.8 million to Anti-LGBTQ groups after promising not to (Viral post, 2023-04-20)
Evidence (2022-11-10): I first learned about Chick-fil-A’s funding of organizations with anti-LGBTQ agendas when I was in college, around 2007. Between 2003 and 2009, the company donated more than $3 million to Christian organizations with histories of homophobic programming. After bad press, Chick-fil-A’s leadership said the company would stop such support, but it continued. In 2017, the Chick-fil-A Foundation donated more than $1.8 million to three groups with histories of anti-LGBTQ discrimination, including Exodus International, a nonprofit that supported the abusive practice of conversion therapy. The debate rages on. Chick-fil-A leadership in 2020 claimed the company would "change its philanthropic giving model," but offered no clear message about whether this change will mean a halt in support of homophobic organizations. And whether or not the company fulfills this promise, as long as its leaders stay commited to "traditional family values," meaning the conservative Christian ideal of heterosexuality, we can assume their money will be funneled — publicly or privately — toward organizations that support this vision. [...] In 2012, Truett’s son, Dan Cathy, who was then Chick-fil-A’s chief operating officer and is now its chairman, went on the record to say he opposed legalizing gay marriage. Political leaders and business owners from Boston to California called for a boycott.
Claim: Chick-fil-A donated $1.8 million to Anti-LGBTQ groups after promising not to (Viral post, 2023-04-20)
Evidence (2022-01-21): There are many reasons why we should all avoid supporting Chick-fil-A at all costs, and its forgotten promise back in 2012 is high on the list. In September of that year, the Chicago-based Civil Rights Agenda issued a statement claiming that Chick-fil-A had promised to "no longer give to anti-gay organizations, such as Focus on the Family and the National Organization for Marriage." At the time, Chick-fil-A also released a statement claiming that they had "no agenda, policy or position against anyone," and that they value all individuals "regardless of their beliefs or opinions." But, as you can guess, the company’s donations to anti-LGBTQ groups nevertheless continued. [...] These donations were defended by Chick-fil-A officials, as they claimed the actions were on track with their goals to fund children’s programs and sports camps—no hidden homophobic agenda involved. But the pattern with anti-LGBTQ sentiment is undeniable and hardly hidden, dating back to the founder of Chick-fil-A himself with his own charitable organization created in 1984 called the WinShape Foundation. Still alive and kicking today, this organization has donated millions to anti-LGBTQ charities such as the Marriage & Family Foundation, the Georgia Family Council and Exodus International, a group that openly promoted conversion therapy until its demise in 2013.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2019-09-14): Paine did not author this statement. It is actually a line from orator Robert G. Ingersoll.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2024-09-16): Constitution 101 Resources 2.5 Primary Source: Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776) [...] The following excerpts are from Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. Originally published in 1776, this pamphlet lays out Paine’s theory for why the American colonies should declare independence. One of the all-time American best sellers, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, exploded on the scene in January 1776, at a precarious moment when reconciliation with Great Britain seemed unlikely, yet, to many, independence still seemed unthinkable. In electric prose, Paine, a recent English immigrant, made a forceful case in defense of separation. On multiple scores, the pamphlet radiated a radical democratic spirit. In plain, unadorned writing, it appealed to the common capacities of all people to evaluate the case for independence. It left few traditional hierarchies untouched, meanwhile, nowhere more strikingly than its vigorous condemnation of the institution of monarchy, which Paine claimed was in fact an affront to God. Common Sense seized public opinion, propelling American colonists toward independence.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2023-07-11): Who Was Thomas Paine and Why Did He Write 'Common Sense'? [...] "Paine witnessed it all, and thought, these people are ripe for a revolution," explains Harvey J. Kaye, author of Thomas Paine and the Promise of America. [...] - A strong central government was needed. Paine envisioned that the new nation would have a strong central government, with a constitution that protected individual rights, including freedom of religion. "A firm bargain and a right reckoning make long friends," he argued.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2017-04-10): By Thomas Paine 1776 [Thomas Paine. Common Sense. In The Writings of Thomas Paine. Collected and Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. 1894. Volume 1. Online Library of Liberty. Accessed 10 April 2017. http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/343. In the Public Domain.] [...] To the evil of monarchy we have added that of hereditary succession; and as the first is a degradation and lessening of ourselves, so the second, claimed as a matter of right, is an insult and imposition on posterity. For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever, and tho’ himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them. One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in Kings, is that nature disapproves it, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule, by giving mankind an Ass for a Lion. [...] Perhaps the disorders which threatened, or seemed to threaten, on the decease of a leader and the choice of a new one (for elections among ruffians could not be very orderly) induced many at first to favour hereditary pretensions; by which means it happened, as it hath happened since, that what at first was submitted to as a convenience was afterwards claimed as a right.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2017-03-10): Thomas Paine is a French citizen since 1792 - because he defended "the cause of peoples against the despotism of kings" - and he was elected to the National Convention (the French Assembly between 1792 and 1795) for the Pas-de-Calais. [...] Property of personal rights, instead of property of material goods, is, according to Paine, the only criterion from which a political society can be created. Humans thus unite in a society in order to preserve their personal rights, the right for life being the first one.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2010-07-10): Thomas Paine is a transatlantic political icon, a plain-speaking revolutionary campaigner whose writings—more than those of any other figure—captured the zeitgeist of the two most significant political events of the eighteenth century: the American and French revolutions. As far as public consciousness is concerned, his enduring political legacy is curiously schizophrenic in that he is lauded at once by the libertarian right in the United States and the socialist and social democratic left in Britain. Despite having been the subject of much valuable scholarly attention throughout the twentieth century, there has been little interest expressed in Paine that has not been of a purely historical or biographical nature.Footnote 1 This is in one sense unsurprising, given his role as a prominent political actor and the fascinating, tumultuous life that he led, parts of which remain mysterious.Footnote 2 However, at the same time, there has been a marked neglect shown to the distinct theoretical content of his writings. He is customarily treated as a mere "vulgarizer of Locke,"Footnote 3 a rhetorician, pamphleteer, and polemicist rather than a political theorist of any note.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2023-08-01): Thomas Paine was a writer, freethinker, and revolutionary, whose influence on radicals in 18th century England, France, and America was significant. His famous declaration in Rights of Man, ‘my country is the world and my religion is to do good,’ is a humanist one, and his powerful calls for freedom and equality for all anticipated the efforts of humanists up to the present day. Paine believed that ‘the most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason’, arguing for the rights of every individual to make use of it in deciding how best to live. Paine was born in Thetford on 29 January 1737, the only son of a staymaker. He received an elementary education before entering his father’s trade. He tried various occupations before settling in Lewes as an exciseman, where he married a second time, his first wife having died just a year after their marriage. [...] Reformers received Rights of Man with jubilation but the government moved to have it suppressed. Rights of Man is an appeal for the recognition of human rights, and a call for a compassionate society: ideals we would today describe as humanist. Central to his thesis was the belief that governments exist for the greater good the population at large and not that of monarchs. Paine was indicted for seditious libel but fled England to avoid trial.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings Abstract ‘An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot . . . it will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.’ Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution; his Rights of Man (1791-2) was the most famous defence of the French Revolution and sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. He paid the price for his principles: he was outlawed in Britain, narrowly escaped execution in France, and was villified as an atheist and a Jacobin on his return to America. Paine loathed the unnatural inequalities fostered by the hereditary and monarchical systems. He believed that government must be by and for the people and must limit itself to the protection of their natural rights. But he was not a libertarian: from a commitment to natural rights he generated one of the first blueprints for a welfare state, combining a liberal order of civil rights with egalitarian constraints. This collection brings together Paine's most powerful political writings from the American and French revolutions in the first fully annotated edition of these works. [...] - 9780199538003 - DOI:
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2023-08-16): The man at right does not look angry. To us, he projects the typical figure of a "Founding Father" — composed, elite, and empowered. And to us his famous essays are awash in powdered-wig prose. But the portrait and the prose belie the reality. Thomas Paine was a firebrand, and his most influential essay — Common Sense — was a fevered no-holds-barred call for independence. He is credited with turning the tide of public opinion at a crucial juncture, convincing many Americans that war for independence was the only option to take, and they had to take it now, or else. [...] NOTE: "A government of our own is our natural right" asserts Paine at the beginning of this excerpt. Six months later Thomas Jefferson asserted the same right in the opening of the Declaration of Independence. This Enlightenment ideal anchored revolutionary initiatives in America and Europe for decades. [...] - Portrait of Thomas Paine by John Henry Bufford (1810-1870), engraving by Bufford’s Lithography, ca. 1850. Record ID 268504.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (1998-01-01): Securing freedom and property to all men, and above all things the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; with such other matter as is necessary for a charter to contain. Immediately after which, the said conference to dissolve, and the bodies which shall be chosen conformable to the said charter, to be the legislators and governors of this continent for the time being: Whose peace and happiness, may God preserve, Amen. [...] On these grounds I rest the matter. And as no offer hath yet been made to refute the doctrine contained in the former editions of this pamphlet, it is a negative proof, that either the doctrine cannot be refuted, or, that the party in favor of it are too numerous to be opposed. WHEREFORE, instead of gazing at each other with suspicious or doubtful curiosity, let each of us, hold out to his neighbor the hearty hand of friendship, and unite in drawing a line, which, like an act of oblivion, shall bury in forgetfulness every former dissention. Let the names of Whig and Tory be extinct; and let none other be heard among us, than those of a good citizen, an open and resolute friend, and a virtuous supporter of the RIGHTS of MANKIND and of the FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES OF AMERICA.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2024-08-21): - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Thomas Paine - Social Studies for Kids - Biography of Thomas Paine - World History Encyclopedia - Thomas Paine - Spartacus Educational - Biography of Tom Paine - American Battlefield Trust - Thomas Paine - National Archives - Thomas Paine’s Attitudes Toward Religion Impacted His Legacy, Author Says - Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University - Thomas Paine - Libertarianism.org - A Right to Rebel: A Biography of Thomas Paine - Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of Thomas Paine - George Washington's Mount Vernon - Biography of Thomas Paine - Official Site of The Thomas Paine Society [...] Thomas Paine (born January 29, 1737, Thetford, Norfolk, England—died June 8, 1809, New York, New York, U.S.) was an English-American writer and political pamphleteer whose Common Sense pamphlet and Crisis papers were important influences on the American Revolution. Other works that contributed to his reputation as one of the greatest political propagandists in history were Rights of Man, a defense of the French Revolution and of republican principles, and The Age of Reason, an exposition of the place of religion in society.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2024-10-03): Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain;[1] February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736][Note 1] – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, inventor, and political philosopher.[2][3] He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he helped to inspire the colonial era patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain.[4] His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of human rights.[5] [...] - ^ Kates, Gary (1989). "From liberalism to radicalism: Tom Paine's Rights of Man". Journal of the History of Ideas. 50 (4): 569–587. doi:10.2307/2709798. JSTOR 2709798. [...] - Fitzsimons, David (2008). "Paine, Thomas (1737–1809)". In Hamowy, Ronald (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, Cato Institute. pp. 369–370. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n226. ISBN 978-1412965804. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024. Archived from the original on February 21, 2022. Retrieved February 21, 2022.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2022-07-29): Thomas Paine was an England-born political philosopher and writer who supported revolutionary causes in America and Europe. Published in 1776 to international acclaim, "Common Sense" was the first pamphlet to advocate American independence. After writing the "The American Crisis" papers during the Revolutionary War, Paine returned to Europe and offered a stirring defense of the French Revolution with "Rights of Man." His political views led to a stint in prison; after his release, he produced his last great essay, "The Age of Reason," a controversial critique of institutionalized religion and Christian theology. [...] Thomas Paine was born January 29, 1737, in Norfolk, England, the son of a Quaker corset maker and his older Anglican wife. [...] Paine published his book Rights of Man in two parts in 1791 and 1792, a rebuttal of the writing of Irish political philosopher Edmund Burke and his attack on the French Revolution, which Paine supported.
Claim: Claims Thomas Paine said, "Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." (Viral Quote, 2019-09-14)
Evidence (2023-01-01): On these grounds I rest the matter. And as no offer hath yet been made to refute the doctrine contained in the former editions of this pamphlet, it is a negative proof, that either the doctrine cannot be refuted, or, that the party in favour of it are too numerous to be opposed. Wherefore, instead of gazing at each other with suspicious or doubtful curiosity; let each of us, hold out to his neighbour the hearty hand of friendship, and unite in drawing a line, which, like an act of oblivion shall bury in forgetfulness every former dissension. Let the names of Whig and Tory be extinct; and let none other be heard among us, than those of a good citizen, an open and resolute friend, and a virtuous supporter of the rights of mankind, and of the FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES OF AMERICA.