evidence: 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).