evidence: Chick-fil-A has taken great pains to downplay its anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and giving, seven years into a national boycott by LGBTQ and allied diners. But contrary to the company’s latest claims that it has no political or social agenda, newly released tax filings show that, in 2017, the Chick-fil-A Foundation gave more than $1.8 million to a trio of groups with a record of anti-LGBTQ discrimination. [...] In the wake of the bad publicity, the company posted a Facebook statement that it would focus on making chicken and "leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena." Cathy wooed a prominent LGBTQ activist in 2013 and spun him into believing the company was scaling back its anti-equality giving. [...] Asked about the anti-LGBTQ donations in 2016, he added, "They said, after this year, there’s only gonna be one group left that some people in the LGBTQ community will object to — that’s the Salvation Army. They told us from now forward they are ceasing all the other contributions that have been deemed offensive." (Cathy’s name was removed from the event website prior to the September conference.)