Former GOP presidential candidate
Herman Cain has said that Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy confided to him
that the company earned $30 million on Appreciation Day and said
that he would donate that money to “the charitable organizations
they support.”
In a Fox News appearance, Cain claimed
that gay rights supporters are protesting Chick-Fil-A's opposition to
gay marriage to gain attention.
“This is simply an attempt on the
part of the gay community to try to leverage their beliefs on another
institution, a private company, since they can't seem to get enough
attention. That is what this is about,” said Cain, a onetime GOP
presidential frontrunner.
Wednesday's Chick-Fil-A Appreciation
Day called on conservatives to patronize the eateries to support
Cathy, who created a firestorm of protest when he said that gay
marriage is “inviting God's judgment on our nation.”
“Dan's sales were in excess of $30
million on that day, which is almost twice his previous high,” Cain
said. “They are going to take a lot the excess profit they got on
that day and contribute it to the charitable organizations they
support in even bigger numbers.” (The video is embedded in the
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According to EqualityMatters.org,
Chick-Fil-A's charitable arm, The WinShape Foundation, gave nearly $2
million to anti-gay groups in 2010, more than any other year for
which public records are available.