Chick-fil-A banned on college campus due to LGBTQ position

New Jersey Rider University removes Chick-fil-A from the menu of dining options for its campus.

After college students voted for the fast food restaurant as their first choice in the spring, the university sent another poll, leaving this time the chicken chain off the list of possibilities, the college confirmed.

"Although it has been included in previous polls, Chick-fil-A has been removed, one of the company's stock-based options widely perceived as being opposed to the LGBTQ + community," Gregory G. Dell & # 0; Omo, president of Rider & # 39; s, and Leanna Fenneberg, vice president for student affairs, wrote Friday in a letter to the rider community.

The university has asked its Center for Diversity and Inclusion to organize a forum on campus so that the voices of students, faculty, staff and others can continue to be heard, added the college officials. They said: "We fully recognize the right of an organization to retain these beliefs, just as we recognize the right of individuals in our community and elsewhere to personally hold the same beliefs."

"No discrimination policy"

The chain based in College Park, Georgia, refuted the idea that it was not welcoming for all.

"Chick-fil-A is a catering company that specializes in catering, service and hospitality, and our restaurants and licensed establishments on university campuses welcome everyone," said a spokesman for the company. Company in an email. "We do not conduct any discrimination policy against any group, and we do not have a political or social agenda."

The channel refused to develop further. Chick-fil-A was the target of the whole country events in 2012 Following his CEO, Dan Cathy expressed his support for "the biblical definition of the family unit".

In June, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey found himself in the background after tweeting about the use of Chick-fil-A's mobile app, saying he had forgotten the fast food system. history of opposition to gay marriage.

The conservative Christian tendencies of the private society also appeared during the summer when EPA President Scott Pruitt explained why he had considered his wife has a Chick-fil-A franchise. "I love, she loves, we like Chick-fil-A as a franchise of faith," Pruitt told a reporter.