Q: You've been criticized by some groups for your WinShape foundation's charitable giving, which people have said goes to groups that are hostile to homosexuals. Have you changed your giving at all in response, and what causes do you support?
We support a Biblical view of who the family is. We're in a crisis in America right now, where we're asking what constitutes a marriage, and we know that so many couples are having children but they're not married. Long term, that is devastating to a community and society. We have to employ these children, and when they walk in here it's very important for us to have the moral code kind of written into them, things like honesty, integrity, fairness.
It's a large task for us as employers to try to make up all the lost ground they didn't get when they didn't have a mom or a dad. So anything to shore up and to strengthen the family is what Chick-fil-A is all about.
We may be challenged with that, but that's our position and we're going to stay the course. We're not critical of others, we're simply saying we need to have a society and a culture that represents traditional family values.
