It’s been ages since America’s last epic fight over a college-food-court Chick-fil-A, so angry students at Pittsburgh’s Duquesne University are joining with
annoyed conservatives (most of them cranky and old) to help make a new
one happen. The university announced last month that the chain with a
less-than-subtle anti-gay past would be opening a new location in the
main dining hall, and several groups on campus immediately protested
that this would make them feel that their “safe place is at risk.”
Chick-fil-A has “a questionable history on civil rights and human
rights,” a member of the student government explained
to the school paper. There’s a petition explaining that campus bullying
is a problem, and demanding the chain be kept off campus entirely, and
the president of Duquesne’s Lambda Gay-Straight Alliance says that while
she’s aware Chick-fil-A quit giving to both Focus on the Family and
Exodus International years ago, they feel the school should, at minimum,
“acknowledge there is still some tension.”
Fox News’ resident Chick-fil-A apologist Todd Starnes simply instructs, “Eat More Chicken, Snowflakes.” Fox & Friends discovered the story this morning, and brought in ex–Army Ranger and Outlaw Platoon
author Sean Parnell to tell these students that, in fact, “there are no
safe spaces in the real world.” He suggested Duquesne’s president add a
line reflecting that onto every application.
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