June 17, 2013

College Students Oppose Chick-fil-’s Christian Ties

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*Last week, the student senate at Northeastern University, in Boston, voted to end negotiations to bring fast-food chain Chick-fil-A to campus after students protested over the company’s affiliation with several Christian organizations the students say have an “anti-gay” agenda. The Atlanta-based company, dogged for months by accusations of homophobia, insists it is “not anti-anybody” but [...]




Name Change Doesn’t Mean YMCA is Slighting Christian Association

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*Way back in 1844 in England, the Young Men’s Christian Association sounded snappy. In 1967 the Y.M.C.A. sound even better. Fast forwardm forty-three years later — in the age of texting, IHOP and KFC — and “the Y” just plain works better. The bottom line is that the Chicago-based U.S. nonprofit isn’t trying to shed [...]