Distressed Chick-fil-A is coming to Federal Way | Letter

Published 4:00 pm Thursday, December 3, 2015

I am pleased to learn that Federal Way’s economic development department has been busy trying to fill some of the vacant commercial space around town with new business tenants.

However, I am distressed to learn that the majority of those being recruited will not employ our residents in livable wage positions but rather poverty level, minimum wage jobs.

Even more distressing to me is that one of those is the Chick-fil-A chain which is well known to be an ultra conservative right-wing company that has fought the LGBT community in their efforts to obtain equal rights. It also has a long history, through their foundations, of making contributions to various conservative organizations that have been called “hate groups” by the respected Southern Law Poverty Center.

Another local business, Hobby Lobby, can also be lumped into the same category as Chick-fil-A… As they too continue to lobby against a woman’s right to choose and assorted other conservative causes.

I defend each of these company’s owners to spend their money/profits as they wish, but that does not mean I have to patronize them. I encourage other progressive minded residents to think twice before supporting such companies.

Support your small local-owned businesses, not these that are headquartered in the backward-thinking southern states.

Scott D. Woll, Tacoma