Chick-Fil-A has been banned from the University of Nebraska at Kearney because the company’s CEO supports traditional marriage.
How could supporting traditional marriage get your business banned from an American university campus? Because a handful of students claimed allowing the restaurant chain on campus would be offensive to homosexuals.
A survey sent out by the UNK student government in January resulted in a majority student vote to bring Chick-Fil-A to the campus student union. A number of students opposed the decision, however, complaining that Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy has made comments in the past supporting the traditional definition of marriage.
In response to the students’ complaints, the UNK student president Evan Calhoun announced via email that his student government would not be bringing Chick-Fil-A to campus because the chain’s “discriminatory policies” and “corporate values” did not align with UNK’s values. He then told UNK students what their choices should be.
Trevor Wiegert, a third-year UNK student and campus chancellor’s ambassador, told The Daily Wire the opposition to the restaurant chain was led by a tiny group of students and did not represent the student body. After considerable pressure from Wiegert, among other university members, the student government decided to hold a forum next week to allow comments from students on all sides of the matter and send to the administration for review.