(FaithWire) – City officials in San Antonio are so determined to keep Chick-fil-A out of their airport that they’ve been willing to part with over $300,000 of taxpayer cash in order to do so. Last March, the city council voted to keep Chick-fil-A from opening up a location in the city’s airport due to the company’s alleged “legacy of anti-LGBTQ behavior.” Since then, the city’s governing authorities have spent roughly $315,000 in legal fees to keep Chick-fil-A at bay.
The case has sparked retaliatory litigation battles, with Texas even passing a “Save Chick-fil-A” law, which aims to “prohibit government entities from taking ‘adverse actions’ against businesses or individuals because of their religious beliefs or moral convictions.”
State attorney general Ken Paxton has also opened his own investigation into the prospective religious discrimination being propagated by the San Antonio City Council as a result of its action against the restaurant chain. “The Constitution’s protection of religious liberty is somehow even better than Chick-fil-A’s chicken,” Paxton wrote in a letter addressed to the council, according to The Blaze. “Unfortunately, I have serious concerns that both are under assault at the San Antonio airport.” READ MORE
