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Dean resigns after college refuses to allow Chick-Fil-A on campus, says "I felt it very personally"
By David Reddish March 7, 2019 at 2:03pm · 1.4K shares · 34 comments
A Dean at Rider University in New Jersey has resigned in protest over a school decision to not allow noted homophobic fast-food chain Chick-Fil-A on campus.
Cynthia Newman, Dean of the College of Business Administration, abruptly stepped down from her role, citing feelings of "personal attack."
"I felt like I had been punched in the stomach when I read that statement because I am a very committed Christian," Newman lamented to a college news site.
She added, "I really felt it very personally."
Newman took umbrage to Rider University's decision not to invite Chick-Fil-A to open a branch on campus. Though the student body had expressed interest in having the greasy fast food chain, faculty had reservations over the restaurant's very long history of anti-LGBTQ policies.
"Chick-Fil-A was removed as one of the options based on the company's record widely perceived to be in opposition to the LGBTQ+ community," University President Gregory G. Dell'Omo said in a letter to the student body.
The letter continued:
We understand that some may view the decision as being just another form of exclusion. We want to be clear that this was not the spirit in which the decision was made. We fully acknowledge an organization's right to hold these beliefs, just as we acknowledge the right for individuals in our community and elsewhere to also personally hold the same beliefs.
Unsatisfied with the University's protection of its LGBTQ students, Newman resigned her position in protest. Not fully willing to put her money where he mouth is, however, she will remain on staff at Rider as a faculty member.
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david_warner
Boo hoo, sob sob … get a life.
March 7, 2019 at 2:03pm
@HarryB at imgur-rd.ml
Strange behaviour for the Dean
DCguy
Translation: It's all about bigotry with her.
QueerTruth
Thanks Rider College!
Chick-fil-A is not that good really.
Jussie_Racist_Clown
Chick-fil-A is not that good, not to me. But people freaking love their stuff. What makes me cringe is a university excluding them based on what, moral or political grounds? How about you let the students decide if they want to eat a Chick-fil-A sandwich. Some people really don't care about the politics of the situation, they just want lunch. Let them have lunch and stop moralizing. The left has politicized a chicken sandwich, meanwhile we have anti-Semites sitting in Congress. Time to get a grip.
boymikefl
So you support a KKK booth selling burgers and let people chose? Have to take a stand against hate. It's not the sandwich, it's the aura that they present. Students win!
JimmyzLA
How is the weather under your bridge?
The "right" has politicized everything and whines when it can't get its way, especially to discriminate against gay people. But you support that, right?
Rider University decided no Chick-Fil-A. Someone ought to ask this "Christian" dizzy Dean where in the Bible, Old Testament or New, it mentions particular fast food restaurants, let alone Christ condemning homosexuality or urging discrimination.
As for anti-Semites sitting in the federal government, you might want to look at your beloved Prez, who's retweeted anti-Semitic memes, including during the 2016, and who employed anti-Semites in the White House. His rhetoric contributed to an atmosphere that led to the worst anti-Jewish massacre in US history, just last year. And don't forget his fave countries, Russia and Saudi Arabia….
Ukin Blome
Still talking to yourself I see.
Hey troll, explain to me why it is that Chick-fil-A has a "right" to open a restaurant on the property of the school? Explain to me how the students are barred from ever eating at the Chick-fil-A restaurant? BTW lovely attempt to blend a false equivalency argument with a tu quoque argument.
A troll exposes itself when it calls bigotry and racism "Political Grounds".
Translation, you say that Chik Fil Et has the right to seek to harm LGBT people, but those same people can't seek to avoid eating there. The Constitution doesn't guarantee a business a building at a college.
March 8, 2019 at 9:03am
As I already said. Democrats moralizing is a laugh.
March 8, 2019 at 10:03am
Bryguyf69
Jussie_R*cist_Clown
Sure, students can eat whatever they want OFF CAMPUS. This is about campus real estate, where the university is landlord. So it's up to them to INVITE whomever fits their philosophy of inclusion. With limited space, it's just logical to invite only companies that fulfills the needs of the most students. And if Chik-Fil-A might result in protests or controversy, why would any university — or landlord — want that when there are other tenants waiting?
This is about a business INVITATION, and not about evicting them or discrimination. It's all about allocating limited resources to benefit the most people.
Would the dean have protested if homophobic fundamentalist Liberty University done the same with a gay club that wanted to open on their campus? How many gay-friendly businesses do you think they have invited? Do you think they invited Planned Parenthood to open a clinic? THINK about it.
"What makes me cringe is a university excluding them based on what, moral or political grounds?"
No, on business grounds. On the grounds that there is limited space so it should be allocated to businesses that can serve the most students while offending the least. Simple business logic. Or you rather that it invites tenants that might evoke protests? DUH!
gameshowguy2000
JUSSIE, maybe YOU need to get a grip. The school did the RIGHT thing.
The First Amendment HAS LIMITS, and THAT is why Kobe Bryant got fined $100,000 for gay-bashing.
October 17, 2019 at 1:10pm
RIGay
Hey! All you gotta do is get your sports teams to win something and they can have it shoved at them at the White House!
If any student wants to buy a chicken shit, sorry, Chick-Fil-A sandwich which is one of the numerous fast food outlets adding to the obesity crisis in the US, at least let the student walk/waddle to the nearest outlet. No, I realise that they'll drive the 100 yards!!! There again, why shouldn't a university take a moral stance against the likes of chicken shit, sorry, Chick-Fil-A?
I don't understand how "Chick-Fil-A was removed as one of the options based on the company's record widely perceived to be in opposition to the LGBTQ+ community" makes somebody feel punched in the gut because they're a Christian.
I also don't understand how anyone working at a college for any period of time isn't used to this kind of stuff by now. Unless it's a religious school. Isn't ultra liberal and ultra PC the standard at most colleges these days?
DennisBTR
I live in Atlanta – Chick-Fil-A's headquarters and where their very first restaurant is still open. I have tried the food. It has the very distinct taste of hate. Never went back.
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I take that disturbing looking hate filled crunts hate personally….
rand503
Crappy fried chicken? No thanks. I don't need it from a health perspective, or any other perspective. It's bad for the planet, and for chickens bred in inhumane conditions. I guess people just can't wait to die from heart disease, diabetes and hypertension.
But I do find it ironic that this woman took it as a "gut punch." Imagine how we feel when her friends at church want to deny us our rights. She can at least find a lousy chicken sandwich in other parts of town, some we don't always get.
miserylovedme24
Chick-Fil-A is great and I will continue to enjoy their amazing chicken sandwiches. I also appreciate that they are also known to pay and treat their employees very well, something most fast food places don't do. You can tell they do it with how they have by far the best service you can find.
Polaro
Except for the supporting hate groups that advocate killing gays with millions of dollars… I think your priorities are seriously messed up and un-Christian.
ImSoRich
I have a gay friend who frequently buys from Chick fil a. He says it doesn't mean anything. Well, he has that right, doesn't he? And colleges have the right to deny them location on campus. If they want, chick fil a can open a franchise just outside the campus borders. And those who chose so, can patronize them. That's how it should be.
March 7, 2019 at 11:03pm
jcoberkrom
She is right. It was a personal attack. Against her homophobia and bigotry.
Her "christianity" is just a cover.
WWJD
Now she can eat chick-Afil everyday for the rest of her life, which will be short, since the grease will cause her to die of a heart attack or a stroke.
taylor94
So it's fine for Christian's to refuse to do business for gays. Bakers, photographers and so on. But people can't refuse to do business with a Christian based business? Works both ways baby!
greybat
Well, you know… it's one Set of Rules for Conservatives, another Set of Rules for everybody else!
Itsonlythetruth
Once again the headline doesn't match the facts. She resigned from her position as dean, she will continue to teach at the college.
How is it misleading? The headline is "Dean resigns after college refuses to allow Chick-Fil-A on campus…"
Did the DEAN not resign? Whether she has a position is irrelevant because she indeed resigned as dean.
Students can eat wherever they want OFF CAMPUS. This is about campus real estate, where the university is landlord. So it's up to them to INVITE whomever fits their philosophy of inclusion. With limited space, it's just logical to invite only companies that fulfills the needs of the most students. And if Chik-Fil-A might result in protests or controversy, why would any university — or landlord — want that when there are other tenants waiting?
Tombear
Never had it, never will. Is their chicken sandwich all that?
August 22, 2019 at 10:08pm
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