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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Stockton Student Senate to Send Letter of Resolution Asking Chick-fil-A to Leave Campus

The Senate voted 14-10, with two abstensions. The resolution now goes before President Herman J. Saatkamp.

The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Student Senate will ask the college president to consider dismissing Chick-fil-A from its campus. The 27-member Senate voted 14-10, with two abstensions, to send a letter of resolution to Stockton College President Herman J. Saatkamp asking Chick-fil-A to leave campus. The Senate needed 14 votes for approval. Senate President AJ Vervoort abstains unless his vote is needed to break a tie. According to Vervoort, the letter of resolution will be sent to Saatkamp on Monday morning, Nov. 26. It will then be up to Saatkamp if he wants to look into breaking the 10-year contract with the chicken franchise that has weathered a storm of controversy since comments made by its president over the summer. The …

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Richard Stockton College (in Galloway Patch) and Crew Booster Says Chick-fil-A Promo Misunderstood

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KT

7:08 pm on Friday, November 30, 2012

Employers SHOULD be put out of business if what they are doing is immoral and unjust.   more ›

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Crew Booster Says Chick-fil-A Promo Misunderstood

Linda Herzog says the rowing team doesn't have a stance on same-sex marriage, and wasn't expecting such questions during a recent fundraiser.

It's a chicken-and-egg-on-face question. Which came first: the Chick-fil-A cow, or the moral outrage associated with the fast food franchise's stance on same-sex marriage? Until she was asked to answer for it at last Tuesday's National Night Out community-building event, Collingswood Crew booster Linda Herzog didn't even believe it would be an issue. "It didn’t even cross my mind until we started hearing the feedback when we were there," Herzog said. "I never put it together, honestly, in my head." Herzog said she knew about the flap surrounding Chick-fil-A but didn't think that the appearance of the company's mascot at the event would be construed as an endorsement of a political stance by the team—even in gay-friendly Collingswood. "I …

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National Night Out Brings Collingswood Together and The Impact of Same-Sex Marriage Legislation in Collingswood

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Dan Johnson

10:22 am on Monday, November 26, 2012

Over the last several years , Chick has spent millions supporting 7 anti-gay groups that promote prejudice and legal discrimination in all areas, not just marriage equality as is so frequently reported. The complaint is not just Cathy's opinion on marriage equality, but rather his funding of legal discrimination here and around the world. We know for a fact, prejudice and discrimination result in…   more ›

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