In the debate raging over Chick-fil-A’s position on gay rights, some defenders of the Georgia-based fast-food chain have claimed that despite Chief Operating Officer Dan Cathy’s statementsagainst same-sex marriage and the company’sgenerous funding of anti-gay groups, theoutspokenly Christian corporation doesn’t discriminate against workers.
But in fact, the company has been sued at least a dozen times for employment discrimination,according to Forbes magazine.
One of the cases involved Aziz Latif, a former Chick-fil-A restaurant manager in Houston, who sued the company in 2002 because he was fired a day after refusing to participate in a group prayer to Jesus Christ at a company training program. Latif is a Muslim. The suit was settled, but the terms were not disclosed, Forbes reported.
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