San Antonio’s legal fight to keep Chick-fil-A out of its airport has cost the city more than $300,000, according to a new report.
The city’s legal fees in a pair of lawsuits and state and federal investigations have totaled $315,000, and that number is still rising, according to KENS-TV in San Antonio.
San Antonio’s city council voted last year to exclude Chick-fil-A from the San Antonio International Airport, in part due to the company’s donations to the Salvation Army and Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Council members claimed the restaurant has a history of “anti-LGBT discrimination.”
Chick-fil-A is the third largest restaurant in the United States by sales.
Although the company changed its giving strategy last year, the city still opposes the company opening a restaurant in the airport.
This month, a judge ruled against the city and allowed a lawsuit against it to proceed. The suit by the San Antonio Family Association accuses the city of discrimination against Chick-fil-A for its owners’ Christian beliefs. It also says the city violated the state’s new “Save Chick-fil-A” law.
That law, signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, prohibits a “governmental entity” from taking “any adverse action against any person based wholly or partly on the person’s membership in, affiliation with, or contribution, donation, or other support provided to a religious…
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