High School Principal Outlaws Chick-fil-A Sandwiches Over Gay Rights

By Eric Owens  |  The Daily Caller  |  September 12, 2014

A California high school principal has banned the football booster club from selling Chick-fil-A sandwiches during a back-to-school night fundraiser because she disagrees about gay marriage with the president of the Atlanta-based fast food chain.

The principal who outlawed Chick-fil-A sandwiches is Val Wyatt of Ventura High School in the coastal town of Ventura, Calif.

“With their political stance on gay rights and because the students of Ventura High School and their parents would be at the event, I didn’t want them on campus,” Wyatt said, according to CBS Los Angeles.

Wyatt said she is worried that the presence of the chicken sandwiches might offend someone.

The superintendent of the Ventura Unified School District Superintendent, Trudy Tuttle Arriaga, backed the decision.

“We value inclusivity and diversity on our campus and all of our events and activities are going to adhere to our mission,” Arriaga said in explaining the decision to exclude a chicken sandwich company because of the political beliefs of its president.

A student, Graham Wallace, also heartily endorsed the decision to ban Chick-fil-A over politics because gay students might exposed to the sandwiches.

“There are gay kids that go to our school, and for them it might be kind of weird,” Wallace said, according to the station.