Fast-food chain Chick-fil-A drops donations to Christian charities after LGBT+ protests

U.S. fast-food chain Chick-fil-A said on Monday it had stopped funding two Christian organizations including The Salvation Army, which has come under fire in recent weeks from LGBT+ campaigners.

The fast-food chain's charitable arm, Chick-fil-A Foundation, has donated millions of dollars to The Salvation Army and to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, which opposes same-sex marriage. Chick-fil-A on Monday said it no longer funded the organizations.

"We made multi-year commitments to both organizations and we fulfilled those obligations in 2018," a spokeswoman for Chick-fil-A told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, adding the company would focus its giving on "education, homelessness, and hunger". Neither The Salvation Army nor the Fellowship of Christian Athletes was available to comment immediately.