WASHINGTON 鈥斅燬tudents at Johns Hopkins University are saying no to a Chick-fil-A on campus.
The Baltimore, Maryland, school鈥檚 student government voted earlier this week to block 聽any effort by Chick-fil-A to open a store聽on campus, citing the opposition to gay marriage the chain鈥檚 CEO Dan Cathy shared beginning in 2012.
鈥淰isiting prospective and current students, staff, faculty, and other visitors who are members of the LGBTQ+ community or are allies would be subjected to the microaggression of supporting current or future Chick-fil-A development plans,鈥� the
The resolution says the SGA 鈥渧ehemently opposes鈥� Cathy鈥檚 anti-gay marriage stance. The SGA mentions one instance in particular 鈥� when, following the Supreme Court鈥檚 ruling supporting marriage equality in 2013, Cathy said it was a 鈥渟ad day for our nation.鈥�
The SGA notes that it is not the first school that wants to keep Chick-fil-A off campus. It says other colleges such as North Carolina State University and Indiana University have already launched efforts to ban Chick-fil-A restaurants already on their campuses.
It is not yet clear if there were plans to build a Chick-fil-A on Johns Hopkins鈥� campus, reports , although many students have speculated that the chain might open a location in a new building under construction on campus.
鈥淭he SGA does not support the proposal of a Chick-fil-A, in a current or future sense, particularly on any location that is central to student life,鈥� the resolution says.
