Jophiel wrote:
Sure, the way was for CFA to stop donating $5 million to those causes.
I agree -- Good for him!
Except it appears to be
exactly what I stated above. Shocking that a politician who's stuck his neck out might have a need to fudge the facts in order to weasel out of the untenable position he's taken on this issue.
Just to clarify, it looks like the Alderman is interpreting statements about workplace discrimination (which CFA has never engaged in) to mean that CFA will not engage in donations to groups opposed to gay marriage. I personally suspect he's doing this deliberately to save face, and it's why my initial assumption was that this was precisely what had happened when I read the first linked article. The lack of any actual quote from CFA was the first clue.
It appears that I was correct.
Edited, Sep 24th 2012 3:17pm by gbaji