Chicken Offsets 
 
 Love Chick-fil-A's sandwiches but hate the company president's stance against same-sex marriage? 
 
 D.C. lawyer and activist Ted Frank is now offering a way for chicken-lovers to have their sandwich and support gay rights, too, with chicken offsets. (Tag line: Eating Chicken Guilt-Free Since 2012.) 
 
 Here's how Frank describes the concept on the chicken offsets website: 
 
 Hi! I'm Ted Frank and I love the chicken sandwiches at Chick-fil-A. But I also like my gay-married friends and don't like the guilt of indirectly supporting Chick-fil-A's stance on gay rights. And I know there are lots of other people in the same boat. So I've started ChickenOffset.com. Every time you buy a chicken-sandwich meal at Chick-fil-A, you can buy an "offset" here. You can print out the receipt and demonstrate to your friends that the money you gave for LGBT youth more than compensates for the profits you put in Chick-fil-A's coffers. $1 gets you 1 chicken-meal offset; $6 for ten offsets. We promise to send a minimum of 80% of the proceeds after expenses to It Gets Better and the Williams Institute. Your offsets will provide far more money to non-profits that support gays than buying a sandwich at Chick-fil-A ends up putting in the pockets of anti-gay-rights organizations. We promise to update this site with data about how much money has been donated. 
 
 "I posted on Facebook that donating money to gay rights causes did a heck of a lot more good than depriving Christian groups of $0.0001 by boycotting Chick-fil-A," Frank tells The Huffington Post. "A friend joked 'Chicken offsets' in response, the domain name was open, and someone else would've come up with the idea if I didn't execute." 
 
 The chicken offsets site went up late Saturday night -- it's so new there aren't any questions yet in the FAQ section. 
 
 Frank says that no one has yet purchased an offset, "but Chick-fil-A is closed on Sundays." 
 
 UPDATE, 4:15 p.m.: Frank tells us that as of Monday late afternoon, he's sold "about $100" in chicken offsets. 
 
 The website now has lots of questions and answers on the FAQ page, too, including a response to one concern that's come up a lot since the chicken offset site went live: "Shouldn't I just give money directly to charity instead of paying a middleman for an offset?" 
 
 Here's Frank's response: 
 
 Yes. The charity would get more money that way, though most would find that it costs more than $1 to process a $1 donation, so you should make sure you're giving them real money. But if you're lazy or don't want to give a material amount to charity, buy an offset from me or someone else selling offsets. 
 
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 Buy chicken offsets! Hi! I'm Ted Frank and I love the chicken sandwiches at Chick-fil-A. But I also like my gay-married friends and don't like the guilt of indirectly supporting Chick-fil-A's stance on gay rights. And I know there are lots of other people in the same boat. So I've started ChickenOffset.com . Every time you buy a chicken-sandwich meal at Chick-fil-A, you can buy an "offset" here. You can print out the receipt and demonstrate to your friends that the money you gave for LGBT youth more than compensates for the profits you put in Chick-fil-A's coffers. $1 gets you 1 chicken-meal offset; $6 for ten offsets. We promise to send at least 90% of the proceeds (and will almost certainly send more than that) after our minimal expenses to It Gets Better and the Williams Institute. We promise your offsets will provide far more money to non-profits that support gays than buying a sandwich at Chick-fil-A ends up putting in the pockets of anti-gay-rights organizations. We promise to update this site with data about how much money has been donated. If you'd rather give money directly to gay-rights organizations without an offset or middleman or chicken sandwich, might I suggest Freedom to Marry ? Campaign-finance law means that we will be giving our money to a 501(c)(3) organization to avoid losing money from taxes, but you're not so limited. Chicken Offset is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially or unofficially connected with Chick-fil-A, any Chick-fil-A owner-operators, the Cathy family, It Gets Better, the Williams Institute, or Freedom to Marry. Thanks to Daniel Frank for the quick-and-dirty programming help, and to gay-marriage opponent J.B. for the inspiration. (By the way, you might be interested in my other major project, the non-profit Center for Class Action Fairness LLC . It supports class members who are getting ripped off by bad class action settlements, like the ones that give injured consumers worthless coupons while paying the attorneys millions. Attorneys working with CCAF have won millions of dollars for consumers and shareholders over the last three years, while creating landmark precedent that will protect consumers in future class actions. Read about CCAF and join CCAF's Facebook page . CCAF is not affiliated with Chicken Offset or vice versa.) ||||| Orlando Magic/Amway After hundreds of thousands of people ate "mor chikin" last week to support the Chick-fil-A CEO's traditional-marriage stance, another prominent company has found itself in the crosshairs of a boycott sparked by its executive's marriage beliefs. The Douglas and Maria DeVos Foundation, financially supported by Amway president Doug DeVos, donated $500,000 to the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), an anti-gay marriage group that was one of the leading advocates against same-sex marriage initiatives in eight states. Because of that 2009 donation, gay rights activist are calling for a boycott of Ada, Mich.-based Amway, a health and beauty products company, and its affiliates including the Orlando Magic basketball team, which DeVos' father and Amway co-founder Richard DeVos owns. "NOM constantly defends anti-LGBT companies like its ally Chick-fil-A and its owner for hateful and bigoted comments and actions," gay rights activist and long-shot presidential candidate Fred Karger wrote in a statement announcing the boycott Friday. Karger, the president of the LGBT advocacy group Rights Equal Rights, said the goal of groups like the National Organization for Marriage "appears to be harming Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Americans." But Amway said the donation stemmed from DeVos' personal beliefs and the "Amway opportunity is open to everyone." "As private citizens, the DeVos family supports causes and organizations that advocate for policies aligned to their personal beliefs," Amway said in a statement. The company added that the DeVos family believes "one of the highest callings of any individual is to express their own personal beliefs as a participant in the democratic process." Amway president Doug DeVos has apparently made no public statements about the issue one way or another. A spokesman for the Orlando Magic said the team has seen no affect on ticket sales or support from the boycott. While companies like Amway and Chick-fil-A have been recently ensnared in controversy because of their executives' support for traditional marriage, they are not alone in taking sides in the gay-marriage debate. Here's a look at some of America's biggest businesses or corporate executives who've braved the inevitable storm and taken a public stance on same-sex marriage. 
 
 Chick-fil-A Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy ignited a controversy in a radio interview last week when he publicly denounced gay marriage. "I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage,'" Cathy said. "I pray God's mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about." The restaurant has long-espoused Christian values, even going so far as to remain closed on Sundays. In response to the company's stance even before Cathy's comments, online cooking guru Hilah Johnson launched a "Chick-fil-Gay" sandwich recipe on her blog and YouTube "HilahCooking" channel. Johnson referred to the recipe as a way to get the taste of a Chick-fil-A sandwich with "less sugar, less salt, and less funding for anti-human-equality organizations." In a statement made after the CEO's remarks, Chick-fil-A reaffirmed its foundation on "biblically-based principles," but also said that "The Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect, regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender." Company officials said they plan to "leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena" in the future. 
 
 Google During the first week of July, Google announced a new "Legalize Love" campaign to help promote safer working environments for gays and lesbians around the world. While originally understood by many as a campaign to support the legalization of gay marriage, Google has since clarified the goals of the project, saying that it is intended to create safer conditions for gays and lesbians "in countries with anti-gay laws on the books." Google leadership has long been pro-gay rights, and outspokenly so; its CEO, Sergey Brin, spoke out against California's Proposition 8 in 2008. Google began compensating employees in 2010 with same-sex partners to help cover taxes on domestic partner health benefits. 
 
 facebook.com/oreo Kraft Foods The packaged foods giant posted this photo of a rainbow Oreo on its Facebook page in June in support of gay-pride month. An outpouring of responses quickly flooded the company's page, and consumers' posts ranged from the supportive to the damning. "Disgusted with oreos," one commenter wrote. "Being gay is an abmonitation [sic] in God's eyes i wont be buying them anymore." Kraft did not actually sell the rainbow-stuffed Oreo, and said the digitally altered image was created simply for online posting as part of the company's support for gay pride month. Nonetheless, some consumers said they would boycott the company - a statement that led supporters of gay marriage to strike back, listing the myriad of foods -- everything from Capri Sun juice to Velveeta to Triscuits -- that boycotters of the food giant would have to swear off in order to make good on that claim. 
 
 Courtesy Ben & Jerrys Ben & Jerry's Ben & Jerry's has been publicly supportive of gay marriage since 2009, when it renamed its "Chubby Hubby" flavor to "Hubby Hubby" to celebrate the passage of Vermont legislature allowing gay marriage. More recently, the Vermont ice cream merchant renamed its apple pie ice cream "Apple-y Ever After" as part of a push to legalize gay marriage in the United Kingdom. Ben & Jerry's encourages customers to get involved in advocacy efforts on its website and through Facebook apps. 
 
 General Mills Minneapolis-based General Mills recently stepped straight into a contentious battle surrounding an amendment to the Minnesota constitution that would ban gay marriage. General Mills, which is headquartered in Minnesota, announced in June that it was against the amendment. While the firm had long been considered an ally of the gay and lesbian community, its public announcement was unexpected. Protestors and supporters came out of the woodwork after General Mills made its position clear. Protestors gathered outside the company's headquarters soon after the announcement, but the firm stayed cordial, offering the activists coffee, water and even cookies (the last of which the protestors turned down).
– If you love the taste of Chick-fil-A but loathe the company president's recent statements against gay marriage, you may want to head over to ChickenOffset.com, a website that allows you to donate money to gay rights campaigns after you've wolfed down that spicy chicken sandwich. The website was started by Washington, DC, lawyer and activist Ted Frank, who says he loves the restaurant's fare but not "the guilt of indirectly supporting Chick-fil-A's stance on gay rights." Frank tells the Huffington Post that giving money—$1 per offset—to groups like It Gets Better and the Williams Institute is a lot more effective than "depriving Christian groups of $0.0001 by boycotting Chick-fil-A." Frank isn't the only gay rights supporter coming up with creative ways to strike back at the eatery...