In 1845, the American Baptist Church banned slave owners from serving as missionaries,

leading its southern membership to Seseed.

From this ignoble schism came the southern Baptist convention, which, one hundred seventy

years later, is now the largest Protestant sect in the U.S.

One prominent Baptist was S. Truitt Kathy, who claims to have invented the Fried Chicken

Sandwich at his dwarf grail restaurant in 1946.

A decade and a half later, Kathy developed a more efficient pressure cooking method that

allowed him to expand his chain wildly, under a new name, first to mall food courts and

later as standalone eateries.

By 2010, this icon of the south was leading the entire fast food industry in sales per location.

Yet the conservative politics of its deeply religious founder are ingrained in its corporate

identity.

In addition to staying closed on Sundays, in 2012, S. Truitt's heir and current CEO Dan T.

Kathy publicly declared his opposition to same-sex marriage.

This led to fierce protests from gay rights activists and defiant chicken sandwiched

benches from the Christian right.

Today, it's both a battlefield in the culture wars and the fast food wars.

It's time to eat more chicken, because this week on Doe Boys, we're talking Chick-fil-A.

Welcome to Doe Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants.

I'm Nick Weiger, alongside Mike Mitchell.

Mitch, how are you this fine day?

Good.

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