It may have taken him two years, but Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy finally realized that voicing his opposition to the Supreme Court's ruling that recognized same-sex marriage wasn't the smartest idea.
Cathy told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he shouldn't have taken a stance in the marriage debate and is still working to disassociate some people's views that the company is homophobic. But, hey, he learned a lot from the PR nightmare:
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