(Photo by Rick Uldricks/Patch staff) AUSTIN, TEXAS — The attorney general of Texas said he has opened up an investigation stemming from the San Antonio City Council’s decision to exclude Chick-fil-A from an airport concession contract given the company’s opposition to same-sex marriage. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday vowed he would investigate action last week by the San Antonio City Council, which voted 6-4 to prevent the fast-food franchise from opening at the San Antonio International Airport given its strident opposition to gay marriage. The council’s decision to block the fast-food chain for its perceived intolerance of alternative lifestyles garnered national attention while earning the ire of conservatives across the country. The council excluded the chain from the airport tenant mix the day after ThinkProgress reported the chain had donated $1.65 million in 2017 to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, a religious non-profit group maintaining a "sexual purity" policy for its employees banning "homosexual acts." The Chick-fil-A xhain also made smaller donations to Paul Anderson Youth Home, which describes itself as a "Christian residential home for trouble youth" that opposes gay marriage, and the Salvation Army, a group that has long been accused of LGBTQ discrimination . […]
