This is humorous and the attorneys who assisted in preparing this complaint should be sanctioned.
You cannot allege discrimination under ANY employment or public accommodations discrimination law on the mere basis of personal biases or dislikes against your protected class (e.g., your sexual orientation, gender, race etc); rather, there must be tangible discrimination against the claimant. You must be able to allege that Chick-Fil-A refused to serve you, let you in the door, spit in your food, etc. upon learning of your membership in a protected class. You can't just rely on "he doesn't like my kind!" and hope to have a colorable lawsuit or administrative agency complaint.
The crux of this joke of a complaint lies in paragraph 6:
Although I would like to be treated equally and with dignity and respect at ChickF
fil-A restaurants, the companyjs widely published corporate philosophy, culture
and policies make clear to me that as an unmarried homosexual in a "non-
traditional" family unit, i am inferior to married heterosexuals and therefore,
unwelcome, objectionable and unacceptable to Chick-fil-A.
Ridiculous. This (i.e., the CEO remarks alone) are not actionable discrimination in ANY legal sense of the word, and whoever filed this complaint should be ashamed of themselves.
Here is how the Illinois Department of Human Rights (which is where this complaint was filed because federal anti-discrimination laws do NOT protect sexual orientation as a protected class) defines discrimination in a public accommodation:
IDHR wrote:PROHIBITED PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS ACTIONS
The Illinois Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination in several public settings, for example:
A place of public accommodation: To deny or refuse the full and equal enjoyment of facilities, goods and services.
Here is also what IDHR specifically says it
cannot do:
IDHR wrote:WHAT THE DEPARTMENT CANNOT DO
The Department cannot investigate Public Accommodations charges:
Based on political affiliations, personality conflicts, etc., unless such actions are alleged to be discriminatory for one or more of the reasons listed above.