Do Gold's Gym and Chick-fil-A Have Something in Common?

Gold's Gym jumps on the anti-gay-marriage bandwagon.
Do Gold's Gym and Chick-fil-A have something in common? Are the two business conglomerates  on the same anti-gay-marriage path, their CEOs giving millions to organizations and candidates that support the idea of marriage being solely between a man and a woman? It's looking that way.

Robert Rowling, the Texan CEO of Gold's Gym apparently hit a foul ball for the home team, which is the GLBT community, one of the largest customer bases of his popular business. Smoozing up to Karl Rove, Rowling whipped up $2 million for Rove's American Crossroads organization, which works darn hard to get the no-marriage-for-gays repealed in every state it can.

Gold's Gyms in the Bay Area have removed themselves of the name, opting for SF Fitness, which leaves the Gold's Gym enterprise absent from the City by the Bay.

Spokespeople for Gold's gym have said (according to the Huff Post) that they "in no way do they support anti-gay causes."

The fragile situation seems to be confined to the Bay Area gyms. Will the storm come to Palm Springs? The future is ours to see.

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