Gay rights activists and backers of same-sex marriage held “kiss-ins” at Chick-fil-A restaurants across the United States on Friday to protest the fast-food chain president’s opposition to homosexual unions.   

Same Sex Kiss Day is a reaction to comments last month from Dan Cathy, who said he supported “the biblical definition of the family unit” and put his chain of roughly 1,600 restaurants smack in the middle of a cultural debate. 

Carly McGehee, a Dallas political activist who came up with the idea of the kiss-in, said more than 15,000 people said they would join the protest since she posted an announcement on her Facebook page on July 19.

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