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"Don Perry, head spokesman for fast-food chain Chick-fil-A died \"suddenly\" Friday morning, the company confirmed Friday.\nPerry has been with the Atlanta-based company for 29 years, last holding the position of VP of public relations, a Chick-fil-A spokesperson wrote in an e-mail to Mashable. The spokesperson was unable to comment on the cause of death.\nChick-fil-A is under fire from gay rights' activists after its CEO, Dan Cathy, voiced his support of the \u201Ctraditional family\u201D and the \"Bibical definition of the family unit.\" He later added, \"I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'\"\nActivists have called for a boycott of the restaurant chain, and the mayors of Boston, Chicago and San Francisco have criticized Cathy's statements publicly. In a letter to Cathy, Boston Mayor Tom Menino wrote, \"There is no place for discrimination on Boston's Freedom Trail and no place for your company alongside it.\" The Jim Henson Co. pulled its Muppet toys from Chick-fil-a's kids' meals.\n\n\nSEE ALSO: Chick-fil-A Parody Offers to Swap \u2018Homosexuality for Chicken Sandwich\u2019\n\nLast week, Perry e-mailed out an official response to the controversy, stating that the company's plans were to \"leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena.\" The company's policy, he wrote, \u201Cis to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect \u2013 regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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