After blasting gays, Chick-fil-A now wants out of the gay marriage debate

This is priceless. After blasting gays, and give reporters quotes about "Adam and Steve," Chick-fil-A has suddenly decided that it has no public position on gay rights.

Yeah, a bit late for that.

Here's what Chick-fil-A said just a few days ago.

Chick-fil-A is “very much supportive of the family,” according to Dan Cathy, president of the popular fast food chain. That is, “the biblical definition of the family unit,” he said.

And that doesn’t include Adam and Steve, suggests Cathy, whose father S. Truett Cathy founded the Atlanta-based company.

In a new interview with Baptist Press, Cathy puts on the record what critics say his company’s actions have indicated for years. “Well, guilty as charged,” he said in the interview when asked about Chick-fil-A’s backing of families led by a man and a woman.

Pretty unequivocal stuff.

Here's what they're saying now.

The quick-service chicken chain said Thursday in a statement that "going forward, our intent is to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena."

For the company, leaving the policy debate means "not proactively being engaged in the dialogue" on gay marriage, spokesman Don Perry wrote in an email. Perry did not respond to questions on whether the company would stop donating to causes that oppose gay marriage.

Sorry, Cracker Barrel wannabe, that ship has sailed.  Oh, and note that Chick-fil-A, that has donated $5m to anti-gay organizations, won't say if the anti-gay donations - which were paid for from your Chick-fil-A purchases, will continue.