Did Chick-fil-A create a fake Facebook account to quell anti-gay backlash?

If the allegations are true, the brass at Chick-Fil-A get an "F" for attempting to quell their current homophobic PR nightmare.

Marred in the wake of company president Dan Cathy's anti-gay comments, someone at the U.S. chicken restaurant apparently created a fake Facebook account in an effort to thwart the negative social attention. Unless Abby Farle, a Facebook veteran of a mere 24 hours, is indeed the God-fearing quick-serve chicken enthusiast she appears to be.

The validity of this particular profile came into question Tuesday when a man named Chris had called the company out on Chick-fil-A's Facebook page.

"Admit it, Chick-fil-A: you stopped carrying Jim Henson's puppets as kids meal toys because you got dumped for being bigots, not because some kids 'got their fingers stuck,' " read Chris' post. The Jim Henson company had pulled their toys from Chick-fil-A's kids meals following Cathy's comments, a move that the restaurant chain rebuffed as a internal corporate decision based on a "possible safety issue."

Two like-minded Facebook users shared their two cents in the comments, just before the humorously transparent Abby chimed in. Stating that Chick-fil-A had actually removed the Jim Henson toys "weeks before any of this," she prompted Chris to check his facts before ending her comment with "John 3:16."

Chris responded by providing a link proving Chick-fil-A had announced the recall five days prior, but Abby was not satisfied. "No my friend went to chickfila 3 weeks ago and there was no toys. derr."

But one observant Facebook user named Robert was quick to highlight that Abby had joined Facebook a mere eight hours before her comment, and revealed that Abby's profile photo had been downloaded from Stutterstock, a stock photo website that referred to the glamour shot as "pretty redheaded teenager isolated on white smiling."

The entire whistle-blowing thread can be seen in the image above.

The use of such PR trickery cannot be confirmed, and Chick-fil-A has not released a statement on the matter. But the idea that the beleaguered company created a fake Facebook account in an attempt to put a lid on the surging controversy is far from outlandish.

And for a devout man such as Cathy, who finds reproach in those who attempt to circumvent God's ideal version of marriage, he's terribly remiss to forget that lying is also sin.

(Photo courtesy of BuzzFeed)