AFA Launches Boycott Against McDonalds for Pro Gay Agenda

[romantico]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 11:48pm

DAMN! Who's been talking again? I have said this a thousand times! Gays, keep your mouth shut regarding the gay agenda. How else can we recruit?

American Family Association Launches Boycott Against McDonald’s For ‘Promoting The Homosexual Agenda’

mcdonalds_logoe.gif Today, the right-wing American Family Association (AFA) announced a boycott of McDonald’s. According to AFA, Ronald McDonald and his gang are part of giant gay agenda:

What the boycott of McDonald’s IS about

It is about McDonald’s, as a corporation, refusing to remain neutral in the culture wars. McDonald’s has chosen not to remain neutral but to give the full weight of their corporation to promoting the homosexual agenda, including homosexual marriage.

AFA is upset at McDonald’s for refusing to condemn Vice President of Communications Richard Ellis’s decision to serve on the Board of Directors of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC). AFA President Donald Wildmon said the situation is “strange” because “it’s the family that McDonald’s appeals to — children’s playland, you know, all the little toys, all of that. And they are promoting a lifestyle that would utterly destroy the traditional family.”

So far, McDonald’s is holding strong, writing a letter to Wildmon on May 29 and rebuffing his attacks:

We treat our employees and our customers with respect and dignity, regardless of their ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or other factors. We support our employees’ personal involvement in organizations of their choice.

Although AFA tries to make clear that it is NOT protesting McDonald’s “hiring homosexuals” or “homosexuals eating at McDonald’s,” as Good As You notes, “Whether it’s a direct attack on gay customer or employees or an attack on particular employees role in a pro-gay capacity, this situation is still about the company supporting diversity (something the AFA resists at every turn).”

AFA has a long history of silly, offensive boycotts against, among others, Wal-Mart (for selling “Brokeback Mountain” DVDs), Ford Motor Company (for advertising in gay-friendly publications), and the American Girl dolls (because the maker contributed to a youth organization that was pro-choice and supported the acceptance of lesbians). In 2005, it called off its unsuccessful nine-year boycott of Disney (for its “embrace of the homosexual lifestyle“).

McDonald’s should follow Disney’s lead and ignore the right-wing protests. After all, during the nine years AFA was boycotting Disney, the company saw record profits.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/03/mcdonalds-boycott/

Updated On: 7/3/08 at 11:48 PM

[NYadgal]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 11:51pm

Gotta love McDonald's.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 11:53pm

These people are idiots.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 11:53pm

That will just make me love my Breakfast Burrito a little bit more!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 11:57pm

Donald Wildmon, or 'the Wildman' as many refer to him, has been trying to stir up trouble for decades!

He writes letter after letter complaining about everything. In all my years of working in advertising, I've never had a corporation take one of his threats seriously. In fact, we all have files of letters from the Wildman...

[tazber]

Posted: 7/3/08 at 11:58pm

Oh addy, you should publish a book with all those letters! What an amusing read that would be.

[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 12:13am

Okay, I have GOT to start spending more money at McDonald's!

Donald Wildmon has needed to get a life for decades now!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 12:16am

That's an idea, taz!

Spend money at McDonald's!
I think I'll have a McMuffin in the morning. Just cuz!

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 6:56am

Fish sandwich for lunch. In support of the cause, of course.

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 7:24am

I'm definitely going for a McD Chicken Snack Wrap for lunch now.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 7:55am

Ronald McMichelangelo's David--let's hear it for the boy!

[Urban]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 11:25am

Damn. This means I have to start eating Mickey Ds again? Just when I got use to hating them, I have to like them again!

Oh well, I can have a McFlurry. Can't get enough of those pig by-products! :)

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 12:12pm

Don't we deserve a break today?

I haven't eaten at McDonald's in 3 or 4 years. I may just break that and exercise the power of the wallet with a lil MickeyD's!

[morosco]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 12:58pm

Mayor McCheese for President!

[Namaste]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 1:16pm

Okay, folks. Let's not get carried away.

The food at McDonald's is still utter crap, and putting in your body is a health risk.

But... I am craving a milkshake. (But I'll abstain.)

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 1:53pm

We had Breakfast at McDonalds today in celebration!

[Namaste]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 3:09pm

Well, that's 5 days off of your life.

I hope you enjoyed it.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 3:41pm

Oh please. PLEASE. PLEASE Namaste PLEASE try to back up that totally bullSH*T statement.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 4:05pm

"they are promoting a lifestyle that would utterly destroy the traditional family.”

This is why his arguments have zero traction anymore. What is a traditional family? How many kids grow up with two moms and two dads, not because they are gay but because of divorce and remarriage? What about all those kids growing up without a dad or a mom for whatever reason? And those new families: gay parents adopting children that need a home.

As for McD, every now and then I just have to have a Big Mac. I guess it's now for me.

[Namaste]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 6:05pm

"Oh please. PLEASE. PLEASE Namaste PLEASE try to back up that totally bullSH*T statement."

Please try to prove to me that eating McDonald's is healthy. Let's start by the ingredients in the food and how it's processed for mass production! And then, let's move into the caloric count!

Obviously my "5-day death wish" was a humorous way to delicately say you're a FAT ASS AMERICAN BELLYING UP TO THE TROUGH.

Oink. Oink.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 6:13pm

You sir are so stupid you aren't even worth talking to.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 7:21pm

The AFA were crowing with glee with the UK Heinz commercial was taken of the air. It's all connected, folks.

[Namaste]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 7:36pm

"You sir are so stupid you aren't even worth talking to."

Fantastic rebuttal!

Regardless of your inanity, I'll still send you flowers when you are hospitalized for extreme obesity and it is broadcast on national television.

And I'll even slip you in a McRib if you're lucky.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/4/08 at 8:27pm

I have nothing to rebut. YOU are the one who made up a statistic (Which is false and utterly unsupportable) and when called on it resorted to namecalling. Probably because you have nothing else to all back on.

So you're stupid, a liar and a name-caller. Why in the world would I want to dialogue with you?

[Namaste]

Posted: 7/5/08 at 6:08pm

I guess you overlooked the part where I said I was using humor. I'm sure it's easy to overlook that in my reply since you have your head lodged up your ass and can't see past your colon.

And I take back the winky face. You are not deserving of a winky face. If there was an emoticon for "head up the ass", I'd use it.