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olde_fashioned ([personal profile] olde_fashioned) wrote2008-07-05 05:37 pm
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How bad do you really want that Happy Meal?

"The American Family Association (AFA) launched the boycott yesterday because McDonald's joined the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce several months ago and placed an executive on the group's board of directors, in addition to donating to the chamber."

Are you sure you want to support gay marriage with your money? Because that is what McDonald's is doing with the profits that they make when you purchase their (not very tasty and not at all healthy) food. (and how come we can't have a Straight People Chamber of Commerce??)

No more iced coffees for me! ;-D

Note: I'm posting this for the benefit of those who would be grateful to learn about this boycott. If you're looking for a flame war, argument, or to push your pro-sodomite agenda, then please don't bother to comment. Comments will be screened and deleted if necessary.

(I'm also aware that McDonald's is not the only company guilty of this, so please don't start where-would-it-all-end-how-come-you're-not-boycotting-so-and-so-too. For the record, I still boycott Disney.)


The association asked McDonald's to remove itself from the chamber but the burger-maker declined, leading to the boycott. "We're saying that there are people who support AFA who don't appreciate their dollars from the hamburgers they bought being put into an organization that's going to fight against the values they believe in," Tim Wildmon, the association's president, said yesterday.

After meeting with Wildmon, the corporation refused to withdraw their support for the Chamber. "...In fact, McDonald's strongly told us that they are reaffirming their commitment".


One News Now article

Washington Post article

Boycott McDonald's

I for one say Happy Meals are not that great anyway; certainly not enough to keep me from denying the radical and liberals who enjoy forcing homosexuality down our throats my money. They don't care what we think because they think we're insignificant (and I heard an "expert" say as much on the news tonight!) and we keep giving them our money, anyway. I say let's show them!! If they don't want to listen to us, then they don't need to enjoy the music of our money that they dance to all the way to the bank, either.

[identity profile] librarianofdoom.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I have some counter-arguments that I'd like to discuss with you, but I'm not sure that spamming this post is necessarily the best way to go about it. If you don't object to a friendly debate, I'll be leaving you a message once I have some time to compose it (which may take a little while, as I'm at work.)

[identity profile] olde-fashioned.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay! Sure -- feel free to "spam" these comments if you like (I don't mind at all, honestly) or you can PM or email me. You know my email?

[identity profile] librarianofdoom.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I was just going to use the LJ message service. No need to give out your personal e-mail account unless you want to.

I figured I ought to move it off this post because I tend to run on a bit (I have a weakness for parenthetical asides and long, circuitous sentences), and don't want to take up pages and pages of room. If you'd prefer to keep the discussion open for other people to contribute, that's fine with me too.

[identity profile] olde-fashioned.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
That's fine. My email is listed in my profile and it's a Gmail account I set up for LJ, so it's open for everyone to see. ;-)

Either way, is fine with me. Whatever you're comfortable with. :-)