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July 10, 2008

AFA Calls for McDonald’s Boycott

The American Family Association has called for a boycott of McDonald’s due to the fast-food chain’s affiliation with the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.

Tim Wildmon, president of the faith-based organization, told The Washington Post, “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.”

McDonald’s is newest on the list of businesses and corporations targeted by the AFA. According to the Post, the organization boycotted the Walt Disney Company for its “embrace of the homosexual lifestyle” and Target department stores for using the word “holiday” instead of “Christmas” in its advertising.

"Hatred has no place in our culture," McDonald's USA spokesman Bill Whitman told the Post. "That includes McDonald's, and we stand by and support our people to live and work in a society free of discrimination and harassment." (The Advocate)

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  • Name: Gail
    Date posted: 2008-08-11 12:35 PM
    Hometown: Clinton, MD

    Comment:

    Our loving God who created us and performed the first marriage said that homosexuals are an abomination to him. Remember, he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of their perversion!


  • Name: Glenn
    Date posted: 2008-07-20 1:51 PM
    Hometown: San Diego

    Comment:

    I think its intresting that McDonalds says, "Hatred has no place in our culture," McDonald's USA spokesman Bill Whitman told the Post. "That includes McDonald's, and we stand by and support our people to live and work in a society free of discrimination and harassment." Who is really being discriminated against here? There stripping away my rights to believe that being gay or the act of homosexuality is wrong by claiming we are discriminating against them by believing this. Yet by trying to force people to beleive its right is also a discrimination. By not allowing me to embrace my own beleifs and forcing a new set of beliefs upon me is where I think the true discrimination lies. I hope America wakes up to this before its too late. Thye have a great marketing strategy that is taking the focus off the real message.


  • Name: Richard
    Date posted: 2008-07-16 6:30 PM
    Hometown: Dallas

    Comment:

    My comment is a question. Why can't McDonald's just stay neutral and not support the GLTG groups that support such a controversial cause as gay marriage? Why can't the GLTG groups fight there own battles without the support of corporate sponsors?


  • Name: avgjoe
    Date posted: 2008-07-11 8:36 AM
    Hometown: Atlanta

    Comment:

    Thankfully, the majority of people still believe in traditional families being a husband, a wife and their children. It isn't a matter of hate and I'm sorry the homosexual's feel that way but I understand. It is a matter of what is natural, what is established tradition, and what is healthy. Every society that has embraced the anarchy of 'anything goes' has fallen. So if we want a future, as a matter of principle we need to oppose homosexual behavior. Tolerance is not a virtue though compassion is. There is no hate involved in having an opinion or taking a side in an argument. It is the behavior of militant homosexuals that draw hate as they try to expand and export their belief system to make them feel better.


  • Name: Michael
    Date posted: 2008-07-10 7:21 PM
    Hometown: San Jose

    Comment:

    Yet another dumb, ineffective boycott from these bigots. Nothing happened to Disney, nor Target, and they think something will happen to McDonalds? Self-important dopes. As for that self-hater, you have my pity. Life must be truly horrible for you. I wonder if anyones knows where ANTI D may be located.


  • Name: Mullet Hater
    Date posted: 2008-07-10 4:31 PM
    Hometown: Portland

    Comment:

    So you're gay... you hate gays... and you wish you weren't gay. Honey, you're more confused than the grammar and syntax of your comment... if you hate being gay so much, what in the world are you doing reading the Advocate? Guess you won't be having a Big Mac any time soon...


  • Name: James
    Date posted: 2008-07-10 9:45 AM
    Hometown: Des Moines

    Comment:

    I just sent McDonalds a quick email (via the links from AFA also) thanking them for their support. Makes me wonder if the comments on the AFA site are even real or if someone made all of them up - notice no names or anything with the quotes.


  • Name: ANTI GAY GAY GUY
    Date posted: 2008-07-10 1:55 AM
    Hometown: ANTI D

    Comment:

    IM GAY HATE GAYS AND WISH I WAS NOT GAY.....


  • Name: biguy22
    Date posted: 2008-07-09 4:52 PM
    Hometown: Portland

    Comment:

    Go to their website and read the comments people have posted. Awful!!


  • Name: Melanie O. Massengale
    Date posted: 2008-07-09 3:53 PM
    Hometown: Niwot

    Comment:

    I just used the easy navigation to MickeyD's that AFA thoughtfully provided to write a note thanking McD's for their courageous support. I then sent a note to AFA thanking THEM for their navigation tool, admonishing them meanwhile to learn from Jesus and McDonalds to fight for "the least of these," oppressed and despised minorities fighting for equal rights. I urge EVERYONE here to contact McDonald's and thank them for their policies and brave stand against bigotry.


  • Name: Harold
    Date posted: 2008-07-09 3:18 PM
    Hometown: Portland, ME

    Comment:

    Thank you McDonald's !! Let's eat a Big mac and drink a shake in their honor. The AFA needs to focus on more important issues affecting family life today.... domestic violence, child abuse, incest, financial disaster, hunger, homelessness..... In the name of a loving God, get a grip AFA !!!!


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