Boycott Against McDonalds

I have heard this same exact charge about other companies or groups and it turned out to be false, so I would definitely check it out further before believing they did anything specific to support gays and lesbian groups.

I have to say, though, gays and lesbians have families too, so...if McDonalds is a family-oriented restaurant, it's not too far-fetched for them to show some measure of support for gay and lesbian families.

I don't think they're family-oriented as much as they just cater to what people in any given area want.

I know and have heard about those false stories as well, but when AFA calls for a boycott it's a bit different. 

The head of the AFA met with the head of McDonalds and asked if they would stay neutral in this, what they are calling, a culture war.  McDonald's refused and Donald Wildmon, the head and founder of AFA is calling for the boycott. 

What the boycott is NOT about:

it's not about hiring homosexuals

it's not about homosexuals eating at McDonalds

it's not about how homosexuals are being treated at McDonalds

What this boycott is about is McDonald's, as a corporation, refusing to remain neutral.  Not only have they refused to be neutral they have given the full weight of their corporation to promoting the homosexual agenda including homosexual marriage. 

It will be interesting how this all plays out. 

 

 

 

Oh for dumb.  Who cares about the sexual orientation of the people who makes your fries?  Sexual orientation is NOT contaigous. 

So what if they in some way shape or form accept people for who they are, not who shares their bed. 

I wasn't planning on it, but now I'll go to McDs for lunch!  Good on them for doing what they need to do to stay in business and make money.   Leave the neutrality for the swiss.  This won't hurt them even a little bit.

People need to just leave the bedroom to the bedroom and get over it. 

Have a great day!

Actually, it was the AFA calling for a similar boycott of another company due to some alleged contribution to the aforementioned chamber of commerce. It turned out to be false.

I wouldn't agree with the boycott regardless, but I would love to know if the root allegation is even correct. Do you have anything on that (not from AFA, but from an independent source)?

TW, can you tell me what company was boycotted by AFA that was false? 

did you even read what I wrote?  It has nothing to do with hiring homosexuals.  So the answer is no one. 

sigh*  that's not the issue. You totally don't understand the issue.  Nobody cares what goes on in the bedroom.  They can do whatever they wish, nobody much cares about that. 

 

 

 

The issue is someone is yet again upset over what someone ELSE is doing in their bedroom.  Period.  Get over it. 

My sentiments exactly. How DARE some people want the same rights as everyone else, to do as they wish with their lives?

1) It's none of our business whether someone else is homosexual or not

2) If two people who happen to be homosexual want to get married, good on' em. We have no right to stick our nose in their business and say they can't get married.

3) As with most things related to the perversion that the church has become, this boils down to control. The church will attempt to maintain control through fear and intimidation (if you don't shape up you'll go to hell you know) and boogeyman stories about the evil "gay agenda" that's somehow going to ruin civilization. One of the best ways to maintain control is to stick your nose into other people's bedrooms. I remember one church that I attended as a child passed judgement on couples that they believed had committed adultery by kicking the 'offending' party out and ostracizing them from the community. This applies not just to gay marriage, but also to the issue of abortion, evolution, single parent families, 'subversive' music and so on. This is also why they killed Gallileo- because he promoted an idea that was completely out of the realm of the control of the church!

The more things change the more they stay the same. Today, the boogeyman is homosexuals. Tomorrow it could be you!

I hate to say this KFC but regardless what you wanna believe or what the AFA or even McDonalds says. It's obvious this has to do with the fact that these people are gay or lesbian and while this particular situation is not about gay or lesbian people working or eating at McDonalds, it's on eof many steps towards that kind of goal. We all know that when you can't defeat an entire group, you take take them apart 1 by 1, hit one issue with they gay/lesbian community and it opens the doors to more posibilities.

I am not for this kind of boycott because regardless of my beliefs, we are always told God loves us all. So if McDonalds wants to waste their money on things they believe in, so be it. The fact that fast food can be bad for you does not stop people from eating there yet a gay/lesbian issue should? I think many people in this country have their priorities all backwards.

I'd be more worried with McDonalds using unpractical methods to sell food and make money.

I haven't eaten there in years. I find it cheaper than even the cheapest places (I'm a Wendy's fan).

The boycott would be called easier for other reasons. *coughsupersizemecough*

I'll be bold and say that your compassion is largely non existent.  Everytime I read a supposed Christian arguing against homosexuality it reminds me of the lack of compassion in the modern industrialized Christian thought.  It's amazing how the most important message Christ gave us was for compassion and its the first thing people forget when ranting about existential superiority in his name.  Even if being gay is driven by will, do we forget that the first ability God granted us with was free will.  Christ's teaching where aimed at living and let live.  You can preach and say what you want, but it is YOUR interpretation of the bible that allows you to be intolerant.  I prefer to follow Christ's actual teachings of understanding, compassion, and helping others.  Those serve me better than filling my life with disgust, negativity, judgemental behaviour, and overall holier than thou mantras.  I agree with CharlesCS that I'd worry more about food and money from McDonald's than their religious philosophy, and furthermore if I see you in a Call of Duty 4 server my good friend I wont' shoot you, lol.

I would venture to say that the "boogeymen" of the future that Artysim refers to will be the theists, just for this type of attitude: to jump all over anyone and anything that dare to disagree with their beliefs. 

Be careful of the bile you throw, churchgoers.  What's going around may come back around.  I think there's a golden rule in there somewhere.

psychx, I'll rebuke you for KFC. There is a thing in business where one should not endorse a political opinion, unless it is the goal of the business, or one of its blatantly stated goals.

KFC has never attacked homosexuals, merely stated that she believes that homosexuality is a sin. If you don't agree with her, you don't have to attack her.

xtine, I'd notice the blatant irony of this statement. The Left has been attacking every basis or morality for years. It has come around, also. Columbine. Virginia Tech. Northern Illinois University. The shootings at Colorado YWAM and New Life, at churches.

Religion never condemns the sinner, merely the sin, but the sinner cannot survive with his sin.

 

Corporations have a right, if not an obligation to behave as good citizens.  Why remain neutral in the face of discrimination? The so-called "homosexual agenda" is simply about the rights of individuals to live out their own sexual preferences and be accorded the same rights as everyone else.

Be well.

It is ironic, yes.

Oh and

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

 

Yep, Christianity never condemns the sinner. Did you not read my explanation? Look at it this way. Sin is like a block of cement. As people, we are standing on the edge of a diving board. We need to either get rid of our sin, or have someone (Jesus) help us get rid of it. Otherwise, when we dive off (die), we fall and sink, and we won't be saved, because cement is too heavy. When Jesus helps us, we can leave the cement behind, and enjoy the swimming pool.

Why exactly should a corporation remain neutral? Corporations are made up of people and they have as much right to a social opinion as anyone else. Seeing as there are a disproportionate number of gay people working in the food service industry this makes perfect sense to me for them to support a cause that affects them directly. Seems like a smart move on the part of McDonald's to me. Why alienate a large percentage of your employees when you could instead show support for them?

I've worked in restaurants and know first hand that a large percentage of the people working in those were gay. I also know they were good, decent human beings and I enjoyed working with them.

If a group of people with an agenda want to boycott a certain chain of businesses, I say they should go for it. They have every right to do so and I support that right. I also support the right of the people in those businesses to have their own social opinions and to support those opinions however they see fit.

The AFA is a 501c3 non-profit organization, which is in fact a type of corporation. It's pretty hypocritical of them to demand that another corporation remain neutral on social issues when they are all about social issues. I'm willing to bet there are plenty of other corporations who donate to them that they aren't demanding remain neutral. If that's their stance they should refuse any donations from any corporation. But I'm sure they won't do that. See the hypocrisy here?

Let them boycott. Maybe their kids won't be so fat.

Hey, at least we'll be thin.

Erathoniel,


"there is a thing in business where one should not endorse a political opinion, unless it is a goal of the business, or one of its blatantly state goals."  You're naivete is overwhelming my otherwise adept policy not to engage someone who clearly is out of the loop.  If your very simplistic idea about this THING in business were true, K Street would be lined with hot dog stands and not lobbyists.  What THING in business???!!  Is it an epithet, moral etiquette?  Is it a slogan, a creed, an abridging?  is it an oath, a decree, a social policy?  What THING are you talking about?!  You sound like a novice trying to explain business.  It's as if you're not thinking, immediately going to your predetermined arguments, the left this and the left that.  Your indoctrination is so stifling you fail to properly process my posits.  And like i said your "holier than thou" mantras propel you to regurgitate these self professed judgements all the while failing to see the irony in your own arguments.  the indoctrination runs so deep that you find my assertion that compassion should come first as an afterthought hence you focus on the homosexuality issue.  My issue was moreso against judgemental behaviour in general, but your so indignant and aghast that I could argue against intolerance toward homosexuality you process nothing else.

Oi and these political and religious leaders know the power of persuasion lies not in logical arguments, but in emotional conflagarations, as they are steeped in political win after political win.  The lowest common denominator i.e., you and me suffer because of we fail to realize where the real power lies.  Furthermore, you see my points as an attack and that is YOUR interpretation, I see it as an open call to a better understanding on KFC's part.  The minute I take an opposing stance, whatever it may be, you begin to cycle through your predetermined quips, the left did this the left did that, the sinner is not condemned blah blah blah, another carbon copy argument.  Think for yourself man.

KFC is understanding. You are the one who counts the condemnation of an action as the condemnation of the individual. Are drunkards evil? No. They made a mistake at one point, and fell into drunkenness.

What you call intolerance I count conscience.

"what i call this you call that"  going right back to your holier than thou, bully pulpit standpoints.  Your supposed intolerance is just one single issue I took with your comment and not the major issue either. 

My biggest "concerns" where with

1. What THING in business are you speaking of?  It's not regulatory or policy you speak of since they have not broken any laws.

2. Your thinking is obtuse and programmed, a "regurgitation" of what you've heard.

3. Where is your compassion, live and let live? 

BTW I didn't count condemnation of an action as a condemnation of an individual that was xtine.  That only further confirms my point that you are not PROCESSING what arguments are pointed in your direction.  You automatically, like a programmed robot, begin cycling through your already predetermined arguments.  Try and THINK man!

Sheer nonsense. Businesses have been contributing to political parties, candidates, and organizations since the beginning of time.

so I'm condemning kfc's condemning mcdonald's support of a gay/lesbian support group?

Ok, I can live with that.

 

Masons right and I might say one last thing to you before I stop looking at this thread.

Erathoniel, what you call YOUR conscience I call ignorance.

KFC develop your own way of thinking and stop being such a programmed sheep.

Both of you stop living in your little worlds and maybe do some reading and some fact searching, maybe soul searching because your little world is sheltered by 12 foot thick concrete walls away from reality. 

Bullcrap. It's a "regurgitation" of what I've read and meditated on, and come to a conclusion on.

What is the compassion in allowing the blind to stumble?

Did I put an @psychx before the statement? If so, then I forgot to push the enter button before. Else, I should be known for writing wide-angle responses.

I call it biblical.

What does this have to do with opinions, as opposed to very practical protection from nuclear and conventional bombing?

And it's a total waste.

That may be your opinion, but what about the businesses that contribute to the AFA? Is that also a total waste in your opinion? Or is it only a total waste when it's for something with which you disagree? They are a political lobby group, or didn't you know that?