July 11, 2008

• Yay McDonalds!

  It’s so strange. I never thought I’d be on McDonald’s side in anything. But now I feel I can eat their fattening life destroying foods with a clear conscience.  I got the below very annoying email today.

  It’s funny how it’s always “promoting an agenda” whenever a corporation supports something you don’t believe in, but it’s “social responsibility” when said same corporation supports something you do believe in. The writers of this email clearly don’t believe in SSM, so of course to them McDonalds is overstepping its bounds and doing a heinous wrong. Bleh.

  Anyway, McDonalds can and should say whatever it feels like and donate money and lobby however they please. Really everybody else does it too so why not? At least this time they are making sense to me. And it’s at least in no clear way a profit motivated agenda, unlike most despicable lobbying that goes on.

  So Go McDonalds! I’m really totally, completely, 100% on their side.  Will the wonders of the world never cease?

  McDonald’s: those opposing SSM motivated by hate

  July 10, 2008

  Dear John,

  Throwing out any pretense of being neutral in the culture war,
  McDonald’s has taken up the rhetoric of gay activists, suggesting those
  who oppose same-sex marriage (SSM) are motivated by hate.

  AFA has asked for a boycott of McDonald’s restaurants because of the
  company’s promotion of the gay agenda. AFA asked McDonald’s to remain
  neutral in the culture war. McDonald’s refused.

  In response to the boycott, McDonald’s spokesman Bill
  Whitman suggested to the Washington Post that those who oppose SSM are
  motivated by hate, saying “…hatred has no place in our culture.”
  McDonald’s has decided to adopt the “hate” theme used by gay activist
  groups for years.

  Whitman went on to say, “We stand by and support our people to live
  and work in a society free of discrimination and harassment.” Mr.
  Whitman has intentionally avoided addressing the reason for the
  boycott. This boycott is not about hiring gays or how gay employees are
  treated. It is about McDonald’s choosing to put the full weight of their corporation behind promoting their agenda.

  McDonald’s donated $20,000 to the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber
  of Commerce in exchange for membership and a seat on the group’s board
  of directors. The NGLCC lobbies Congress in support of same-sex
  marriage.

  McDonald’s CEO Jim Skinner said the company will promote issues they
  approve. “Being a socially responsible organization is a fundamental
  part of who we are. We have an obligation to use our size and resources
  to make a difference in the world…and we do.

  
   

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