Boycott McDonalds

[susananne]

I don’t understand. Unless you grow your own food, sew your own clothes(which would entail making your own fabric), refine your own oil, cut down and make your own lumber, build your own homes, make your own cars,- oh my the list goes on- do you realize how many sinners you are giving your money to everyday? Who made the computer on which you are typing ? Can you guarantee that that company or the owner hasn’t personally given to an organization of which you disapprove?

 

[takers]

There are a couple more threads on this in Social Justice and Secular News.

My family is participating in the boycott, and I have written to let McDonald’s know why. This morning I received a form letter email informing me of McDonald’s desire to encourage “diversity.” If contributing to homosexuality is “diverse,” then why not support pedophilia, necrophilia, and bestiality?

I do not approve of, nor support homosexuality, but trying to tie this to pedophilia, necrophilia, and bestiality is going to the extreme. One deals with two consenting adults making a decision that I don’t happen to agree with. The other three options deal with one person forcing themselves onto another with no regard for the others’ feelings. Two separate issues.

 

[surfinpure]

I do not approve of, nor support homosexuality, but trying to tie this to pedophilia, necrophilia, and bestiality is going to the extreme. One deals with two consenting adults making a decision that I don’t happen to agree with. The other three options deal with one person forcing themselves onto another with no regard for the others’ feelings. Two separate issues.

I don’t make such a fine distinction, and in any case, the point is that McDonald’s is supporting perversity in the name of “diversity.”

 

[BlestOne]

Today was my first McDonald’s free day in a very long time… I went grocery shopping during lunch and bought fruits to munch on and stuff for dinner… I know it is good for me but convenience is good too when you work 2 jobs and have a family. On the good side… We are having teriaki chicken on the grill tonight and a salad sounds so good right now… I have worked 59 out of the last 77 hours… I am beat!!!

 

[jwashu]

Personally I believe Donald Wildman, head of the AFA, has done a great deal to stifle the growth of Christanity over the past 30 years rather than help it. From the scene of him flogging Jesus on the front page of the LA Times to boycott Last Temptation to his continual, and very often, misinterpretations of the Bible that he spews out, now into cyber space. We have the right interpretations, don’t be mislead.

That being said I too get these emails, usually just to see what he is up too and how he is turning more young people away from my beliefs through what is very often hate speech. Some I even respond to.

What the AFA and Mr. Wildman aren’t telling you, JUST like they didn’t tell you in regard to Ford or Walt Disney. Is that most of these companies “support” the “gay” agenda by… TA DA! Giving partners Health Insurance.

Yup that’s right, many of these companies he wants you to boycott are doing nothing more than providing Health Care to “partners” of employees… something frankly I believe our Government should be doing but that is another issue.

So lets take a step back… What would Christ do in this situation?

Would He say that because a person sins, we all sin right? that we should do everything we can to make sure that if they get sick they have no one to care for them?

I thought Christ told us to take care of the sick and the poor? I don’t remember anywhere in the NT Him putting a caviat on that that only upstanding Christians diserved to be cared for?

In fact didn’t He spend his time with the outcasts of society?

I’ll admit my opinion of Mr. Wildman is quite low because I know many many 20 somethings who will probably never find God because all they have heard from people like him is hate and anger rather than love and compassion.

So before you stop eating at Mc Donalds because the AFA told you too… find out what is realy going on. If you read those articles they never REALLY give you the reason because if they did and you read the Bible… it just might not make a lot of sense and they definitely want your tax deductable contribution.

I send mine to CA instead!

Joe

PS - Blestone, my post is somewhat scarcastic but I feel very strongly about it. It’s meant for the general audence of this thread and not directed to you as the OP. I do commend you for all your hard work and I know that He will bless you. I’m sure the Chicken will be great tonight. Not eating at Mc Donalds that often is probably a good thing. I just didn’t want the AFA to be people’s only reason for doing so

 

[surfinpure]

Ford went out of their way to sponsor the “Gay Games” in Chicago and advertise on the gay TV channel and in gay publications.

Walt Disney holds “gay day” in their amusement parks.

 

[thomfra]

There are a couple more threads on this in Social Justice and Secular News.

My family is participating in the boycott, and I have written to let McDonald’s know why. This morning I received a form letter email informing me of McDonald’s desire to encourage “diversity.” If contributing to homosexuality is “diverse,” then why not support pedophilia, necrophilia, and bestiality?

You can’t compare pedophilia with homosexuality. That just shows your total ignorance. I hope your kids don’t grow up with these beliefs.

 

[sanctamaria17]

While I don’t go out of my way to support homosexuality either, it’s not the same as pedophilia or anything else. It’s two consenting adults who are the same sex.

I have a lot of gay friends and I’ve seen how they interact with their partners. It’s like how I’d interact with a boyfriend or w/e. I don’t agree with their actions (and they know I don’t agree), but I think it’s a little far fetched to put them in the same league as people who abuse children, animals, or the dead.

 

[thomfra]

While I don’t go out of my way to support homosexuality either, it’s not the same as pedophilia or anything else. It’s two consenting adults who are the same sex.

I have a lot of gay friends and I’ve seen how they interact with their partners. It’s like how I’d interact with a boyfriend or w/e. I don’t agree with their actions (and they know I don’t agree), but I think it’s a little far fetched to put them in the same league as people who abuse children, animals, or the dead.

I’ve brought this up before actually. I’m not gay. But I am really quite horrified when I read these kind of statements. Makes me almost depressed.

Basically people constantly make these “comparisions” between homosexuals and pedofiles as a way of degrading homosexuals as people. It come’s up time and time again.

 

[gettingthere]

I’ve brought this up before actually. I’m not gay. But I am really quite horrified when I read these kind of statements. Makes me almost depressed.

Basically people constantly make these “comparisions” between homosexuals and pedofiles as a way of degrading homosexuals as people. It come’s up time and time again.

I agree, it’s really quite unnerving. There’s a big difference between the two. You can’t compare these things.

It frustrates me to no end how some people seem to be so hateful. I thought that as Christians we are supposed to love people, even sinners. I know this doesn’t mean supporting gay marriage, but comparing homosexuality to pedophiles? It just makes me sick.

 

[thomfra]

Why would McDonalds put their money into a gay lobbying group anyway? I don’t see many gay men eating in McDonalds, it’s far more of a budget families-with-kids kinda place.

Ha!

I have to write this down. “Gay men don’t eat at McDonalds”…priceless.

You should get a prize for this statement. Maybe that could be your campaign slogan! he he.

 

[Magicsilence]

Ha!

I have to write this down. “Gay men don’t eat at McDonalds”…priceless.

You should get a prize for this statement. Maybe that could be your campaign slogan! he he.

Did you read exactly what he wrote? Here it is again:

I don’t see many gay men eating in McDonalds, it’s far more of a budget families-with-kids kinda place.

He didn’t use any absolutes.

You can’t compare pedophilia with homosexuality. That just shows your total ignorance. I hope your kids don’t grow up with these beliefs.

Of course you can compare the two. Comparisons are still legal in this part of the world

They are both perversions of the marital embrace, and believe it or not, both were once accepted by ‘society’ at large:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty_in_Ancient_Greece

 

[Annika]

No, one is “a perversion of the marital embrace”. The other isn’t even about sex. Rape is about power and control. And there is no such thing as consensual pedophilia.

Pederasty in Ancient Greece had more to do with a hatred of women than a desire for young boys. Women were seen as so inferior they weren’t “worthy” sexual partners.

 

[thomfra]

Did you read exactly what he wrote? Here it is again:

He didn’t use any absolutes.]

The stupidity of the statement lies in the fact that you wouldn’t have a clue how many people in McDonalds are gay. How would you tell? Do they have to be tounge kissing while they eat their hamburgers? Not to mention the fact that Gay people have exactly the same tastes in food as hetrosexual people. Proportionally there could even be MORE gay people who eat at McDonalds than family people. Not that I would ever inflict that food on my family. But I digress.

Of course you can compare the two. Comparisons are still legal in this part of the world

They are both perversions of the marital embrace, and believe it or not, both were once accepted by ‘society’ at large:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty_in_Ancient_Greece

So were stonings, hangings, rasism, and other things at one point acceptable. The point which you seem unable to see (or refuse to see) is that the homosexual behavior is between two consenting adults. Your logic is just so warped it astounds me.

 

[estesbob]

So were stonings, hangings, rasism, and other things at one point acceptable. The point which you seem unable to see (or refuse to see) is that the homosexual behavior is between two consenting adults. Your logic is just so warped it astounds me.

And is deviant sexual behavior that is a grevious sin that should never be accpepted, condoned nor the greviousness of the sin minimized by Catholics.

 

[surfinpure]

You can’t compare pedophilia with homosexuality. That just shows your total ignorance. I hope your kids don’t grow up with these beliefs.

Forgive me for not blushing in shame at the rebuke. You can compare the two. The one being more perverse than the other doesn’t negate the fact that they are both grave sexual perversions. (Is a little tularemia better than a lot of tularemia? Or are they both diseases that will kill you?) Couple that with the fact that the majority of pedophilia is committed by homosexual men, and what do you have? A correlation.

And I’m far from the first person to draw such comparisons. Now foam at the mouth if you like. You clearly missed my point, which I will restate only one more time: If McDonald’s is going to give their support to perversion, why are they drawing the line at homosexuality? I predict it won’t be long before greater perversions, such as the ones I mentioned, are being defended by the PC public. Has anyone heard of NAMBLA? The North American Man Boy Love Association? Anybody recall a recent boycott of Amazon.com, for selling their book that encourages men to have “romantic” relationships with young boys?

How long before McDonald’s puts an executive on the NAMBLA board? Will anybody think it’s worthy to boycott then?

 

[Norseman82]

I don’t understand. Unless you grow your own food, sew your own clothes(which would entail making your own fabric), refine your own oil, cut down and make your own lumber, build your own homes, make your own cars,- oh my the list goes on- do you realize how many sinners you are giving your money to everyday? Who made the computer on which you are typing ? Can you guarantee that that company or the owner hasn’t personally given to an organization of which you disapprove?

I think everyone needs to reflect on the above. It’s getting to the point where we if we are going to boycott companies that offer some support to an immoral cause, we are going to have to boycott everyone and do the above (grow our own food, build our own cars, refine our own oil, etc.).

 

[Ted_in_Charlott]

Ha!

I have to write this down. “Gay men don’t eat at McDonalds”…priceless.

You should get a prize for this statement. Maybe that could be your campaign slogan! he he.

I was thinking along the same lines. Gay men seem to be more into fitness and nutrition than the dead flesh McDeath sells.

Looks like someone needs to do a documentary on McDonalds similiar to “Super Size Me”. Let’s call it “Jesus hates McDonalds”.

 

[rpp]

Large corporations should remain neutral on morally controversial issues like abortion and the homosexual lifestyle. Mine does.

When they do not, they endanger their own employees and investors. That is what McDonald’s is doing. They were warned that a boycott may be organized and, unlike other corporations, like Wal-Mart, they dug in.

Very bad corporate guidance.

 

[surfinpure]

Large corporations should remain neutral on morally controversial issues like abortion and the homosexual lifestyle. Mine does.

When they do not, they endanger their own employees and investors. That is what McDonald’s is doing. They were warned that a boycott may be organized and, unlike other corporations, like Wal-Mart, they dug in.

Very bad corporate guidance.

I agree completely. And very irresponsible treatment of their employees.