McDonald’s Under Fire for Upholding the Rights of Others

Christians in California are boycotting local McDonald’s stores because the fast food giant is giving “the full weight of their corporation to promoting the homosexual agenda, including homosexual marriage” as quoted by the American Family Association.

McDonald’s gave a grant of $20,000 to the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and placed one of its executives on the board of that group. Further it has a plaque up at local restaurants and McDonald’s logo is on the NGLCC site as a sponsor and ally.

Obviously Christians are blowing this out of proportion as can easily be seen by the quote above. By the way AFA, 20k and a token seat on the board of the NGLCC is not the “full weight” of McDonald’s power. Full weight would be buying all your churches and turning them into gay bars.

McDonald’s did the right thing, not something that can be said about many corporate giants. They didn’t donate much money and a seat on the board for a high ranking executive of an international giant is not really a big move. But your name is attached to something that is “controversial” (for reasons beyond me) and that is a good thing.

I still don’t get why Christians are so up in arms about this, your kids are going to have to learn about gay people sooner or later… the kids is the only argument I’ve heard that garners any worthy attention, and it only does because people don’t seem to get that keeping your kids in cocoon does not make them be good people. More likely it predisposes them to do a lot of things you don’t want them to as soon as they’re out from under your control. But I digress.

Marriage is one of those issues that has only a personal answer. If you say it’s for a man and woman then go marry a member of the opposite sex, if you say it’s for anyone, then marry whoever you want. But no one, NO ONE, has the right to define marriage for the masses.

Gay and lesbian couples who love one another are going to live together, shop together, go to movies and restaurants together, be together. They deserve the same tax breaks and other benefits a married couple has particularly if they are tax paying citizens. There is no reason for this to be an issue at all.

This is just another example of intolerance by Christians, agree with us or we’ll hurt you because we’re right because this book says so.