American Family Association Targets McDonald's

The disingenuous liars and windbags over at American Family Association - yes, I do mean you Don Wildmon - who knowingly promote "ex-gay" fraud, Michael Johnston, are now out to harrass McDonald's because a senior McDonald's executive has joined the Board of Directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce ("NGLCC"), of which HRBOR is an affiliate. Since McDonald's is in the business of making money, what rational businessowner would blow off an $800 billion market segment?

Wildmon and his crowd have to be among the worse false Christians - after perhaps Fred Phelps and clan - because rather than teach love of God and love of neighbor, AFA specializes in teaching hate against gays, immigrants, Muslims, etc. In short anyone who does not subscribe to AFA's hate based Christianist agenda. AFA's ongoing marketing of DVD's featuring Michael Johnston is a per se example of how AFA cares nothing about the truth. Hopefully, McDonald's will tell Wildmon to go to Hell. In my opinion, God already has a special place in Hell reserved for Mr. Wildmon. Here are highlights from PageOneQ (http://pageoneq.com/news/2008/American_Family_Association_takes_aim_at_McD_0403.html):

Upset over the election of a senior executive of the fast food giant McDonald's to the Board of Directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, Donald Wildmon of the American Family Association is calling upon his organization's members to take action. Wildmon is asking his ranks to call their local McDonald's franchises to ask why the company is "using its size and resources to promote the homosexual agenda" and to use the AFA's online action center to send company Chairman Andrew J. McKenna an email.

Last month, Richard Ellis, VP of Communications for McDonald's USA, was elected to the NGLCC board and said he was "thrilled to join the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce team and ready to get to work." McDonald's is also listed as a Chamber corporate partner.

Brent Childers, executive director of Faith In America, an organization devoted to fighting religious based bigotry and homophobia, said that "for the American Family Association to cast dispersion on McDonald's efforts to promote businesses owned by gay and lesbian citizens under a banner of so-called religious values, is perhaps the most hypocritical position yet by this group and it is a disgrace to all the genuine efforts on the part of business who truly value their employees and their families."