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It looks like McDonalds has company in the sights of one of the several homophobic groups preaching intolerance in the US. This time the group Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (somehow I doubt much truth is coming from these folks) is mad as hell at Hallmark for having the audacity to produce cards celebrating gay [...]
One of the few things that I don’t have to worry about but for some reason the Wall Street Journal wonders aloud whether Barack Obama is too skinny to be President.
“Listen, I’m skinny but I’m tough,” Sen. Obama said.
But in a nation in which 66% of the voting-age population is overweight and 32% is obese, [...]
I know that saying that the AFA (American Family Association) isn’t homophobic is like saying the Ku Klux Klan isn’t racist but their stated reasons about what is and isn’t behind their latest boycott attempt of McDonald’s is almost comical.
From the AFA’s McDonald’s boycott site:
What the boycott of McDonald’s IS about
It is about McDonald’s, as [...]
It appears the American Family Association has no problem with the unhealthy food being served up by the world’s biggest burger chain but when one of McDonald’s management members decides to serve on the board of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), watch out!
It is about McDonald’s, as a corporation, refusing to [...]
And I am not talking about “gay”.
Does the American Family Association have an homophobic slant? Just ask Tyson Gay, he got more than he probably bargained for when an AP story documenting his semi-final track and field win got caught up in the AFA’s “homo-filter”. The AFA apparently changes the more politically correct word “gay” [...]