McDonald's Should Quit 'Gay' Commerce Chamber, Family Group Says

[Shana A]

McDonald's Should Quit 'Gay' Commerce Chamber, Family Group Says
By Josiah Ryan
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
April 11, 2008

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200804/CUL20080411a.html 🔗

(CNSNews.com) - Richard Ellis, vice president of communications for McDonald's USA, recently joined the board of directors of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) to promote the business of McDonald's to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community - a step the conservative American Family Association (AFA) opposes.

The AFA wants Ellis to resign from the board and for McDonald's to withdraw as a "corporate partner" from the NGLCC, in part because they think the organization will lobby for homosexual marriage.

[tekla]

Well I guess not everyone deserves a break today.  This tactic never works (except to generate PR, which I think is the goal).  McD's carefully thought all that out a head of time and went ahead, knowing that not much would happen.

[Pysgod]

If anything AFA should protest the food. McDonald's food is nasty.

[tekla]

I wasn't aware that MickyDees was some sort of big gay hangout, I thought they went to better places.

[Pysgod]

So did I. I have yet to see anybody who is gay hang out in a place with bad food. Certainly none of the gay people I've ever known have. They've always had better taste.

[joannatsf]

How could MickyDees reject the gay community after all those jingles that Bary Manilow wrote for them!  "They're good enough to shill for us but that's as far as it goes". 

He writes the songs...jingles too!