McDonald’s Calling Majority ‘Haters’

As the premiere sponsor of the 2007 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade (and likely again in ’08) McDonald’s has taken a position at the forefront of the gay marriage debate. Several national groups have decided to start a boycott of McDonald’s restaurants until the company moves to a neutral position in the political issue and stops spending its corporate dollars in support of same sex marriage.

So what was McDonald’s response?

In response to the boycott, McDonald’s spokesman Bill Whitman suggested to the Washington Post that those who oppose SSM are motivated by hate, saying “…hatred has no place in our culture.” McDonald’s has decided to adopt the “hate” theme used by gay activist groups for years.

Here’s the American Family Association’s site for the McDonald’s Boycott. Below you can see the important distinction in this effort.

What the boycott of McDonald’s IS NOT about:

• This boycott is not about hiring homosexuals.
• It is not about homosexuals eating at McDonald’s.
• It is not about how homosexual employees are treated.

What the boycott of McDonald’s IS about:
It is about McDonald’s, as a corporation, refusing to remain neutral in the culture wars. McDonald’s has chosen not to remain neutral but to give the full weight of their corporation to promoting the homosexual agenda, including homosexual marriage.

So here we are. If you’re part of the 58% of Americans who believes that marriage should remain officially defined as one man and one woman, then McDonald’s says you are motivated by hate.

How does that taste America? Let’s just say, I’m not lovin’ it.