Ethics

OMG! Mayor McCheese is Gay!

By Ed Brayton

And Ronald McDonald is going to rape your kids! Okay, that's a bit of hyperbole, but only a bit. The Worldnutdaily is throwing a fit because McDonald's has one of their executives on the board of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. That means they've "signed on to the gay agenda" (cue the creepy music here). No doubt a boycott will be coming soon. But as I wrote several months ago, it's damn near impossible to avoid the "gay agenda" these days. If someone wants to avoid supporting a company that supports gay rights, they're pretty much gonna have to stay in their house and eat home grown food and never go anywhere. Just look at the HRC's Corporate Equality Index, which lists 195 companies with perfect scores and hundreds more with very high scores in terms of their support for gay rights. I'll repost below the fold all the things one can't do if they want to avoid the dreaded "gay agenda."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 01, 2008 (boomark / email).