Peter LaBarbera at Americans for Truth About Homosexuality is often a bit more strident and shrill than I like (even though I am often in agreement with him), but I got a good laugh out of his recent call to join the American Family Association's boycott of McDonald's because one of their vice presidents is serving on the board of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce:
I've talked to many pro-family people who already have been boycotting McDonald's for weeks. The idea has obviously caught on because it's an easy step to take for the many Americans who are sick and tired of rewarding and subsidizing corporations that promote homosexuality.
On a personal level, from the perspective of a pudgy family man who's scarfed down, say, about 100 too many Quarter-pounder-with-cheese and Big Mac meals in my lifetime, McDonald is an ideal boycott target. Unless you're supremely loyal to McDonald's brand of fattening, greasy burgers, McChicken sandwiches and fries, etc., it's pretty easy to drive to another fast-food joint or — better for your body — substitute healthy food instead.
Come to think of it, this is one of the few protests against unhealthy lifestyles that can lead you to live a … healthier lifestyle. Two birds with one stone.
This is easy for me. The only item on the McDonald's menu that really qualifies as awesomely tasty to me is the Filet-O-Fish sandwich (the only form of fish that I can eat since a traumatic experience with a fish when I was about five years old).
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