Red-blooded, Coca Cola-drinking, slut-bangin’ American Ronald McDonald has finally spoken out against his swishy, Fanta-swilling Euro cousin, Pierre McDonald, and the message couldn’t be clearer: Keep your gay-ass Frenchy Burgers and homo advertisements out of our Christian country! (We’ll take the French Fries , but without the side of Muslim Astroglide, thx!)
Jesus-fearing American McD’s executive recently gave the following quote to the Chicago Tribune:
It is an example that markets, cultures are very different around the world. I’ve never shied away from the fact that I’m a Christian. I have my own personal beliefs, and I don’t impose those on anybody else. I’ve been in countries where the majority of the people in the country don’t believe in a deity, or they may be atheist. Or the majority of the country is Muslim. Or it may be the majority is much younger skewed. So, when you look at all these differences, it’s not that I’m to be the judge or the jury relative to right or wrong. Having said that, at McDonald’s, there are core values we stand for, and the world is getting much closer. So, we have a lot of conversations. We’re going to make some mistakes at times. [We talk] about things that may have an implication in one part of the world and may be the cultural norm in another part of the world. And those are things that, yes, we’re going to learn from. But you’re right, that commercial won’t show in the United States.
OH! Is this what they teach you at Hamburger University? Perhaps Kelly Killoren Bensimon is a professor of English there– because I do not understand two sentences of whatever the f*ck this person is talking about. Except the part where he’s a Christian (like we care?) and there’s no f*cking way that McDonald’s is going to air some homosexual advertisement within the star spangled borders of These Here United Str8s of America!
(Considering that Early Bird was banished from the McDonaldland menagerie for being way too appealing to burgeoning sissies, I can’t say I’m surprised.)
[Chicago Tribune via Gawker]
What bothers me more than anything is the continuous insinuations by these geniuses that “Christian = anti-gay.” There are many strains of Christianity, as there are Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and many other faiths.
There are many Christians who recognize that the context in which scripture was written negates many of its passages (as well as the fact that it was written by biased, imperfect human beings). There are also Christians who recognize that it’s probably a good idea to take the Bible’s underlying themes of love, justice, and liberation over isolated passages–and these themes conflict with any anti-gay position “Christians” such as this obviously brilliant McD’s exec take.
Oh, and apparently the days of “the customer is always right” are gone. Forget the fact that billions of dollars are spent by LGBT individuals at McDonald’s–what one McD’s exec thinks is what they should base their advertisements on.
Give me a break!