This provides me an opportunity to share my correspondence with McDonalds on this issue. My wife and I have quit spending money at this restaurant.
My first email:
Recent news about Richard Ellis joining the board of the NGLCC and McDonalds sponsoring this outfit are most discouraging. Its one thing, acceptable for a pagan company, to market to any niche of the market - including homosexuals. But by actively sponsoring deviant behavior and those who seek to normalize it, McDonalds is helping destroy the very family oriented culture it depends on for its growth and future success.
I will give up the best french fries and spend my fast food money elsewhere as long as this destructive behavior by McDonalds stops.
Ronald’s reply:
Thank you for contacting McDonald’s. We appreciate this opportunity to share information regarding our commitment to our employees as well as the communities that we serve.
First, it’s important to note that McDonald’s respects and values people. Diversity and inclusion are business imperatives and integral components of McDonald’s culture. We believe that by embracing our differences we are better enabled to value and respect other people as well as understand differing points of view.
We have a long and proud history of leadership in these areas. We continually strive to maintain an environment in which everyone feels valued and accepted. We encourage employees to recognize and appreciate the contributions that all diverse groups and individuals bring to the McDonald’s system.
Specifically regarding the AFA Action Alert Newsletter, here are the facts:
- All references to comments from Jim Skinner, McDonald’s CEO in the Action Alert Newsletter are complete fabrications.
- While one McDonald’s employee is affiliated with the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), McDonald’s is in no way “aggressively promoting the homosexual agenda” as suggested in the newsletter.
- The NGLCC is a non-profit organization dedicated to support economic opportunities for the gay and lesbian business community.
- In addition to McDonald’s, there are numerous other Fortune 500 companies that serve as corporate partners with NGLCC.
- McDonald’s commitment to diversity and inclusion is a business driver and part of our culture.
- At McDonald’s, we treat all our employees and customers with dignity and respect regardless of their ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or any other differentiating factor.
Thank you for sharing your personal point of view on this topic with us.
Jennifer
McDonald’s Customer Response Center
ref#:5022148
My response (19 April - no reply from Ronald):
It’s obvious you didn’t read my email. I did not mention McDonald’s CEO or the AFA. I pulled my information from the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce web site, here http://www.nglcc.org/ht/d/sp/i/213/pid/213 and here http://www.nglcc.org/ht/d/sp/i/14694/pid/14694
As I initially stated - I am not opposed to human beings being treated as less than human, regardless of their beliefs. I do, however, take exception to “family friendly businesses” actively endorsing and promoting sub-cultures that are destructive of the family and the very business itself. It matters not to me how large the group of businesses doing this is - that does not make it right or reasonable for any one of them.
As long as McDonald’s actively promotes such things as the homosexual agenda, I will not provide my money to it in exchange for it’s products. Market products to whatever niche you see the need to. But do not promote wicked lifestyles that will further erode the culture of this country.
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"As I initially stated - I am not opposed to human beings being treated as less than human, regardless of their beliefs."
I'm assuming some typing errors in here...
Hmmm...
I wonder what the emirical evidence is for the benefits of “diversity” and “inclusion”.
It’s fine to listen to various opinions, but it’s also necessary to judge whether those viewpoints are beneficial or destructive...
The left has succeeded in changing the most oft quoted bible verse from John 3:16 to “Judge Not [leaving out the rest of the verse that says to judge with clear vision]”.
I wonder if you got no response to your second email, as your wording (and I just copied and pasted from the thread header) specifically states that you are OK with treating people as less than human based on their religious beliefs. I'm sure you didn't mean it that way (a stray 'not' got in there).