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Umm...yummy. A French Big Mac to go with those hot French commericials.

All we can do is shake our heads in stupified wonder. Yes, you read right. Remember that French McDonald’s commercial with the gay kid and his dad that was making the rounds on the Net like a couple of months ago? Yea, that commercial. We just found out it has a name: the “Come As You Are” ad.

So get this: Americans For Truth has launched a petition drive to have the ad pulled from French TV. Guess it’s not good enough to wreak havoc on the lives of gay folk stateside, the French should be entitled to enjoy some God fearing homophobia, too.  The group is aiming its wrath at McDonald’s Chief Operation Officer Don Thompson, the guy who was interviewed in March by the Chicago Tribune explaining the burger giants values and international advertising policies. Now what was that this “Christian” brother said in that interview that got queens all riled up?? Oh yes. Here’s the exact passage:

Mickey D's COO Don Thompson

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.

That explanation still wasn’t good enough for the bible thumpers over at Americans For Truth. Read the following:

TAKE ACTION: Write McDonald’s HERE, or call 1-800-244-6227; or write: McDonald’s Corporation, Attn: Jim Skinner and Don Thompson, 2111 McDonald’s Dr., Oak Brook, IL 60523.

Folks, perhaps you’ve seen the YouTube of this wicked McDonald’s  TV commercial in France, featuring a homosexual teenage boy in love with another member of his all-boys school. (His out-of-touch, hopelessly ‘heterosexist’ father still thinks his of son as a potential lady’s man.) Since I saw the ad a while ago, I have stopped eating at McDonalds — which has had the added bonus of helping to keep my already protruding gut from officially being officially designated as “super-sized.”

To a significant degree, McDonald’s with its high-calorie fare has always been in the business of promoting unhealthy lifestyles; now it has added unhealthy sexual lifestyles to the mix. To be sure, McDonald’s does not include promoting wholesomeness and time-tested Judeo-Christian morality among its “core values.” In a contorted defense of McDonald’s marketing practices, McDonald’s Chief Operation Officer Don Thompson told the Chicago Tribune in March that the French ad will not  be running in the USA. But the “Come as You Are” commercial has received received wide publicity and gotten over two million hits on YouTube, so that’s a small comfort to Americans who have no interest in promoting youth homosexuality when they buy a Big Mac, or a Happy Meal for their young children.

See, this is why when some gay folks say they don’t understand why gays in the military in the US can’t serve openly but they already do in other countries, we tend look at them lopsided. We’re not other countries. We’re the good ol’ US of A committed in destroying and restricting the freedoms of others, cause, well, that’s one of the things Americans do best.

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