Ronald McDonald is Gay

At least that's what the American Family Association would have you believe in this latest entry from the department of stupid boycotts:

The American Family Association, whose earlier boycott of Ford Motor Co. over its promotion of homosexuality was dropped after company sales fell 8 percent per month for two years, now is asking consumers to stop buying Big Macs and Happy Meals at McDonald's.

In a brief announcement today, AFA, whose constituents number in the millions, said it is "asking its supporters to boycott the restaurant chain."

"This boycott is not about hiring homosexuals, or homosexuals eating at McDonald's or how homosexual employees are treated. It is about McDonald's, as a corporation, choosing to put the full weight of their organization behind promoting the homosexual agenda, including homosexual marriage," said AFA chairman Donald E. Wildmon.

First of all, anyone who thinks the decline in Ford car sales had anything to do with the AFA boycott is smoking something. The American car industry has been in decline for some time and the fact that the AFA focused their gaydar on the company didn't mean squat. Secondly, boycotts by conservative Christian groups over homosexual issues have proven to be wildly ineffective. The Southern Baptists tried boycotting Disney because of their gay-friendly employment policies and their promotion of "Gay Days" events, but that boycott wasn't even an asterisk on Disney's bottom line.

I would think that there are more important efforts the conservative Christian community could be making to save their fellow man.