McDonald’s: Did McD’s Cave to Anti-Gay Group’s Boycott?

(FranchisePick.Com)  Back in July of this year, FranchisePick.com reported (Is McDonald’s Funding a “naked homosex-fest”?) how a conservative Christian group called the American Family Association (AFA) was leading a boycott of McDonald’s in protest of the fast food giant’s relationship with the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.
The American Family Association had been calling for Richard Ellis, McDonald’s vice president of U.S. communications, to resign from the board of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, and for McDonald’s to drop its membership and cease financial support for the NGLCC. McDonald’s provided $20,000 to be one of …read more