by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Member (April 3, 2008) The world’s largest fast food chain is promoting more than Big Macs and French Fries these days. McDonalds USA has just signed on to a nationwide effort to promote “gay” and lesbian business ventures. According to CEO Jim Skinner, McDonald’s has decided to become a member of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC). In remarks posted on the company’s website, Skinner wrote, “Being a socially responsible organization is a fundamental part of who we are. We have an obligation to use our size and resources to make a difference in the world . . . and we do.” According to the American Family Association (AFA), the company gave an undisclosed amount of money to the NGLCC in return for being recognized as a major promoter of the homosexual agenda. NGLCC describes itself as promoting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transexual community first and always, including same-sex marriage. In return, the NGLCC placed McDonalds USA vice president of communications, Richard Ellis, on their board of directors. “I’m thrilled to join the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce team and ready to get to work,” Ellis said. “I share the NGLCC's passion for business growth and development within the LGBT community, and I look forward to playing a role in moving these important initiatives forward.” McDonald's refused to comment on the placement of its executive on the board of the "gay" advocacy organization but did send an e-mail to World Net Daily confirming the corporation's support for the agenda of the homosexual business lobby. NGLCC gives credit to sponsors such as McDonald's for its financial and other support that helps in its work. “Through the commitment of our corporate partners, the NGLCC has been able to advance the ideas and causes of the LGBT business community,” the Chamber said. McDonalds joins a long list of NGLCC corporate sponsors, including Coors Light and Kodak, who have been leaders in advocating homosexuality, as well as IBM, Wells Fargo, JPMorganChase, Motorola, Intel, Avis, Pepsico, OfficeMax, Coldwell Banker and dozens of others. However, pro-family organizations such as the AFA are putting out a call to its members to protest the alliance and express their shock that a company so popular and well-known among children would support the homosexual agenda. In a recommended e-mail, members are advised to tell the company: “Your efforts should be in providing the finest fast food products possible, not in a political battle, - especially helping promote an aberrant and destructive behavior.” The decision could land McDonalds in the same awkward position as Wal-Mart in 2006 when it joined the NGLCC. Protests against the company’s exodus from the godly principles of its late founder, Sam Walton, the Reverend Flip Benham of Operation Save Wal-Mart launched a series of protests at stores across the country. Christian families passed out thousands of pieces of literature to arriving customers, many of whom were “astonished to find how deeply Wal-Mart had fallen from its biblical principals,” Benson told World Net Daily in 2006. According to a CNN report shortly thereafter, Wal-Mart made a decision to pursue “a lower level of homosexual promotions. Visit www.afa.net for more information on how to protest the alliance between McDonalds and the homosexual agenda. © All Rights Reserved, Living His Life Abundantly/Women of Grace. http://www.womenofgrace.com Listen to expert Mary Jo Anderson discuss “Same-Sex Marriage: An Exercise in Futility,”available for only $5 in our store at www.womenofgrace.com/catalog