The American Family Association (AFA) says it's disappointing to learn that McDonald's is now spending a lot of money to send its employees to specialty events it has incorporated into its internal company training -- in addition to giving external money toward promoting homosexual events.
Randy Sharp is director of special projects for AFA, which is leading a boycott against the international hamburger retailer. In January, says Sharp, McDonald's sent 56 employees on an all-expenses paid trip to San Diego for the "Pioneer Summit," a conference it created and organized for the sole purpose of learning to better incorporate and promote the homosexual agenda within their own company. "This wasn't an instance where McDonald's sent their employees to an outside homosexual event," Sharp clarifies. "This is a conference that McDonald's itself put on for their employees. It cost tens of thousands of dollars to pay all of the lodging and travel expenses for these 56 employees to go to San Diego...." The spokesman for the pro-family group calls that "just another indication that McDonald's is selling out to the homosexual agenda." According to an article in Echelon Magazine -- a source for business professionals in the GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) community -- the conference in January "breathed into life" regional employee groups which have come to be known as the McDonald's Gay Lesbian Allies Network, or MGLAN. Sharp says this latest revelation shows that the company is trying to indoctrinate its employees to accept the homosexual lifestyle. He argues it will lead to homosexual employees and their supporters -- corporate leaders among them -- demanding special recognition and benefits from the company, opening the door to a work culture that fully embraces same-sex "marriage" and relationships. The pro-family activist says the January conference is even more reason for customers -- and independent franchise store owners across the country being forced to use part of their sales to help fund these events -- to boycott the company's involvement in them. AFA called for the boycott this summer when McDonald's refused to remain neutral rather than support the homosexual agenda, and donated $20,000 to join and place a board member in the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.
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