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McDonald's Restaurants Continue to Promote Homosexuality

August 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A press release from the American Family Association has given an update on the involvement of McDonald's in the promotion of homosexuality.

"Now we learn that McDonald's sponsors training for homosexuals on how to promote their agenda among corporations from the inside. Out & Equal™ Workplace Advocates is a national organization devoted to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the workplace," the press release states.

"One of its primary purposes is to train employees how to aggressively promote homosexuality within the company they work for, all the way to the corporate boardroom. Part of last year's Out & Equal Summit in Washington, DC, (sponsored by McDonald's) was an organized march into congressional offices demanding same-sex marriage laws be passed."

"At the bottom of McDonald's half-page ad in the Out & Equal Summit booklet is this statement: 'From neighborhood to neighborhood, coast to coast and around the world, McDonald's is proud to celebrate diversity [The secular modern understanding of diversity is much different than the diversity celebrated within the Church--from our diversity we have unity in Christ. The Devil can only pervert and twist the truth. We are called to unity from our diversity, but it is not a unity of anything goes, but a unity in orthodoxy and orthopraxis] ,'" the press release concludes.

Christians are called "to be in the world, but not of it (cf. Rom 12:1-2)." This means that we must not engage in activities or behaviors contrary to the Gospel (sin). Christ ate with prostitutes and tax collectors, but he did not say that prostitution is good. We must always seek to turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel. We must call into question our involvement with corporations and associations which promote values contrary to the Gospel: are our clothes, tvs, computers, iphones assembled by my child slaves, does our produce come from unjustly paid farm workers. Engaging in commerce is a moral act, and such an act needs to be made in accordance with truth, justice, and Faith. Should we engage in commerce with businesses which use profits to support immoral agendas?

CCC 2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,(Cf. Gen 191-29; Rom 124-27; 1 Cor 6:10; 1 Tim 1:10.) tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." (CDF, Persona humana 8.) They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.