not only is someone actually supporting the AFA McDonald's boycott,

[galledgoblin]

http://www.valleynewsonline.com/viewnews.php?newsid=82874&id=2">they're the frigging editor of my hometown newspaper!!

since it's an editorial read by a great deal of people, I do feel some obligation to write back, but it's so over the top and self-satirical that I don't know where to start! how do you respond to idiocy without sounding like an idiot yourself?

I think a 20 word or less letter (postcard?) would work best, something like blisteringly sarcastic without being too nasty, something that makes people both chuckle and think.

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. How about...

In his editorial of Saturday past, Mr. Caravan managed to get one thing right: "Consumers have every right to disassociate and decline to spend their hard-earned money with companies whose values and actions they find distasteful."

I find bigotry distasteful in the extreme, so please cancel my subscription to the Valley News.

Capitalistically, ...

[galledgoblin]

3. except

I don't have a subscription, I just read the articles online after they become free! (hence the fact that I'm only posting this now...)

[TechBear_Seattle]

4. Ok, then, maybe something along the lines of...

In his editorial of Saturday past, Mr. Caravan managed to get one thing right: "Consumers have every right to disassociate and decline to spend their hard-earned money with companies whose values and actions they find distasteful."

I find bigotry distasteful in the extreme, so for for now on, the hard-earned money I spend at the newsstand will go towards buying the name of rival local paper... Buffalo? Albany? rather than the Valley News.

Capitalistically, ...

[rurallib]

2. Is AFA the ones that ran Disney out of business a few years ago?

Like McDonald's, intolerance, discrimination and hate are so American. The first amendment gives us the right to hate a person because of skin color or sexuality. Isn't the first amendment wonderful?
edit to add:
What could be more American and Christian than hate, intolerance and discrimination against those you somehow dislike! It is what made America great.

[Democrats_win]

5. Letter was indeed over the top. Inflamatory language makes the letter inappropriate for publishing.

He goes on and on about "left-wing" this and "hysterical left" that.

If a person were actually saying this in person, they would be ostracized--yet this paper published it.

On the positive side, with people like this not going to McDonald's, I can eat my pancakes and read the newspaper in peace. Life just keeps getting better for gay people.

[galledgoblin]

6. cross-posted to the lounge

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7948104

[galledgoblin]

7. a follow-up

I just emailed this to newspaper, we'll see if it gets published. the second half is in regards to a proposed rezoning of an old church on one of the busiest corners so it can be torn down and turned into a standard video store.

"To the readers of The Fulton Valley News-
After reading the editorial "Support majority American opinion" on the American Family Association's boycott of McDonald's, I mused whether to write a response or not. The whole thought seemed preposterous and begged some comment, but I hardly like McDonald's either, so could hardly encourage anyone to run out and buy a Big Mac. Instead, I suggest that readers on both sides of the issue navigate to the web address "http://www.hrc.org/issues/workplace/cei.htm", which is the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index page. The Human Rights Campaign is a civil rights group which focuses on rights for gays and lesbians, and the index grades corporations likewise. While for supporters of equality, reading the index will not be troublesome at all, for opponents, you will have to remember to read the index upside-down, inside-out and backwards. But then again, some of you seem to read everything in that fashion.
In regards to the proposed rezoning of the old Congregation Church, I currently oppose it, but do not oppose rezoning the site altogether. What would be great to see would be what is called "adaptive reuse", where an older building, instead of being plowed down and the site used for yet another boring box store, is instead repaired, rezoned, and reused. Imagine if that proposed video store were put inside the current building. It would be very noticeable and a town landmark. Imagine if it were a coffee and book shop, or any other sort of retail or service in that building. The roof only recently had a great deal of work done, with widespread community involvement in raising funds. I cannot believe, that with the recent work done, the remaining repairs would cost any more than the cost of tearing down and building a plain old box store. At the very least, the cost to the community would be incalculable.
-thanks for reading,
********** *****,
former resident who hopes to come home to stay."

[sui generis]

8. oh who cares.

He's absolutely right, and McDonald's is on our side. I'm sure they're quaking in fear about losing revenue from the three freeptards who will actually boycott McDonalds. . .

Petty, wimpy, childish, and worst of all, ineffective strategy.

The REASON people eat at McDonals isn't because it's ANTI GAY. It's because it's cheap, and they like it. Trying to make it anti-gay -

:rofl:

what a joke these petty little wannabe tyrants are, and the joke is completely on them.