The Atheist Blogger

It turns out that the corporate fast food chain McDonald’s has incurred the wrath of the American Family Association, and by their logic, God. The AFA has issued a boycott against the popular restaurant due to their sponsorship of the 2007 San Francisco Gay Pride parade, as well as donating $20,000 to the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.

Just to makes things crystal clear, McDonald’s donated 0.0001% of their 2007 earnings to a pro-homosexual organization. God must be pissed.

Of course when the AFA boycott something, they really go all out. They claimed that “McDonald’s will aggressively promote the homosexual agenda.” based on this obviously aggressive quote from the CEO:

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With 2 votes ahead of the other books, Carl Sagan’s book “The Demon Haunted World” is the chosen book for August’s book club. Just to make sure everyone is up to date on the new book club voting system:

This book is for August. It will be discussed at the end of August, probably on the 30th. This new system gives you the rest of July to order the book online or buy it, and then you get the full alocated time (August) to read it. The book is available in paperback from Amazon.

The next vote will take place on August 1st for September’s book. Please submit book suggestions to the forums.