Abbey-Roads2

AFA vs. McDonald’s

Remember just a few months ago how gay activists mocked the group, The American Family Association, who launched a boycott of McDonald’s because of their support of the “homosexual agenda”?  Yeah - McDonald’s caved.

“The AFA, a Christian association dedicated to advancing traditional family values, launched the boycott in May shortly after McDonald’s became an official NGLCC sponsor and received a seat on the board with its donation at the chamber’s annual fundraising gala.

“I’m thrilled to join the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce team and ready to get to work,” McDonald’s Ellis had said upon joining the NGLCC board in March. “I look forward to playing a role in moving these important initiatives forward.”

In response Tim Wildmon, president of the AFA, asked McDonald’s Corp. not to align themselves with the homosexual agenda and to end their association with the NGLCC. 

AFA’s five-month boycott ended after Richard Ellis, former McDonald’s vice president of U.S. communications, left his seat on the board of directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC).  McDonald’s, which was offered the seat after donating $20,000 to the NGLCC, has announced there are no plans to replace Ellis on the board.

In an email to its franchise owners, McDonald’s said, “It is our policy to not be involved in political and social issues. McDonald’s remains neutral on same sex marriage or any ‘homosexual agenda’ as defined by the American Family Association.”  - Source

Two lessons I learned from this:  Boycotts do work.  And, we must never be deterred by the mockery of our opponents. 

Fatima.

On October 13, 1917 the great miracle of the sun took place in Fatima.  The thousands of pilgrims gathered witnessed it and journalists photographed it.  The people assembled thought it was the end of the world and dropped to their knees in repentance.  It was an extraordinary sign, not unlike the great Biblical events in the Old Testament.

God is not pleased.

Mystics such as John of the Cross say God is not pleased to have to intervene or perform signs and wonders that human beings may believe, especially since the greatest sign ever, was the passion and death of His Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ.  Yet the good God gave modern man such an incredible miracle.

Taking God for granted?

I was talking to a priest once who told me, “Fatima is over - forget it - everything is coming out of Medjugorje now.”  Wow!  I wonder what God thinks of that?  Treating His warnings as one would a television season.  Our Lady just happened to mention that if her wishes were ignored, “Russia would spread her errors…”  Perhaps the U.S.S.R. collapsed, but the errors of atheistic communism and socialism continue to spread. 

Links:

Photo:  Miracle of the Sun.