July 10, 2008
Because We Haven’t Had a Good, Satisfying Dose of Mark Morford in a While
AFA boycott, ‘gay’ bot draws corporate yawns Hey, remember the angry evangelicals? The quivering clan of militant Christoholics who propelled Bush into office and seized the national narrative for a few terrifying moments about five years back, ran deep into the woods with it and rubbed it all over their naughty bits in a frenzy of fear and confusion and lust for all things homophobic and saccharine and spiritually denigrating?
Dying. Nearly dead. Gasping their last. Very soon, a footnote, a caricature, a gag, a punch line, blasted to the dustbin of history like dried housefly limbs after a sneeze. …
You were not much younger than you are right now. As the Bush era crested, as neocon power reached nuclear levels, the evangelical right — led by the most virulent, spittle-flecked gaggle of mental throwbacks to ever stain the American news wires, the American Family Association and its nefarious leader, Dr. James Dobson — controlled, for a brief, awful moment, the national dialogue. …
Did you know the AFA recently boycotted McDonald’s? That’s right, this once semi-powerful tub of right-wing “brain caulk” declared a comestible fatwa against America’s foremost purveyor of toxic foodstuffs because, apparently, some high-ranking McD’s VP just joined the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, which, to the AFA, somehow translates directly into free pink condoms and mind-controlling rainbow flags in every toxic God-fearing Happy Meal. …
Did you read about that? No? Of course you didn’t. Here is why: No one cared. Well, that’s not quite true. McDonald’s sort of cared, just enough to write up a nice letter of response to AFA’s president, Donald Wildmon, stating that the AFA is a bunch of troglodytic knuckle-draggers with the sociosexual awareness of a fungal spore. …
Lots more at the link!
Filed under: American Family Assn, Business/Economy, Focus on the Family/James Dobson, Homophobia, Humor, Radical Religious Right
