Gays with that?
“A McDonald’s executive has joined the board of directors for the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, a business organization known for aggressively pushing the homosexual agenda. Richard Ellis, McDonald’s vice president of communications, was elected to the advocacy group’s board in March. …
“In recent years, Wal-Mart, one of the nation’s leading retailers, also joined the homosexual chamber of commerce but, in the face of protests across the country, subsequently announced it would not make corporate contributions to support or oppose ’highly controversial issues unless they directly relate to our ability to serve our customers.’ …
” ’You have to buy your way onto the board,’ Don Wildmon, founder and chairman of the American Family Association, told Baptist Press April 3. ’In other words, McDonald’s paid money to be a member of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.’ ”
— Erin Roach in “McDonald’s Supporting Homosexual Activists’ Agenda” in the May issue of SBC Life.
Shoeless line
“America is in line at the airport. America has its shoes off, is carrying a rubberized bin, is going through a magnetometer. America is worried there is fungus on the floor after a million stockinged feet have walked on it. But America knows not to ask. America is guilty until proved innocent, and no one wants to draw undue attention.
“America left its ticket and passport in the jacket in the bin in the X-ray machine, and is admonished. America is embarrassed to have put one one-ounce moisturizer too many in the see-through bag. America is irritated that the TSA agent removed its mascara, opened it, put it to her nose, and smelled it. Why don’t you put it up your nose and see if it explodes? America thinks.
“And, as always: Why do we do this when you know I am not a terrorist, and you know I know you know I am not a terrorist? Why this costly and harassing kabuki when we both know the facts, and would agree that all this harassment is the government’s way of showing ’fairness,’ of showing that it will equally humiliate anyone in order to show its high-mindedness and sense of justice? Our politicians congratulate themselves on this as we stand in line.”
— Peggy Noonan, writing in “The View From Gate 14,” April 25 in the Wall Street Journal
Purple rage
“[Alice] Walker’s success as a campaigner was to her detriment as a mother. Like Dickens’s Mrs. Jellyby, who neglects her home and her children as she directs her energy towards the poor of Africa, so America’s icon often went to feminist meetings and rallies and left Rebecca to fend for herself. Her daughter experimented with drugs and became pregnant at 14. …
” ’My mother’s a crusader for daughters around the world, but couldn’t see that her own daughter was having a difficult time. It was me having to psycho-emotionally tiptoe around her, rather than her taking care of me.’
“Walker is furious with Rebecca for making such sentiments public, and mother and daughter are estranged with little hope of reconciliation. … Their last meaningful exchange, during Rebecca’s pregnancy, ended in Walker sending a terse e-mail in which she resigned from ’the job’ of being her mother, and told her that in any case their relationship had been ’inconsequential’ for years.”
— Margarette Driscoll, writing in “The day feminist icon Alice Walker resigned as my mother,” May 4 in the Sunday Times
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