While you probably do n’t intend of McDonald ’s as the ideal locus for difficult lecture with your family , a controversial gay - friendly commercial for the party ’s McCafé restaurants in Taiwan is , well , gainsay people ’s perceptions about the fast food eatery … and some people there are not lovin' it .
Thead , release lately last week , render a guy coming out to his dad by writing " I care boy " on the side of his McCafé coffee cupful . In a tense , emotional moment , the older gentleman’s gentleman get up and leaves his boy at the mesa , seemingly in disapproval , but returns just seconds later on to take back the cup and modify it with his own substance . He remove the loving cup back to his son take , " I admit that you wish boys " and smiles before a tagline learn , " permit there be more heat in conversations , " fit in to areportbyAdweek .
Although theoriginal videoon Facebook has since racked up millions of views , intimately 100,000 likes , and more than 12,000 shares , religious groups in the small island nation are pissed about the advancement of such a potent pro - LGBT statement . Some anti - gay opponents there have even called for a boycott against McDonald ’s , arrogate the heartwarming news report of a parent loving a child for who they are is bad for children , per areportby Shanghaiist .
The news report quotes a argument from a group called the Alliance of Taiwan Religious Groups for the Protection of Family , saying it " opposes all advertising that miseducate children on intimate behavior , " and " rebuke and boycott all enterprisingness that are polluting the next propagation . " Of course , this is far from the first time McDonald ’s has strongly voiced support for the LGBT community , consideringthe " amount As You Are " commercialthe companionship give up to similar controversy in France nearly six year ago .
Anyway , if you ever plan on holding an important house conversation at your local Mickey D ’s , go all out and do it over a giant pile offries .
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