Gay Activist Jevan Goulter Stands Behind Mc Donald's New Zealand

22 year old, Gay political activist, Jevan Goulter is standing %100 behind Mc Donald New Zealand’s decision to block selected websites provided through the free wifi service offered to Mc Donald customers in their restaurants.

“I completely support the decision of Mc Donald’s New Zealand in blocking websites such as gaynz.com. One of the reasons being, that it is almost impossible to venture through to their website without images popping up on their homepage that are disturbing to even the likes of me, and if I find it offensive then I completely understand why families and young people would deem it unacceptable”.

“The problem with gaynz.com is you give them an inch and they want to take a mile, as soon as something is not family friendly, apparently its homophobia or gay bashing, the reality here being that our community, my community and the gaynz.com community need to wake up, and realise that sometimes things are in the best interests of the wider community and New Zealand, not solely the gay community.”

“Mc Donald’s have an obligation to protect young people and families and create an environment that is safe and caters for everybody not just the pink dollar.”
“The Problem is you have people like “Jay Bennie” at gaynz.com who still live in the stone ages thinking that people like me still get beaten up and stoned to death in our country, the reality being that this is not the case.”

The Family Planning website is also blocked, should we scream homophobia at this as well? I just need to borrow a megaphone from gay head quarters and find a restaurant to stand outside in protest.

Other gay sites like aaronandandy.com were not blocked, as their material would rarely (or never) exhibit nudity and nor would it offend people if it were opened on a computer screen.

After speaking to a close friend who is a gay model and role model for many of these websites, they also agree with Mc Donald’s in supporting the theory “You give the community an inch and they take a mile”. I will continue to state that our energy needs to be channelled into more important areas of New Zealand as a community and not targeted at family restaurants contributing to New Zealand every year.

Here is the truth, it really is just a small minority of the gay community making a song and dance for themselves, it does not represent the wider gay community nor do they represent our thoughts, how we think or how we feel about certain issues. Unlike a minority of the gay community, a majority of us still live in the real world.
I personally find the statements and ventures that gaynz.com set out on very embarrassing for the fact that the rest of New Zealand may make the mistake in thinking that a one man controlled and one view website may represent me.

I would ask the whole gay community of New Zealand to realise that this is a family restaurant that we are talking about and this is a family restaurant that we are attacking, where we eat where children eat and where families it. We are attacking an international brand for sticking to a social mandate that includes setting an example for the youth of today. If you want to look at half naked men on Gaynz.com or try to “hook up” on New Zealand dating, then do it at home or an Internet cafe, not in a family restaurant.

I am happy to lend my support to Mc Donald’s New Zealand in this scenario and to Mark Hawthorne the CEO of Mc Donald’s New Zealand and commend him and the rest of the company on doing what they feel they need to do to keep our community, our children and our families safe.

Often we question as a society whether places like Mc Donald’s have a social conscience, however I think we have no choice other than to accept that they do when we see acts of justified measurement like this put in place.

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