All those years… it was the Pepsi
The American Family Association has it’s knickers all up in a twist over Pepsi’s latest commercial which, as always, “promotes the gay lifestyle” (emphasis added). The commercial, which is only airing in the United Kingdom (which throws into question why the American Family Association has any say whatsoever) features a guy out with his friends who suddenly gets the chutzpah to go gay after drinking a Pepsi Max (a low calorie, sugar-free alternative to real Pepsi).
You can judge for yourself whether it’s promoting the homosexual lifestyle. I’m not sure which lifestyle the American Family Association is picketing, but the Gay Lifestyle I know sure as hell doesn’t drink non-alcoholic drinks at a bar. Just saying.
Pepsi has a pretty decent track record with the GLBTQ community, and this isn’t the first time they’ve been boycotted by the AFA. PepsiCo donated $500,000 to both the Human Rights Commission (HRC) and Parents and Friends of Lesbian and Gays (PFLAG).
“On November 15, AFA received a condescending letter from Paul Boykas, director of public policy, in which he refused to address Pepsi’s support of the homosexual agenda,” read an AFA action alert.
Personally, this revelation all of a sudden makes sense out of my life. As a child, I was HOOKED on Pepsi (although none of this sugar-free crap). Before I finally kicked the habit, I was drinking 8 to 9 cans a day. I finally did the math, and that was like 1,700 calories a day from sugar. (I was also a chubby bunny.) If only we had access to this cool, refreshing Pepsi Max back then.
Damn you homosexual agenda!
But on a lighter note, I’m inspired by PepsiCo’s fair and logical approach to marketing (although I’m not sure we’d ever see this ad in the United States). Perhaps it’s time to start a campaign to replace any and all Coca Cola in bars with Pepsi. Coke doesn’t really have much of a track record.