Sure, they may be vehemently homophobic and generally awful, but we have to give the American Family Association credit for their ability to spin bullshit into conservative gold.

The Mississippi-based organization this year launched a campaign against McDonald's after the fast chain sponsored the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.

And, as if that's not enough, the company's VP of communications, a gay man named Richard Ellis, sat on the Chamber's board and had donated $200,000 of his own money. The nerve!

Nothing seemed to come of that protest - there was no national outrage, no golden arches fell - yet the AFA asserted today that they've won their hard-fought battle…

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