Would you ever boycott a restaurant because they employ African Americans? Destroy your music collection after learning the lead singer is gay? Or vandalize a business because of the owners religion? Our country is based and built upon many religions and ethnicities. We have had wars to provide every citizen equal freedoms, no matter what race, religion or disability. But a Christian based lobbyist group would have you do something as heinous as these examples.
The American Family Association, with currently more than 3,390,785 members and supporters, state they represent and stand for traditional family values. If American values are what they are about, then why would they have you hurt American business and promote bigotry. Their homepage states Ford helps sponsor, sickening, homosexual scene." They then go on to ask you to email all Ford companies in your disgust of Ford's sponsorship of homosexuality as well as urge you to sign a petition and pass it around at your local church. The AFA exclaims that Ford sales have dropped 11% in November, 16% in December and 19% in January. They claim this as a victory in their boycott against Ford and Ford's support of a homosexual lifestyle.
What has Ford done that can be so disgusting that their business should be destroyed? A business that revolutionized this country when Henry Ford invented the assembly line. The first Car company to make cars affordable for the average family to own. Well, they advertised their product during an episode of Dirt, a show that airs on the FX channel. The show depicted a homosexual scene, nothing obscene by the definitions of the FCC. But here is their over exaggerated account of what happens "Ford helped sponsor one of the most explicit, sickening homosexual scenes ever shown on television. Because it is so explicit, I could not even include a description of it here. I hope you will simply trust me." Here is a link to a film clip of what was actually shown (AFA warns you multiple times before viewing, that it is extremely graphic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM85xqGC03wThe American Family Association also cites an ad placed by Ford in July's edition of a periodical called The Advocate. What can be so bad about this gay marketed magazine? Well the magazine promotes allowing homosexual couples to adopt foster children. It promotes allowing gay leaders in the Boy Scouts. The magazines agenda: Equality. Having the same right as every other American. But the American Family Association is using its influence to stop equality and promote hatred and bigotry of any belief and way of life other than their own.
Ford is the victim of domestic terrorism at the hands of the American Family Association. As the AFA is trying to kill the reputation of Ford and its companies, and stop its sales entirely with their reckless boycott currently with 666,192 pledges to make Ford suffer. The Ford motor company is recording record losses. Last year 2006 Ford lost a record 12.7 BILLION dollars. If only 50% of those the AFA convinced to boycott Ford had bought a car or truck at an average price of $30K Ford would not be in the red, at risk of laying off thousands of employees, and selling off parts of their company leaving them to die off on their own. And Ford is only one example of the companies the Christian based American Family Association has targeted.
Find it hard to sympathize with a large corporation like Ford with large assets and power. What about many other companies this organization has targeted? Crest, Volkswagen, Wal-Mart, Tide, Clorox, Pampers, Microsoft, Burger King, Carl's Jr, Kraft Foods, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Old Navy, NutriSystems, Ikea, Disney, Target, Blockbuster, and American Airlines. Even the movie Sharktales for allegedly brainwashing children to accept gay rights. In 2000 the tried to persuade congress to eradicate The National Endowment for Arts. Because it provided grants for independent artists. Artists expressing their first amendment right in their work.
Some of these companies the AFA targeted are big and some small. The AFA claims to support the “American way of life,” well to me these brands represent the American way of life. Its called choice. And if a company chooses to accept a person for who they are and continue to do business knowing they are gay. Then they should be safe from reckless groups like the AFA. America was founded on diversity. And if that can't be accepted by the AFA then they are only as good as Hitler, the KKK and the Black Panthers. They are simply a terrorist organization granted privilege and status of a non-profit organization by our government.
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