aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Buy a Jag…
...or a Land Rover and Ford will donate $1,000 to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
That’s just one of the reasons the American Family Association is boycotting Ford. The Volvo ad pictured here is another (click to enlarge
“From redefining family to include homosexual marriage, to giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to support homosexual groups and their agenda, to forcing managers to attend diversity training on how to promote the acceptance of homosexuality… Ford leads the way,” American Family Association chairman Donald Wildmon said in a statement…
Tupelo, Miss.-based AFA said it e-mailed an announcement about the Ford boycott to 2.2 million supporters. AFA special projects director Randy Sharp said nearly 55,000 people had signed a pledge supporting the boycott by Tuesday afternoon.
I can only hope it’s as successful as their 9 year Disney boycott ended last week:
The AFA launched its boycott nine years ago, insisting that Disney ban “Gay Day” events at the company’s theme parks, stop providing benefits to domestic partners of gay employees, and create an advisory panel of evangelical Christians to make sure Disney was making the religious right happy.
In response, Disney ignored the AFA and Michael Eisner refused to even speak to the group’s representatives. None of the group’s demands have been met.
Gay Days at Disney has its 15th Anniversary event this weekend (we went last year and my 1999 photos are somehow on their website), and Orlando was recently written up in the Times as a gay destination. With that kind of success, maybe there’s a Ford in your future.
