Pro-family Group Boycotts Ford Motor Company for Supporting Gay-rights.
A conservative Christian group announced on Monday its decision to boycott the second largest automaker in the world, to protest the company’s support for gay-rights.
A conservative Christian group announced on Monday its decision to boycott the second largest automaker in the world, to protest the company’s support for gay-rights.
The American Family Association launched a nationwide boycott on Ford Motor Company, stating that the company openly promotes gay-rights by providing financial donations, domestic partnership benefits, and marketing targeted toward the gay community.
AFA has set up a website, www.boycottford.com, encouraging the public to sign a petition against Ford Motor Company. As of Tuesday evening, more than 60,000 have signed the online petition.
“If one looks for the company which has done the most to affirm and promote the homosexual lifestyle, he would be hard-pressed to find a company which has done more than Ford Motor Company,” state AFA Chair Donald E. Wildmon on the website.
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“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, to sponsoring a ‘commitment (marriage) ceremony,’ to sponsoring Gay Pride Parades, Ford leads the way,” continued Wildmon.
The site details contributions Ford has made to gay-rights groups such as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).
Representatives of Ford responded saying that they are proud of their company’s respect for diversity.
AFA has a history of using boycotts to pressure companies that support gay-rights. AFA just ended a nine-year boycott of the Walt Disney Co. Disney reportedly suffered few losses during that period. Recently, AFA announced a boycott against Kraft, one of several companies sponsoring the Gay Games to be held in Chicago in 2006.
