AFA Calls Off Ford Boycott
Wow, what a short boycott! Less than a week ago, the conservative Christian group the
American Family Association announced a boycott against Ford for their support of gay rights groups, their gay marketing, and
their active recruiting of homosexuals. On Monday, they suspended their call for a boycott after a Texas
dealer offered to mediate between Ford and the AFA. Jerry Reynolds, owner of Prestige Ford in Garland, Texas, wrote the
AFA pleading to end the boycott because it would mostly hurt dealers and their employees. Reynolds and four other
dealers met with AFA founder Donald Wildmon to discuss the matter in Dallas. Reynolds is going to get the ear of Ford
executives, but they were able to iron out some issues at the Dallas meeting. On the AFA's boycott website, you
would often see advertisements aimed at homosexuals. The only problem was, they were not American ads. Reynolds and his
peers convinced Wildmon to only focus on North American advertisements. Reynolds was convinced the boycott would hurt
sales in the Bible Belt, but we think Wildmon took advantage of the mediation because the boycott may have be
ineffective.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
iQuack 10:44PM (12/18/2005)
I think Wildmon is a self-righteous phony whose boycott would have been meaningless anyway.
These bigots are losers and their antics look progressively ridiculous with every effort they employ to use religion to promote their hatred.
They create moral crises to raise money.
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paul 10:44PM (12/18/2005)
whats the difference. the ford (and gm) product is junk anyway. this boycott is like giving up homework for lent. cant boycott something nobody wants.
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Sean 10:44PM (12/18/2005)
I actually bought my first new car from Jerry. He's a pretty nice guy, but he chews on these nasty green cigars all the time (never lights them).
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md 10:44PM (12/18/2005)
Why the heck would Ford even want to talk to these people? they clearly go against everything their company stands for, and they shouldn't even take notice of the AFA's ignorant nonsense.
You know paul, you made that same comment on the original post about the boycott. If nobody wants them, then why do they sell so many damn cars? can you answer me that one?
Why are Ford and GM losing market share? The bulk of their sales are trucks and SUVs. that market is declining slightly, so more people are looking for other vehicle types. Ford at least realizes this and has backed off production of SUVs. It is not because they make bad vehicles, most of them are fine, and they are all improving. there is a lot of good competition from other manufacturers, so the sales will and will continue to spread to other manufacturers. Nissan, DCX and tohers are gaining market share because of improving their products.
Though, based on all of your other posts their is no convincing you to open your mind to other ideas. i do not have a problem with people not liking certain cars or brands, in fact i am fine with it, but some people are so narrow minded and it is just frustrating. At any rate, Paul, you can continue to sit in your narrow minded, ignorant little world.
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Whydrive 10:44PM (12/18/2005)
Someone should introduce a petition to boycott Paul's rants.
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Mick 10:44PM (12/18/2005)
Ford needn't worry about this group of pro-life, pro-death(penalty), anti-gay nutters. As Jon Stewart pointed out recently on The Daily Show, if you want to meet a lot of gay folks all you need to do is join one of these anti-gay groups. I don't care how many kids some of these types have, they talk just a little too much about how "He" loves you and way too much about gay life styles. I'm not saying they have issues, but Sigmund Freud wrote whole books about some of those folks.
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Ian Johnson 10:44PM (12/18/2005)
What a silly attempt at a boycott!
This same group recently gave up after nine years of trying to boycott Disney for similar reasons. During that time Disney's profits and stock price strongly increased.
We have some more background online at http://www.gaymarketing101.blogspot.com
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Randy Stern 10:44PM (12/18/2005)
Reading this certainly made my day!
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Mike 10:44PM (12/18/2005)
I dont get it, what could Ford possible do to make this morons happy? What do you think Ford is going to do say gays are bad? This is total bs, and morons who support religiouos hatred groups like this should be shot dead.
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Lee Gibson 10:44PM (12/18/2005)
"and morons who support religiouos hatred groups like this should be shot dead"
Yeah, because disagreeing with you should be a capital offense, right?
I think the boycotters are bigoted morons, but I'm proud to live in a country where you don't get shot because you're a bigoted moron.
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bert 10:44PM (12/18/2005)
The cowards dont have the resolve to stand up for what they believe in. This is what the USA is turning into.
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kit 10:44PM (12/18/2005)
I wish Ford would just say that because gays have more purchasing power than Wildmon's gang of hillbilly bigots, the company is going to step up its marketing to gays.
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md 10:44PM (12/18/2005)
however much i may disagree with both, at least greenpeace does something to promote their cause. I completely disagree with a lot of their actions, but i respect them because they get out there and do something and back up what they stand for.
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Jason Reece 10:44PM (12/18/2005)
Just a rumor, but I hear AFA is going after Subaru and Birkenstock next. Apparently purchasing either of the two causes lesbianism. Just kidding, but it would be funny...
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Ed 10:44PM (12/18/2005)
Something that continues to amaze me is to think that this kind of behavior still happens to this day. To think back a couple hundred years when a bunch of English folk got on a boat to come to America to escape 'Religious persecution'. Isn't that happening NOW!!! And how can advertising in a Gay publication effect sales in the Bible Belt. Are they reading these Gay publications instead of their Bibles?!? It's a proven fact that the Gay community has more disposable income then most of the Red-neck Bible thumpers anyway!
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