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Christian Group boycotts Ford

Jun 1st 2005 8:35AM - 68 Comments

Tuesday, the American Family Association, a conservative Christian group, started a boycott of Ford Motor Company. Their main complaint is that Ford supports gay rights groups, offers benefits to same-sex couples, and actively ...

AFA Calls Off Ford Boycott

Jun 7th 2005 2:43PM - 15 Comments

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 ...

Tit for Tat between Ford and AFA

Jul 17th 2006 6:58AM - 22 Comments

The American Family Association's (AFA) boycott against Ford continues with fresh new arguments being hurled by both sides. The boycott, which went into effect last year, began when the conservative Christian organization felt Ford backtracked on its ...

COMMENT: Ford's soap opera

Dec 16th 2005 2:45PM - 35 Comments

So the Ford advertising fiasco has turned into quite a soap opera, hasn't it? AFA threatens boycott, Ford pulls advertising, LGBT community gets pissed, Ford reinstates advertising, this time featuring all of its brands, not just PAG. Seems ...

Ford, the AFA and 'betrayal'

Jan 13th 2006 10:00AM - 36 Comments

Remember Ford and the American Family Association (AFA) fiasco late last year? Well, the AFA, feeling betrayed that Ford had not kept its promise to withhold funds and advertising from gay events, organizations, and media (i.e., advertising in gay ...

Ford Motors reaches compromise with AFA

Dec 5th 2005 10:00AM - 70 Comments

Remember when the conservative Christian group, the American Family Association (AFA), threatened to boycott Ford Motors over their so-called "active support" of gay individuals or causes? The conservative group threatened to boycott the ...

AFA takes credit for sales slump at Ford

Oct 3rd 2007 12:35PM - 124 Comments

The American Family Association began a boycott against Ford back in March 2006 (not its first one, mind you). The boycott stemmed from Ford's refusing to cave in to the AFA's demands, which included not only pulling its advertising from gay-centric ...

Efforts continue in boycott against Ford for its support of gay market

Apr 16th 2006 6:18PM - 183 Comments

Back in March we reported the the American Family Association, feeling that Ford Motor Co. reneged on its promise to stop marketing to gay buyers or supporting their organizations, assembled nineteen other like-minded organizations to boycott the ...

Ford shareholders reject proposals to drop protections for LGBT workers

May 12th 2006 7:01AM - 35 Comments

A proposal submitted by Robert Hurley of Alton, Illinois to drop protections for Ford Motor Company's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) workers via new language that was devoid of all references to "sexual interests, activities or ...

Ford instructs dealers how to deal with anti-gay boycott

Jun 19th 2006 3:53PM - 184 Comments

One of Ford's veepees', Al Giombetti, said in a e-mail last week to dealerships that when customers confront them about the manufacturer's advertisements in gay publications, to "listen to every customer, correct any misinformation, and ask them to ...

Ford agrees to meet with leading gay groups

Dec 10th 2005 6:30PM - 23 Comments

In the wake of a torrent of negative publicity stemming from Ford's decision to pull advertising from gay-targeted publications earlier this week, the automaker has agreed to extend an olive branch. By agreeing to meet with officials from leading ...

Quid Pro Quo: AFA again mulling Ford boycott

Dec 16th 2005 6:00AM - 34 Comments

The ink has barely dried on the Ford Motor Company's mea culpa letter regarding marketing dollars spent on gay publications, and the American Family Association is once-again publicly beating the boycott drum, mulling an en-masse ...

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19 groups to renew boycott against Ford over gay marketing efforts

Mar 14th 2006 7:00AM - 55 Comments

We knew it couldn’t last. On Monday, nineteen conservative groups renewed plans for a boycott of the Ford Motor Company on the grounds that the automaker reneged on a purported accord to cease supporting gay ...

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