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.

0 Comments