American "Family" Association RENEWS FORD BOYCOTT over gay ads

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Rev. Donald "Wildman" Wildmon

Wed Mar 15, 2006
A COALITION of groups that oppose civil rights for gay people is pressing a boycott of the Ford Motor Company, the latest push by religious conservatives to influence how and where companies advertise.

The American Family Association — which has boycotted Target for using the word "holiday" instead of "Christmas" and Procter & Gamble for supporting the repeal of an antidiscrimination ordinance in Cincinnati that excluded gay people — has reinstated a boycott trying to force Ford to stop advertising in publications aimed at gay readers.

Renewal of the boycott is the latest twist in a controversy involving conservative groups, gay rights activists and Ford, which has a long history of working cooperatively with gay rights groups...

"We cannot, and will not, sit by as Ford supports a social agenda aimed at the destruction of the family," the groups wrote in a letter to the chief executive, William Clay Ford Jr.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/15/business/media/15adco.html