Pro-Family Group Taking Ford Motor Co. Head-On

by Jody Brown and Rusty Pugh
May 31, 2005

(AgapePress) - One week after calling an end to its nine-year boycott of the Walt Disney Company, the American Family Association has launched another nationwide campaign. The target this time? The world's second-largest automaker.

On Monday (May 30), AFA announced it has launched a boycott against the Ford Motor Company because of the company's track record for supporting the homosexual agenda, including homosexual "marriage." The pro-family group's founder and chairman, Donald E. Wildmon, says Ford's financial support of the homosexual agenda goes far beyond a few donations.

Dr. Don Wildmon

"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 ceremony -- that is, 'marriage'; to sponsoring 'gay pride' parades, Ford leads the way," Wildmon states. "The goal of every homosexual organization supported by Ford is to get homosexual marriage legalized."

According to Wildmon, there was so much material demonstrating the automaker's track record on promoting the homosexual agenda that his group decided it was best to simply give it its own website: BoycottFord.com.

"The material on BoycottFord.com leaves no doubt where Ford stands on the homosexual issue," he says. And people who visit the website, he claims, will be "surprised ... to learn of Ford's extensive promotion of homosexuality."

The website includes numerous examples of Ford's pro-homosexual company policies, ads, and financial support for same-sex marriage. Among the examples are an advertisement for Volvo -- one of Ford's auto lines -- in a program book for the 2003 "Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras." The ad portrays the silhouette of an emergency brake handle as a phallic symbol. The caption on the ad reads: "We're just as excited as you."

Another example of an advertisement, this time for Jaguar -- another of Ford's products -- promises that with an automobile purchase or lease, the company will make a donation of up to $1,000 to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). Ford also makes Lincoln, Mercury, Mazda, and Land Rover.

According to press release from the Mississippi-based family advocacy group, more than 2.2 million AFA supporters have been sent via e-mail notification of the boycott. The message directs those people to BoycottFord.com, through which they can contact their local Ford dealer to voice their concerns.

"Inform them you will not be buying a Ford product until they stop their promotion of the homosexual movement and homosexual marriage," Wildmon says in the message to AFA supporters. If the dealer wants more information, he suggests individuals refer the dealer to the website for the boycott.