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Ford has bowed to pressure from the AFA and is cutting off advertising in gay publications such as the Advocate:
Ford Motor Co. said it will stop running ads for its Jaguar and Land Rover brands in the gay press, helping to avoid a confrontation with conservative Christians but setting up a fight with gays and lesbians.
The American Family Association, a conservative religious group, launched a boycott of Ford this year for extending marriage benefits to same-sex couples and giving “thousands of dollars to support homosexual groups and their agenda,” the group said in written statement. The group criticized Ford for supporting gay commitment ceremonies and gay pride parades.
from the Washington Post
AmericaBlog says secret meetings and former senior Bush White House officials were involved:
Oh doesn’t this get interesting. The two Ford execs who sat down with the extremist gay-hating organization to work out the secret deal, who do you think they were? Why, two former senior Bush administration officials. Aren’t things getting interesting.
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