Ford's dissembly line
December 05, 2005News & Politics
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Perhaps trying to follow in the footsteps of its bigoted founder, Henry Ford, the Ford Motor Company has pulled its ads from all gay publications after a boycott threat from the American Family Association.
John Aravosis writes:
"Ford wants to dance with bigots, that's fine. But you don't get to do that in the year 2005 and remain a prosperous company in America... If they think they're above the fray and too big to be influenced by the mean homosexuals, they ought to give Bill Gates a call and see what happened to Microsoft when they endorsed outright bigotry in order to appease America's Taliban."Aravosis is accumulating a list of phone contacts for a counter campaign on the order of past successes with Microsoft and Dr. Laura. Go [HERE] to take part. (Americablog)
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