media and events.
The American Family Association which has set itself up rather effectively as Americas TV & Radio police is also mounting successful boycotts/harassment against companies who don't advertise where they approve.
The Texas Ford Dealers Advertising Fund board unanimously endorsed a letter sent to the company to "strongly urge that Ford not only cease to advertise in homosexual related media and events, but in all politically charged and controversial media and events." [guess that means sports too]
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Customers, the letter said, "are besieging us in person, by phone, mail and email."
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Apparently they are unaware of the stats that of the hundreds of thousands of complaints against TV last year all but a handful came from the folks organizing the boycott against them
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The boycott, the letter said, is "affecting our business."
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Pull the ads and it will affect your business about the same amount, but you get to make pretty face with the religious right... WTG, Ford
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"When the blue oval is placed next to offensive photos of the gay lifestyle, as it was in the ad mentioned above, customers then believe that Ford endorses that lifestyle," the letter stated.
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The publication being referred to is The Advocate, a newsmagazine, not an adult publication. The "offensive" part to these people would likely be merely that the pictures are
of homosexuals.
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The letter further said: "As one dealer at a recent meeting put it, 'The folks supporting this boycott are not on the fringe, they are not religious fanatics or persons that typically protest, but are average citizens concerned for the well-being of their families and about an all-American company like Ford advocating a lifestyle that they find objectionable.'?
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Every member of the AFA that called a Ford dealership probably started out their conversation with, "I'm not a religious fanatic, but..."
http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=23770
http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0041604.cfm