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December 07, 2005

The Good Lord Drives a Ford

This week, Ford Motors announced that it would no longer advertise in gay publications. The company said the decision was based purely on business models. However, the rabidly anti-gay American Family Association insisted it was a victory over the dark powers of homosexuals motor enthusiasts. Most media accounts took Ford's word on face value, and lumped the AFA into the dingbat dustbin.

However, as AmericaBlog revealed late yesterday, Ford sent two executives to meet with the AFA at their Tupelo, Mississippi headquarters just last week. The subject was the America Family Association's insistence that Ford pull their advertising to the gay market. AmericaBlog also notes that the two Ford executives who negotiated the deal with the AFA are themselves former Republican Capitol Hill staffers to anti-gay Congressman who later went on the work for the Bush Administration.

Posted by NSD at December 7, 2005 11:03 AM