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08-05-2006, 01:32 PM
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from www.carpoint.com.au
Pastors are preaching against Ford after the company donated $10,000 to a Gay Pride rally in the US US Christian conservative group, the American Family Association (AFA), wants a nationwide boycott of Ford for what it deems as "obscene" homosexual-themed advertising shown in Europe last year and the automaker's support of gay marriage. The group claims three million supporters and runs a reactionary website at boycottford.com Last month the AFA asked visitors to the website not to buy vehicles from Ford or its other brands in response to the company's $10,000 donation to a gay pride event in Ferndale. According to the Detroit News 'Autos Insider', dealers have received letters and e-mail messages from residents concerned about Ford's support of gay and lesbian organizations, some from long-time customers who vowed not to buy another Ford until the company changes it policy. "This is a social issue that Ford really has no business entering into," said AFA spokesman Randy Sharp. "We're telling them: 'Make cars and sell cars.'" Ford told Autos Insider that the AFA's message is blatantly misleading, and that the company supports a variety of charities and community events but doesn't have a political agenda. Despite this more than 70 per cent of readers responded in favour of the Christian conservatives in Autos Insider's website cyber poll.  : |
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08-05-2006, 01:38 PM
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BLOODY RELIGIOUS WACKOS. Unfortunately these miserable people have alot of political nous in the US and here. What's next....boycotting Fords because their capitalist idealogy goes against God's social policy?? Fairdinkum.
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08-05-2006, 01:46 PM
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So if any company should steer clear of social issues, what will happen to sponsorship?
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08-05-2006, 01:50 PM
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Also the Territory Ranks second in the Gay Buyers choice for cars.
You cant please anyone these days, If GM was Anti-gay, you would get another 3 Million boycotting their products. |
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08-05-2006, 01:52 PM
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w@ankers
Hmm...evil emails attack!
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08-05-2006, 01:59 PM
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i read somewhere that in response to this, many reckon gay people have higher disposable income... so good move ford
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08-05-2006, 02:00 PM
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You can't seem to do anything these days without someone attacking ya!
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08-05-2006, 02:00 PM
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They (well the majority of them) don't have children and women wasting their money! |
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08-05-2006, 02:01 PM
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lol good call
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08-05-2006, 02:05 PM
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strange how some groups can speak out and critisize, but others are condemned if they do. it's a strange world we live in.
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08-05-2006, 02:12 PM
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you can just imagine Father McFeely up there at sunday sermon (or whatever its called) blasting "those darned Americans", he urges a global boycot of all Fords and tells people to buy Toyotas instead... WHAT A FREAK hehehe
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08-05-2006, 02:18 PM
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great now fords a gay icon.
looks like its time for me to accept fate and drive GM???
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08-05-2006, 02:29 PM
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It'a all those german engineers
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08-05-2006, 02:29 PM
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toyota aust did an advertising campain a few years back saying something like
Camry the perfect family car and the photo had two men and a dog in it smart move targeting a cash rich segment of the market |
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08-05-2006, 02:34 PM
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exactly, good luck to them and stuff the psychotic neo-cons
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08-05-2006, 06:05 PM
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Some people have far too much time on their hands.
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08-05-2006, 06:06 PM
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Will we see Hillsong and Fred Nile calling for Ford Boycott?
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08-05-2006, 06:24 PM
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The American Family Association also want to ban our "Where the bloody hell are you?" ad. They're just an ultra conservative bunch of assholes from the Bible belt in the States. I bet they'd vote Family First too if they had the chance!
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08-05-2006, 06:25 PM
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I cant accept that Batman & Robin are gay icons also.........John Wayne, the Wizard of Oz, the Pet Shop Boys, Frankie Goes To Hollywood...........no way any of them are gay... Now does anyone know where my rainbow stipped boxer shorts are, i cant wear my leather vest without them!  You know not only Gays drive cars (Fords) so do Terrorists
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08-05-2006, 07:09 PM
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God religion is house!!! they really need to find something else in life to do apart from crap on about things they have no place in.
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08-05-2006, 07:21 PM
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So these tools have 3 million supporters? So what. How many Gay people are there in the world? 200 million? (not that there's anything wrong with that).
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08-05-2006, 07:32 PM
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Because of one religious belief (that is quite fanatical) the rest of the gay world has to follow suit. What happens if the gays buy Fords. Do they get rejected from the house of God?
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08-05-2006, 07:32 PM
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These religious nazi's are definately outnumbered by gays, but think about how many conservative governments there are in the Western world... our govt, the Bush govt, Canada's Harper govt... the list goes on. i'm just worried that these far-right es will actually take a stand. that's not democracy |
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08-05-2006, 07:37 PM
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It'll only be a few select numb-nuts that would boycott driving/buying a Ford for this reason. They're not worthy to behind the wheel of a Blue Oval if that's the case.
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08-05-2006, 07:40 PM
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Interesting, so the idea is to crumble like a pansy and not drive a Ford. Is that right? America always has been a backward country...
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08-05-2006, 08:02 PM
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Well...poofs probably don't like walkin any more than everyone else. It might even be painful for some of them. But atleast they will be persuaded to buy somehthing with a blue oval on it.
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08-05-2006, 08:19 PM
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Fords probably taken a gamble on this one and figured they could sell more cars by targeting gays as opposed to a bunch of right wing crackpots. Besides we need someone to by the Ford Focus
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08-05-2006, 08:41 PM
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08-05-2006, 08:45 PM
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This is seriously gay....I'm selling the ute. Make me an offer anyone.
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08-05-2006, 09:13 PM
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I'm straight, so I don't drive a gay Ford, I drive my Holden Tigra and Hyundai Getz.
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Ford too Gay????
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