AFA urges boycott of Ford Motor Company
The American Family Association and at least 18 other pro-family organizations are leading a boycott of all Ford Motor Company products after executives of the automotive giant broke their word regarding the company’s support of the homosexual agenda.
Last May, AFA called for a boycott of Ford but was asked by dealers to lift it while negotiations took place between company officials and AFA. At a meeting last November, Ford agreed to stop giving cash donations to homosexual organizations that engage in campaigns to promote same-sex “marriage,” to stop endorsing events such as “Gay Pride parades” and to stop advertising in homosexual media outlets.
But after homosexual activists expressed outrage over Ford’s deal with pro-family advocates, the motor company reversed the agreement and issued a statement on Ford’s “commitment to inclusion” Dec. 12, accompanied by a promise from Bill Ford, chairman and chief executive officer, to remain friendly to homosexuals.
In response, AFA reinstated the boycott March 13 after three months of urging Ford to honor their agreement. AFA noted that Ford “has every right to give hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups promoting homosexual marriage. But those who oppose homosexual marriage have every right not to buy automobiles made by Ford Motor Company.”
Polygamy show pushes envelope
HBO has added the latest in a string of controversial television shows with the premiere of “Big Love,” a soap opera-drama combination starring Bill Paxton as a man with three wives living in a Salt Lake City suburb.
“The very fact that HBO has produced the series says a great deal about the cable network’s willingness to exploit virtually any opportunity for a story and about the American public’s confusion over the institution of marriage,” Al Mohler said in his commentary on albertmohler.com.
At least HBO’s focus on “the evolving institution of marriage through a ‘typical’ atypical family” failed to hit high marks with its first episode March 12. Big Love averaged an audience of 4.6 million.
Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Seminary, noted that the show runs a disclaimer making clear that the Mormon church officially banned polygamy in 1890 in order to be admitted into the Union and that attorneys general in Utah and Arizona estimate that as many as 20,000 to 40,000 people in the United States currently engage in polygamous relationships.
The move toward same-sex “marriage,” Mohler said, “will surely lead to the legalization of other forms of ‘marriage’ as well. In reality, if marriage can be redefined as anything other than the relationship between one man and one woman, it can mean virtually anything.”
Ramsey enters reality TV world
Dave Ramsey, the noted financial expert who has helped thousands climb out of debt, has signed a deal with CBS to film a pilot episode of a reality television show preliminarily called “The Dave Ramsey Project.”
Crews were scheduled to start shooting the episode, featuring Ramsey counseling families at their homes, in March, according to The City Paper in Nashville, Tenn., where Ramsey is based.
The “Dave Ramsey Show” is heard by more than 2 million radio listeners each week, the paper reported, and his best-selling book “The Total Money Makeover,” released in 2003, has earned him national TV appearances on CBS’ “60 Minutes” and “Oprah.”
“If the pilot were to work out and become a show, it will be by far the biggest thing we’ve done,” Ramsey said. “Even just having a prime-time special on CBS is probably somewhere in the 25-30 million viewer range. It’s pretty huge.”