Posted on 12/09/2005 9:30:42 PM PST by SmithL
Ford Motor Co. executives will meet next week with leaders of gay rights organizations to discuss the automaker's decision to pull advertisements for its Land Rover and Jaguar lines from gay publications, a Ford spokesman said Friday.
"We look forward to the dialogue with the leadership of the gay community," said spokesman Mike Moran.
Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said the group would ask Ford to explain why it dropped the ads and encourage company officials to reconsider.
The meeting between the automaker and leaders from 19 gay-rights organizations will come one week after those organizations issued a joint statement decrying media reports of a "confidential agreement" between Ford and the conservative American Family Association. In May, the foundation called for a boycott of Ford because of the automaker's sponsorships of gay events such as Pride celebrations, donations to gay rights organizations and diversity workshops for managers that included sexual orientation training.
The association also called for boycotts against Walgreeen Co. and Kraft Foods for those companies' sponsorship of the Gay Games.
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What to speak of the pedophile he hired to keep exact records about the children he raped and molested.
The numbers I saw reflected the fact that gays as a group have more mental/social/emotional problems than straights, and consequently more career problems. Not to mention the obvious health problems! But I defer to you since I don't want to go digging around on the Internet this morning looking for documentation.
Who do you think is a major contributor to the ACLU and a long time supporter of this organization? The Ford Foundation.
The Foundation would have Henry spinning like a top.
I think old Henry was a big time communist and the ACLU was his vision come true.
"Ford, gay groups to discuss ad pullout"
I thought it said "Ford, gay groups to discuss aid pullout"
Which, was either a battery driven dildo that needed battery replacement, or something that required more lubrication before any further use?
Maybe the Ford gay union has negotiated free batteries as a company concession to gay employees?
I wonder why the Henry Ford Foundation is such a big supporter of the ACLU then?
I don't think these "social" engineers are into Capitalism.
Later generations appointed commies to run the show, as is the case with many foundations.
Sad, but the guy that earned the money becomes irrelevant to the heirs who sully his name.
ROTFL! Those folks at AFA have some of the filthiest minds in America.
When are they going to boycott the Washington Memorial?
Why we waste so much time and effort on <2% of the population is beyond me.
I'd advise the Ford representatives to just cut to the chase:
"We advertized in your magazine. Your readers bought Subarus instead.
We don't continue advertizing in magazines if we don't realize increased
sales. This ends the discussion. Have a nice day."
Stop whining... If you do not like the decision by Ford then join the homosexual activists on another forum...
Now, turn the volume back up.....
Observations are individual and subjective -there is no doubt that there is agenda being driven on both sides of this and many issues. Gray areas of nuance are often luxury when there are but two factions that one must choose between to best effectively push their own personal agenda... Political power is consensus...
"I wonder why the Henry Ford Foundation is such a big supporter of the ACLU then?"
The Ford Foundation and the Ford Motor Company are two completely seperate entities. There are no longer any ties between these two entities.
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