Ford Meets Conditions; AFA Suspends Boycott

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[MississippiMan]

Ford meets conditions; AFA suspends boycott

I have some good news for you! AFA is suspending its two year boycott of Ford Motor Company. The conditions of the original agreement presented in fall 2005 have been met. We reached the conclusion that Ford had met the conditions of the agreement based on monitoring for several months. Individuals are free to purchase Ford vehicles again.

Your support of the boycott played a key role in convincing Ford to cease its significant support of the homosexual agenda. During the 24 months the boycott was in effect, Ford sales dropped an average of 8% per month. The boycott was not entirely responsible for the drop in sales, but it played a very significant role.

A total of 780,365 individuals signed AFA's Boycott Ford petition.

The original agreement contained four items:

1. Ford would not renew current promotions or create future incentives that give cash donations to homosexual organizations based on the purchase of a vehicle.
2. Ford would not make corporate donations to homosexual organizations that, as part of their activities, engage in political or social campaigns to promote civil unions or same-sex marriage.
3. Ford would stop giving cash and vehicle donations or endorsements to homosexual social activities such as Gay Pride parades.

4. Ford would cease all advertising on homosexual Web sites and through homosexual media outlets (magazines, television, radio) in the U.S. with the exception of $100,000 to be used by Volvo. The Volvo ads would be the same ads used in the general media and not aimed at the homosexual community specifically.

A few minor issues remain, and we will continue to bring these to the attention of Ford. But basically Ford has met the terms of the agreement. We are therefore suspending the boycott.

Thank you for caring enough to get involved. If you feel our efforts are worthy of support, would you consider making a small tax-deductible contribution? Click here to make a donation.

Sincerely,

Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman American Family Association

[Gondring]

Quasi-related...a woman at my church bought a “Outlander”? Is that it, the one that has a repuation as a lesbian car?

I don't know...but it is a "cross-over" SUV... ;-)

[Theodore R.]

Is Ford going out of business in the next few years? I also wouldn’t trust them to carry out the terms with the Family Association.

[Joe Boucher]

RV6A pilot here, what kind of Piper are you flying?

Neighbor here is the Piper sales rep for the state of Florida and he says only thing selling is the Matrix.

[taildragger]

Want to know why so many SUVs hit the market? Because the profit margin on each of those is $10,000 and up.

Mvpel,

It used to be the Lincoln boats that fit that bill, an paid a lot of Union Medical Bills. I try not to be a conspiracy type, but note all the Dominant Media Press against the SUV and where it lead the big 3, into troubled financial times. These things were paying the bills. I can't help but wonder if they had more in mind other than changing automotive taste. Funny part of it is, the latest generation of SUV's are very good drivers, the Explorer in particular with the IRS and Stability Roll Control you would think it is a Euro Luxury Car.

With that in mind the $100 figure for the Focus maybe off, in this environment, all these cars have to make money for Ford.

[steve8714]

I tested a Fusion with the 4-banger. What a POS. I bought Camry instead, better gas mileage by far and a smoother ride.

[piperpilot]

A 1985 Warrior II

[taildragger]

Is Ford going out of business in the next few years? I also wouldn’t trust them to carry out the terms with the Family Association.

The question is why didn't AFA do something more positive TR.....

How about sponsoring forums on how to get more out of your 401(k), or how an HSA might save you and Ford for union employees, or spiritual counseling for those leaving the firm ?

The patient was and is sick and is trying to be on the mend, and in a way they denied them food. Shame on AFA.

In terms of Ford survival, IMHO they will be around, I would not bet against Alan Mulally, look into his history, failure is not an option for this man. Nor would against ALL the hard working folks I know trying to turn the company around. Including the one I help get off to work in the morning.....

[MplsSteve]

I had a Ford Tempo for many years.

What a piece of garbage. My the time the car finally died (it caught on fire because it was parked too close to a dumpster that some a-hole set on fire), I swear that almost everything had been replaced once or twice.

This wasn’t normal wear and tear either. All in all, it was infuriating. The car was a friggin’ lemon! I tried speaking with the Ford dealership about it and I got a friendly “Gee sorry but it’s not our fault that we sell crappy cars” spiel from them.

That car is in hell. Of that, I’m sure.

[mvpel]

With that in mind the $100 figure for the Focus maybe off, in this environment, all these cars have to make money for Ford.

Well, granted, I'm thinking of Chrysler numbers from maybe 10 yeaers ago, and it's more like $250 rather than $100, but I figured that that state of affairs was pretty common in the US automotive industry.

[mvpel]

I grew up on a Ford Escort, myself, and if I hadn’t had a shop teacher and former farm boy for a father, we’d easily have racked up repairs five times higher than the worth of the car by the time we eked out the last of 10 years and 100,000 miles from the vehicle.

One car I managed to ruin with youthful naiveté was a big green Chevy Impala station wagon - the “check oil” light was flickering every so often, and it turned out that a “flicker” is just as serious as a “always on” where a Chevy’s oil light is concerned - it wasn’t long before it threw a rod and trashed the engine.

[USS Alaska]

I think you mean a Subaru Outback, a well-known lesmobile, as are all Subarus.

I'm probably not in the lessyloop but I never heard that those cars {or any cars} were lesmobiles.

Do they come with a built in dildo? What makes them lesmobiles?

Oh, and how do you know?

[HamiltonJay]

I’d love a new Fusion, but whether I did or didn’t buy one would have had nothing to do with this.. would have been finding one at the price I was willing to pay in a condition I was willing to accept.

I’m glad to see Ford stop doing the stupid stuff with the pillow biters.. but end of the day I’m buying the best car I can afford that meets my needs.

[HamiltonJay]

Subaru has intentionally been targeting the homosexual market for at least a decade... with ads specifically targeted for homosexuals with the tag line

“Made Different”

[USS Alaska]

Subaru has intentionally been targeting the homosexual market for at least a decade... with ads specifically targeted for homosexuals with the tag line

My mean and nasty widow neighbor recently bought a subaru, she's ugly enough to be a bull dyke.

[dangus]

>> That works out to about an 86% drop in sales. Are those numbers correct? <<

Maybe they meant each month, there was an 8% year-over-year decline? (Congrats on not multiplying 8 by 24 :^D)

[dangus]

>> Ford can’t repeal the laws of economics. <<

They can increase supply.

[eraser2005]

well, if you believe AFA that Ford has done what they wanted, then given that Toyota provided more support, more advertising, more funding to those groups to begin with, your Tundra is and has always been the bigger “culprit”

[eraser2005]

Considering that the 2007 Fusion is rated 20/29 with owners reporting 26.0 mpg average for a 4 cylinder automatic, compared with a 21/30 rating for a 4 cylinder automatic 2007 Camry with owners reporting 24.6, I highly doubt that the Camry gets “better gas mileage by far”.

Which casts doubt on your other assertions.

(all numbers per fueleconomy.gov)

[eraser2005]

I had a 1984 Ford Escort.

Replaced the battery for the first time in 1998.

Repairs? What repairs?

[paleorite]

—Actually, Ford is making better cars.—

Consumer reports loved the Ford Fusion. Very reliable, nice to drive; it’s about time Detroit came up with a Camry (there were no Fusions in 2004, though, so I have ... a Camry).