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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 07:34 AM
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Conservative groups call for boycott of Ford
Take the poll: Do you support the call for a boycott of Ford?

http://www.wsbtv.com/automotive/7975627/detail.html
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 07:37 AM
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1. This should be good news for Ford
When the zealots boycotted disneyworld (and were ignored) ticket sales at the amusement park went up. They are like the little spoiled child screaming for attention. Praytell what has Ford done? Treated its employees fairly?? Can't have that in a christian country.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 08:41 AM
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6. good point. First thing I thought,
my next car will be a Volvo.
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DamnYank Donating Member (93 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 11:16 AM
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9. Volvo is owned by Ford
Edited on Tue Mar-14-06 11:17 AM by DamnYank
Ford has owned the Volvo automobile division for several years now. Still a good car.

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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 11:59 AM
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12. Right. Which would be supporting Ford despite the boycott attempts of
the religious zealots.
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 07:54 AM
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2. AMA = American Family Assassination
Teaching the values of hate and bigotry to American Families.

Now isn't that something to be proud of? And they call themselves Christian. They all need to go back to the basics, and look at how they're leading their flock. None of them will be going to Heaven - condemning others isn't an acceptable part of a Chrisitian lifestyle.

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH, PEOPLE!
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 07:56 AM
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3. Not a problem. We've been boycotting Ford for years.
Won't buy a Ford or a Pontiac.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 08:09 AM
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4. Yes, I do support the boycott. I don't CARE how nice Ford is to gay people
Edited on Tue Mar-14-06 08:10 AM by IanDB1
They fuck over their employees and destroy the environment.

Fuck ford.

I encourage the fundies to boycott them.

Isn't it amazing that the fundies don't give a crap about what Ford does to destroy working families and the environment, but once they start advertising in gay magazines, suddenly they become bad?

Ford offers equal benefits to their gay employees... they're all equally going to lose their pensions.

We need to be better than the fundies.

We need to tell Ford we don't want their damn money or their damn cars.

Ford is un-christian, un-biblical, un-American whether they support gay causes or not.

Come on, gays and liberals... join with the fundies and boycott Ford along with them.

But for the purpose of the poll, I'm saying "No."
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 08:40 AM
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5. What someone with better graphics skills than I
Needs to do is cretae a bunch of letterheads of some fake liberal ecology groups and pro-labor groups and write thank you notes to the AMA for taking a stand against Ford on those issue - not on the gay issue and send them off.

Nothing causes vapor-lock in a fundie's mind better than the thought that their "righteous" stand against something could be helping liberals.

I had a conservative friend who always had a grocery bag of crushed aluminium cans on his porch, and I asked him once when he had started recycling. He angrily denied that he was, but he was saving those for a friend who recycled cans to get money. I told him he was, "recycling by proxy." He wasn't happy with that thought.

TlalocW
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fed-up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 09:18 AM
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7. First car was a Pinto-cars for last 22 years have been Hondas-nuf said n/t
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B3Nut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 10:44 AM
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8. I love my 2000 Escort ZX2
with its Mazda/Cosworth-designed Zetec engine and Mazda Protege chassis. The Focus was a good car after they worked the bugs out (even though the car had been great in Europe since its 1998 debut there, 2 years before Ford decided to bring it stateside) but has only been warmed-over in 2005 with a bad nose job in the US, and is long in the tooth. If Ford really cared about their American customers they'd have brought the new-generation Focus from Europe last year (which shares the Mazda3 chassis along with the Volvo S40). Feh. Even Hyundai-Kia is making better small cars than Detroit, the new '06 Kia Rio/Hyundai Accent twins are really nice. I'm fixing to get the Rio5 hatchback version, 29 city/38hwy mpg with the slushbox. Small, efficient, great driving, and more cargo room with the seats down than the Focus.

Todd in Beerbratistan
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kevinbgoode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 11:29 AM
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10. Gee...I wonder if that includes
boycotting "christian-owned" manufacturers which provide parts for the automobile companies?

Frankly, I think it's time we started boycotting businesses who provide services for these crazed organizations, and make a pointed effort to complain to shopping malls about their supporters, like Chick-Fil-A, which give out Focus on the Family children's toys. Since the Right believes they can punish anyone who participates in their self-declared "culture wars" it's time to identify businesses which advertise and support their radio stations, televangelista organizations and locate in our shopping malls. When they attempt to deny ALL consumers the right to purchase a good or service based on their little religious litmus test, its time to give them a taste of their own medicine.

The AFA is boycott-crazy. . .it's their main industry. And any company which folds to their demands should discover that catering to the fundy-only crowd isn't very conducive to growing a national business.

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harpo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 11:30 AM
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11. Ford needed to quit making those huge suv's anyway
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 12:04 PM
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13. I won't be boycotting Ford.
I already own a Ford Taurus, my second one, and when it is time for another car, it will also be a Ford Taurus.
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