Gay Bashing

Reuters describes the struggle between Ford and gay rights organizations and right-wing extremist Christians. The article notes:

Ford said last week its Jaguar and Land Rover luxury brands will pull all advertising from gay publications after facing a boycott threat from the American Family Association, which has criticized the automaker for being gay-friendly.

In this, Reuters is bending to the right-wing pressure not to point out more facts about what criticism for being "gay-friendly" means. On their website under the heading "Does the AFA hate homosexuals?", the response is:

Absolutely Not! The same Holy Bible that calls us to reject sin, calls us to love our neighbor. It is that love that motivates us to expose the misrepresentation of the radical homosexual agenda and stop its spread though our culture. AFA has sponsored several events reaching out to homosexuals and letting them know there is love and healing at the Cross of Christ.

While they are trying to hide behind cozy assurances, the subtext of their answer suggest that they believe that homosexuality is a choice, that it is a sin and that homosexuals can be "cured" by religion, whatever that means. Really, what they are spreading is increased hatred, bigotry and insensitivity. Ford had advertisements in gay magazines. How does that hurt the religious wackoes? It doesn't, but it gives them a good recruiting tool and allows them to incite violence against gays by claiming that there is a gay agenda to turn their children gay, but still have cover of an 'issue' on which they acted. It is really quite sickening that they are not described as fully as even they describe themselves.