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Ford responded the way they did due to the threat of a boycott by a group of religo-Nazis, not due to any relevant business issues at hand.

Read the article again.

I'm about "boycotted" and "activist grouped" to death as well, but Ford caving into special interests to avoid clashing with another set of special interests is a bit daft in my mind.

They should have KNOWN they were making a social statement the moment they made this decision. The appropriate thing to say is to tell both sides that Ford markets to all demographics in a manner and fashion that is both prudent and appropriate for the audience it targets and in no way, shape or form makes any political commentary on religious, sexual or sensitive social issues in it's advertising. Period.

But, instead of doing the right thing, Ford chose to do the easy thing and piss on a sexual minority to coddle the knee-jerk activist reflex that a group of reactionary Jesus-Freaks had to act upon.

Please, one person here tell me what damage to the religious fabric of the US that Ford is doing when it shows two women or two men tastefully posing with a car in a gay, lesbian or bisexual periodical? If these morons think for one minute that a young teenager is going to be "scarred" or "seduced" into the homosexual "lifestyle" due to such an advertising spread, I've got an unpacked parachute I'd love to loan them on their next skydiving trip...

These folks run out of violent games in the hands of young children to shout about? Has alcoholism and drug abuse dropped to such levels to justify this? Too few crack-houses in existance today? Have divorce rates taken a serious dive? Have all the porn sites and magazines been cleared out of convienence stores and out of cyberspace? Poverty and hunger been whipped yet?

There are about 34,923,212 other things that SHOULD be concentrated upon over this and the fact that some can't see this is telling of the shape that organized religion is in today.

Christianity does a LOT of good in the world, but there are those that certainly spoil it's aura and those that choose to spend more time condemning, boycotting and stirring up trouble where little to none existed are entirely missing the point of what a slew of little red words in the New Testament asked of it's followers...