Today the American Family Association launched a boycott of Ford Motor Company for Ford’s support of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. The AFA claims to represent family values in America, but is more aptly described as a Fundamentalist Christian version of the Klan. Instead of racial prejudice, they cry fire over anything other than heterosexual missionary position, whipping their legions into action by creating an aura of Christian persecution here in the States.
The AFA’s site proudly announces their roll as “2,228,013 Members Strong and Growing!” Right next to this tagline is a smiling black and white image of Chairman Donald Wildmon’s straight-out-of-the-50s head. While I find it almost unthinkable this roll number is not massively inflated, if their membership is even half this claim it’s a sorrowful commentary on American intelligence.
The real blame for the world we live in and the decline of the “family” as defined by your ilk, Chairman Wildmon, goes to groups such as yours. Family, like love and the commitment a family is built upon, is not a concept with walls. Through the AFA’s website and its countless boycott actions you create an atmosphere of division and xenophobia, us against them, godly versus unclean. If this is what “family values” are, I’ll stick with my own open, liberal and inclusive variety.
You paint the world as a “homosexual agenda” bent on your extermination. It’s not even half-true, at this point. Persecuted Christians? Please. Your boys are in office and doing everything they can to Christwash a world which doesn’t want your particular brand of dogma. You have the eyes and pens of the media and what messages do you distribute far and wide? Exclusion and hate.
My emphasis must be on “at this point” in the above paragraph. The tide is turning and soon you will be washed out to sea. Some day you may have a moment of clarity, after years of bitterness over your failed dream of a strictly ordered, male dominated, conservative society… in that moment you will realize “I made this happen! By attempting to force my way of living on everyone around me, why, I caused them to hate me and the things I stand for! I made everyone miserable by telling them they were less than myself unless they did as I said! I pushed them away!”
Marriage, Chairman Wildmon, has already fallen. It won’t matter what the laws say or what amount of bigotry you manage to get tacked on the United States Constitution. Marriage is already almost irrelevant to the American way of life, and will only become more so as you attempt to smash it into your small-minded definition. I would say current heterosexual divorce rates are an excellent indication of just how ridiculous your quest is. Your own flock of sheep divorce more frequently than both agnostics and atheists. Perhaps God doesn’t ascribe to your homophobia and rules of subservience for women, after all.
Why don’t you do what Christ would do, and spread some love instead?
