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American Family Association Accuses Ford of Supporting Gay Polygamy in Latest Action Alert

Posted on | May 25, 2006

Sometimes Donald E. Wildmon of the American Family Association can be so stupid it makes my hair hurt. Ford is sponsoring the June issue of The Advocate by taking out a full-page ad for Volvo on the back as well as another full-page ad adjacent the contents page. The cover-story, entitled "Big Gay Love" is an exposé on polyamorous gay relationships. Polygamy/polyamory is one of the tired "slippery slope" arguments that the right-wing, so-called religious groups use to oppose marriage rights for same-sex couples. The article quotes the Traditional Values Coalition, a right-wing group that apparently supports the racist and homophobic Constitution Party, as saying:

“The push for the legalization of homosexual marriage is not only going to normalize what has long been known to be sexual perversion and a disease-ridden lifestyle, but it will open up the floodgates to an effort to legalize polygamy and polyamory.”

An excerpt from the article can be found here.

But this article had the effect of spurring Wildmon to send out another one of his so-called Action Alerts under the headline "You Will Not Believe What Ford Has Done Now". In it he states:

To show those supporting traditional marriage they mean business, Ford sponsored the June 6 issue of the homosexual publication The Advocate. The cover reads: "Polygamy & Gay Men. Dirty laundry or sexual freedom? How gay men handle multiple partners." The article promotes homosexual polygamy.

There are the ads the AFA is up in flames over:

The cover and back page of the June 6th, 2006, issue of The Advocate featuring a story on polygamous gay relationshipsThe contents page and adjescent full-age ad from Ford in the June 6th, 2006, issue of The Advocate featuring a cover story on polyamorous gay relationships

Note: Click on the images to see a higher resolution image of the cover and ads in question.

What I find funny is how Wildmon’s assertion about how Ford "promotes homosexual polygamy" simply by sponsoring ads in an issue of a magazine issue in which the cover story merely deals with the topic. A while back I posted about an article in Newsweek that dealt with polygamy activists. The article discussed Marlyne Hammon who founded the Centennial Park Action Committee whose agenda is the decriminalization of polygamy in the United States. So if we followed Donald Wildmon’s twisted logic, the advertiser who purchased the back-page ad also supports polygamy. Where was their outrage then? I tried to find anything the American Family Association had to say about that article but failed to find any mention of it in a Google search.

If we continued to follow Wildmon’s logic, any advertiser who purchased ads like Ford did in the June issue of The Advocate, inherently is in support of whatever topic the cover story happens to be. So say this was in issue of Time Magazine or Newsweek that had an exposé on terrorists that could be construed as portraying them in a positive light. Would Ford be supporting terrorism then?

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