Good As You: AFA Roundup
04/30/2007
Former insider again shocked by view from outside
Joe Murray, the former American Family Association staffer who now has carved out a sort of cottage industry for himself by denouncing his former cronies' methods, has written a new piece in which he, among other things, decries the way...
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04/25/2007
Should 'pro-family' groups be promoting dishonesty?
So a few weeks back, we pointed out how something quite shady seemed to be going on with an American Family Association poll involving "the homosexual agenda" of America's corporations. At the time, it seemed that the anti-gay responses were...
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04/10/2007
As if overpriced pizza and long lines didn't trouble families enough
So how does the American Family Association highlight its story regarding Disney's decision to allow gay couples to hold commitment ceremonies? Well, like this: Oh yes, this poor "unsuspecting family" is going to have their perfect vacation rocked and ruined...
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03/27/2007
Spaulding channels her inner Babs Walters, interviews Murray
Last week, we were tipped off by our friend Pam Spaulding to an article written by Joe Murray (pic.), a former American Family Association staffer and columnist for the AFA"s Agape Press. In said article, Murray seemed to go where...
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03/22/2007
Gramley grumbles yet again
In an attempt to discredit the offering of domestic partner benefits by public universities, Diane Gramley of the American Family Association of Pennsylvania says to OneNewsNow: "For them to say a college has to offer domestic partner benefits to same-sex...
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03/19/2007
Former AFA staffer gets self disinvited from reunion BBQ
Back when the American Family Association's "news" outlet was called Agape Press, this was a familiar sight on the site's front page: The organization used to regularly run commentaries from Joe Murray (who also served as a staff attorney for...
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03/14/2007
The new Ford Paradox: Damned by the AFA no matter what
So you might remember last week when we told you how the American Family Association was claiming that their boycott of the Ford Motor Company was successful and that the automaker was "dropping public support for the homosexual agenda." Well,...
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02/08/2007
Dude, enough with the 'Wal-Mart search engine' thing!
Can every single "pro-family" spokesperson, group, and media outlet in existence please let us have your attention? No, no, Mr. Barber -- we don't want to hear any of your flawed hate crimes arguments right now. Ms. LaRue, please pipe...
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01/17/2007
Bored with American companies, AFA turns attention towards Sweden
Saying that "the promotion of homosexual couples as a 'family' is offensive and undermines American values," the folks at the American Family Association are encouraging their followers to protest this Ikea commercial: Over on their "One Million Dads" site, the...
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12/08/2006
Searing Sears: AFA lashes out against another gay-friendly retailer
The boycott-happy folks at the American Family Association are now turning their gay-unfriendly attention to Sears, who they are chastising for advertising on the Logo network. In an email to followers, AFA head Don Wildmon (pic) says: Sears has thrown...
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11/22/2006
Rolling back extremism: AFA frees followers to patronize Wal-Mart
The gay-decrying folks at the American Family Association are claiming victory in their war against what they perceive to be Wal-Mart's gay friendliness, and their planned weekend boycott of the Arkansas-based retail behemoth has been called off. All because Wal-Mart...
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11/13/2006
Proud moments in baseless extremism: AFA encourages post-Turkey Day Wal-Mart truancy
The folks at the American Family Association are encouraging their followers to boycott Wal-Mart on the two days following Thanksgiving (traditionally the busiest Holiday shopping days of the year) because they say: In a show of support to help homosexuals...
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10/27/2006
Hey AFA: You guys sleep at night how?
In an email decrying the Jersey marriage ruling and the push for marriage equality in general, the folks at the American Family Association today say the following in an emailed "Action Alert": So where are they getting that we, the...
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10/23/2006
That always infallible litmus test known as the Wal-Mart search engine
The below is from an email we just received from the American Family Association, wherein they decry what they perceive to be Wal-Mart's growing gay-friendliness: And this is from a post we wrote last March, wherein we questioned why the...
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09/27/2006
No one covers gay culture better than those who want it gone
From the American Family Association's website: Gay marriage? Diversity? Rosie O' Donnell and Madonna? Geez, AFA, you're just one "Liza" away from out-gaying Out! Of course, unlike gay-centric publications, the AFA is denouncing all of these people and ideas. However,...
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09/05/2006
That's 'Mr. No Way In Hell' to you, thank you very much
So what happens when you try and vote "NO" in an American Family Association "poll," but they refuse to accept your "NO" answer and instead count your response as if you answered in the affirmative, thus upping the number they...
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08/16/2006
Boy = truck, girl = doll, divergence = scary: PA activist denounces non-discrimination pledge
Responding to the news that U.S. Congressmen Jim Gerlach and Robert Brady have signed a statement saying they won't discriminate against LGBT folks in their hiring practices, the American Family Association of Pennsylvania's Diane Gramley says to Agape Press: "I...
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08/07/2006
You can give them 10 bucks, but you won't get any 'change'
From an American Family Association "Action Alert" email: But we only have one question for the AFA: Are you telling these "thousands of churches and Sunday school classes that one of the "former homosexuals" featured in the video, Michael Johnston,...
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07/31/2006
AFA apparently also boycotting definition of 'poll'
Continuing to take credit for and revel in the Ford Motor Company's recent financial woes (which they say is due, in part, to their boycott of the company on the basis of its gay-friendliness), the American Family Association is running...
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07/26/2006
AFA applauds Washington ruling; we feel even better for finding it highly flawed
In response to today's unfavorable gay marriage ruling in Washington, the American Family Association's Brian Fahling says: “The court is to be applauded for exercising restraint and leaving determinations about life’s most fundamental institution in the hands of the people”...
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06/19/2006
AFA defends fired board member; fired 'bored' member lethargically says, 'Come on, AFA, defend my ennui-having butt'
In an email wherein they defend Robert Smith, Maryland Governor Robert Ehrilch's one-time appointee on the Metro transit authority board who was recently fired for calling gays sexual deviants, the American Family Association includes a quote in which Smith says:...
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05/30/2006
Those who sling bald-faced homophobia warn of bold-faced homo victories
A recent email from our ol' two step partners at the American Family Association: So how would your humble scribe "like to wake up one morning and learn that the above headline was the top story in every newspaper in...
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05/25/2006
AFA pissed at Ford again; just wait until we tell our partner and partner and partner and partner...
When we get an email from the American Family Association telling us: ...there is but only one thought that comes to mind: clearly the auto giant drove a Mustang up a pig's bumhole and forced him to squeal the Star...
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05/23/2006
AFA: Now more gay-focused than HRC
From the American Family Association's main page, 9:45 AM: At what point does a group go from "pro-family conservative Christians" to "one-track-minded professional 'mo foes?" Just asking. Keep an eye on AFA's site, where we hear they'll soon just cut...
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05/22/2006
Because with a name like 'Insurgent,' you really should expect it to be tame
An alternative campus newspaper at the Univeristy of Oregon, The Insurgent, is coming under fire from the American Family Association for running two graphics in a recent edition, one of which portrayed Jesus possessing an erection on the cross.... ...and...
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05/12/2006
AFA faults Ford for advertising with 'Out'; we lambast AFA for their scruples = without
The Ford boycottin' folks at the American Family Association are all steamed up at the motor company once again, this time because of their decision to advertise all eight of their brands in the May issue of Out magazine. And...
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05/09/2006
'Pro-fam' antipathy makes strange bedfellows: AFA leader criticizes both Phelps and gays
In an Agape Press commentary titled "Fred Phelps, Homosexual Activists Both Wrong," the American Family Association of Michigan's Gary Glenn (pic.) obviously says several things with which we disagree. However, the AFA leader makes one assertion with which we take...
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03/16/2006
After all these years, it's still Wildmon who stigmatizes the most offensively
Reacting to the Soulforce Equality Ride's visiting of various Christian colleges to discuss gay issues, the American Family Association's Don Wildmon (pic.) recently proposed his own hypothetical trip to "the homosexual bathhouses." On American Family Radio's AFA Report, Wildmon said,...
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03/13/2006
AFA drags tired Ford saga back into light
After months of bitching and moaning about the company's gay-friendliness, the American Family Association and 18 other "pro-family" organizations are putting their desire to hurt the company's ability to make money where their homosexuality-disliking mouth is, announcing today that they're...
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02/17/2006
Really AFA? 300,000?
Here is an email that was sent to us yesterday by the American Family Association (highlighting our own): Oh wow -- 300,000 messages have already been sent to Senators using AFA's system? That sounds impressive, right? But ya know, we...
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02/14/2006
And here we thought we could count on the AFA's support...
Relatedly, the National Association for Social Security Reform will call for Social Security reform. AFA Calls for Senate to Push Federal Marriage Amendment [Agape] **For background as to why we feign surprise at American Family Association's support, you can read...
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01/30/2006
'Pro-fam' lawyer condemns UF policy, forcing us to challenge our own 'no FU's' stance
In an attempt to discredit the University of Florida's decision to extend healthcare benefits to domestic partners (homo or hetero) of a school employee, the America Family Association's Steve Crampton (pic.) presents the following scenario to Agape Press: "So here's...
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01/13/2006
The revisionist nature of AFA's anti-Ford campaign
From Christian News Wire, 1/11: From American Family Association's website, today: From American Family Association's release, today (though it read 43 on the day of its release): Moreover, the AFA has gone back to the letter they claim to have...
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12/28/2005
What are Wildmon's '06 predictions? (hint: he's unlikely to be our flower girl)
Offering an anti-gay "preview of 2006," the American Family Association's Don Wildmon (pic.) tells Family News in Focus: “It’s a very good possibility that in this coming year people will begin to realize what’s really driving the homosexual agenda, what...
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12/20/2005
AFA ripping 'The Book of Daniel' to shreds
The folks at the American Family Association are encouraging their followers to write NBC executives to protest the yet-to-air show "The Book of Daniel," because they say the hour-long drama "mocks Christianity." Among the AFA's points of contention with the...
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12/09/2005
Another day, another dropped AFA boycott
The American Family Association has called off its boycott of Target because they say the company "has heard our concerns and decided to use Christmas in their advertising and marketing efforts." Upon hearing of the AFA's decision, a fictional Target...
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AFA: Oh, and dreidels are really 'Santa spinners'
From the American Family Association: You hear that Jewish friends: No more of those pitiful "but I celebrate Hanukkah, not Christmas" excuses! You can call it Hanukkah in the privacy of your own homes, but in the public realm --...
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12/06/2005
Besen asks AFA to yank deceptive video; we say, 'why stop there?'
"Ex-gay" debunker Wayne Besen (pic.) is reporting that the American Family Association is continuing to feature a man in their "It's Not Gay" video of "queer-converting" propaganda, despite the fact that the man, Michael Johnston, stepped down as an "ex-gay"...
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12/01/2005
Should we push our 1989 Ford Aerostar van off a cliff?
We have learned from our cruisey friends at Jalopnik that the American Family Association has called off a gay-themed boycott of Ford Motor Company (scheduled to begin today), for reasons not completely known. What we do know is that AFA...
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11/18/2005
AFA encourages post-turkey Target avoidance
Due to Target's non-use of the words "Merry Christmas" in operations and advertising, as well as their refusal to allow Salvation Army kettles outside of their stores (a decision thought to be due, in part, to the bell-ringing organization's anti-gay...
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11/04/2005
Ugh, what an idiom!
Responding to yesterday's Washington Supreme Court decision allowing a lesbian to sue for parental rights to the non-biolgical daughter that she raised with the child's mother for the first six years of her life, the American Family Association's Brian Fahling...
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10/24/2005
AFA continues down 'Walgreens is pro-HIV' path
Apparently feeling that they hadn't made enough offensive insinuations about Walgreens' motives for sponsoring the Gay Games, the folks at the American Family Association on Friday sent their "director of special projects," Randy Sharp (pic.), to write a Walgreens/gay/decency-decrying commentary...
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10/21/2005
AFA joins anti-Walgreens campaign; can now count on one hand the number of companies of which they approve
Our ol' poker buddies at the American Family Association are joining the 'pro-family' attacks on the Walgreens drugstore chain in the best way they know how -- by offensively stigmatizing gays as careless AIDS spreaders whose good times promote disease....
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10/14/2005
Wildmon says gays 'slip it' into TV; we say, 'ouch, that sounds painful'
On the Oct. 11 broadcast of the American Family Radio program Today's Issues (the same edition on which the Rev. Louis Sheldon suggested exorcisms as a way to "release" gays from their gayness), host Tim Wildmon (pic.) shared the following...
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10/12/2005
'American Family' now gunning for 'American Girl'
In their quest to de-queerify/de-Roe the world, our ol' poker buddies at the American Family Association are now going after the American Girl doll company for being too gay/abortion-friendly for their 'mo-fearing liking. The AFAers are encouraging their "pro-family" denizens...
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06/16/2005
Impending Logo launch has AFA at ready
As the launch of LOGO draws closer, the good folks at the American Family Association are stepping up their gay-unfriendly attacks and predictions. Actually they are just repurposing old attacks and predictions, as today's Agape Press "news story" is really...
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06/09/2005
"Pro-family" types visit TV Land; find it too hot, humid, and faggy
Those who exploit the term "pro-family" are currently waging a minor campaign against the cable special "Inside TV Land:Tickled Pink," which is airing on the network throughout the month of June. For those who have not had the pleasure of...
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06/06/2005
AFA puts brakes on Ford boycott, searches for next 'fruit lover'
The American Family Association has called off its boycott of Ford Motor Company, at least until December 1 of this year. The AFA claims the hiatus is due to a recent meeting with a group of Ford salespeople where "the...
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05/31/2005
AFA to boycott Ford, and we'd assume "24"
Feeling an incredible hole in their boycott-loving heart since ending their nine-year Disney standoff, the folks at the American Family Association have now placed the Ford Motor Company in their "you're nice to the gays, therefore we loathe you" sights....
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05/26/2005
Kraft remaining gay-friendly, mac & cheese remaining yummy
Daily Kos has obtained an email from Kraft executive Marc Firestone, which indicates that the food giant is not planning on abandoning their sponsorship of the 2006 Gay Games. As you might recall, the American Family Association and some of...
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