The reason the AFA picked Ford to boycott, even though all of the Big Three automakers give same-sex couples benefits like they’re married, is that Ford was a soft target. The company was already in decline, and jumping on the bandwagon by starting a boycott allowed the AFA to boast that it was responsible for Ford’s losses.
IBM also gets a 100% rating from the gay-rights group HRC. Let’s see AFA start a boycott of IBM — I doubt they will be able to pretend to any success in hurting the company. Ditto for the hundreds of other businesses on HRC’s list of favorites. Provided here for the benefit of AFA’s fans:
http://www.hrc.org/documents/HRC_Corporate_Equality_Index_2008.pdf
I’ll be amused to see how y’all manage without patronizing any major software, hardware, pharmaceutical or financial company, plus boycotting Coke, Coors, Clorox, Dow, DuPont, General Mills, Kraft, J.C. Penney, Proctor & Gamble, Macy’s, Time Warner, UPS…
And remember, stop using Google! They’re actively supporting pride parades, recruiting gay employees and have a RAINBOW for their logo!
