 Articles: Christian Group boycotts Ford and Christian Evangelics vs. Pagans
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Jun. 2nd, 2005 @ 12:25 pm 
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American Family Association Boycotting Ford Motor Co. Over Gay Issues
By Dee-Ann Durbin, The Associated Press
Published: May 31, 2005
DETROIT (AP) - A conservative Christian group launched a boycott against Ford Motor Co. Tuesday, saying the second-largest U.S. automaker has given thousands of dollars to gay rights groups, offers benefits to same-sex couples and actively recruits gay employees.
"From redefining family to include homosexual marriage, to giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to support homosexual groups and their agenda, to forcing managers to attend diversity training on how to promote the acceptance of homosexuality... Ford leads the way," American Family Association chairman Donald Wildmon said in a statement.
Ford responded that it respects its customers and employees.
"Ford values all people, regardless of their race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and cultural or physical differences," Ford vice president of human resources Joe Laymon said.
Laymon added that other automakers - including General Motors Corp. and Chrysler Corp. - provide benefits for same-sex partners and market their vehicles to the gay community.
"It is one of the things that makes us proud to be part of the auto industry," Laymon said.
Tupelo, Miss.-based AFA said it e-mailed an announcement about the Ford boycott to 2.2 million supporters. AFA special projects director Randy Sharp said nearly 55,000 people had signed a pledge supporting the boycott by Tuesday afternoon.
Ford was the only automaker among the 56 companies that got the highest rating last year from the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group. Companies are rated on several factors, including whether they offer benefits to gay partners, donate to gay rights groups and market their products to gays.
Sharp said he is upset by Ford's marketing tactics in gay-oriented publications, including offering to donate $1,000 to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation for every Jaguar or Land Rover sold.
"Ford is willing to do something they have refused to do for any other group," Sharp said.
Ford spokesman Oscar Suris said the company donated $77.9 million to a wide variety of groups last year. The majority - $39.6 million - went to education, he said. A much smaller percentage went to community organizations for gays, Hispanics, blacks, Asians and other groups.
The AFA recently ended a nine-year boycott of The Walt Disney Co. over Disney's decision to extend benefits to same-sex couples and promote gay-related events at its theme parks. The boycott appeared to have little effect, since Disney reported higher earnings and increased theme park attendance during that time.
Christian Evangelicals Have Declared a Culture War: Are You Prepared?
What if you were a Witch and you were told you were not an American because you are not Christian? For some today, this is what is happening as the Christian Right continues its declared culture war against the separation of Church and State, according to author Ed Hubbard. The "Witch Wars Defense Manual" offers advice on how to stand up to their psychological attacks and to stand up for your rights, no matter what your faith.
(PRWEB) June 1, 2005 -- While many Americans are becoming worried and fearful of the recent Christian Evangelical Movement's actions to consolidate political and judicial authority over the United States, some have more to fear than others. Among the Christian Conservatives stated goals is to 'wipe out Paganism in America.' This goal seeks to deny legal and Constitutional recognition of all non-biblical faiths as non-religions and corrupt.
This has direct consequences to a growing faith of Wicca, whose followers are know as Wiccans and often use the word Witch to describe themselves. But Wiccans are not being silent. Author Ed Hubbard has been speaking out, and has published the book 'Witch Wars Defense Manual.' The book explains the underpinnings to the current Christian march to power, and how bad it is going to get before it is all over.
According to Hubbard, "The Christian Evangelical movement is a very powerful group, who are engaging in a psychological war against the American and global population, and seek to deny true religious freedom in favor of a community based exclusively on Judeo-Christian values as interpreted by their leaders. If we are to preserve our freedom of religion, we must acknowledge the Culture War they have declared and understand their strategies, arguments, and tactics in order to protect ourselves."
In his book 'Witch Wars," he reveals ways Pagans fight among themselves, and then explains how Christians attack Pagans and Wiccans. He lays out timelines that show how and where spiritual battles occur and a how the public can anticipate where the next conflict that Christian Evangelics plan in their continued foray in taking back America.
This book is not for the timid; it is a manual that deals with religious conflict on a psychic and spiritual level of the subliminal mind. Examples show how religious leaders use psychological warfare to battle for the heart and soul of our United States, and offers hope to preserve the freedoms we all love and cherish. In "Witch Wars Defense Manual," readers are given the tools to stand up and even disarm those who would use religion as a weapon.
Hubbard, a Wiccan Priest of the Correllian Nativist Church, has personal experience with the Christian Evangelical movement protesting his beliefs, the most famous of which is bringing the Witch School Campus in Hoopeston, Ill, in June 2003. The protests created an international news story and has been the subject of many articles, interviews, and even into studies of religious conflict resolution. In his continued fight for religious freedom, Ed Hubbard continues to live in Hoopeston, where Christians and Pagans coexist in peace today.
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