AFA boycotts raise group’s profile

[kweerwolf]

After years in the second tier of organizations that gay activists like to call "the Religious Right," the American Family Association has in the last several months finally hit the big time.

A provocative, high-profile boycott of Ford Motor Company elicited promises from the auto giant not to advertise in gay publications, sparking a controversy that left many gays angry, Ford sullied, and the AFA in headlines across the country.

Since then, the group claimed credit for knocking off the air "Book of Daniel," an NBC series about an Episcopal priest with a gay son, and now the group has its sights set on a constitutional amendment to ban gays from marrying (see sidebar).

But the AFA and its founder aren’t recent arrivals to the frontlines of the Culture Wars.

http://www.southernvoice.com/2006/2-17/news/national/afa.cfm

[xchrom]

1. they are smart enough to capitalize on any victory.

whether any body likes it or not -- the book of daniel was a marketable victory.