Have you driven a Ford...latent?

Ford has caved in to a threatened boycott by the American Family Association (that's Donald Wildmon), pulling ads from gay-market publicatons like the Advocate.

The Dearborn, Mich., automaker came under fire from the AFA in May for its longtime efforts to increase LGBT workplace diversity and support gay rights causes. Ford has long been a regular advertiser within gay media, including The Advocate, and has donated significant sums to LGBT causes and nonprofit groups such as the Human Rights Campaign.

However, this is not completely out-of-keeping with Ford's traditional values.

John from AmericaBlog is all over this like I'd like to be all over Reese Witherspoon. You longtime readers of my old blog may remember last April, when another major American corporation got John's dander up.

It took John just over a month to force that corporation to its knees. They reversed their position of abandoning gays and terminated the employment of Christian Coalition, "pro-life" homophobe Ralph Reed.

And that was Microsoft. If I were Ford, I'd be worried. And frankly, Ford had enough to be worried about without bringing this upon themselves...