American Family Association
The American Family Association or AFA is a non-profit conservative Christian organization that believes in protecting family values through consumer activism.
The organization was founded by the Reverend Donald E. Wildmon in 1977 as the National Federation for Decency before changing its name in 1988, and has many umbrella groups that were formed that have different functions and reach different needs. Although they regularly prune their list of supports to only include active members, they still have over 2.5 million names.[1] During their last campaign to stop the Hate crimes legislation, 365,000 of their supporters responded by contacting their Congressmen - a very high rate of response for organizations based upon values or political themes.
The radio ministry of AFA is American Family Radio.
Boycotts
The American Family Assocation sponsored a boycott of McDonalds in mid 2008 for their choice to actively support gay marriage. That boycott ended on October 9th of the same year when McDonald's agreed to take a neutral position and avoid political controversies. A longer boycott against Ford ended in 2008 when the company took a neutral position on gay rights as well.
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References
- ↑ http://afa.net/ (current membership figure in upper right)