Dan Savage: "Let Ford Know You Think They're Pussies for Caving to the American Taliban"

I'd marry Dan Savage if he were single, and it were legal, and if he and I had ever actually met.

Dan is the editor of the Stranger, the Seattle alternative weekly that broke the Microsoft caving to the religious right story, and Dan is also the guy who writes Savage Love in pretty much every alternative free paper in America, including DC's own City Paper.

Anyway, Dan has a take on the Ford affair that's been missed. Namely, the extremist gay-hating American Family Association and its ilk arent just gunning for gay America, they're gunning for straight America too:

So what can you do? Gay or straight, you should at least pick up the phone and let local Ford dealers know that you won't even consider buying a Ford after this. Why should straight people care? Because the same AFA fucks that have successfully intimidated Ford on the gay issue are also attacking straight rights—they’re the same assholes who have successfully intimidated retailers like Target into denying women access to morning-after pills. They’re the same assholes trying to convince the Feds not to release a vaccine for two strains of HPV , the virus that can cause cervical cancer in women. The HPV vaccine—already tested and 100% effective!—could save thousands of women’s lives every year. The AFA is fighting it.

Here’s a list of Ford dealers (use the link to find your local dealer). Call them, tell them you’re pissed — and remind them that the AFA’s boycott of Disney didn’t go anywhere. Tell them that when the AFA threatened Kraft, Kraft told the AFA to go fuck themselves. But Ford? The “Built Ford Tough” boys collapsed into a puddle when the AFA assholes threatened them with a boycott. So let Ford know what you don’t buy cars from companies that caves to right-wing hate mongers. And when the local dealers tell you that they didn’t make this decision, tell them that’s too bad. Tell them to scream and yell to Ford HQ and get this decision reversed, or you will never, ever consider buying a Ford.

And corporations can reverse themselves. Microsoft caved to right-wing Christian bullies, and then reversed itself. Tell ‘em Ford can too. Tell ‘em Ford better.

Dan writes even more about the threat the religious extremists pose to straight America here (scroll down to the end of the column, where it says "Straight Rights Update").