American Family Association

According to their website, the American Family Association (AFA) "exists to motivate and equip citizens to change the culture to reflect Biblical truth and traditional family values"

By biblical truth they must mean that hoary old fictional tale that some cosmic Jewish zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

Indeed, a fine truth to live by.

The AFA is a VERY right wing conservative "pressure group" which attempts to police the entertainment industry (and "social culture" in general) over the things they believe attacks the association's own religious concept of "traditional family values".

The AFA is very scared of gay people.

In the past it has boycotted companies for offering same-sex partner employee benefits (including the family friendly Disney Corporation) and condemned others (Sears) for running commercials on TV channels such as the LGBT-friendly Logo.

More recently it has announced a boycott of McDonalds because not only did the corporation have a director on the boards of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, but also because the fast food giant had sponsored a gay pride parade.

Apparently this boycott is "just about" McDonalds, as a corporation, refusing to remain neutral in the culture wars.

With hypocrisy already rampant here - why should McDonalds remain neutral when the AFA continually broadcasts its own lack of neutrality? - let us comment on something else that appeared on its website.

Remember me saying the AFA is scared of gay people?

Indeed, the association is so scared of gay people it even refuses to acknowledge their apparent appropriation of the very word "gay".

True to their word, the AFA website has a policy of always replacing the word "gay" with the word "homosexual"

So the website's auto-correct function blew a fuse when it wrote a piece about the Beijing Olympics, more specifically 100m track star Tyson Gay.

"Tyson Homosexual was a blur in blue, sprinting 100 meters faster than anyone ever has... "It means a lot to me," the 25-year-old Homosexual said. "I'm glad my body could do it, because now I know I have it in me."

You just know that for all their remarks, extreme hypocrisy exists inside this holier-than-thou association - so I eagerly wait for the time when, for example, a senior member gets done for pedophilia or an executive is unceremoniously outed.



Peddling this type of hate-filled agenda - and persecuting a whole sector of society - smacks of more than just a hint of Hitler - and it most certainly grips my shit.

Indeed, in my head, I have already started to auto-correct what the "F" in AFA actually stands for!