American Family Association

The American Family Association (AFA) is a conservative, fundamentalist Christian non-profit organization founded in 1977 by Rev. Donald Wildmon as the National Federation for Decency. The AFA is headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi.

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Conservative - Fundamentalist Christian - Non-profit organization - 1977 - Donald Wildmon - Tupelo, Mississippi

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According to their Web site, the AFA "represents and stands for traditional family values, focusing primarily on the influence of television and other media—including pornography—on our society."

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Family values - Television - Media - Pornography

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The AFA has a long history of activism by organizing its members in boycotts and letter-writing campaigns aimed at promoting socially conservative values in the United States. As of June 2005, it is promoting boycotts of Abercrombie & Fitch ("Use of softcore pornography in company catalogs"), Movie Gallery ("distributor of pornographic videos"), Ford Motor Company ("promoting homosexual lifestyles"), Kmart ("Sale of adult-rated music CDs") and Nike ("promoting a back door move to legalise homosexual marriage"). In the past, the AFA has promoted boycotts of all television shows, movies, and businesses that have promoted "indecency".

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Activism - Boycott - United States - June - 2005 - Abercrombie & Fitch - Movie Gallery - Ford Motor Company - Kmart - Nike - Indecency

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It has previously had successful campaigns that include, in 1990, pressuring Blockbuster Video not to stock films that carried the recently introduced NC-17 rating. The AFA failed in 2000, however, in an attempt to persuade Congress to eradicate the National Endowment for the Arts for funding a controversial book, One of the Guys, by Robert Clark Young.

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1990 - Blockbuster Video - NC-17 - 2000 - National Endowment for the Arts - One of the Guys - Robert Clark Young

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In March of 2004, the AFA filed suit in an attempt to prevent the city of Seattle, Washington from recognizing same-sex marriages. (see Same-sex marriage in the United States).

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Seattle, Washington - Same-sex marriage - Same-sex marriage in the United States

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After the Hurricane Katrina disaster, the American Family Association's Agape Press published praise for the hurricane's destruction as an instrument of God's mercy, in that it "wiped out rampant sin". http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Tempers_flare_over_New_Orleans_tragedy

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