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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." ACTIVISM The AFA has a long history of ("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 " for its lack of the word " Christmas " in its advertising. {Link without Title} AFA's boycotts have had mixed success. In 1990 , Blockbuster Video decided not to stock films that carried the recently introduced NC-17 rating after pressure from the AFA. But a nine-year boycott of Disney resulted in none of the group's demands being met while Disney enjoyed a surge in profits. The AFA failed in 2000 to persuade Congress to eradicate the National Endowment For The Arts for funding a controversial book, '' One Of The Guys '', by Robert Clark Young . In March of 2004, the AFA filed suit in an attempt to prevent the city of Seattle, Washington from recognizing Same-sex Marriage s. (see Same-sex Marriage In The United States ). CONTROVERSIAL STATEMENTS After the Hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005, 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". {Link without Title} In January 2006, Rev. Rob Schenck was quoted by AgapePress, the American Family Association's news service, as apparently questioning the religious devotion of those who prayed for the trapped miners in West Virginia, then warning that "God rebuked nations who only turned to Him in their most extreme moments of need." {Link without Title} The American Family Association's many publications and statements claim that Homosexuality is a choice - that sexual orientation can be changed if a person wants to. On the October 11 , 2005 , AFA broadcast, Tim Wildmon claimed that cable networks like Animal Planet and HGTV featured gay propaganda. CRITICS The AFA has long been opposed by groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and various Liberal organizations. It has also been opposed by Conservative Constitutionalist s who see the AFA's support for government regulation as unconstitutionally increasing centralized power. Many legal restrictions on individual liberty favored by the AFA require a loose interpretation of the Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution . Paleoconservatives and Christian Libertarians , even Fundamentalist ones, have also opposed the AFA for similar reasons as well as for the AFA's desire to make Vice s into Crime s, which the critics argue is forcing religious beliefs on non-believers. SEE ALSO
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