War on gays opens on two more fronts [UPDATE]

john over at americablog has been very busy the past few days nailing ford motor company's butt to the wall for pulling its advertising from gay advocacy groups after bowing to pressure from the extremist american family association (afa)... now, we learn that focus on the family is pulling the same crap with wells fargo...

The conservative Christian group Focus on the Family has closed all its Wells Fargo accounts because the San Francisco bank contributed to a gay rights group that promised to use the funds to "fight ... the anti-gay industry."

A Focus on the Family official would not disclose how much money the organization kept with Wells Fargo, its primary bank, but said the nonprofit group's income was $146 million last year.

looks like all-out war to me...

[UPDATE]

(wells fargo's response...)

How did Wells Fargo respond? Did they immediately cave to the far-right, as Ford did?

From SFGate.com comes this quote from Chris Hammond, a spokesmen for Wells Fargo, which gives about two million dollars a year to gay and lesbian organizations: “We absolutely made a $50,000 grant to GLAAD, and we're absolutely proud of our support for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community."
Wells Fargo has made it clear that it will spend its money, donate to community causes, and advertise as it wishes, not as the Bush White House and its rightwing cronies desire.

Wells Fargo: a corporation willing to stand up to bigotry and intolerance. What a difference from Ford, the corporation that now seems to stand somewhere to the right of Antonin Scalia and Attila the Hun.

well, i'll be dipped... how about dropping wells a note thanking them for standing up to the religious fascists at focus on the family...?

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