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American Family Association - Definition and Overview |
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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.
According to their Web site (http://www.afa.net/about.asp), the AFA "represents and stands for traditional family values, focusing primarily on the influence of television and other media—including pornography—on our society."
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 March 2004, it is promoting boycotts (http://www.afa.net/projects/) of Abercrombie & Fitch ("Use of softcore pornography in company catalogs"), Movie Gallery ("distributor of pornographic videos"), the Walt Disney Company ("Support for the pro-homosexual agenda through corporate practices"), and Kmart ("Sale of adult-rated music CDs").
It has previously had succesful campaigns that include, in 1990, pressurising 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 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 marriages. (see Same-sex marriage in the United States).
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