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National | Christian activists threaten boycott of gay-friendly airline | Bob Jones

Ah, the woes of an airline company president: upstart airlines forcing your fares down; OPEC raising oil prices; $100,000-a-year pilots threatening to strike for higher wages; 20 million Christians protesting your policies ...

Twenty million Christians? That's the claim made by the Family Research Council in a recent letter to Robert L. Crandall, president of AMR Corp., the parent company of giant American Airlines. Pro-family groups are up in arms over airline policies they claim promote the homosexual lifestyle. FRC lists a catalogue of complaints against American:

**red_square** The airline was named the official carrier of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Teachers Network, a group founded to teach schoolchildren about homosexuality. Kristi Hamrick, FRC's communications director, says that the group is "trying to normalize homosexual relations [through] sex education curriculum aimed at schoolchildren."