Focus On The Family

A 12-part Christian education series authored and promoted by Colorado-based Focus on the Family has been circulating around Iowa for the past few years. The program has been screened and discussed in local churches and private homes, but starting Monday the series will have its first screening in the state Capitol.

Fire Dog Lake blogger Teddy Partridge has been doggedly live blogging the California Proposition 8 gay-marriage trial in San Francisco– the trial to determine the constitutionality of the anti-gay mariage ballot initiative that the Mormon Church and Colorado Springs evangelical group Focus on the Family poured money into to help pass in 2008. Only one [...]

The Mormon church poured money and effort into the campaign to pass Proposition 8 in California, the initiative that outlawed gay marriage there. Director Reed Cowan’s documentary about the effort was accepted into the Sundance film festival and will make its debut in Park City next month. The film features interviews with Mormon leaders and [...]

Religious leaders signed a pledge Friday announcing that they won’t abide by laws that support gay marriage or abortion. Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput and Focus on the Family’s Founder James Dobson and President Jim Daly joined 125 other conservative religious leaders in signing the so-called Manhattan Declaration. The declaration comes amid the contentious national health [...]

The U.S. Senate yesterday passed the Hate Crimes Prevention Act named for Matthew Shepard, the young man who died at a Fort Collins hospital in 1998 after being beaten in Wyoming by men who targeted him because he was gay.
Democratic lawmakers championed the bill. Republicans largely opposed it. At least four Republicans voted with [...]

Doug Lamborn, the Second District’s Republican representative, spent the earlier part of this week holding an anti-abortion health care news conference with political advocates from Focus on the Family Action.
Lamborn and friends insisted that Congress strike abortions from any plans that would be federally subsidized.
Here’s what Lamborn didn’t mention about reproduction in Colorado:  right now, [...]

U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, both freshman Colorado Democrats, found themselves on a list of more than a dozen potential 2010 targets for the Family Research Council’s FRC Action floated at this weekend’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., Dave Weigel reports at our sister site, The Washington Independent. Organizers are [...]

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TRANSPARENCY: This time it’s a problem in Longmont, with the city council. The rule is pretty basic but apparently hard to follow. Public bodies must decide certain basic matters on the record for public review. Just do it. Don’t make us sue you!
ISLAMOFASCISM: Fort Collins made national news on health-care reform today. [...]

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ALL EYES ON GRAND JUNCTION: As negotiations over health care reform get down to the nitty gritty, national attention has turned to Grand Junction, where the decades-old Rocky Mountain Health Plans model keeps treatment quality high and costs low. A recent study found Mesa County health care among the most efficient [...]

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The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed the House by a wide margin in the spring. Debate included a rousing short speech by Democratic U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey, who referenced the fact that Shepard died at the Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, in her 4th District. Shepard had been attacked in Wyoming, [...]