Tag: Focus On The Family

An outfit calling itself The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (CADC) has put out a Top 10 list of what it considers “the most outrageous Christian bashing in America in the year 2008.” Coming in at No. 4 is a claim that “Colorado Law Criminalizes the Bible.” What? The assertion is actually a reference to last year's Senate Bill 200, which expands the definition of discrimination to include sexual orientation. At the time, you’ll remember that Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family went bonkers over the bill, claiming that transgendered people would be able to go into bathrooms and molest children. But criminalizing the Bible? How on earth did Focus miss that angle?

Colorado had the longest ballot in the country this year, and among the numerous propositions that failed was one that would have lowered the minimum age of serving in the state legislature from 25 to 21. As Tom Minnery, the Vice President of Public Policy for Focus on the Family put it, “No thanks. We have enough immaturity in the legislature already.”

Today, gays across Colorado woke up and … called in gay. They will not work, they will not shop, but instead plan to volunteer at their local soup kitchens or collect donations for food banks or signatures for a petition to repeal Proposition 8 in California.

Of course Focus on the Family is tickled over the fact that Republican Saxby Chambliss whupped Democrat Jim Martin but good in the Georgia Senate race this week. Why else would the Colorado Springs based conservative Christian ministry have given, in the midst of recession and layoffs, some $35,310 worth of radio advertisement to boost Chambliss? But even in victory, Focus is soberly reminding supporters of all of those mutinous “GOP crossovers.”

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Rep. Marilyn Musgrave has generated plenty of attention for finally conceding — at least in a robocall to Georgia voters — that she lost her reelection bid to Democrat Betsy Markey in Colorado. But Musgrave is not the only Coloradan who lent a helping hand in efforts to reelect U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss in this week’s special run-off election in Georgia. Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family also donated a reported $35,310 worth of radio ads boosting Chambliss.

Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker has really done it this time. Last week, she wrote about how hard-right evangelicals have brought down the Republican Party. Her column has sparked the ire of Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, who wrote his own column smiting Parker and responding exactly the way she described in her column — by getting defensive at the very suggestion that the rigid right has had a hand in eroding the power of the GOP. Dobson even went so far as to claim the conservative columnist is no longer a conservative. Take that, Kathleen Parker!

Here’s hoping we all get this Happy Holidays-versus-Christmas thing, as well as the atheists’ agitations to “imagine no religion” thing out of our systems before Thanksgiving, so we can all have some peace on earth.

Now that Focus on the Family has slashed 202 jobs and cut production of four of its eight specialized magazines, among other cost cutting efforts, get ready to meet Fred. He’ll soon be appearing in a commercial near you, asking for money, in a manner of speaking, for Focus on the Family.

The member-supported Public News Service picked up our story on the Focus on the Family layoffs of 20 percent of their workforce coming right after spending more than a half-million dollars to quash gay couples from marrying and becoming legal families in California. So far more than 20 radio stations in Colorado have picked up their report, about our report.