James Dobson of Focus on the Family is releasing a new antigay/exgay book, “Marriage Under Fire,” in mid-June.
From Focus on the Family’s promotions for the book:
E-mail us your anecdotes, stories and observations about the value of marriage to you — and to society. How has being married made you a better man or woman? How has seeing the marriage of a friend or relative helped teach you valuable lessons about life? How did the unique contributions of each of your parents shape who you are today?
Those are the kinds of thoughts we’d like you to share in a message of no more than 400 words. Send it to citizenlink@family.org with the subject line “Why Marriage Matters” — and be sure to include your name, address and phone number, in case we need to contact you.
I invite XGW readers to send polite, heartfelt and compelling defenses of (gay) marriage — one per person, please.
(Thanks to XGW reader Devin for the heads-up.)
What’s even more scary is the fact that Dobson is setting up MORE political front organizations, FRC wasn’t enough I guess. AND, he met with Bush yesterday (with other RR figures like Weyrich and Perkins), according to 365gay.com. Their message to Bush? Focus on denying marriage to gays to win in November. Specifically if Iraq is the issue, it’s President Kerry; bash gays and harnes the hate and Bush is elected.
And the RR has the temerity to call the World Council of Churches a “left leaning political organization masquerading as a religeous one.” What hypocrites!
Oh, also, in the same citizenlink update, FOtF hilighted that cohabitating had a damaging effect on children. YET, they want to use the police power of the state to make sure same-sex couples are denied the right to civil marriage(and religious marriage – some faiths support it), ensuring that the children of these relationships are “damaged” according to their calculus.
Their hypocracy make me sick.
It’s not “hypocrisy” for FOtF to declare that cohabitating has a damaging effect on children AND that queers should not be able to marry. It’s a quite logical baby-step along the clear agenda to eradicate queer thought and identity from America.
Next, children will be removed from gay homes BECAUSE cohabitating is bad for kids, and BECAUSE gays will not (it’s a choice, remember) get married. First, impediments to gay adoption will spread, as they are doing right now, and once Lawrence can be overturned, it will be back to the business of snatching children away from their queer birth-parents.
Once it’s clear gays have no business raising children, and once the ex-gay movement has proved that being gay is a detrimental lifestyle choice, then righteous Americans will naturally question how many other “rights” gay people actually deserve.
This is the goal, people…but then you already knew that if you’re reading this site. Remind and inform others – especially TRUE Christian Americans. The “Religious” Right’s agenda is clear as a bell, but it ain’t a church bell.
Well, Scott, I still believe that it is hypocracy, but agree that the neo-pharisaic movement (as epitomized by FOtF) is cynically and knowingly using it as a deliberate tactic.
You nailed their agenda, BTW.