Focus on the Family chairman James Dobson threatened the United States with doomsday while campaigning for the re-election of George Bush. (Previous XGW coverage.) According to the New York Times (Nov. 4), the threats have not stopped despite the narrow…
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According to The Oklahoman, Focus on the Family chairman James Dobson last week accused Oklahoma Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Brad Carson of lying. The reporter does not include the charge in quotation marks, so it’s unclear whether Dobson used…
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Focus on the Family mobilized a political rally against gay couples — and in favor of antigay politicians — on the National Mall in Washington yesterday. Gay observers (two friends of mine) counted approximately 25,000 attendees — far short of…
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Wayne Besen Criticizes Ex-gay Ad Ruling
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Focus on the Family this week won the right to post exgay ads on Tampa Bay, Fla.-area bus shelters, according to 365gay.com. Gay activist/author Wayne Besen responded with a press release this afternoon: “AUTHOR CRITICIZES DECISION TO LET FOCUS ON…
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Exgay Leader Comments on Swaggart Death Threat
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After 12 days of silence about the subject, Exodus president Alan Chambers on Sept. 24 criticized Jimmy Swaggart’s Sept. 12 death threat against gay people. The emphatically antifeminist Chambers borrows (strangely enough) from the same line of thought as profeminist…
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Exodus president Alan Chambers participated in a Sept. 19 antimarriage simulcast sponsored by the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the Southern Baptist Convention. The simulcast was part of the religious-right alliance’s We…
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AFA, Focus on the Family Boycott Procter/Gamble
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Focus on the Family yesterday joined the American Family Association in a boycott against Procter & Gamble, which is headquartered in Cincinnati and supports a repeal of the city’s discriminatory Article XII.
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Off-topic: CNN Rejects Log Cabin Republican Ad
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BoiFromTroy reports: Cable news channel CNN is refusing to air the new “Hopes not fears” ad by the Log Cabin Republicans because images in the ad, such as pictures of Jerry Falwell, Senator Rick Santorum and the Rev. Fred Phelps…
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At the political organizations steered by James Dobson — Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, and Exodus, among others — insults seem to have become part of doing business. The latest indication of this: FRC says it will distribute…
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By Dan Gonzales, www.modern.prosaic.nu for Ex-Gay Watch I was baffled by the Family News in Focus audio program (Windows Media, Real) even more than normal Aug. 26. Rather than taking the moral high ground and criticizing Cheney’s remarks from a…