Emails needed:Arcadia, CA Mayor invites Focus on Family
Folks, it's time for some more emails.I just saw this article in the Feb. 3 print edition of the 'Pasadena Independent', a local free paper that covers Pasadena, CA and some of the adjacent San Gabriel...
View ArticleBad Faith from Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family says they now want to work with abortion rights organizations to reduce the number of abortions. Taken by itself, it would appear to be a remarkable change of approach by the...
View ArticleStop the hate in Arcadia, CA
Normally, I write about Minnesota politics so this post is a change. Joe Bodell and I (we run MN Progressive Project) presented a panel at the Creating Change conference which took place two weeks ago...
View ArticleThe Further Adventures of Roy Moore
A few weeks ago, Roy Moore the disgraced ex-chief Judge of he Alabama Supreme Court floated the idea that he may run for the Republican nomination for president. Now he has, according to The Iowa...
View ArticleChik-fil-A is Anti-Gay: American Family Ass'n Encourages Christians to Eat...
I've never eaten Chik-fil-A chicken, but apparently its a very nice "Christian" company that operates according to "biblical principles" and supports "healthy families," according to it's President and...
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Hate group Focus on the Family admits defeat on gay marriage
This is good news:Last week, a Gallup poll showed that a majority of Americans support gay marriage. It was the third such survey this spring, and if you add in the number of Americans who support...
View ArticleFocus On The Family Sees The Writing On The Wall
The end is nighWhat about same-sex marriage? We're losing on that one, especially among the 20- and 30-somethings: 65 to 70 percent of them favor same-sex marriage. I don't know if that's going to...
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Focus on the family, translated
They're focusing on your family. (Credit: wikimedia) The President of Christianist organization Focus on the Family, Jim Daly, recently had a sit-down with a journalist at a Christianist magazine. The...
View ArticleFOTF: Jim Daly Update "Gay Marriage Will Doom Us All""
After admitting the inevitable yesterday Focus on the family's Jim Daly is back with dire words of warningMany of these watershed movements have delivered precisely and as powerfully as promised...
View ArticleRight-wing Focus on the Family's Chilling New Agenda on "Marriage Defense"
"Pro-family" group, Focus on the Family is shifting away from opposing same-sex marriage and instead focusing on making it more difficult to obtain a divorce. Does anyone else think this is scary?...
View ArticleBlake Mycoskie, Founder of TOMS: No Love For The Gays
If you follow TSM, you know we are all about philanthropy and social justice. How horribly sad that the homophobic Blake Mycoskie is in bed with Focus on the Family.
View ArticleI Spy With My Little "i"... The Not-So-Subtle Misogyny of THE FAMiLY LEADER's...
THE FAMiLY LEADER, a federally-funded public advocacy organization associated with Focus On The Family has garnered plenty of media attention recently.Written for RHRealityCheck.org by Vyckie Garrison....
View Article(UPDATED w transcript)AL FRANKEN vs Fotf liar = DOMA hearing
The senator from Minnesota Al Franken today confronted, schooled, and scolded a so called expert witness from James Dobson's Focus on the Family xtianista hate group
View ArticleCommandment 11: Thou Shalt Lie About the Gays
Thank you to my friends Reed and Christopher for inspiring me to write this article. Thank you also to Alvin McEwen’s article and research, which I will point you to at the end of this article. There...
View ArticleTim Goeglein: Bush possessed a "greatness of soul"
You may remember Tim Goeglein, the former middleman between the Bush White House and the religious right. He was forced to resign from the White House in 2008 after it emerged he'd plagiarized several...
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Focus on the Family gearing up for annual pro-bullying day
That little guy needs to stop picking on that big guy. Seriously, what a jerk. Ah, springtime. It's almost time again for the Day of Silence, an anti-bullying event held every year to protest the...
View ArticleFrom Hate to Love: Why "40 Days of Prayer" is Under Attack by the Christian...
"40 Days of Prayer," an effort by the pro-choice religious organization, Faith Aloud, has become the target of a vitriolic campaign by the Christian right. But Faith Aloud is determined to turn the...
View ArticleDan Savage Points Out Hypocrisy in the Bible, Right-Wing Groups Spring Into...
Cross-posted from Video Cafe(note: I see that ChiTownDenny had a diary up on this last night. I think it deserves wider viewing and looked at from several other angles.)Dan Savage, creator of the It...
View ArticleFocus on the Family endorses amnesty for illegal aliens. GOP about to...
This is interesting in and of itself:Jim Daly, the head the conservative radio-based ministry Focus on the Family has joined dozens of evangelical leaders to push for immigration reform that would...
View ArticleHuge Wildfire Engulfs Colorado Springs as God Punishes Wingnuts. 32,000 Flee.
Tens of thousands of people are fleeing Colorado Springs this morning as a huge wildfire engulfs the wingnut capital of America.
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