posted on August 17, 2004 04:53:23 PM newRight Wing Organizations
Focus on the Family
Founder: Dr. James C. Dobson
President: Don Hodel
Established: 1977
Finances: $128.8 million, 2000 budget
Staff: approximately 1,300 employees
Publications: 2.3 million subscribers to their ten monthly magazines. Magazine titles include: Focus on the Family, Citizen, Parental Guidance, Clubhouse and Clubhouse Jr.. Focus on the Family also publishes a wide variety of books, tapes, films and videos.
Media: Dr. Dobson is heard daily on more than 3,000 radio facilities in North America, in 15 languages, on approximately 6,300 facilities in 116 countries. Dobson’s estimated listening audience is over 200 million people every day, including a program translation carried on all state-owned radio stations in the Republic of China. In the United States Dobson appears on 80 television stations daily.
State affiliates: FOF is affiliated with 36 state groups such as the Pennsylvania Family Institute, the North Carolina Policy Council and the Rocky Mountain Family Council.
Affiliate groups: Focus on the Family Institute, FOF’s college program. FOF has 74 different international ministries and has established conservative Christian ministries for attorneys, doctors, teachers, and other groups.
FOF Principal Activities:
Focus on the Family (FOF) is the largest international religious-right group in the United States, a multi-media empire that includes its “campus” and zip code Colorado Springs, Colorado.
FOF provides “Evangelical Christian” self-help in a variety of forums, via radio and their publications, and by conducting seminars across the country to help evangelical Christians become involved in the political process. Focus on the Family uses its radio show and magazine, Citizen, to urge "pro-family" voters to become active in state and local primaries and caucuses.
FOF is anti-choice, anti-gay, and against sex education curricula that are not strictly abstinence-only. Local schoolbook censors frequently use Focus on the Family's material when challenging a book or curriculum in the public schools. FOF also focuses on religion in public schools, encouraging Christian teachers to establish prayer groups in schools.
FOF supports student-led prayer in public schools, although it points out that it doesn’t support teacher-led prayer for fear that a teacher would encourage Christian students “to pray to Allah, Buddha or the goddess Sophia against the wishes of the parents and/or students.”
FOF also supports private school vouchers, tax credits for religious schools, rejects education efforts that address multiculturalism or homosexuality, and recommends that Christian parents to withdraw from the Parents and Teachers Association (PTA) on the grounds that it has a liberal social agenda. FOF supports faith-based social services and “charitable choice.”
FOF works against “special rights” for homosexuals, works against hate crime legislation, and supports “reparative therapy” for homosexuality, which has been widely discredited and rejected by the vast majority of doctors and physicians. FOF sponsors “Love Won Out,” monthly conferences held around the U.S. that claim to prove that “homosexuality is preventable and treatable,” where many of the speakers are “ex-gays.” “Love Won Out” is from the title of a book by John Paulk, an “ex-gay” who is the host of the conferences and is an employee of Focus on the Family.
For those ex-gays who cannot change, FOF considers sexual celibacy another option. FOF regularly asserts the idea that there is a “homosexual agenda” and associates homosexuals with pedophilia and recruitment of children as sex partners.
Dobson also consulted with former President George H.W. Bush on family related matters.
In December 1994, Dr. Dobson was appointed by Senator Robert Dole to the Commission on Child and Family Welfare, and in October, 1996, by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission.
James Dobson also founded and helped establish another successful conservative group, Washington, DC’s Family Research Council. Established in 1981 by Dobson, the group was designed to be a conservative lobbying force on Capital Hill. In the late 1980’s the group officially became a division of FOF, but in 1992 IRS concerns about the group’s lobbying led to an administrative separation.
Do you want Dobson choosing the school books for your children? How about prayer led in schools? What about hate crimes? It seems to me this organization is a little to busy for me.
posted on August 17, 2004 05:15:02 PM new
Lucky us another gay thread.....
So what do you want us to say.... That this organization is great and we need more of them. I agree.
What is wrong with Focus on the Family. Well I guess if you don't have one you wouldn't know. With gay unions there is no real family only adopted ones.
But thanks to the Judge who wouldn't take "Under God" out of the pledge of alligence
posted on August 17, 2004 05:25:05 PM new
With 1300 employees and say they have an average pay of $50,000.00 per year (which probably is pretty low) they don't make much of a profit. Doesn't seem like to big a budget to me.
I like you last paragraph. "Seems like this organization is a little to busy for me." I honestly think they wouldn't want you anyway. JMHO
posted on August 17, 2004 05:53:55 PM new
Libra says,
Lucky us another gay thread.....
First of all, this is not a gay thread. It's a thread that shows how the conservative RR bible thumpers are trying to control anything they see fit to control.
So what do you want us to say.... That this organization is great and we need more of them. I agree.
Sorry, but I don't want a RR organization running our government, local, state or federal.
What is wrong with Focus on the Family. Well I guess if you don't have one you wouldn't know. With gay unions there is no real family only adopted ones.
How does that relate to me? Don't ASSume anything about me.
With 1300 employees and say they have an average pay of $50,000.00 per year (which probably is pretty low) they don't make much of a profit. Doesn't seem like to big a budget to me.
Well, it seems to me that the average American wage is about 33,000. I may be wrong and someone please correct me if you wish. Also, this is a non profit organization. That means there is no profits intended to be made. There are no stocks or stock holders either. It is very likely a 501 c status under the IRS.
I like you last paragraph. "Seems like this organization is a little to busy for me." I honestly think they wouldn't want you anyway. JMHO
My intention was to indicate they are a busy body organization which tries to curtail the rights and goals of people or things they don't like.
One more thing. Is there a remedial reading program in your area? There just might be. Bush wants "no child left behind".
Bigots are miserable people. Prevent Bigotry through Education.
posted on August 17, 2004 06:06:13 PM newWith gay unions there is no real family only adopted ones.
I guess the same can be said of the straight parents who can not conceive childrens and if they can not adopt they wouldn't know what a family is either.
Let's have a BBQ, Texas style, ROAST BUSH
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YOU CAN'T HAVE BULLSH** WITH OUT BUSH.
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We the people, in order to form a more perfect Union....
.....one Nation indivisible, With Liberty and Justice for ALL.
It seems that Libra isn't aware that there are many gay man and women who were formerly married and have children, e.g. James McGreevy. She must have a very short memory! These people have families too. She needs to wake up to that fact. As linda would say, "it's a fact, and not my opinion".
Bigots are miserable people. Prevent Bigotry through Education.
Prevent Bigotry through Education.
