Good As You: FOF
05/08/2008
But must New Yorkers recognize out-of-state bias?
In regards to the news that New York state will continue to recognize same-sex marriages that were performed in other states, Focus on the Family's Bruce Hausknecht has a few thoughts. Unfortunately, "YAY! Fairness prevails! Mazel tov, gays!" is not...
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05/06/2008
Pot to Kettle: 'You're militant, rich, and political!'
Oh why can't our opposition ever stop and say to themselves, "Wait a minute -- aren't we doing the very thing that we're accusing the gays of doing?" We ask this after seeing the following blurb over on Focus on...
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05/01/2008
FOF's new logo: Open for interpretation
The extremely gay-unfriendly folks at Focus on the Family have debuted a brand new logo: And to be honest, we find the image a little bizarre. For while the Dobsonites clearly mean for it to represent a child with his...
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04/24/2008
The 'truth' is that their day is disturbingly offensive
Even though they are encouraging a two-fold strategy in which parents first keep their kids home from school on Friday to shield them from the pro-acceptance Day of Silence and then turn around and hold a day of counterprotest on...
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04/14/2008
Because actuality matters, Caleb!
While we despise much about the way our opposition fights this so-called "culture war," there is one skill they possess that deserves all of our respect. That enhanced inability? They can ignore an 800 lb gorilla in a room like...
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04/01/2008
Wherein FOF recognizes our gay union
Remember last week when we kept changing the new personalized features on Focus on the Family's website so that when we altered our profile name, the site would make either pro-gay statements or comments about their own mistreatment of the...
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03/24/2008
Making MyFamily reflect My Family
The kids at Focus on the Family have launched a new personalized version of their website, called MyFamily, which allows users to customize certain elements so that they fit their specific needs. And after playing with the new feature for...
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03/19/2008
Yea, 'ex-gays'? You seriously see this as a win? Odd.
There is a journalistic misstep known as "burying the lead," in which the writer of a piece puts secondary, non-essential information ahead of the article's most pertinent points. And while it is something that most news writers try to avoid,...
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03/14/2008
UPDATE: Is there an anthropological basis for unscrupulous fibbing?
A few weeks ago, we showed you how Focus on the Family's Glenn Stanton was claiming that there the world's anthropologists had all pretty much come to a universal agreement in their opposition of same-sex marriage. And at the time,...
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03/13/2008
Hey, Jenny: Some of us actually DO put sincerity above rhetoric
We always see our opposition using the "marriage is all about children" strategy, so that they can play on people's fears that gay marriage would somehow destroy kids' lives. But this little blip from Focus on the Family's Citizenlink (the...
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03/12/2008
Dobson sees his movement is dwindling; doesn't join us in thanking the Lord for that
James Dobson, a man who for the past few decades has been a key player in emboldening the idea that gays and liberals are brainwashed hippies with an anti-family agenda, is all sorts of concerned about who's going to carry...
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03/06/2008
Geez, when did respect become the new lice?
Responding to the news that public school libraries in Loudoun County, VA, will be returning the pro-accetpance children's book And Tango Makes Three to their shelves, Focus on the Family's Candi Cushman has issued the following warning: "Once pro-gay books...
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02/28/2008
Our strategy? It's wholly (gay/les/bi/)transparent!
One aspect of our oppositions' PR campaigns that we've never quite understood is why they act as if they've somehow found us out when making claims about our organized goals. Check out this blip from Focus on the Family's CitizenLink...
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02/19/2008
Organic vs. canned: In veggies or sexuality, the former trumps the latter
Speaking on the Love Won Out "ex-gay" conferences and the growth in participation levels that they claim to have experiences, professional "former lesbian" Melissa Fryrear (pic.) says the following to Focus on the Family's CitizenLink: “Similar to Exodus' experience, in...
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02/13/2008
Phun with Phocus photos: What's truly at stake?' edition
In order to highlight a piece they wrote regarding Arizona's restored push for a constitutional ban on marriage equality, the folks at Focus on the Family are using this image: Our only question: Why did they crop out the other,...
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02/08/2008
Dobson finds his Mr. Right
A few days after he announced that he's unlikely to vote for anyone should John McCain obtain the GOP nomination, Focus of the Family's head family focuser, James Dobson, has announced that he is endorsing his brother in anti-gayness, Mike...
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02/05/2008
Dobson: I might be free for lunch on election day
You know what's cute in the literal sense? Pink bunnies bouncing on a marshmallow. You know what's cute in the snarky, insincere, "I can't believe you think this bothers us" sort of way? When social conservatives act as if they...
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01/31/2008
Video: Oh, so they DO understand church/ state separation
Alright, so this video clip from Focus on the Family's Florida primary coverage is very interesting. Mainly because FOF's Tom Minnery seems to on one hand completely understand the idea that church marriage and civil marriage are already disconnected concepts,...
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01/29/2008
Minnery: Why no stating about unions?
In their wrap-up of last night's State of the Union, Focus on the Family's Tom Minnery today made this quip on the organization's Citizenlink site: Tom Minnery, senior vice president of government and public policy at Focus on the Family...
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01/28/2008
NYC: Great place for anti-gays to visit (with bias), not live (and let live)
In response to the "no duh"-like news that gay activists wish to replace those New York lawmakers who are hostile towards our marriages with ones who would push for marriage equality, Focus on the Family's Jenny Tyree says the following:...
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01/23/2008
Indiana: Please listen to reason, not rhetoric!
It's no secret that we find any attempt to amend a state or federal constitution so that it bans marriage equality to be misguided at best, patently evil at worst. However, we often come across passages in far-right media outlets...
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01/22/2008
Video: Replying to Tom's foolery
Here is another video from Focus on the Family's South Carolina primary coverage, this one focusing on the social conservatives' harbinger of all things evil: Hillary Clinton. Check it out: Oh, Tom, you silly. Hillary's been vocal in her opposition...
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Video: Tom finds Rudy to be a real drag
This is from Focus on the Family's South Carolina primary coverage: Hmm...So Tom, when you talk about the "opposition people" who would use late-night drag performances against someone, are you referring to You, Yourself, or I? Because let's be honest,...
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01/18/2008
Our work, Jenny, is to prove decency's better than bias!
Just how fully does our opposition misunderstand the fight for marriage equality? Well, check out this quote from Focus on the Family's Jenny Tyree for some more insight on that front. She's speaking about the Human Rights Campaign's attempts to...
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01/17/2008
Expand your 'Focus' so we can all be happy!
Among the most annoying things we come across when dealing with our "pro-family" opposition is how they love to tout the benefits of societal aspects from which they so fervently try to keep us barred. And among the most annoying...
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01/03/2008
'They don't want dialogue' says he who won't listen
How does Focus on the Family sum up a campaign in which the pro-gay Soulforce will visit evangelical churches and try and exchange ideas? Just read these comments from FOF's CitizenLink for that frustratingly narrow answer: Caleb H. Price, research...
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Small-minded attacks 'Focus'ed on small biz endeavors
Oh, Focus on the Family. We can see from this, one of your first gay-decrying "news" stories of 2008, that your organizational new years resolution was not to be more honest in terms of how you present the gay community's...
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12/05/2007
Why does FOF hate the planet?
Over the past few weeks, we've noticed how Focus on The Family's CitizenLink news site has been touting the health and wealth benefits that marriage supposedly bring to one's life, while overlooking the fact that their organization works day and...
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11/29/2007
Breaking: 'Floridians' consist solely of primary-voting Republicans
Do you think the "journalists" who write for Focus on the Family's CitizenLink forgotten how to accurately represent a situation, or are they simply too agenda-drive to care? Because they clearly have lost either their abilities of their ethics, as...
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11/27/2007
Focus: CA students underperforming? BLAME THE GAYS!!!!
Want another example of just how willing Focus on the Family is to deceive their readers? Well, check out this passage from a new CitizenLink report: Homosexual Agenda Wastes California Education Resources California lawmakers are pushing pro-gay education policies in...
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11/14/2007
Marriage: Just too wonderful to be chanced on the gays
Earlier this week, we showed you a piece posted on Focus on the Family's website, wherein an anti-gay activist was glowingly speaking about all of the wonderful benefits of marriage. And considering that both Focus on the Family and the...
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11/12/2007
Two sides fighting for marriage, one of whom is lying
When listening to our opposition address the issue of marriage equality, it can almost sound as if they are schizophrenic inhabitants of an alternate plane of reality. Take this, two of five questions that were recently posed to Family Research...
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11/09/2007
ENDA: The shelter, not the storm
As the continue their fear-mongering over the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, the folks at Focus on the Family have today put out this image: Our only question: Why didn't they show the full picture? Republicans Switch Over to Pass Dangerous ENDA...
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11/07/2007
You force us to shout, Stuart!
Stuart Shepard, a man who is assembled some uber-offensive anti-gay videos for Focus on the Family, has written a new commentary for the organization in which he details why he thinks it's sometimes better to listen to what his opposition...
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11/05/2007
FOF's 'superhottie' and the gays who love him
In a glowing profile in which they tout the socially conservative credentials of Judge Alex Kozinski (who will soon lead the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals), the folks at Focus on the Family include this little tidbit: Not only is...
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10/23/2007
Focus on the Tivo
So gay and pro-gay parents, we have a question for you: Who do you want deciding what your kids should be watching on TV? Do you want an organization that works day and night to deny gays the right to...
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10/22/2007
Focus on the improper word usage
This chunk of text is from Focus on the Family's CitizenLink news site as of 9:58 AM (highlighting our own): WOW! The movie "spits" phrases or statements written in memory of a person who has died?! You mean to tell...
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10/16/2007
FOF pics get even more shocking
Well, Focus on The Family's trend of using ridiculously fear-mongery imagery continues today. This is how they have chosen to highlight a story regarding the upcoming vote on ENDA (The Employment NonDiscrimination Act): Ah, yes. If our nation votes to...
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10/11/2007
Hammering away at the truth
Yesterday, we showed you how Focus on the Family has become even more fear-mongery in terms of marriage equality than most reasoned people would think humanly possible. Well today they've put that "sky is gonna fall if you let two...
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10/10/2007
Wherein Focus puts marriage on deathwatch
In our years covering marriage issues, we've seen all sorts of fear-mongering from the "pro-family" set. However, this latest from Focus on the Family might just be the most "sky is falling"-like piece of anti-marriage equality rhetoric we have ever...
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10/05/2007
Video: The 'special' way they muddy facts
This anti-ENDA video, part of Focus on the Family's "Stoplight" series, has been around for a bit. However, since it (a) just became embeddable on YouTube, and (b)
