Good As You: FOF Roundup
03/10/2008
One man's 'heartening' is another man's 'heartless'
Responding to some new polling data that shows a majority of Tennesseans are still opposed to marriage equality, Focus on the Family's Jeff Johnston today makes the following statement: “It’s heartening to know that, despite years of rhetoric by gay...
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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-acceptance 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 experienced, 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) once again exemplifies the duplicity of FOF, we thought we'd show it...
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Hate crimes opponents: Focus on their Desperation
So you might have heard that Anthony Fortunato, one of the men allegedly responsible for the 2006 death of openly gay New Yorker Michael Sandy, has come out and said that he's had closeted encounters with other men and that...
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09/25/2007
Wherein we Focus on the Veracity
Continuing their quest to make the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) seem as if it would unfairly discriminate against anti-gay Christians rather than protect gays from unjust bias, the folks at Focus on the Family today say this: If Congress passes...
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09/20/2007
Dobson & Thompson: Share a suffix, not an ideology
Due in major part to the "Law & Order" star's apparent lack of support for a federal ban on gay marriage, Focus on the Family president James Dobson has announced that he's not supporting Fred Thompson in the GOD GOP...
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09/18/2007
'Ex-gay' Clue: We suspect FOF, with the fallacy, in the Study
The reliably disingenuous kids at Focus on the Family are creaming their jeans over a newly released study on the ability to "change" one's homosexuality, boldly stating that the religiously skewed, Exodus-funded research "confirms long-term change away from homosexuality is...
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09/13/2007
An FOF picture worth a thousand 'Huh?'s
To highlight their latest coverage of The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), the folks at Focus on the Family are today running this image: And you know what? We don't get it! ENDA is all about protecting the LGBT community from...
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08/31/2007
Dobson: Can you believe this judge had the audacity to interpret law?!
In reaction to yesterday's Iowa Ruling in which Judge Robert Hanson deemed the state's DOMA law unconstitutional, Focus on the Family's head Focuser, James Dobson, has the following to say: “Once again, we see an activist judge handing liberal activists...
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08/30/2007
On the straight, white, and narrow
Throughout civil rights history, once acceptance of a particular group becomes more and more de rigueur, there has traditionally been one argument that becomes more and more pervasive. That is the one in which the opposing group tries to paint...
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08/24/2007
It takes one to know one, FOF
In a new piece about the Commission on Family Recognition and Protection, the Vermont commission that's studying the issues surrounding bumping up the state's same-sex civil unions allowance to full marriage equality, the folks at Focus on the Family have...
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08/22/2007
'It's not impossible' that this is a baby step towards the truthful
Over our past many months covering the religious right's attack on proposed legislation that would help protect gays from hate crimes, we've noted many times how they have been painting the picture that under such laws, pastors could be hauled...
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08/06/2007
Hey opposition: Preachers are not above the law!!
While the following statement will likely fall on the typically deaf ears of our opposition, we are going to try to say this one more time in hopes that maybe just maybe they will someday start to value logic that...
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07/31/2007
You may kiss the bride (as long as she promises to drop a child)
Of the possibility that Vermont could someday bump their same-sex civil unions up to full marital equality, Focus on the Family's Jenny Tyree today says this: "Their viewpoint seems to be that marriage is just a legal term that can...
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07/30/2007
Dearly beloved, I now pronounce your stances hypocritical
You know what we find offensive, both intellectually and personally? That Focus on the Family can present every single last story involving gays who wish to get married as if such nuptials would destroy society and all its inhabitants, yet...
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07/25/2007
Focus on the SUCCESS!
Guess what, kids? The response has once again worked! Just as they did when we pointed out their missteps back in 2005, the folks at Focus on the Family have now changed the "meta tags" on the "Homosexuality" section of...
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07/24/2007
Focus unconcerned with our concerns?
Despite our emailing several employees within the organization (many of whom have corresponded with us many times in the past), and despite the readers who have emailed us to say they've done the same, the folks at Focus on the...
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07/20/2007
Focus on the meta tags -- AGAIN!
So longtime reader might remember that back in November of 2005, we discovered that Focus on the Family was running some VERY offensive keyword "meta tags" to direct traffic to their spin-off site, TroubledWith.com. This was the screen cap we...
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07/19/2007
Hey, FOF: We wouldn't need 'to do' it you kids didn't pooh-pooh it!
To highlight a piece in which they chastise the Democratic presidential hopefuls for agreeing to discuss gay issues at a televised HRC/Logo event, the folks at Focus on the Family are running this image: Fortunately, we also know how to...
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07/16/2007
Video: Substitute 'Black' or "Christian' for 'gay' victim and ask if they'd still be making light of this!
Wanna see something that's really quite sick? Well, go watch this ridiculously glib video that was released today by the folks at Focus on the Family: Because yes, that's exactly what bias-motivated crimes are likened to in the mind of...
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07/09/2007
Socio-politico-religo teams who live in glass houses...
How do the anti-gay folks at Focus on the Family view the gay community's reaction to Michael Glatze's recent "ex-gay" revelation? Well, consider this passage from their CitizenLink news site: Gay activists responded to the news with criticism and vitriol....
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06/26/2007
What we can't afford, Caleb, is to let you get away with your attacks!
Regarding a new $20 million, top of the line gay community center that recently opened in Chicago, Focus on the Family's Caleb Price has the following to say: "...with this new $20 million gay community center in Chicago we see...
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