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Does God Hate All Republicans, Or Just The Bigoted Variety?
DownWithTyranny! —
... Miller's screwed up 42nd CD is the Inland Empire at it's worst-- a hellhole where L.A., San Bernardino and Orange Counties sort of merge into one of the last and worst GOP bastions in Southern California. Was God's targeting off? The district has a PVI of R+10! Yorba Linda itself has a Republican voter registration edge of 59.6% Republican and 38.9% Democrat. The medium home value (pre-God's wrath) was $764,964. I suspect that among the rational this line of thinking will do about as well as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell blaming 911 on liberals, gays, the ACLU and People For ...
Job Cuts at FoF
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
I suppose this means that James Dobson will be focusing not quite so hard as usual on (messing with other people's) families. It's obviously an unfortunate thing when 200 people lose their jobs, no matter whom they work for; worse, it looks like most of the folks who will be taking the hit work in FoF's distribution facilities, processing and packaging and mailing the insufferably stupid shit that keeps Dobson wealthy and significant. These folks don't make a lot of money. One hopes that when they realize their boss smoked $500 million on a California ballot measure that ...
Focus on the Family forced to make layoffs after spending $600,000 to defeat marriage equality.
Think Progress —
... Colorado Independent reports that Focus on the Family “is poised to announce major layoffs to its Colorado Springs-based ministry and media empire today.” The layoffs come after the right-wing group spent more than $600,000 to defeat marriage equality in California. Praising the passage of Prop. 8, the group said that the measure “helps protect millions of children from ...
The Wages Of Hate
Newshoggers.com —
... Fundie wingnut Focus on the Family is being forced to layoff nearly six percent of it's workforce after giving a half a million dollars to the yes on proposition 8 campaign in California. ...
More layoffs at Focus on the Family
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... dismissals, as a sad commentary on the true priorities of ministry. If I were their membership I would be appalled, said Mark Lewis, a longtime Colorado Springs activist who helped organize a Proposition 8 protest in Colorado Springs on Saturday. That Focus on the Family would spend any money on anything thats obviously going to get blocked in the courts is just sad. Prop. 8 is guaranteed to lose, in the long run it doesnt have a chance its just a waste of money. Read more: http://coloradoindependent.com/15287/after-pumping-mone...
Putting Ideology Above Humanity
Hoffmania! —
... Focus On The Family spent over a half a mil to kill gay marriage in California. Now they're going to lay off over 200 employees. We guess they found it worth destroying 200 of their "families" to destroy a state's-worth of potential families. James Dobson took one more step toward hell. ...
Economic Meltdown Hits Dobson's Focus On The Family
Perfunction —
... Next in line at the federal bailout trough, Big Faith:
Focus on the Family announced this afternoon that 202 jobs will be cut companywide — more than 20 percent of its workforce. Initial reports bring the total number of remaining employees to around 950.
(h/t: memeorandum) ...
Focus on the Family forced to make layoffs after spending $600,000 to defeat marriage equality.
The Hollywood Liberal —
... major layoffs to its Colorado Springs-based ministry and media empire today.” The layoffs come after the right-wing group spent more than $600,000 to defeat marriage equality in California. Praising the passage of Prop. 8, the group said that the measure “helps protect millions […] Colorado Independent reports that Focus on the Family “is poised to announce major layoffs to its Colorado Springs-based ministry and media empire today.” The layoffs come after the right-wing group spent more than $600,000 to defeat marriage equality in California. Praising the passage of Prop. ...
Dobson's pyrrhic victory
Political Animal —
DOBSON'S PYRRHIC VICTORY.... James Dobson and his far-right Focus on the Family empire invested $539,000 in cash and another $83,000 worth of non-monetary support into making sure same-sex couples in California can't get married. The efforts, at least in the short term, paid off, and the infamous Prop. 8 narrowly won at the ballot box. It was, however, a pyrrhic victory. Dobson's group was spending money it could ...
Out of Focus
Shakesville —
The recession is hurting every segment of the economy. Even the folks in the sanctimony and intolerance distribution business are facing hard times. ...
Calif. AG Urges State Supreme Court To Hear Challenges To Prop. 8
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society —
... The Mormon church and socially conservative political lobbying outfits, such as James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, have dumped large sums of money and other resources into promoting Proposition 8. Dobson’s group funneled more than $500,000 into the push for Prop. 8. Late yesterday, officials with Dobson’s Colorado Springs-based religious ministry announced that it was cutting 202 jobs, a 20 percent deduction in its workforce, reported The Colorado Independent. Officials with Dobson’s group argued that its financial support of ...
Matthew Filipowicz: After Prop 8, James Dobson Asks Who Would Jesus Fire?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... , which spent well over half a million dollars fighting to take away the right of homosexuals to marry, is being forced to lay off 202 of it's employees. ...
James Dobson's Focus on the Family reportedly lays off 200
Top of the Ticket —
Tough times on the morality business front too, it seems.
Published reports in Colorado say that Focus on the Family, the conservative evangelical group founded and headed by Dr. James Dobson, is laying off about 200 of its employees.
It's the second time in recent months the influential group that does so much mailing it has its own ZIP code has released workers from its mountainside headquarters in Colorado Springs. The latest cuts leave the national organization with about 950 employees from a ...
Growing chorus for change at HRC
Citizen Crain —
November 19, 2008 Growing chorus for change at HRC Posted by: Chris Hrcnotequals A number of influential voices are echoing the view raised here (and here ) about the need for fundamental change of mindset and personnel at the leadership of the gay rights movement: Following up on Andrew's point about who wanted it more, it turns out that James Dobson's Focus on the Family is facing layoffs of more than 200 staffers because it pumped $539,000 into the Proposition 8 battle in California. Can anyone imagine HRC giving till it hurts like that? In fact, ...
Conservatives Need a Bailout
Jon Swift —
... But even if The National Review makes its political philosophy indistinguishable from James Dobson’s, that may not be enough to save it. Dobson’s Focus on the Family has also fallen on economic hard times. Because group spent $539,000 passing Proposition 8, which ended gay marriage in California, it doesn’t have enough money left over to pay its employees’ salaries so it has been forced to lay off 20% of its staff, which is just the latest in a series of layoffs. I’m sure that the workers being laid off are grateful that their families have been saved from the ...
Conservatives Need a Bailout
Shakesville —
... But even if The National Review makes its political philosophy indistinguishable from James Dobson’s, that may not be enough to save it. Dobson’s Focus on the Family has also fallen on economic hard times. Because group spent $539,000 passing Proposition 8, which ended gay marriage in California, it doesn’t have enough money left over to pay its employees’ salaries so it has been forced to lay off 20% of its staff, which is just the latest in a series of layoffs. I’m sure that the workers being laid off are grateful that their families have been saved from the ...
James Dobson resigns as Focus on the Family chairman.
Think Progress —
... .” The group has been suffering from financial troubles after spending $600,000 to defeat marriage equality in California, recently laying off more than 200 staffers. ...
