Focus On The Family Faces Massive Layoffs After Prop 8 Push

Colorado Independent:

Focus on the Family is poised to announce major layoffs to its Colorado Springs-based ministry and media empire today. The cutbacks come just weeks after the group pumped more than half a million dollars into the successful effort to pass a gay-marriage ban in California.

Critics are holding up the layoffs, which come just two months after the organization's last round of dismissals, as a sad commentary on the true priorities of ministry.

Read the whole story: Colorado Independent

Comments

[TrooAmerican]

Focus on your Own Damn Family.

[1differentdrummer]

The picture says, "I've got mine, how you doin'?"

[jacobomorales]

Who needs those freaks?

[LemonMeringue]

I sure hope the IRS is taxing the right parts of this organization.

No more tax exemptions for churches that engage in organized political activity.

[Brian187]

I guess they aren't "focusing on the families" of the people that used to work there. I hope they gave a nice severance package. Just goes to show that they will use people to meet their objectives and then throw them out once they are unnecessary.

Surely this does not qualify as a charitable religious organization for IRS purposes if they are spending this kind of money on political agendas.

[GaGal]

The thing is though, the people who got laid off are probably just looking at it as a sacrifice they had to make to accomplish the end goal.

[SDBrian]

Yes, unfortunately, ALL of the monies they used were "tax-deductible donations" - what a CROCK!

Yes, my religion teaches taking away basic civil rights is a just cause .......

I for one intend on filing a complaint with the IRS ... here's a link if you also care enough to be involved.

http://www.civlib.com/2008/11/how-to-file-complaint-asking-irs-to.html

This is worse than the Mormons - they asked thier followers to donate (not tax-deductible), but these creeps used tax-deductible donations to fund a hate campaign.

[sheaftosser]

Must destroy gays....mu­st destroy gays....mu­st destroy gays....

[mcantwell]

Is this what a Pharisee looks like? Jesus didn't like Pharisees.

[LucusT]

Is this the best way to promote the well being of people?
How funny that this could be the thing that brings them down.
Those laws of unintended consequences sure are funny sometimes.

[T4Obama]

My employer stopped gay marriage and all I got was this lousy pink slip.

[Americano]

They did their job and they are not needed any more. Same for the campaign workers and voluntees in the presidencial campaigns. Job well done, and thanks!

[Vladdycat]

Maybe they just came out and quit.

[Lionsden]

The War of Independence was won, in part, from the church pulpits by clergy called The Black Regiment (named after their black clergy robes). The Founding Fathers were never surprised by politically active churches.

The Founders even recommended that "church taxes" which were already in place before the Constitution, be eliminated. Most all were, if I recall.

For those who demand Separation of Church and State, there isn't a surer way of blending them together than through taxation. Both parties would begin to make demands on each other, forever compromising to survive, until they were hopelessly intertwined.

Madison said about the taxation of churches at his time:

"there is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermeddle with religion".­.."'this subject is, for the honor of America, perfectly free and unshackled. The Government has no jurisdiction over it. . . ."

People have the free choice to donate to Doctor Dobson. If they don't like how he handles their money, they can stop doing this.

This is a liberty we should all relish.

[GaGal]

"This is a liberty we should all relish."

Yes, well, some people relish the liberty of not having their civil rights trampled all over by your religious dogma.

[Lionsden]

It is a bit of a stretch to assume that Christians are intentionally out to trample anyone rights since there is NO example in history heretofore (in any major civilization including non-christian ones) where such a thing a same-sex marriage was codified in law. In other words, Christians are carrying on a traditional custom shared by most of the human race throughout time.

There is no evidence that Christianity teaches its adherents to hate homosexuals and make their lives miserable, but there is a whole lot of evidence that the Founding Father's and our form of government gives them the right to express their personal opinions in the public square and in the political process just like homosexuals.

The communist Chinese outlawed homosexuality throughout their reign. Shall we blame that on religious dogma too?

And shall I blame non-religious dogma for opinions opposite of mine and imply that they are invalid and not to be spoken aloud?

This isn't about whether religious or non religious dogmas have a right in the public square, they do, it is about which of them shall hold sway through our liberty to persuade.

[GaGal]

And equality of civil rights is a liberty gay people relish. Their pursuit of happiness should not be encumbered by someone else's religious dogma.

[reggieb]

"But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love." When will these so called Christians return to practicing love instead of hate?

[GaGal]

When has Christianity ever been about love:? And remember that "Christianity" was not organized or labeled until long after Christ's death.

[OgreDaddy]

This organization should be audited and taxed.

Focus On The Family Profits

[Vere15]

How stupid - now hundreds of "traditional families" will lose a breadwinner because resources were reallocated from building families to meddling in the lives of others. From a financial point of view, this is reprehensible. Where was the firewall between conventional operations and specific causes.

Dr (not Rev., never Rev.) Dobson should face up to the fact that the Obama family is his "posterchild" and in part for that reason, his fellow citizens of Colorado voted overwhelmingly for him as president. If he wants to persuade us, he needs to provide postitive examples to emulate

One wonders if proposition 8 was Dobson's thirty pieces of silver. I hope he spends them wisely because the well seems to be drying up.

[xstevejx]

Seeing several TV 'discussions' about Prop 8 the past week, it's amazing churches are as organized as they appear. I don't think one church leader I heard could give any coherent answer to how gay marriage adversely affects heterosexual marriage..­.other than some generic drivel about it 'diluting' the idea of marriage (to stupid peoples' eyes???).

Marriage STARTED as a PROPERTY ARRANGEMEN­T...of a PERSON! THAT makes the origins of marriage something to highly respect? The Bible also encourages polygamy..­.so are Warren Jeffrey's followers the only true Christians? I actually don't want to know how many people secretly say yes to that to themselves­...it would be too scary.

If you're going to FOLLOW a belief, you have to follow it WHOLEHEART­EDLY...you can't just pick and choose the parts of it you like. So if you believe marriage is so sacred, you also believe women are to be property of men and men can have multiple wives and women's only job is to tend to their husbands and children. Otherwise, you are an outright HYPOCRITE and will be one of the first to be cast to Hell at the End of Days.

I actually don't doubt that people like Dobson hold these beliefs...­but people like him DARE NOT tell the women who folllow them how they truly feel. I'm sure people like him also damn the day commonfolk learned how to read and think for themselves.