James Dobson

Father Dobson May No Longer Know Best

Rev. Dr. Cindi Love | Posted 05.14.2012

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Rev. Dr. Cindi Love

For the last decade Soulforce has been asking for a face-to-face meeting with Focus on the Family to discuss our concerns about Dr. Dobson's harmful speech about gay people, but each time we pulled up to the FOF headquarters, our volunteers were arrested. Something changed this time.

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Biblical Literalism, Secularism And American Politics

Christopher Lane | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Left Behind, Andrew Sullivan, Christopher Hitchens, Secularism, Rick Santorum, James Dobson, Christianity, Religion and Politics, Biblical Literalism, Barack Obama, Evangelicals, Religion News
Christopher Lane

The atrophying of our national understanding of secularism has dramatic implications for the country's well-being, including, most fundamentally, its ability to separate politics from religion.

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Santorum's Incredible Display of Ignorance On Euthanasia In the Netherlands

Dorian de Wind | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: James Dobson, Gop Presidential Candidates, Rick Santorum, Euthanasia Netherlands, The Netherlands, Santorum Health Care, Santorum Netherlands, Santorum Euthanasia, Video, Politics News
Dorian de Wind

The Dutch are genuinely offended that a foreign politician would misrepresent Dutch culture and morality merely to make a political point back home.

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Evangelical Leaders Calls Callista Gingrich A 'Mistress For 8 Years'

Posted 01.17.2012

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In making his case for Rick Santorum as the conservative consensus' alternative to Mitt Romney at a conference in Texas over the weekend, evangelical ...

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When Will Culture Warriors Find Their Rainbow Connection?

Cliff Schecter | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Al Jazeera English, Muppets, Media Research Center, Teletubbies, Cliff Schecter, James Dobson, Spongebob Squarepants, Dan Gainor, Tinky Winky, Cars 2, Culture, Culture Warriors, Culture News
Cliff Schecter

Too-big-to-fail corporations and their hand maidens in Congress (and the conservative echo chamber) most certainly pose a far greater danger to our children than a green frog-like puppet.

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The West Memphis Three: Damien Echols, Capital Punishment, And Christian Hypocrisy

David J. Dunn, PhD | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: West Memphis Three, Capital Punishment, Damien Echols, Sarah Palin, The Death Penalty, James Dobson, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Eastern Orthodox Church, Pro-Life, Pat Robertson, Death Penalty, Christianity and the Death Penalty, Wrongful Conviction, Christianity, Casey Anthony, Religion News
David J. Dunn, PhD

Capital punishment is incompatible with the Christian faith for a number of biblical and theological reasons.

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Tom's Shoes Founder Steps On Gay Toes

Rev. Dr. Cindi Love | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Fundamentalism, Transgender, Tom's Shoes, Homosexual, Bisexual, Lesbian, James Dobson, Christianity, Gay, Focus on the Family, Anti-Gay Bullying, Blake Mycoskie, Spiritual Violence, Same-Sex Marriage, Gay Rights, Religion News
Rev. Dr. Cindi Love

Public scrutiny is tough business. My hope for Blake and for the rest of us, is that we turn our missteps into opportunities to inform and educate and advocate for justice and peace.

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The Anointed Leaders Of The Religious Right

Karl Giberson, Ph.D | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: James Dobson, The Creation Museum, Glenn Beck, Religious Right, Ken Ham, Newt Gingrich, Tim LaHaye, David Barton, Evangelical Christians, Christian Nation, Christianity, Separation of Church and State, Religion News
Karl Giberson, Ph.D

American evangelicals, Fox News, and now the Republican Party take their intellectual cues from a roster of remarkably similar populists who head media empires.

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The Gay Definition Of Marriage

Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Jim Garlow, James Dobson, Religious Right, Christianity, Homosexuality, Gay Marriage, Marriage Equality, Religion News
Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge

During a recent radio show appearance, a conservative pastor told the audience that gays and lesbians are unfit for marriage because "it takes discipline."

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Weekly Audit: Republicans' Budget Declares War on Medicare

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.05.2011

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The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The Republicans are poised to unveil a model budget on Tuesday that would effectively end Medicare by ...

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Focus On The Family Asserts Importance Of Social Issues, Embraces Softer Tone

Posted 05.25.2011

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When Focus on the Family's fiery founder, James Dobson, severed ties with the organization in 2010, many expected the conservative flagship to strike ...

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Even Our Parenting Is Shifting Right

Sally Kohn | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Teamwork, Progressive, Individualism, James Dobson, Amy Chua, Conservative, Psychology, Worldview, Parenting, Right Wing, Self-Help, Ideology, Tiger Mom, Mama Grizzlies, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Healthy Living News
Sally Kohn

Hanging ornaments on her grandparents' Christmas tree, my two-year-old beamed with pride for having hooked a snowman on a branch all by herself. A ...

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What Do Lewd Navy Videos and the National Day of Prayer Have in Common?

Chris Rodda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Owen Honors, James Dobson, Lawrence Rice, National Day of Prayer, Focus on the Family, Owen Honors Video, Navy, Shirley Dobson, Politics News
Chris Rodda

Such a good Christian officer like Rear Admiral Rice couldn't possibly have known about and allowed Captain Honors to show his raunchy, demeaning videos on board a ship under his command, could he?

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The Christian Right in Context: The Obama Years

Richard T. Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard T. Hughes

The "Christian America" vision pushed by the Christian Right stands in stark contrast with the biblical vision of the kingdom of God.

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The Christian Right In Context: Politics Over Persuasion

Richard T. Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Christian Right, Christian America, Barack Obama, Paul Weyrich, Brown v. Board of Education, Civil Rights Movement, Kingdom of God, Thomas Road Baptist Church, James Dobson, Religious Right, Moral Majority, Bob Jones University, Congressional Scorecards, Second Great Awakening, Christian Fundamentalism, Christian Social Justice, Christian Coalition, Evolution and Christianity, Religion News
Richard T. Hughes

By the 1960s, the world was out of joint again, prompting the rise of the Christian Right.

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GOP Tops List at Center for Missing & Exploited Political Parties

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brian Ross

There is an extensive manhunt on today for traces of the real Republican Party. The Party of No has amazingly continued, and sightings of the Elephant...

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Focus On The Family Upping Facebook Presence

The Denver Post | Electra Draper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Dobson, Social Media, Church, Facebook, Focus on the Family, Denver News

The message is biblical and timeless, Focus on the Family officials say, but the medium is changing. The Colorado Springs-based media ministry said...

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Focus on the Family channels George Rekers in fighting anti-bullying efforts

Alvin McEwen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Dobson, Gay Rights, Glsen, Focus on the Family, George Rekers, Gay Youth, Politics News
Alvin McEwen

Focus on the Family is targeting anti-bullying efforts in schools, claiming that they actually push the so-called "gay agenda." According to The Denve...

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James Dobson Announces Plan To Start A PAC

Posted 05.25.2011

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Former Focus on the Family CEO James Dobson announced on his radio show Thurdsay his intention to form a new political action committee (PAC) to "stan...

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Eleventh researcher complains that the religious right distorted his work

Alvin McEwen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Dobson, Science, Religious Right, Pfox, Focus on the Family, Prop 8, Politics News
Alvin McEwen

Yet another researcher is accusing religious right groups of misusing his work. John Horgan, a science journalist and Director of the Center for S...

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Focus On The Family Finances

Colorado Springs Business Journal | John Hazlehurst | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Dobson, Tim Tebow, Focus on the Family, Focus on the Family Finances, Tim Daly, Denver News

Battered by the recession, the departure of its founder and a suddenly smaller donor base, Focus on the Family suffered mightily in 2009 but appears t...

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Boulder Daily Camera | Erica Meltzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Dobson, Marijuana, Boulder Police, Frying Pan, Taser, Denver News

A Boulder officer used a stun gun to shock a man last weekend after he threw a frying pan at her, police said. Boulder police said the officer resp...

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Actor Matthew Marsden Hides Right-Wing Political Views

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jackson Williams

If Matthew Marsden is really honored to hang out with anti-gay, religious-right hate mongers -- and that's who he flew halfway across the country to be with in private -- then he should do it in the light of day.

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Weekly News Roundup: Muslims, Gays, Nazis and More!

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Fema, Family Research Council, Times Square Bomb, Nazism, Bob Mcdonnell, Dana Perino, Faisal Shahzad Times Square Bomber, Arizona, Internatinoal-Arabian-Horse-Association, Barack Obama, Gulf Oil Spill Obama, Virginia, Islamophobia, Michael Brown, Times Square, Greece, Oil Spill, George Rekers Rentboy, Time Square Bombing, Greece Debt Crisis, Brownie, James Dobson, Dana Perino Cuban Missile Crisis, BP Oil Spill, Arizona Immigration Law, George Rekers, Faisal Shahzad, Comedy News
Katie Halper

After obsessing over Muslim background of suspected Times Square bomber, media becomes enlightened and religiously tolerant, and overlooks fact that the man who helped foil bomb plot was Muslim.

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James Dobson's Co-Founder Takes Gay Prostitute to Europe

Fred Karger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Family Research Council, Californians Against Hate, George Rekers Rentboy, James Dobson, Fred Karger, Focus on the Family, Tony Perkins, Ted, Eric Holder, Politics News
Fred Karger

Another extremely influential anti-gay leader was caught with a male prostitute on their return from a 10 day European Vacation. George Alan Rekers, founded the Family Research Council (FRC) with James Dobson in 1993.

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