Make Your Voice Heard: James Dobson and the Radio Hall of Fame

As you may have heard, James Dobson's anti-gay Focus on the Family radio program will be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame on November 8th.

We at GLAAD have created an online video highlighting some of Dobson's anti-gay commentary and written a post over at glaadBLOG.

We are urging people to make their voice heard and to contact the Radio Hall of Fame - let them know what kind of person they are about to induct.

Below is the contact information for the Radio Hall of Fame along with a link and an excerpt to our blog post. Please watch the video, spread the word and let your voice be heard.

Call: [phone]
Email: Bruce Dumont (CEO) - [e-mail]
Email: Gina Doyle - [e-mail]

Here's an excerpt from our post, you can the whole post with links to all the original videos over at glaadBLOG.

"James Dobson has a long history of attacking and making things up about gay people. Unfortunately, the media will often times give Dobson a national platform outside his radio program to spread his lies, lies that then reach millions.

Among his many false claims, Dobson has said being gay 'has to do with an identity crisis that occurs too early to remember it' and that gay people 'have as many as 300 to 1,000 partners in a lifetime.' He has also falsely claimed that committed gay couples 'cannot be a family' and that allowing them to get married would 'destroy the family.'

Dobson has even gone after entertainment media, asking if the makers of the children's movie Happy Feet were 'getting at the idea that homosexuality is genetic' and said that the Britney/Madonna kiss was, 'part of this continuing effort to desensitize people to homosexuality[.]'

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James Dobson doesn't deserve to be honored for his lies and distortions aimed to hurt and marginalize LGBT people.

Please take a moment and contact the Museum of Broadcast Communications and let them know just who they are about to induct into their Radio Hall of Fame."

Comments

[larry278]

Admitting Preacher Dobson & his Focus on the Family to any hall of fame degrades the enterprise to the status as a wretched, puff making, instrument of self-congratulation of the insecure among 3d rate, worthless frauds & has beens. The Radio Hall of Fame & Preacher Dobson deserve each other. They are fated to be scorned laughing stocks till the descend into a well earned oblivion from their 15 minutes of dubious fame & infamy as the homophobes & bigots of 2008 & 2009. Bigotry is a chosen career path of the miserably sub-mediocre of Pastor Dobson's ilk. Comics, if they are hard up for laughs, will keep Pastor Dobson & the Radio Hall of [Shame] Fame in the public's mind for 15 minutes each year till the Radio Hall of Fame collapses into oblivion permenantly. It will be a case of good riddance of bad rubish & a stinking, fetid garbage dump.

[Spender]

Done and done.
It is a free country and Dobson is entitled to his opinions.
I am entitled to say that he should never, ever be honored for same.
Thank you for letting me know about this.

[gaydm]

As a gay man, I am deeply conflicted over the induction of this mans radio program into ANY hall of fame. However, I do believe that we do need to preserve for future generations evidence's of all the absurdities of mans opinions of each other. That way we as a people will be able to see, or in this case, hear for ourselves what the past has held up as "normal thinking"

I disagree with this man vehemently, but I have to respect his right to his opinion. The only option and calling I have is to prove his sorry a@# wrong by living a better and truer life than he.