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Texas Evangelicals Funded Attempt To Stop Palin Troopergate Probe

Anchorage Daily News | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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New state gift disclosures show it cost Liberty Legal Institute and the two law firms working with it $185,000 to represent six Alaska legislators in ...

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Word Thief To Lead Focus on the Family's DC Lobby Shop

Wayne Besen | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Truth Wins Out, Focus on the Family, Tim Goeglein, Wayne Besen, Tim Daly, Media News
Wayne Besen

Tim Goeglein is a perfect hire as lead Washington lobbyist for Focus on the Family. He resigned from the Bush White House, after it was discovered that he had plagiarized 19 of 38 columns.

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Disgraced Rove Aide Named Top Lobbyist For Focus On The Family

Colorado Independent | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ralph Reed, Karl Rove, James Dobson, Tim Goeglein and Plagiarism, Focus on the Family, Tim Goeglein, Rove, Politics News

Being a serial plagiarist may no longer be the professional equivalent of a hair shirt. Look at Vice President Joe Biden. Good thing for ex-Bush admin...

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The Mormon PR Campaign on Prop 8...The Lawsuit

Fred Karger | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mormon Church, Proposition 8, Californians Against Hate, Blackwater, Fair Political Practices Commission, American Family Association, Elsa Prince, William Bolthouse, Focus on the Family, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Fred Karger

The Mormon Church claims that a handful of their over 64,000 contributors have been harassed since Prop 8's narrow victory on November 4th.

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Motherhood Tales: My Little Runaway

Thelma Adams | Posted 01.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Nicole Quinn, Hudson Valley, Running Away, Relationships, Working Mothers, Runaways, Motherhood, Thomas Cole, Parenting, Focus on the Family, Happiness, Frederic Church, Lizzy, Mothers and Daughters, Family, Living News
Thelma Adams

How very dare she? I thought. I couldn't be a better mother than I am, I read child-rearing books. I managed my anger -- not well, but better.

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Focus on the Family Saves Christmas -- Thank God!

Phil Bronstein | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

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Phil Bronstein

Warning to anxious retailers -- make sure you don't shy away from the using word "Christmas" in your crass annual attempt to pander to all those secular customers.

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After Prop 8, James Dobson Asks Who Would Jesus Fire?

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 12.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Layoffs, Religion, California Gay Marriage, Proposition 8, Satire, Job Layoffs, James Dobson, Religious Right, Religion and Politics, Political Satire, California Gay Marriage Ban, California Prop 8, Gays, Focus on the Family, Gay Marriage, Entertainment News
Matthew Filipowicz

The truth is, spreading hate and intolerance is a business just like anything else. And in business, sometimes you're forced to make tough choices.

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Focus On the Family Foresees Unrestricted Porn with Obama Presidency

Theresa Darklady Reed | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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Theresa Darklady Reed

Focus on the Family's "Letter from 2012 in Obama's America," tries to whip up fear by insisting that a future under a president Obama "could" see an end to the world as they wish to know it.

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Jesus Wouldn't Give $200K to Back Prop 8

Kip Williams | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Prop 6, Poverty, Proposition 8, No on Prop 8, American Family Association, California Prop 8, US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Focus on the Family, Civil Rights, Politics News
Kip Williams

I was shocked and offended to learn that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had thrown down $200K to back Prop 8, which would revoke the right of same-sex couples to get married.

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James Dobson's 'Letter From 2012 in Obama's America'

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Conservative, Fear, Common Good, Good News, Politics, Elections, James Dobson, 2008 Election, Religious Right, Evangelicals, Gospel, Election, Evangelical, Focus on the Family, Barack Obama, Consistent Ethic of Life, Religion, Politics News
Jim Wallis

James Dobson, you owe America an apology. The fictional letter released through your Focus on the Family Action organization, crosses all lines of decent public discourse.

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Evangelical Leaders Using God Like a Hired Gun

Christine Wicker | Posted 11.28.2008 | Home

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Christine Wicker

The evangelical Christian mullahs are declaring that Obamageddon is at hand. One warned that people who hate Christianity will take over the country if Obama is elected. "Life as we know it will end!"

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

Rashad Robinson | Posted 11.24.2008 | Media

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Rashad Robinson

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

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The Radio Hall of Shame To Honor James Dobson

Wayne Besen | Posted 11.22.2008 | Chicago

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Wayne Besen

James Dobson's self-righteous ranting about gay people overrides his ratings and the prejudice he perpetuates overshadows his popularity.

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Introducing the Totally Unscientific Bumper Sticker Poll!

Ann J. Atkinson | Posted 10.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Polls, India, Field Hockey, Obama Bumper Sticker on Mccain Bus, Obama Survey, Gallup Polls, Long-Haul Truckers, Rasmussen Polls, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Colorado, Cabdrivers, John McCain 2008, I-25, ABC Poll, Bumper Stickers, Fox News, Focus on the Family, Zogby Poll, Bush/Cheney, Open Left, Home News
Ann J. Atkinson

Forget Zogby, Gallup, Chris Bower's daily swing state chart (newly tweaked) on Open Left, Intrade's prediction markets, ABC, CBS, and Fox/Rasmussen an...

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Palin: The Most Extremist Candidate Since Goldwater

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

Palin's nomination marks a decision by McCain to try to turn the election from one about the economy to a replay of past elections about cultural issues and about which candidate represents real Americans.

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The Palin Effect

Rob Stein | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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Rob Stein

The Right's non-party machinery now suddenly has a laser-like focus on creating a "surge" of voters for McCain-Palin. This machinery is vast, strategically targeted, exceptionally well-financed, and ready to rumble.

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Kowtowing McCain

Carol Hoenig | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Vice President, John McCain, Christian Conservatives, Sarah Palin, James Dobson, New York Times, Focus on the Family, Phil Burress, Politics News
Carol Hoenig

Phil Burress, head of the Ohio group, Citizens for Community Values, gave an interesting quote in today's New York Time's article, McCain's Effort to ...

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Obama Increasingly Attacked For Stance On Abortion

Earnest Harris | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home

Read More: James Dobson, Abortion, Amanda Carpenter, Pat Buchanan, Focus on the Family, Barack Obama, Home News
Earnest Harris

Barack Obama didn't outshine John McCain this weekend the way many anticipated he might at the "Faith Forum" held by influential evengelical leader Ri...

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Jason Linkins

Focus On The Family Asks God To Rain Out Obama Speech

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

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"Deus, dona mihi serenitatem accipere res quae non possum mutare, fortitudinem mutare res quae possum, atque sapientiam differentiam cognoscere." The...

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James Dobson's Toilet Politics

Christine Wicker | Posted 07.30.2008 | Home

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Christine Wicker

How does a transvestite go to the toilet? I don't mean anatomically. I mean locationally, as in to which bathroom? I never thought about it until Focus on the Family began battling Colorado's new anti-discrimination bill.

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Evangelical Sheep? Don't Count On That

Christine Wicker | Posted 07.22.2008 | Home

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Christine Wicker

One out of four Americans identifies as evangelical. A recent Pew survey of their opinions, however, found a diversity that should give political pundits pause and fuel Obama's efforts to woo them.

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Focus on the Fallacies of James Dobson

Wayne Besen | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lies, John McCain, Social Conservatives, Distortions, James Dobson, Truth Wins Out, Religious Right, Ex-Gay, Right Wing, Focus on the Family, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Religion, Obama Religious Voters, Politics News
Wayne Besen

When James Dobson cites research or statistics in this election cycle, news reporters have an obligation to check with the actual researchers who conducted the studies.

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Obama In Colorado Springs To Address "New Era Of Service"

Colorado Confidential | Posted 07.10.2008 | Home

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Colorado Confidential

The visit may include a speech at one of the region's five military bases and there is speculation that Obama may even meet with Evangelical Focus on the Family leader James Dobson.

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Coming to a Screen Near You: John McCain and His Sidekicks, Dumb and Dumber

Elizabeth Shipp | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Politics, Naral Pro-Choice America, Family Research Council, John McCain, Hypocrisy, James Dobson, National Right to Life, Birth Control, Focus on the Family, Tony Perkins, Title X, Politics News
Elizabeth Shipp

James Dobson and Tony Perkins, and John McCain don't have the guts to stand up and speak the truth about their radical, out-of-the-mainstream views.

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James Dobson's "Fruitcake" Interpretations

John K. Wilson | Posted 07.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Religion, Bible, 2008 Presidential Race, Democratic Presidential Candidate, James Dobson, Christianity, Religion and Politics, Obama, Focus on the Family, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Offthebus, Home News
John K. Wilson

Dobson's attacks on Obama reveal what Dobson truly is: a right-wing nut with delusional interpretations of the Bible who unfortunately wields enormous influence within the Republican Party.

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