Call it karma, but Focus on the Family is now in big trouble. At the group’s peak, it had nearly 1,500 employees. This week, they announced another round of layoffs – shedding 202 jobs, an estimated 20 percent of its workforce. This brings the new total to around 950 workers, according to the Colorado Independent.
The move to can workers comes after the group threw away $800,000 on Proposition 8 to ban same-sex marriage in California. One wonders if Focus on the Family will cut staff from its failed “ex-gay” Love Won Out road show? This extravagant traveling circus must cost a lot of money and it doesn’t work.
The fact is, if this organization would butt out of gay relationships, it might be able to actually help heterosexual families. If it would stop its “ex-gay” propaganda – which helps no one and destroys lives – it would not have to downsize.
I think donors to this organization should focus on the money flushed down the toilet to uphold bigotry and discrimination at the expense of families.
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Bravo Wayne,
I agree 100%. There’s work to do. Why is FotF wasting its time on our families. David and I have been married for 25 years and we volunteered to help Loudoun County’s now defunct healthy marriage initiative, but they rejected us and the initiative petered out. Since then, the anti gay industry has invested in book bannings, constitutional amendments and all sorts of worthless nonsense. We’re still here and happily married and their marriages are still in trouble, as are their churches.
Does this look healthy to you?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/15/AR2008111502626.html
Comment by Jonathan — November 19, 2008 @ 9:29 pm
I agree that donations to FOTF, ostensibly to help heterosexuals and aid religious freedom, are being flushed down the toilet.
But I wonder (honestly, I don’t know) whether the antigay activities are the least profitable part of FOTF — or the most profitable.
FOTF has long acted like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. One half offers very bland lessons for white Protestant heterosexual men and women to navigate marital struggles through upper-class-white-Protestant stereotypes of what a man or woman should be.
The other half warns that the world is in dire straits due to a loss of (special) rights of (white Protestant heterosexual) couples, loss of freedom (from having to share the nation with people who disagree with conservative white Protestants), and loss of (large) business rights (to pollute our air/water/food, waste energy, send our jobs to China, and loot the U.S. Treasury).
Which is more profitable — Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?
Comment by Michael Airhart — November 19, 2008 @ 10:24 pm
Yeah and I was just thinking also, if reparative therapists jobs are cut, then it would be difficult to find another one because “reparative therapist” would not look good on a resume because of how politically incorrect reparative therapy is because of all the REAL professionals who say it is bogus.
Comment by James — November 20, 2008 @ 1:05 am
Focus on the Family offered this advice today to heterosexual men:
Don’t wait until the time is right: Marry young, marry immaturely, and marry with too little money to support a family.
Comment by Michael Airhart — November 20, 2008 @ 1:28 am
When I went to a reparative therapy program, the said I needed to act more “manly”. Part of my “treatment” would be to play football, drink gatorade, and call other guys “dude”.
I already do all those things!
They’re idiots…….
Comment by James — November 20, 2008 @ 1:33 am
“Focus on the Family offered this advice today to heterosexual men.”
And what dumb advice it is.
I’m from a huge family and have close to 30 first-cousins (paternal and maternal sides combined), many of which I attended elem-high school with. Many of them ended up marrying their high school sweethearts shortly after graduation, and most of them are now either divorced or they’re in rocky marriages. Those 2 or 3 marriages which are still fine, are the cousins who waited until after college.
This is just another FOTF attempt to create more dysfunctional and short-term families. Marry young, have kids, divorce, remarry/procreate more, divorce, remarry/procreate more, divorce, repeat, repeat, and maybe you’ll get it right by your 9th marriage.
Comment by Scott — November 22, 2008 @ 8:31 pm