Gay activists are pledging to protest the induction ceremony for the National Radio Hall of Fame this November in Chicago if it goes ahead with plans to put one of the country’s leading anti-gay fundamentalists in the hall.
“It is an affront for the Radio Hall of Fame to honor James Dobson, a right-wing demagogue who built his radio empire on the backs of gay and lesbian people,” said Wayne Besen, a longtime Human Rights Campaign official who left HRC in 2006 and launched Truth Wins Out to counter misinformation efforts by anti-gay groups.
Dobson is founder and head of Focus on the Family, a Colorado-based religious organization that’s grown into one of the country’s largest and most profitable broadcasting and publishing empires. Much of that growth has been fueled by Dobson’s strident anti-gay messages, delivered throughout the country on a daily radio broadcast and often accompanied by fundraising appeals.
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“We do not take into consideration one’s politics or the content of one’s message,”
Really? Wow. So if Hitler had been on the radio for 20 years they would have honored him?
Comment by Jen — July 25, 2008 @ 1:26 pm
I agree that this is outrageous. Putting such a person in any hall of fame, other than the hall of hate mongers, is simply wrong. His ‘crafted from the dumpster’ likeness should stand next to those of Hitler, Elijah Muhammad of the Nation of Islam, the murderous Pol Pot of the C’mere Rouge army of slaughterers…the list is lengthy. May a mighty crowd of protesters blanket the area that day. I’ll be there if I’m able.
Comment by Dan Lewis — July 26, 2008 @ 8:04 am