A new interview with self-styled “conservative crusader” Star Parker hints at Focus on the Family’s growing hatred against freedom and individual responsibility.
Parker — author of White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay — is unlikely ever to be allowed in the executive ranks or board of Focus on the Family. She is outspoken about her blackness, and Focus’ record of internal hostility toward African-Americans dates at least as far back as 1997, when Focus co-founder Gil Alexander-Moegerle wrote a tell-all exposé of the Focus leadership’s racism, sexism, its irrational hostility toward gay Americans, and its brewing war against basic American values.
In her interview with Focus operative Jennifer Mesko, Parker blames freedom for her life as a welfare mom. Freedom, according to Parker is one of “the messages of the Left that basically you can do whatever you want, whether it’s with your sexual choices or any other aspect of your life. So very early, I got engaged in criminal activity, and drug activity, and sexual promiscuity.”
With either breathtaking stupidity or cunning contempt for intellectual honesty, Parker confuses “can do” with “should do.” Parker believes that if one is free to commit an action, then one should commit it.
Parker dishonestly and arrogantly contends that it is somehow “conservative” or “Christian” to take away freedoms in order to deny people the free will to choose right and wrong.
Parker recounts a life of irresponsible choices — abortions, unwed pregnancy, chronic unemployment, drug use — but instead of accepting responsibility for choices, she blames liberals for allowing her to make them.
Instead of making moral choices and encouraging others to choose responsibly, Parker decided to join a culture war against freedom. “I made a commitment I was going to get engaged in that battle, and I’ve been there ever since.”
Instead of fulfilling the core Christian moral imperative of reversing poverty and its causes, Parker resolved “that we need to dismantle the war on poverty and increase the activities in the Christian community so we can be there for people in need” — in other words, it seems, she vowed to stop battling the causes of poverty and instead battled to offer ideological scapegoating and religious back-patting.
Her opposition to unnecessary or preventable abortions may be commendable, but her methods — denying families the information and freedom they need to make informed and mature choices, and turning freedom into a bogeyman — are un-American and, from this particular Christian’s point of view, unholy.
Parker and Focus on the Family claim to defend faith and a Biblical worldview, but their contempt for free will and personal responsibility have no basis in any legitimate faith nor in any legitimate interpretation of the Bible.
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Well, it’s not like we should expect intellectual honesty or consistency from anyone at Focus on the Family or the Family Research Council. All they have is lies.
Comment by ted — July 26, 2008 @ 6:42 pm
How com that all this spokespersons, whether they’re from “Focus on the Familiy” or “Exodus Internation”, all scrweed up really badly earlier in their life ? I’m gay, that means I’m a part of the community they’re trying to fight so hard, but I never even thought about commiting certain actions, that some of these people commited in their earlier years, when they….excuse me…”didn’t know”. Well apperently they really “didn’t know” the difference between right and wrong. I’m 20 and til now, I managed pretty well in differing right from wrong, and doing what is right. We could teach these pathetic people so much. Too bad, that they won’t listen….
Comment by Den — July 26, 2008 @ 7:38 pm
I’m gay, and have a family member who thinks dobdork is the greatest thing since sliced bread. She refers to our marriage as “an evil alliance”, and sent $ to dobdork’s gulag “to commemorate my birthday”, which is today.
Comment by Alex — July 27, 2008 @ 11:16 pm
The core Christian imperative is pointing out the moral decay in this society, which in it’s basics, is sin, of which homosexuality is surely a sin. You can tear out the pages, but the truth remains.
Comment by Randy — July 29, 2008 @ 9:03 pm
No, Randy, the core Christian imperative is to love — John 13:34. “I give you a new commandment: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.”
Another core Christian imperative: Judge not, lest you be judged. Matthew 7:1-3.
On the other hand, Randy, none of what you said is in the Bible. The word “homosexuality” didn’t even exist in Biblical times. Jesus was (according to Christian tradition) crucified by self-appointed moralists who practiced the same selective judgment — and the same unrepentant “sin” — that you practice here.
Further off-topic discussion on this page is prohibited.
This discussion is about Focus on the Family’s war against freedom, and the moral irresponsibility of Focus and its pundits. Persons who wish to defend Focus’ efforts to undermine freedom and responsibility are welcome to make specific arguments to that effect.
Comment by Michael Airhart — July 29, 2008 @ 9:16 pm
Den, that’s great - if you’re 20 and a level-headed gay man, you’ve already surpassed the likes of Randy Thomas (who’s about 40 now, still acts like he needs his diaper changed, and fully relies on the gay community at large as his sole source of income).
Comment by Scott — July 30, 2008 @ 12:44 pm