Focus on the Family drops ex-gay program, faces budget shortfall

What a big surprise. To no one.

I guess Christians are more concerned about turning a profit than they are about ‘converting’ us poor, evil, tortured, Gay people, huh?

These particualr ‘Christians’ are so evil that even Satan refuses to associate with them. He says they scare him.

And most Christians are too blinded by dogma to see that they are being USED for their hard earned $$$.

I thought they were so concerned with the Gayness? What happened? Shouldn’t they continue this program for free? Out of the goodness of their Christian hearts? They are, after all, trying to save souls, not money. Right? Isn’t that what Jesus would do?

What a joke. Heterosexual Anti-Gay Christians need to wake up to themselves. These jokers are getting you to put your hard earned dollars into their collection plates for what? God? It sounds more like y’all are paying your weekly ’stupid tax’ to me.

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Love, indeed, won out.

Let’s leave these haters behind us…..they’re behind the wheel of history.

I was delighted by the headline, to think of all the poor gay and lesbian kids who would no longer suffer torment and torture at the hands of the families who follow this evil man, Dobson. Now I’m just sad: turns out his torture program is a multi-million dollar business that he is just selling off to someone else.

I’m just waiting for him and his ilk to all die off. And hoping I can outlive them.

Finally, leave people alone and give your money to illiteracy and teaching children after school, and sheltering abused women from sick men. My brother was a drinker who beat up his wife and children but went to church, so it was ok. Let’s focus on real family issues. Not pretend ones that are based on power.Lets base them on reality.

If an out fit like that really could make an honest profit than this country is even deeper in doodo than a I thought. Hmm? How could you make an “honest profit” if you whole program is based solely on propaganda and lies?????????

You can only sell something for that kind of money if it’s making a profit. And some one will only buy it if they think they will continue to make a profit from it. File this under capitalism, not religion.

Eric Prince must be using all his money for lawyers

Great news! He is a fake and a charlatan,

These so-called Christians are so vile with their bizarre hatreds and outdated prejudices. James Dobson should be so ashamed of himself for all the hate he has for gay americans, and for all the hate he has spread in Christ’s name.

I’m a Christian and I support gay marriage and more Christians need to know that it is ok. You don’t have to drink the hater kool-aid.

The right wing is all about manipulating ignorant Christians and they do it for control, power, and money.

So sad they have less money this year…..undoubtedly the brothels in Nevada will be having hard time too as a result.

It should come as no surprise to anyone that one of the main practioners of the whole Love Won Out program in Minnesota is none other Michelle Bachmann’s husband.

ha! good. hopefully they will start focusing on their own families instead of ours.

Why is god always broke? You would think that someone who is all-knowing could at least get tomorrow’s lottery numbers right. Go figure!

Clearly, life would have been much easier for Focus and Dr. Dobson if they had never expressed (or practiced) their biblically driven views on homosexuality. Whether you agree wirh Focus on the Family or not on this issue, there can be no doubt that Focus’ advise and leadership on strengthening families has been a tremendous service to people throught the USA and beyond.

Dobson lined his pockets for years spreading misinformation to the evangelical right…..obviously fewer and fewer care.

Wow… there’s alot of hate around here and premature celebration. The program got SOLD not CANCELLED. It still exists, and someone else runs it. And frankly I’m glad, as I have many gay friends. Most of them are happy with their choice/orientation — and good for them! But one in particular wants desparately to change, and it is nice that there are people and organizations out there who can help.

Now that this technique has been unmasked for the fraud it is, selling it was the only option, because whoever gets it will also get the lawsuits that will come with it.

The point is, there IS no “help.” He is what he is. Giving these frauds money won’t change that a bit.

Sometimes the ignorance of straight people on gay issues is so very disappointing. “Helping” a black person become white or a gay become straight is not “help”. The hubris required to think that way is stunning. I am a Christian and God created me gay and I stopped crying about it years ago. Of course some people wish they weren’t what God made them to be- because society puts gay people thru the wringer. Dobson and his kind are not the kind of Christians that I was raised to be. They are profit-seeking power-seeking people who think God isn’t paying attention and so they’ll jump in and “do it” themselves. There is no such thing as an ex-gay. Show me an ‘ex-Asian’ and maybe I’ll rethink it.

Di–Your friend would NOT want desperately to change if Dobson, Inc. wasn’t churning up self-hatred and making gay Christians believe they are abominations. Your friend could move to a progressive gay-friendly community and s/he could get REAL help from a gay-supportive psychotherapist. The Exodus type programs do NOT work–they only create repression and all of what comes with attempting to stuff one’s basic nature.

I believe that your anti-gay/lesbian program has run its course. People must be allowed to make their own choices, if our country is to survive as a respected, forward thinking leader of the industrialized world.

I left the Christian chuch as a young adult simply because I knew in my heart what was right for me may not be right for someone else and vice versa. I was done with someone (usually a man) standing on a pulpit, trying to convince me that his way was the only way, all in the name of Jesus.

Christianity has strayed so far away from what Jesus was was really about. He was a gentle soul with gentle ways. He never told any person they were wrong. He taught by example and he never judged anyone.

There have been many teachers in the history of our world. I will never understand why people everywhere feel they can pick just one person to idolize, such as Jesus. When you do that, you have no choice but to negatively judge others who do not agree with you completely. If we could ever learn to treat people with the respect that we would like to receive in return, this would be a very different world indeed.

Peace to All

P.S. I am a straight, older, white woman.

Just a reminder of what happened to the of two men who founded Exodus… They ran off together!

I love a story with a happy ending.

“Does the Republican Party want our votes, no strings attached—to court us every two years, and then to say, ‘Don’t call me; I’ll call you’—and to not care about the moral law of the universe?…Is that what they want? Is that the way the system works? Is this the way it’s going to be? If it is, I’m gone, and if I go, I will do everything I can to take as many people with me as possible.”
– Statement from 02/07/98 Council for National Policy meeting, Washington Times, February 17, 19

Promises, Promises.

MAYBE the “Spirit” of “God” is working here. HE is saying to Focus on the Family. “Enough! Back off on this gay hate thing. You are giving ME a bad name. And, oh yeah, on this profit thing, I thought we kicked the money changers out of my temple, “Go and do thou likewise’”.

ONLY GOD CREATOR OF ALL, AND HIS LIVING WORD “JESUS CHRIST” CAN CHANGE, THE BEHAVIOR OF A HOMOSEXUAL, THIS STUPID CREATURES THINK, GOD CAN BE FOOLED, BY TELLING THE WORLD,THAT THEY ARE CHRISTIANS, NO MORE CAN THEY DO THAT, THAN MEN LIKE DOBSON,THAT HAS MADE A MOKERY, OF CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES, TO LIVE HIS PERSONAL LIFE LIKE A LITTLE KING, HERE ON EARTH, BY FOOLING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, THAT IGNORANT OF GODS WORD, REASON BY WHICH, THIS FALSE CHRISTIANS, HAVE EMPOWER, THEMSELVES,TO RIP PEOPLE OFF THEIR, PATRIMONIES, THAT OTHERWISE, COULD HAVE,PROVIDED, THEIR FAMILIES, WITH A BETTER STANDARD OF LIVING.GOD IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN CHANGE A QUEERS HEART, IN THE SAME MANNER, THAT CAN CHANCH, A CON-ARTIST, FROM CONTINUE,TO USE HIS SATANIC PHSYCOLOGY, ON THE UNSUSPECTING,HUMAN PHSYCIC, CAN YOU IMAGINE, WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPEN, IF THE 12 DECIPLES, WOULD, HAVE GIVEN, THEIR EARNINGS, TO CHRIST,THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SAID, THAT THEY WERE, TRYING TO BUY THEIR WAY, INTO HAVEN, AND ALL SACRIFICED, OFFERED,THROUGH HIS DEAD, WOULD,HAVE BEEN VOID. GOD FATHER AND HIS CHRIST, WILL HAVE THE LAST LAUGH.HIPOCRITS, AND IGNORANT CREEPS.

Alan –

How have they been helpful?

It was God’s will.

Chances are pretty good that the “sale” was a fire sale- pennies on the dollar. The smart money would be put on buying the dog program by those that don’t want it anyway and then putting it quietly into its’ eternal resting place. Crazier things…….. I too must ask Allen, there can indeed be no doubt on my part because I’ve never heard of any of the program, only the flutter of Mr. Dobson’s heavenly wings.

“We no longer want to bash and abuse people. It just became too expensive. We’re going to sell our bashing practices to another company. We’ll miss being able to officially hate others, but you see, profits dictate our humanity. Would you like our office furniture too?”

Yeah, focus on your own family. Giant insecurity signs all over their heads. Ought to know. My old man belongs to this ‘organization’. At least he can ‘belong’ to some family. Bigotry is bigotry whether or not it’s cloaked in religion.

Johann

“…record profit losses of nearly $6 million…”

Apparently the wages of hate just aren’t what they used to be.

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At long last, even James Dobson realizes the futility of trying to brain-wash and demean gays in order to make them straight. Gays, as well as every well-informed person, know that gayness is God’s will and, therefore, our genetic nature rather than our nurturing or life’s experiences.

James Dodson, we will pray that God will forgive you for the torment you have caused so many fearful and traumatized gays. You will certainly need forgiveness in order to be in good standing with your maker.

I have never understood why the likes of Dobson are so sex obsessed with gay people. It has to be about what kind of sex ‘they think’ gay people engage in. Why is it anyone’s business and certainly his and his followers? Elderly gay people are still gay whether they are still having any kind of sex or not and the world goes on and heterosexuals are still reproducing and some of those kids will come to the conclusion that they are shudder, gay! I’ve known two gay men in my life who went through those ‘conversion’ programs… both married, one had children, both are not longer married, both are still gay. One is in therapy from the damage he suffered mentally of going through one of those conversion programs. To have religious leaders tell you that your life is unworthy, is worth of spending eternity in hell, if hell should exist?

Now maybe his money could be spent on preaching God’s love and spreading the gospel, as it should be.

So glad to hear that hard times have befallen FoKKKus On The Family. May it go completely belly up.

I don’t understand how FoKKKus on the Family can sell a ministry. What is there to sell? Mailing lists of donors? I doubt FoKKKus would part with that. Are they selling employees? The employees all seem to go back to their same sex lovers within a short time and that is the end of that. What is there to sell?

Maybe they should rename it “Focus on the Funding”

Maybe Dobson should tell his sheep that he needs $6,000,000 in a week or “god” will kill him.

Hahaha! Finally… I protested these nutbags when I was 16 in Oklahoma City… I’m 23 in Los Angeles now… it’s about time.

Exodus – you’re next!

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It has gotten so bad at FOF, even Dobson is stepping down as the “leader” of the organization. It has come as a wake-up call to the donors of FOF that the wasteful spending these past few years is because of the leadership’s wild spending. New cars for Dobson and company every year, FOF buying new suits for the leaders every week or so, etc., etc. and charging it off as “operating expenses”! And so it goes.