I called Focus on the Family today. They hung up on me. [View All]

I couldn't take it anymore. After crying at some of the posts here, I just couldn't take their crap anymore. See, I used to be a Nazarene, just like Dobson. I grew up surrounded by people who memorized his books, listened to him on the radio, and practically thought him close to Jesus in importance. I went to a Nazarene college, even, and I saw how good little Nancy and Norman Nazarene types treated my gay and lesbian friends (tortured them in the dorms and did their best to shun them--sick, twisted crap). I had to go to chapel three times a week and once had to listen to a wacko preach about how he was a former gay man and how he helped others get "cured" (his wife scared me more than he did, which is saying something), and the only good thing that came out of that was hearing some boo him when he said that all gays and lesbians can be "cured."

I called and talked with someone in media relations or something like that. I asked her how they could do this to anyone--how taking a purely state issue and forcing the state to follow their narrow religious view was okay. I asked her why it was okay for the state to allow divorce when the Bible only does in cases of adultery. I asked her why they thought it was okay to treat anyone as less than fully human.

She just stuck the party line. "Marriage is between a man and a woman," she said over and over again. She said that we can't redefine marriage. I told that we already have. We used to purely define it in economic terms--women were property, and anything they owned became their husbands. The Church allowed this and looked the other way when women were forced to marry men they didn't want to. She was silent on that. She repeated her mantra, and not long after that, she hung up on me.

I'm calling her back and asking her if she's in favor of slavery. There are more verses in the Bible for slavery than there are against homosexual behavior. Heck, there's an entire epistle about it (Philemon). Yet, Christians decided in the 1800's that those verses were overridden by the Two Greatest Commandments, as Jesus taught them, and by His admonition that whatever we do to the least of these we do to Him. He made it clear that pretty much anyone hurting is one of the least of these, a neighbor we are to love as we love ourselves. Why don't those override all of the few verses against homosexual behavior if they override slavery?

Dobson is not going to get away with this if I can help it.