More layoffs at Focus on the Family

Source: The Colorado Independent

UPDATE: Focus on the Family announced this afternoon that 202 jobs will be cut companywide — more than 20 percent of its workforce. Initial reports bring the total number of remaining employees to around 950.

Focus on the Family is poised to announce major layoffs to its Colorado Springs-based ministry and media empire today. The cutbacks come just weeks after the group pumped more than half a million dollars into the successful effort to pass a gay-marriage ban in California.

Critics are holding up the layoffs, which come just two months after the organization’s last round of dismissals, as a sad commentary on the true priorities of ministry.

“If I were their membership I would be appalled,” said Mark Lewis, a longtime Colorado Springs activist who helped organize a Proposition 8 protest in Colorado Springs on Saturday. “That Focus on the Family would spend any money on anything that’s obviously going to get blocked in the courts is just sad. Prop. 8 is guaranteed to lose, in the long run it doesn’t have a chance — it’s just a waste of money.”

Read more: http://coloradoindependent.com/15287/after-pumping-money-into-prop-8-focus-on-the-family-announcing-layoffs

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Or maybe THE BIG "G" is sending a message to the Dogbeater! :evilgrin:

I don't like to wish bad luck on people but these people need to sit and look for a piece of bread and realize that Jesus was not about opposing gay marriage, abortion, etc. but more about poverty, torture, etc.

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There's no talking... or changing... these fundies...

job losses...

but even I am prepared to make exceptions for SOME businesses!

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Focus on the Family is one of the nastiest most destructive organizations I've ever heard of!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me know when they toss out James Dobson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I doubt bankruptcy is far behind. You should see the freakin' compound they have down in the Springs, the size of a community college. :puke:

They bailed out Falwell

lol

Fuck those people.

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Fuck you... and have a nice day.

Cheers!
NTF
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They've been playing a lot lately, and it's a tune I've been waiting a long time to hear.

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"Initial reports bring the total number of remaining employees to around 950."

While I normally would never wish someone lose their job, especially in these times, I'd be perfectly happy if ever last employee of FOTF was unemployed, and Dobson was forced to file bankruptcy. They are a hateful organization, and deserve every bad thing that comes their way.

We're doing God's work. He's bound to reward sometime.

*Two Weeks Later*

Hey guys....guess what! God just told me that banning gay marriage is more important to family stability than having weekly salary to provide for your loved ones soooooooo..... be out of the building by noon. God be with you!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Losers.

It would take less than .0001% of his available power. (Add as many zeroes as you want.) Wait, the gays are still here? Then God must be willing to tolerate them. QED.

Note to religious fanatics, including Al Qaeda: Anytime you think you need to fix God's world, remind yourself that He is all powerful. He could fix it himself if He really wants to. And He's all knowing, so He can figure out how to do it efficiently and expeditiously. And if He hasn't arranged the world the way you think it should be, YOU may be the one with the wrong idea because, ipso facto, it is the way He wants it.

If you really want to be correct about this god thing, you need to substitute she for he in every other sentence.

If there is no "she", then what makes God a "he"? Does God really have a penis?

Now they can all get jobs officiating our weddings.

~

Okay, I get it. It's the Republican "name it the opposite of what it really is" strategy. No Child Left Behind encourages dropping out, and costs schools money that could have been used for education. Clean Skies initiative lets polluters voluntarily limit their pollution, . . . or not. Middle class tax cuts means tax cuts mostly for the top 1%. What Bush called Forest Management was essentially clear-cutting. And Reagan called the MX missile "The Peacemaker." Oh, and Bush's "War on Terra," which is Latin for making war on the whole wide world. Wait, he might have got that one right.

lock your doors in Colorado Springs.

:wow: :wow: :scared: :scared:

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without so much focus.

It appears that they lost their focus and are focusing on things other than family.

good riddance

maybe turn it into a big box store... that would be SO fitting.

a Planned Parenthood myself.

"layoffs at Focus on the Family" i haven't heard better words all week!!

reptile. I would be overjoyed to see him out of business and, even better, found to have broken some serious laws. A decade of time in a nice comfy prison would do him a world of good. Well...it'd do my heart a world of good. And think of the nice folks he'd meet there...

May bankruptcy be just around the corner for these jerkoffs.

be some 'benefactor' who would step in and rescue them....so they can 'continue to do God's work'....or some other bullsh*t reason....there are always sheep to buy this kind of crap.

I know will can all dream, but I doubt we'll ever live to see it.

and collapsing all around us...with a little more time there might not be some benefactor and these tools will have to compete for real jobs like the rest of us. Maybe if they had been focused on their own family (employees) instead of other people's business,they wouldn't be in this mess. This is the modern version of Rome burning, full of corruption and entitlement. The rats are scattering in every direction. It's everyone for him or herself! It's the end of the conservative era. Let's drink to the dawn of the progressive era! :cheers:

if I have to spend my last dime, lose all my friends and my soul to hell, I will defeat teh gay.' - James Dobson

BWAHAHAHAHA! Do NOT fuck with teh gay, Mr. Dobson. You shall not prevail.

Amen, and pass the plate.



peace~

toward promoting hate and fear.

This is one bunch of layoffs I'm glad to see. That hateful piece of shit ought to be run out of town.

Religion groups are forbidden from political activity on CANDIDATES but they are allowed to lobby for ISSUES, as long as it is not "excessive lobbying". I think "excessive is defined as >5% of their annual (tax free) revenues.

So did Focus blow it on this one?

Somehow, I doubt it. They have "Christian Lawyers Orgs" doing all kinds of crap for them and probably covered their asses on this one too.

they have a 501(c)(4) group - Focus on the Family Action, which under the tax code can engage in more political activities. I would bet that much of the money donated to defeat Proposition 8 in California was funneled through Focus on the Family Action, making it technically legal.

We don't have money to WASTE on such idiotic things...

instead of dictating their 'morals' onto others

happy to recommend

Dobson will be 73 years old this April.:popcorn:

Just like with the other good Christian capitalists.

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Hekate

Because of the increased hold times caused by the layoffs?

K & R !!!

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I'm sure if James Dobson cared about families he'd give up some of his wealth to help keep these people. Jesus did say it was easier for a camel to go thru the eye of a needle that for a rich man to get into the kingdom of heaven. I realize that in life some of us just make more money than others but to do the job these fundie religious people do - well I think I know what Jesus was saying.

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at reprehensible organizations become part of those organizations. Besides, Dobson has a fine mission pledge that his hires must sign. Everyone there shares his poisonous views. Tough luck for them!

This is a tough economy and Karma is a bee-yotch. It serves no purpose to mock these people who are now out of a job.

There are more places one can work in that area. I would never take a job with any organization which had as its goal the promotion of inequality. I suppose some folks don't have that sort of standard, but FotF has a clear, public mission.

As I said, you will never be hired at that organization unless you can demonstrate that you share their ugly beliefs.

George W. Bush and his cronies will soon be out of a job, too. Have you pity for them?

for the 50 jobs with the new store that was opening.

This is not a friendly economy.

George W. Bush and his cronies have a golden parachute - do these people losing their jobs have one?

And alot of people share neither beliefs - they're like my mother, politically indifferent. Of course she doesn't work anymore and we lived in an area without these mega fundie churches.

People who were employed at FotF worked to accomplish the goals of that organization. Perhaps you can think of another organization where people worked toward nefarious goals. They were "just following orders."

At some point, we are responsible for our actions, and that includes our actions for our employers. I can imagine no circumstance that would see me working for James Dobson. Not one. Perhaps not everyone feels that way, but I hold everyone responsible for his or her actions and decisions.

but do we know what kind of jobs these people had who are being laid off? I mean, what if they're cutting the cleaning lady - should she be held accountable for the actions of James Dobson just because she took a menial task job to help take care of her family.

I just have this karma thing about celebrating anyone losing their job who is working class like me, priledged class is a different story.

When you choose to work at a nonprofit, if you have any ethics, you choose carefully. I don't think you choose an odious place like that unless your personal morals are in sync with their motives. So yes, Dobson sucks. But these people willingly and knowingly went to work to further Dobson's agenda and push his sucky ways on the world.

I'd feel badly for those working for a religious charity that feeds people or houses them - this group exists only to further hatred and division.

Dobson is a "therapist" who pushes his political beliefs as psychiatry. He lives in the grey area between real religion and real medicine... a world populated with predators on the weak, the vulnerable and those without hope. I would ask what would Jesus do with such a man, but dealing with people like Dobson got Jesus crucified. Hmmm... Didn't Woody Guthrie write a song about this?

the GOP base and Sarah Palin's being nominated.

I'm glad to see this, and it shows that when it comes to a decision between Dobson's monster salary or keeping a few people on staff, you KNOW Dobson's for-profit church organization is going to decide!

Good thing for us that he's also against abortion! :rofl:

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They have been nothing but hijackers when it comes to human rights.

And they have consistently scorned gay families and gay relationships of most any kind.

The fact that they spent all that money to take away gay rights shows you where their priorities

are at: in the toilet.

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boy, that rivals Citi's 53,000. It just goes to show the great importance of FOTF.

Hope they all wind up homeless and strung out on heroin. :rofl:

Fucking assholes!

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and other fundie organizations follow Dobson's lead...and downsize!

Boy, that rivals Citi's 53,000. It just goes to show the great importance of FOTF.

Is there an echo in here?

Or at least that was Oral Roberts' schtick. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1677098,00.html

P.S. I like your Avatar.

'This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want.

Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it.' cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. 'Slander those who tell it ye. Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse. And abide the end.'

'Have they no refuge or resource?' cried Scrooge.

'Are there no prisons?' said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. 'Are there no workhouses?'"

Not really a good metaphor. Dobson loves Ignorance (increases the membership) and Want (desperate people are more easily led, and formed into mobs.)

Dobson is incapable of such a thing.

'Dobson loves Ignorance (increases the membership) and Want (desperate people are more easily led, and formed into mobs.)'

Too right.

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Well now that is just dandy! Hope the whole organization goes down the Toobz! It would serve them right to try and take away rights that are inherent and not given by the state! Lets outlaw their brand of Religion!

a continuation of what my friends and I indulged ourselves in this afternoon when this came out. Call their toll free donation line (800) A-FAMILY (232-6459) and tell them how sad you feel about their having to lay off people, spin them a sympathetic story, and tell them you want to make a BIG donation, and then tell them you're grabbing your credit card, wait a few seconds and yell "PSYCHE!" into the phone and tell them you'd never give a nickel to the hater bastards.
It really pisses them off. For a variation, tell them you forgot, you already gave to the "Overturn 8 Fund".

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Oh wait. What were we talking about?

and putting their money towards something constructive.

:toast: :bounce:

I do hope they can find work, though. Who knows? Maybe some of them will find work that, rather than causing harm, is meaningful and actually contributes to the good of society. Like, oh, I don't know....pumping septic tanks or shoveling manure.

Karma:toast:

Awww too bad. It couldn't happen to a more deserving group. It's very hard to believe the ignorant intolerance accepted by some people! When does James lay himself off? ummmmm.... That sounds like... oh nevermind :dilemma:

Oral Roberts University to lay off 100 employees
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3606996

They've been supported by our tax dollars for at least eight years, illegally diverted through the White House to do political work.

at the least, as they're looking at prospective grants for 2009 and beyond, the horizon is undoubtedly looking less rosey than it did in the past.

Q. What was your occupation?

A. Bigot

Q. WHat were your duties?

A. Bigotry

their involvement in such a hateful slimy group.

Bake

just doing their job.

How sad is it that these fuckers would lay off a bunch of people while spending half a million dollars on stupidity.

These are one set of layoffs I'm happy to hear about.

couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of puritanical wankers.

Spare us.

If they didn't believe in what FOTF was doing but still helped further there cause, than there just as guilty as those who did.

Screw em. This is good news.

He's a wolf, devouring widows assets and manipulating the minds of the sheep. His place in hell is reserved!

And right before Christmas too? There's the Christmas spirit eh Dr Dobson???:eyes:

Guess the FOF peeps can join the ex GM, Ford and Chrysler workers in the unemployment line. All of those jobs killed by their false god Bush and his Wall Street cronies.

I'm sure Rush and Hannity will be sad for your loss... :sarcasm:

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