New spooky anti-gay documentary features Mike Huckabee, James Dobson, Phyllis Schlafly, and even a little Louie Gohmert.

Ooh why is that lady in the woods? Isn't she worried about having her family values attacked by a free roaming homosexual?

I mean if you are suddenly forced to get gay married in the woods and nobody hears you does God still double dip you in a bubbling pool of magma?

And what in the hell were all of those uptight assholes flipping out about?

(And for fun how many of them tripped your gay-dar?)

Little Green Footballs identifies the participants and their agenda: 

Among the participants are Rep. Steve King, Rep. Trent Franks, Rep. Louie Gohmert, Rep. Tim Huelskamp, Sen. Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, David Barton, James Dobson, Mat Staver, Phyllis Schlafly, Scott Lively, Alveda King, Brian Camenker, Frank Pavone, Robert Knight, John Stemberger, and, of course, Porter herself, who can been seen walking around in the woods with a lantern, warning that gay activists are seeking to turn Christians into criminals.

So to be clear gay people who want to be married and to not be discriminated against are  actively attacking Christianity, and trying to silence the Gospels.

Oddly enough these are the same arguments trotted out against interracial marriage back in the 50's and 60's.

Some things never change. Especially when you take your cues from the Bible.

Christian radio broadcaster James Dobson wins temporary injunction against requirement to provide access to emergency contraception to female emplyees.

Courtesy of ABC 7 in Denver: 

Christian radio broadcaster James Dobson has won a temporary injunction preventing the federal government from requiring his ministry to include the morning-after pill and other emergency contraception in its health insurance. 

A federal judge in Denver issued the injunction. 

Dobson sued in December, saying the Affordable Care Act mandate to provide the contraception violates the religious beliefs of his Colorado Springs-based ministry, called Family Talk.

Good news for employees of Dobson's Family Talk radio show with a uterus. You no longer have to struggle with that  painful decision of what to do in the case of an unplanned pregnancy.

James Dobson has made that decision for you.

You have to keep it, and of course if you terminate it using your own money, then it is very likely, considering Dobson's draconian views on abortion, that you will lose not only a potential child, but also a very real job.

Isn't religion great?

Perhaps my all time favorite Christian.

A Presbyterian minister who constantly told everybody, including Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and Atheists, that he liked them "Just the way you are."

I actually discovered Mr. Rogers as a young adult.

I was working with children after I graduated from high school and sometimes there would be time set aside for educational television for those that wanted to watch.

The choices were always PBS which would show Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow, and the Electric Company back to back.

Since I was still very young and really just entering adulthood, I did not immediately take to Mr. Rogers.  I thought his slow way of speaking and running explanation of everything he was doing was kind of creepy and a little strange. But it did not take long for me to notice that the younger children responded in a very profound way to his show, and I learned to not only respect his message but even to recognize the value of how carefully he explained things so that the children would understand.

And if you think that his methods only worked with children then I invite you to watch Mr. Rogers in 1969, appearing before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications. His goal then was to support funding for PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in response to significant proposed cuts by President Nixon.

Watch how he turns a combative Senator John Pastore into a supporter of PBS, and children's broadcasting, in less than seven minutes.

Fred Rogers did not judge those who did not share his faith, or use his program to proselytize to the innocent children who adored him. He simply lived his life as he felt his faith dictated that he do, and just look at the positive impact he had on us all.

I only wish that when I pictured Christianity today that it was Fred Rogers kind open face that imagined, instead of Franklin Graham's, or James Dobson's, or Rick Santrorum's.

But it's not.

President Obama's 2008 attempt to explain why Christians need to read their Bibles.

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Now see if ALL Christians thought like this, I would have no problem with them, or organized religion itself for that matter.  But sadly many of the people who profess to be Christians think more like this:

"I think he's deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own world view, his own confused theology," (James) Dobson said, adding that Obama is "dragging biblical understanding through the gutter."

And so another reasonable man attempting to rescue his faith from the clutches of the Biblical snake oil salesmen and charlatans gets shouted down for suggesting that people truly READ the book at the center of their religious faith.

Remember THINKING is bad, only BELIEVING is good.

James Dobson forced to resign from "Focus on the Family"? Gee, maybe there is a God.

A prominent friend and supporter of James Dobson believes Dobson was pushed aside by the new leadership of Focus on the Family, who want the powerhouse evangelical ministry to project a softer image on issues ranging from abortion to gay marriage to relations with President Obama.


In February 2009, Dobson stepped down as chairman of the Colorado Springs-based group's board of directors, after relinquishing his longtime role as president in 2003. But he kept his role of host of the popular Focus radio show, which is reportedly heard by 1.5 million Americans each day.
Then, this past November, Dobson said on the show that the Focus board had asked him to give up the radio program in a few months time. Late last month, he delivered his final Focus broadcast.

In little-noticed comments from the November show, Dobson seemed troubled by the board's decision to ask him to give up the program.

"[T]the board of directors voted privately on Wednesday -- before we got there -- to ask for my resignation, although their request was made with kindness and respect. We can only guess the reason for their decision because frankly I don't fully know," Dobson said. "But it apparently has to do with the desire for closure on my tenure and the beginning of another."

Well this can only be taken as good news. Though I don't expect Focus on the Family to suddenly become a bastion for tolerance and progressive ideals, I certainly think throwing Dobson overboard gives them a chance to at least move away from the crazier side of Christianity.

Remember James Dobson is the same genius who suggest that watching Spongebob Squarepants would make your children gay. He also gave serial killer Ted Bundy a kind of absolution by allowing him to suggest that pornography was to blame for his desire to rape and murder women. And perhaps most egregious of all is that Dobson and his Evangelical cohorts are the one's to blame for John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Yes I think we can all agree that the world is a safer, saner place without the likes of James Dobson running an influential group like Focus on the Family. However, in my opinion, the world might be improved even further if groups like Focus on the Family did not exist at all.

But they that is just me.

(Oops I almsot forgot to give a hat tip to kellygirl. Thanks Kelly!)

LET'S PLAY SOME FOOOT (anti-abortion ads) BAAALL!!! Wait, what? Updated!

On Superbowl Sunday, along with the ads for beer, potato chips, and big manly trucks, fans will also get a very festive advertisement on anti-abortion from Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow, and his mother. Which has some women's rights groups a little upset.

Wait did somebody mention anti-abortion and tie it to a sporting event? NOOO! Don't do that! With that combination you might awaken the slumbering creature from Wasilla, "She who must not be named", the "Mindlessly Menacing Mom from the Mat-su"....oh no it is too late! She has already flogged RAM into firing up her Facebook page.

Women’s Rights groups, like NOW, commendably call out advertisers and networks for airing sexist and demeaning portrayals of women that lead to young women’s diminished self-esteem and acceptance of roles as mere sexed-up objects.

What a ridiculous situation they’re getting themselves into now with their protest of CBS airing a pro-life ad during the upcoming Super Bowl game. The ad will feature Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mom, and they’ll speak to the sanctity of life and the beautiful potential within every innocent child as Mrs. Tebow acknowledges her choice to give Tim life, despite less than ideal circumstances. Messages like this empower women! This speaks to the strength and commitment and nurturing spirit within women. The message says everything positive and nothing negative about the power of women – and life. Evidently, some women’s rights groups like NOW do not like that message.

Yeah NOW what is your problem? This ad will only encourage women to defy their doctor's advice and do one of the only things women are good for besides fetching another beer, and destroying a Republican candidates presidential hopes, which is giving birth to a potential Heisman trophy winner. How is that NOT empowering?

NOW is looking at the pro-life issue backwards. Women should be reminded that they are strong enough and smart enough to make decisions that allow for career and educational opportunities while still giving their babies a chance at life.

Not to nitpick or anything but I don't believe that Pam Tebow actually had "career opportunities" to allow for. She is the wife of a missionary who now heads up the Bob Tebow Evangelical Association. In other words, and once again not to nitpick, but her whole job was to give birth to little Christian evangelical babies.

In other words, Palin's argument is specious and does not really relate to the actual circumstances surrounding this choice.

So in order to drive her point home more effectively Sarah is going to have to resort to her fall back position. Trotting out one of her children.

Now the question is, which one? Trig? No, even though he is the evangelical poster child for not getting an abortion, he undermines the message of giving birth to super athletes. Piper? Nope. Willow? Still under lock and key after her last B & E. Ahh Bristol! Perfect!

In my own home, my daughter Bristol has also been challenged by pro-abortion “women’s rights” groups who don’t agree with her decision to have her baby, nor do they like the abstinence message which she articulated as her personal commitment.

By the way there is NO pro-abortion group. It is called "pro-choice". And as far as I can tell NOBODY suggested that Bristol should not have given birth to Tripp. And if somebody did, they are just internet trolls who have no affiliation with any organized groups or intelligent Americans. As for people taking offence at Bristol's abstinence message, it does seem a little disingenuous to, on the one hand talk about what a blessing having little Tripp has been, and then on the other hand telling other young women "just say no" to the possibility of having a baby of your own until you can rope some guy into marrying you.

NOW could gain ground and credibility with everyday Americans, thus allowing their pro-women message to be heard by more than just their ardent supporters, if they made wiser decisions regarding which battles to pick. They should call attention to and embrace the Tebow’s message, instead of covertly and overtly disrespecting what Mrs. Tebow, Bristol, and millions of other women have chosen to do (in less than ideal circumstances).

Of course the protest has nothing to do with disrespecting Mrs. Tebow (and has absolutely NOTHING to do with Bristol, even though Palin is trying to conflate the two), it is really about proselytizing on national television. It is one thing for a running back to fall to his knees after making a touchdown and giving thanks to his God, and quite another for a group to introduce such a divisive topic in front of a huge viewing audience and pushing their religious agenda.

My message to these groups who are inexplicably offended by a pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life message airing during the Super Bowl: please concentrate on empowering women, help with efforts to prevent unexpected pregnancies, stay consistent with your message that for too long women have been made to feel like sex objects in our “modern” culture and that we can expect better in 2010. But don’t let your double standard glare so vividly as to undo some of the good to which you could contribute.

Hang on. I had to clear my throat, since reading that sentence about "being made to feel like sex objects" from the Facebook ghostwriter of a woman who used her Naughty Monkey pumps, high definition makeup, and short skirts to seduce men into voting for her made me gag a little. ("Ms. Palin? I have hypocrisy holding for you on line two.")

And CBS: just do the right thing. Don’t cave. Have the backbone to run the ad.


Translation: Oh we DEFINITELY want you to cave. But we want you to cave to us. Or else we will unleash the fury of the Palin-bots. At least the ones that are not currently unleashing their fury at me right now for backing John McCain.


To the Tebows: thank you. America is listening. We appreciate you.

- Sarah Palin

Okay just a few things to clear up here. Number one this ad is is designed to cause controversy. That is the damn point. So of course it attracts attention whores like Sarah Palin.

Number two this ad has been paid for by the group Focus on the Family. That is James Dobson's wacky group of Evangelicals. The same group, by the way, who decided that, after she gave birth to magical baby Trig, Sarah Palin HAD to be John McCain's running mate to get the support of the Fundamentalist Christians who were the most reliable voters for the GOP candidate. If Dobson had not become so enamored of Sarah Palin, and her magical pregnancy, she would NEVER have been on the 2008 ticket. And of course McCain would have still lost the election.

You to be honest. I could care less if they play this commercial or not.

Does anybody really believe that this buzz kill of a television ad is going to make some long suffering sport addicts' girlfriend suddenly make a decision like this? , "By God if Cletus's team wins and he throws me down on this futon to celebrate by giving me sixteen seconds of fumbling,drunken, semi-erect lovemaking, and I become pregnant with his slope headed offspring, I am absolutely NOT going to abort it! But instead I am going to raise it on my meager salary as a waitress at Denny's in the hopes that someday he can grow up and be a football star!" Yeah, good luck with that.

So let Dobson waste three million dollars on a Superbowl ad if he wants to. I am guessing that after the ratings come in, and they see how poorly it was received, they my decide to go back to picketing health clinics and telling women that their uterus is on loan from God, and they have no say in what pops out of it.

Update: The folks at Jezebel (usually a pretty humorous site) took serious umbrage at Sarah's latest Facebook rant.

Disgraced Beauty queen Carrie Prejean now claims that Satan made her do it.

I found this interview between Focus on the Family's James Dobson and Carrie Prejean on the USA NEWS website:

Dobson: It sounded, Carrie, like your first reaction was to hedge, to say "Well, this is a free country" and then something took over.

Prejean: It really was a switch.

Dobson: And you did one of the most courageous things I've seen anybody your age or anybody else do. What was going on in your mind?

Prejean: I started off by saying I want to win this pageant so bad, I've worked so hard, I wanted to sound politically correct but still stay true to my values. But I just knew at that moment that God was just telling me "Carrie, how bad do you want this? Are you willing to compromise your beliefs for a one year crown of Miss USA." And I just knew right there . . .

And I said you know what and the switch went off. And I said, "A marriage should be between a man and a woman and that's how it should be. "

. . . . And I knew there was no way I was going to win Miss USA. No way.

Dobson: So you put it on the line, that's what I mean when I said you're courageous because this was the goal of your life to that point. And yet you gave it up. And yet the Lord is using you all over this country.

Prejean: And we are all faced with that at times. And just by me being here, I want to encourage other people that when you're faced with an issue which you know in your heart what to say, but you're faced with someone asking it, don't ever compromise that just for pleasing them. Your goal should be to please God, not to please man . . . .

Dobson: Why did you give the answer you did with regard to the affirmation of marriage?

Prejean: . . . I felt as though Satan was trying to tempt me in asking me this question. And then God was in my head and in my heart saying, "Do not compromise this. You need to stand up for me and you need to share with all these people . . . you need to witness to them and you need to show that you're not willing to compromise that for this title of Miss USA."

And I knew right here that it wasn't about winning. It was about being true to my convictions.

In a previous post, right after this story first broke, I stated that I supported Miss California's right to state her honest opinion about same sex marriage and that it should not impact her chances of becoming Miss America. And I still feel that way. But...come on!

Now she is saying that Satan made Perez Hilton ask the question and that God was in her head telling her how to respond? WTF?

I have no problem believing that Perez Hilton is the devil, but do you really think that GOD would talk to a vacuous little blond barbie doll like Carrie Prejean? Absolutely not! The guy has disasters to orchestrate and Jesus looking stains to put on garage doors, he does not have the time to waste talking to this little bimbo.

This was nothing more than a person who answered a ticklish question in a way that drew criticism from the public at large, NOT a ferocious battle between good and evil.

WHY do these people always have to make it about God versus their detractors. Can't they simply say they have a difference of opinion and leave it at that?

Sorry Miss Prejean but you are an imbecile and you have allowed people who have a long history of manipulating the simple minded to use you to further their bullshit agenda against an oppressed segment of our country. I wanted to give a free pass, but that moment has passed.

The Christian Right makes their case for McCain in an intelligent rational manner. Just kidding they are using scare tactics!

Terrorist strikes on four American cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe. Israel hit by a nuclear bomb. Gay marriage in every state. The end of the Boy Scouts.

All are plausible scenarios if Democrat Barack Obama is elected president, according to a new addition to the campaign conversation called "Letter from 2012 in Obama's America," produced by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family Action.

The Boy Scouts? Oh my God! Why does Barack Obama hate the Boy Scouts? How Un-American can you get?

And how desperate must these knuckle draggers be that they are resorting to these transparent attacks?

If you are unfamiliar with Focus on the Family, then you should know that they are the people who have programs like "Pray away the Gay" and who prayed for it to rain during Barack Obama's DNC speech.

James Dobson is the leader of this crazy, homophobic group and he has been a huge fan of our very own Governor Sarah for quite some time. In fact there are even rumors that he forced Caribou Barbie on the cantankerous John McCain. No wonder he is so damn irritable these days.

And Dobson even tried to interfere with Alaska's investigation of Palin's possible wrongdoing by sending his Liberty Legal Institute pals up here to challenge it's validity, and after failing that they tried to suppress the release of the Branchflower Report.

But thanks to "Alaskans for Truth" they failed to have any impact at all.

We were able to beat these jerks simply by getting out the truth and I am confident that once people understand their real agenda that these indefensible attacks will have little to no impact on the outcome of this historic election.

The Boy Scouts? Really? Give me a damn break!