"Focus on Your Own Damn Family" is a phrase consistently used at gay rights protests, especially when James Dobson and his hateful religious "ministry," Focus on the Family, has anything to do with spurring said protest.  In fact, I saw a few of these signs at City Hall in NYC this weekend.

But the phrase took on an entirely different meaning to me today when I read an article off Huffington Post stating that the group is having to lay off 20% of its employees .

Really, James?!  Really?  I mean, I'm feeling a little bit like Amy Poehler here, but, REALLY?!?  Ohmygod, are you serious ?!

You were so worried about gay marriage ruining the familes of Californians that you donated over $500,000 to the Yes on 8 campaign, and yet you now have so many budget cuts that you can't afford to keep your OWN DAMN MEMBERS in paying jobs.  What about THEIR families, James?  Apparently you don't care too much about families being ruined by hunger or debt, only by the possibility of them being "threatened" or "unsanctified" by a lesbian couple down the street (logic which I don't think I'll ever understand).

It's one thing for you to eat the debt from your own discriminatory donations; it's quite another for you to fire your own employees for lack of funds after so happily giving the money that could have kept them employed to a cause that will undoubtedly be overturned by the courts.

Granted, since they work for/are members of Focus on the Family to begin with, they barely even deserve my symapthy at the loss of income, but somehow I just find this appalling.

James Dobson--asshole to his OWN people, too!

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November 18, 2008 10:08 AM

[0+]  wesley pepper said:

Is it wrong to not feel bad for bigots losing jobs?

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November 18, 2008 10:45 AM

[0+]  AnUnfunnyFeminist said:

Think of it as a sign from God that they should get out of the gay-bashing business.

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November 18, 2008 10:59 AM

[0+]  K.Rae said:

Karma is real.

Or at least basic economic principles are.

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November 18, 2008 12:47 PM

[0+]  Wendy Notsid said:

ONce again, another intolerant so-called "upholder of morality" has to put his foot in his mouth.

I'm putting this up there with the fire at the Westboro Baptist Church

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November 18, 2008 1:44 PM

[0+]  JessPenn said:

Carolinagrrl's awesome! you're so right on about this.

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