Focus on the Family Layoffs - Update

Just the other day I did a post that indicated that homophobe extraordinaire, James Dobson's faux Christian organization, Focus on the Family, was going to be making further staff cuts due to revenue declines after just recently eliminating 46 positions. Now the official word is out and the staff cuts are indeed significant: 202 employees. Not that I believe any of this will cause the self-absorbed, power hungry Dobson to lower the level of his own posh standard of living. With luck, Daddy Dobson will have to cut back on his bogus "Love Won Out" program that continues to market the lie that you can "pray away the gay" contrary to the findings of all legitimate medical and mental health associations. Here are some highlights from the Colorado Springs Gazette:

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Because of a weak economy and cash-strapped donors, Focus on the Family said it is eliminating 202 jobs, the deepest cuts in the 32-year history of the Colorado Springs-based Christian nonprofit. The ministry laid off 149 workers, and cut another 53 vacant positions. . . . The layoffs come just weeks after Focus announced it was outsourcing 46 jobs from its distribution department. Focus also laid off 30 workers and reassigned 15 more in September 2007.

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The reason for the layoffs and budget revisions Donations are down, and Focus relies almost entirely on the charity of others. . . . "It's probably going to get worse," he said. "When people have to cut back, the only place they have to go is their discretionary income."

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Apparently, not everyone is buying the official PR on the job cuts. The "Pulpit Blog" at the Gazette indicates that the huge sum expended by FOF to support Proposition 8 came directly out of the entity's general fund, not the political action affiliate. Obviously, if such is the case, then it appears that the IRS should perhaps investigate FOF's 501(c)(3) status. While many of the comments on the article were obviously from Kool-Aid drinker supporters of Daddy D, I found this one to be fun (and reflect my own thoughts):

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Now the Über bigots at FoF can’t con enough little old ladies out of their social security checks to keep Snake Handler in Chief Dobson in Cuban cigars and Caddys. I hate so see anyone lose their job in this republican depression, but humility can be learned by living on unemployment and food stamps. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of con men.