Focus on the Family (was Re: Why Christians Should Not Vote for George W. Bush)

I don't know if everyone's familiar with FofF, but my roommate senior 
year got their newsletter.

Its much bigger than just a radio station.  FotF raises over $100M a 
year from sales, events, contributions, and royalties.  They have brio, 
a magazine for young girls, brio & beyond for todays modern Christian 
young woman, and a host of other books, magazines, and other 
propaganda.

Their stated mission is:
To cooperate with the Holy Spirit in disseminating the Gospel of Jesus 
Christ to as many people as possible, and, specifically, to accomplish 
that objective by helping to preserve traditional values and the 
institution of the family.

but there is so much that they do that is just in line with advancing 
conservatism in general.

Just thought you'd like to know if you didn't already.

Nick

On Feb 28, 2004, at 3:18 PM, cpratt-UYko1UTVIqz2fBVCVOL8/[email protected] wrote:

>
>
>> G.W. Bush is pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, he’s anti-gun, and he’s the
>> biggest spender in American history.  American conservatives have 
>> taken the
>> bait at the expense of their cause and God’s glory.
>
>
> I had no idea he was such a goddamn flaming liberal.  Well.  Makes me 
> want to
> sign right up to support his reelection campaign. he.
>
>> “A vote for Howard Phillips,” (the only pro-life, pro-family 
>> constitutional
>> Presidential candidate on the ballot 2000) “is a vote for Al Gore.”
>
>
>> If you are shortsighted, pragmatism will dictate that you vote for 
>> the least
>> wicked man who will do the least amount of wickedness and destroy the 
>> least
>> amount of your freedoms these next four years.  I have a good friend 
>> who
>> can’t stand President Bush’s pro-abortion or pro-homosexual leanings 
>> or his
>> big-government remedy for every social ill, but he voted for Bush in 
>> 2000
>> anyway because the one thing he feared more than Bush was Gore.  But 
>> if you
>> vote for the lesser of two evils every four years, the lesser of two 
>> evils
>> will inevitably become more and more wicked!  If you vote for the most
>> conservative of two liberals every four years, the most conservative 
>> liberal
>> will become more and more liberal!  Your vision must be greater than 
>> the next
>> four years.  You need to vote with your grandchildren in mind.
>
>
> No kidding.  It's just weird to hear a conservative say it.
>
>
>
>> In 1995, James Dobson of Focus on the Family publicly repented on air 
>> and in
>> his March newsletter for having supported somewhat pro-choice 
>> politicians.
>
> I've listened to 'Focus on the Family'; it's a popular radio show
> on Christian stations around the country, based in Chicago.  I find it 
> to be a
> symbol of what's worst about evangelical Christianity.  Dobson is a 
> rich man,
> very slick, and everyone who works with him on the program kisses his 
> ass.
>
>
> I never thought I'd read an article written by someone outside of the
> Washington political circles who believed GW wasn't conservative (or 
> harsh)
> enough.
> (Thanks to Nick for posting it.)
>
> The article doesn't simply mix up Christianity and conservatism, it 
> states one
> is a Christian iff one follows all conservative precepts.  Which is 
> wrong, but
> then I'm a bad tree.  bad, bad tree.  bad fruit.
>
> -x
>
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