Focus on the Family’s James Dobson, aka Daddy D, is finally hanging it up:
Conservative evangelical leader James Dobson has resigned as chairman of Focus on the Family but will continue to play a prominent role at the organization he founded more than three decades ago.
Dobson notified the board of his decision Wednesday, and the 950 employees of the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based ministry were informed Friday morning, said Jim Daly, the group’s president and chief executive officer. [...]
At the same time, Focus officials have acknowledged difficulties in raising money from younger families critical to its future. The economy also has hurt. Last fall Focus on the Family eliminated more than 200 staff positions, its largest employee cutbacks ever.
Dobson is taking a hike because Focus on the Family is losing support and hemmorrhaging money. Maybe nobody wants to listen to their sanctimonious horseshit anymore, or maybe people have figured out that there are more important things to be concerned with than other peoples’ sex lives. Or maybe, as Pam Spaulding said:
I guess after blowing the coffers on Prop 8 and having to lay off staff, it’s time to exit.
Then again, maybe Dobson just wants to spend more time with his dog.
Dobson might be officially stepping down, but he’ll still be lurking around in the shadows, mouthing off about things that are none of his business and excreting his inky, poisonous bigotry. So this probably is just a rearrangement of the deck chairs on the religious right’s sinking ship of fools. But it means FotF is hurting, and if it’s hurting that much in the US, it’s only a matter of time until the axe falls on its metastasis here in Canada. Can’t happen soon enough for me.
(h/t Bruce @ Canuck Attitude)
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Fuck Dobson, the sooner he’s worm food the better!
W00t! The meter’s running… he’s almost 73. Falwell was 74 when he finally had the courtesy to drop dead.
Meanwhile, apparently Paul Harvey dropped dead today…
Good morrow, all!
I do not believe the so-called Anti-Christ is any one person. I believe it is, rather, a philosophy. It is a philosophy that seeks to control and dehumanize other people.
Anybody who subscribes to this philosophy serves the Anti-Christ. I’m sure we can all think of somebdy who fits such a description.
To play Devil’s Advocate here: Dobson probably believes what he says. Of course, there are those who still insist that the Sun revolves around the Earth, that the Earth is at most 10,000 years old, that it is still flat, that the stars are only a few thousand miles away, that Newton’s Laws of Motion, and the Laws of Thermodynamics, are merely scientific explanantions for magic, and that magic is the work of the devil, and how circular can you get?
We don’t need the devil. We have each other. That is the real tragedy. Father, forgive James Dobson, even if (by some completely whimsical imagining on Your part) he knows what he’s doing. CTZen
JAB – So I heard. I don’t know much about him other than he was a conservative, but I used to like his little “And that’s the Rest of the Story” shows. 90 years old, not a bad run.
Cornelius
No doubt. Even in the face of the overwhelming evidence that contradicts so much of his belief system (his bigotry in particular), Dobson and his ilk will always choose to ignore reality. They can do this because they’re not critical thinkers. There are a set of rules and that’s where it ends for them.
How despicable the alleged “educated” bloggers have become on ANY subject or ANY person that dares to diagree with their ilk!
If these “Intellectuals” had Ever and I mean Ever expressed hate and venom in my classroom discusions, They would have been Flunked out of my classes. It seems as though they attended schools that encouraged hate speech and the filthiest of words in the English Language. c.a.h. B.s.,M.a. Phd.