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If there's any silver lining to the cloudy days ahead wrought by Prop. 8, it's that bigotry so foul comes with a price too heavy for some of its chief proponents to bear. And I'm not talking about a couple missed meals at El Coyote--Focus On the Family itself, after forking over more than $500,000 to pass California's Prop. 8 gay marriage ban, announced yesterday that its budget shortfalls are forcing it to cut an estimated one fifth of its staff.
That $500,000 figure doesn't even include the additional funds supplied by one of Focus On the Family's richest board members, Elsa Prince, who coughed up another $450,000 to "save" marriage instead of her own teetering religious organization. And even more crazy, those hundreds of thousands come after Focus On the Family announced a budget shortfall of 8 MILLION dollars last year. Perhaps founder James Dobson believed that, like the parable of the loaves and fishes, God would provide enough funds to spread hate amongst all who choose to find butt sex icky. If so, its ironic that after plunking down some serious coin for a measure that will likely just be thrown out by the courts anyway, Focus On the Family doesn't have enough cashola to cover its own ass.
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Only 80% to go.
While this is seemingly a great karmic story, its really not. And I have no love for the organization, I think theyre terrible. But they always cut their workforce after elections. They get less money coming in during off years.
Karma transfers over incarnations to individuals, not organizations. Also, gay marraige = butt sex? Profound.
I hear that some heteros enjoy butt sex too. So are they automatically deemed "gay" if they enjoy butt-sex? Maybe they should be restricted to civil-union too.
I think butt sex is still illegal in Texas.
Actually, cephyn, this layoff is the largest in a string of layoffs going back three years. It's not just a post-election phenomenon, but is a mismanaging funds phenomenon. It's also simply a business competition phenomenon--there's not a huge demand for Focus On the Family's DVD's now that fundie families can just buy Veggie Tales.
And just to be clear, I am not personally equating being gay with butt sex, nor distilling the lifelong comfort of a same sex partnership into two guys doin' it. Here in the world of the sane, we all know that queer identity takes many forms, many of which are not male, and not all of which involve anal sex.
However, I'm convinced that the discomfort fundamentalists feel specifically about the act of physical lovemaking between two men is what primarily drives their manic hatred of homosexuality, and it's this bigotry that drives them to obscure passages of the Bible in defense of their hate, and not the other way around.
Nicely stated Dan.
i strongly dislke james dobson. and this is from a more conservative (is there such a thing?) laist-er
"Only 80% to go."
Agreed.