Karma Report: Focus On the Family Lays Off 20% of Its Workforce

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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