Colorado Springs, 2-paper town
Tuesday November 18, 2008
Categories: Christianity
A tale of two ledes: Focus on the Family just announced a layoff of 20% of its workforce--big news here in Colorado Springs, where the ministry is one of the ten largest employers. Here's how our daily paper, the Gazette, reported...
Filed Under: Christianity, Focus on the Family, job cuts, Proposition 8, The Colorado Springs Independent, the Gazette
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Let's just hope the laid off workers feel prop 8 was worth their jobs.
Personally, I think it's a shame Focus on the Family did not invest several million more to make sure Proposition 8 passed by a convincing mandate.
James Dobson is bff with Larry Craig. They share a stall at the airport.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Focus on the Family Action is a fiscally-separate lobbying organization. Its finances are not connected to Focus on the Family, the tax-exempt 501(c)3 organization, and so the two pieces of the story (Focus on the Family Action spends .5 Million lobbying for Prop 8, and Focus on the Family has job cuts) are not directly related.
While the fundraising of FOTF Action almost certainly cut into the fundraising ability of FOTF, the political lobbying entity could not transfer its assets to the ministry, even to save jobs.
Michael:
Legally, no doubt you're right.
Morally, the symbolism could not be worse -- and dare I say, un-Christian.
Note to Michael-
The money Focus on the Family spend to pass prop 8 did not come from Focus on the Family Action. It came from Focus on the Family.
I wonder how many starving or dying children could have been saved with that money. FOTF needs to expand their definition of life. As Ron Sider says, life does not start at conception and end at birth. And they need to expand their definition of family to include every person born upon this earth.
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