Praise Jesus!

The Lord works in mysterious ways……………………..

With all of the difficulties and suffering that honest, decent people are facing in this economy, it warms my heart to know these douchebags are having financial trouble. If ANY group of people deserves to suffer, it's these hateful, brainwashed Jeebus freaks.

Fun side note on this one. While Focus on the Hate is suffering a HUGE budget deficit, the rest of the city is doing relatively well compared to the national average. Guess people around here have finally come to their senses.

One of the problems with Focus on the Family's continuing attacks on us is this. You can only scare people with the same stuff for so long. The same letters and statements can only piss people off for so long, I have a feeling their fundraising is going to get a lot lower. especially now that Glenn Beck has gotten all the crazies into a frenzie about Healthcare.

I will be glad when Focus on (Destroying) the (Gay Members of Your) Family is dead and buried. My dad still subscribes to this hate filled filth that has told him everything from the father is to blame to gays recruit children. On the plus side, every time my dad pisses me off I can just remind him its his fault that I'm gay according to his own sources.

@Cam: Well its more than just that. The traditional closed communities (see small town) are getting much more open. Sure, you still have crazies, but you find unsuspecting allies in many places you would never really look. I think when people hit rock bottom like they have done in this economy they focus much more on bettering themselves and much less on trying to attack others.

I heard an interesting description by George Lackoff, the author, as to why , despite the obvious economic disadvantages inherent in supporting the G.O.P., poor working class families of the religious right variety would support them. I always though t that this was crazy because it defeats their needs, since the GOP is a rich man's club, economically aimed at filling their needs.
It goes back first of all to the principle that people vote their beliefs, not their needs. Their beliefs are hitched to the belief in a paternalistic Family Values format. Which has the father as the head of the family, and of course this is anti gay , because he is supposed to breeding with the littlle woman at home and moreover with the husband bearing the weight of suporting the family with no help from anywhere-which means that even the Corporate robber barons are justbetter at doing their God given greedy duty.
I.E. if people are poor they deserve it, just as people who have success deserve every bit of the rewards.

It's a stupid and self defeating philosophy, but it's what they believe. Interestingly, we gays get the shaft because we are not playing the game according to the rules.

@M Shane: I know there was something on Bill Mahr about how the crazy zealot religious freaks are switching to a doctrine of predestined greatness. The leader of this movement even said that it was ok to rape babies if you were rich and powerful because god decided you should be rich and powerful and therefore because you were rich and powerful it was ok to rape babies. There are some REALLY fucked up people in this country that function on religion. The scary part is that these people are trying to get mega churches on military bases in order to indoctrinate the military into their views.

Hi, folks,

Please look at the letter snippet carefully:

FOTF is not exactly claiming to suffer a $6 million loss or deficit. They are basically saying they predicted a ridiculously rosy wishlist of donations and sales this year, and — lo and behold — now donations need to increase in order to meet FOTF's grandiose goals.

FOTF has in fact been running deficits of around $1 million in recent years, but with $145 million in annual revenue and $75 million additional savings in the bank, they won't close up anytime soon.

"We're strengthening marriages."

Yep, I'm still waiting on that anti-divorce legislation.

@M Shane:

Someone rote a self-help book on how to overcome poverty and become successful, I don't recall his name at the moment, made the statement in his book that being poor requires more effort than becoming financially successful.

As a person who came from very meager beginnings and suffered the hardships that having no money can bring, I can definitely relate to that. As I look back it and when I think of all the energy that went into trying to save a nickel here, a penny there and all of the scavenging, recycling, self-sacrifice and doing without all of the common everyday things that other families enjoyed, that was required on the part of my mother and father and myself, it was a 24/7/365 job which left little room for any improvement or picking one's self up by the bootstraps, as the old proverb goes.

I was still in my mid teens when I left home and only then did I learn that it makes far more sense to concentrate on how to makes dollars, instead of constantly pinching nickels and dimes and trying to save five percent of nothing.

I thank my lucky stars (only joking, folks) that I made the choice NOT to be poor anymore. Being poor is a horrible place to live in.

I know. I was there.

Typo: I dropped the "w" on rote in the first sentence.