Focus on the Family Hates Your (Non-Straight) Family | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Go to http://dipseastories.com/casket to get an extended 30-day trial. Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die. Focus on the Family seems to have the recipe for hated turned political. They get a boatload of money from their media appearances, twist research to support their crusade against lgbtq+ people, and have their own political organization that teaches people how to vote. The new leader says it will get less harmful as their speech continues to spread across the world. But, with the founder, James Dobson’s horrific viewpoints steeped deeply into the organization, and their continued use of conversion therapy, this doesn’t seem very likely. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/62ylt Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Jess Hubbert This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When you, there's an organization called Focus on the Family, the optimistic side of you, if that exists for any of us anymore,
0:15.2	might think it's an organization for good.
0:17.6	Maybe they provide free child care for people who need it.
0:20.4	Advocate for guaranteed parental leave, or try to stop the outrageously high infant mortality rate in the United States.
0:27.0	Unfortunately, if these were any of your guesses, I hate to break your little optimistic heart, but you're wrong.
0:33.0	Focus on the family is basically the antithesis of everything I just said.
0:37.5	They're an anti-LgQ plus religious group that works to undermine the validity of same-sex marriage, prevent
0:43.8	same-sex couples from adoption, and still believes in conversion therapy.
0:48.4	The only family they want to help, even though they're not doing much helping in the first
0:52.2	place, are for
0:53.2	cis gender heterosexual ones. In case of course you want an abortion then they aren't
0:57.8	trying to help you either like at all. Founded in 1977 as a small radio show by the infamous James C. Dobson, the original organization focused primarily on talking about religion and the ideals of the traditional family.
1:11.0	In addition to somehow becoming the last people to ever interview Ted Bundy before he was killed too.
1:17.3	I'm not sure how that happened, but that's a thing too. But as time went on, the organization grew and grew to the homophobic political and social
1:26.8	power house it is today.
1:28.6	Nowadays, the new leader, Jim Daly, claims that he's trying to take a kinder approach
1:32.4	to the group's mission. Basically, he's trying to take a kinder approach to the group's mission.
1:34.0	Basically, he's not going to call gay people literally Satan like his predecessor James Dobson did.
1:39.8	But his approach isn't all rainbows and butterflies.
1:42.4	After all, the group's whole focus is still to dismantle his approach isn't all rainbows and butterflies.
1:42.6	After all, the group's whole focus is still to dismantle the LGBTQ
1:46.3	organizations and abortion rights.
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