Scott Lively is an official signatory to the rabidly-anti-gay-yet-supposedly-"mainstream" Manhattan Declaration. Those behind the document (Focus on the Family's Jim Daly, NOM's Robby George, Chuck Colson, etc.) leave Lively on their list at their own peril. Here's the latest reason why: *** *Others close to Lively: Here is the acknowledgements page from Scott's web-based book Redeeming the Rainbow: Redeeming The Rainbow [Lively] ...

Do we think the organized anti-gay social conservatives were born without an adequate amount of professional self-awareness, or do we think their hypocritical assessments of their own work are merely a lifestyle choice? We ask after seeing this comment on Focus on the Family's Citizenlink "news" site: "The APA is taking sides in a political debate without an adequate scientific basis for their stance," she said. "This is another example of a scientific organization acting politically rather than scientifically." APA to Highlight Support of Same-Sex 'Marriage' [Citizenlink] Now, if the above comment came from an independent scientific voice, that would be ...

Ryan Dobson, son of the anti-gay radiovangelist James Dobson of Focus on the Family, apparently didn't focus enough on his first marriage, which ended due to infidelity. And yet still he risks distraction from marriage No. 2 to defend the... ...

The ad in question was not about sexuality. It featured a father holding his son and the words, "All I want for my son is for him to grow up knowing how to do the right thing." Like the Tebow ad, it included the address of Focus on the Family's Web site and the slogan, "Celebrate Family. Celebrate Life." Now nice, I would have thought after what Miller did to Jerkins, it would mean that many of us would see what signal fathers goes through in after divorce, no being able to see or be apart of their kids lives. ...

Page Edited by eQualityGiving: eQualityGiving endorses Congressman Patrick Murphy for Re-election to the US House in what is expected to be a very close race where funding of his right wing opponent comes from Focus on the Family. ...

Why paying attention to these things matters: "Focus on the Family did have a banner ad on NCAA.com. Today, it was decided to remove the ad from the website as a result of concerns expressed by our membership," Bob Williams, an NCAA spokesman, said via e-mail late Tuesday. Family Values and the NCAA [Inside Higher Ed] A smart, "gay cure"-rejecting decision. The NCAA might be focused on college sports. But it's nice to know they're at least somewhat focused on the science classroom as well. **The backstory: Weird, why doesn't Focus ever address 'the homosexual problem' in their ...

Sports blogger, author, and UMass professor emerita Pat Griffin reports that the NCAA's website is running ads (current ad pictured here) for anti-gay, anti-choice evangelical organization Focus on the Family, and has approved airtime for them on CBS during the upcoming tournament. Writes Griffin:  "Ok, we endured the Focus on the Family...Tebow anti-abortion ad during the Super Bowl (along with a lot of other ads demeaning women). But now, NCAA.com, is also carrying a banner ad for Focus on the Family. I hear that CBS, the network that brought us the Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad, ...

Between last night and this morning, someone was hard at work putting together a montage of all the nut-punching, bitch-slapping, and tackling that went on in the ads during the Super Bowl. Seems to me most of this is slapstick, though, not what I'd call violence. There are plenty of articles out today about how CBS and 'Focus on the Family' punked the critics and the exasperated blogosphere because the Tebow ads were so tame in their execution and never mentioned abortion. That was known from the onset, however. The real issue is that a hate group was allowed ...

This is the second Focus On The Family commercial featuring Tim Tebow and him mom, Pam. Now, I gotta say that if it weren’t for the anti-choice message and the funding by the homophobic Focus On The Family, it would be kinda cute. Okay, so I was expecting a lot more preachiness, a lot more finger-wagging, and maybe a fake halo. Guess Frank Rich was on to something — you gotta keep the anti-gay, anti-choice crazy under wraps if you’re gonna get new converts. Watch the first commercial here. ...

Focus on the Family's much-ballyhooed Super Bowl ad basically comes across as benign... ...and that's why it's so dangerous for LGBT people. Because when one pays a visit to the FOTF website to "celebrate family" and "celebrate life" (which is the organization's only "ask" in the ad), the celebration they will find is one that, as a blanket policy, forcibly disinvites anyone who falls outside of heterosexual society. Like, for instance, when a parent of a fourteen-year-old gay son writes the FOTF forums for advice, the forum moderator is likely to refer them to scientifically discredited researchers ...

Next Sunday, much of the nation will gather to watch Super Bowl XLIV – but this year, viewers are in for a surprise. CBS has approved an ad designed to fuel the culture war over abortion, sponsored by the far-right group Focus on the Family. Stranger still, after years of refusing to run “advocacy ads” by progressive [...] ...

The South Florida Raging Grannies really rip CBS a new one over its biased Super Bowl ad choices. And the explanation for what CBS stands for in this catchy jingle is priceless. Check it all out in the video below. As if the firestorm surrounding this issue wasn’t raging enough already, CBS partnered with Focus on the Family [...] ...

Everybody's coming up with their rebuttal to the Tim Tebow 'Focus on the Family' ad, including the pro-choice raging grannies of South Florida. Go grannies, go! Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... (via dlisted) ...

This is Maryland Delegate Emmett Burns. Why is he frowning? Well, that would be because D.C. gays are likely to start marrying in the coming weeks, and Burns is all kinds of pissed that some of those loving couples might want to take their unions back home to neighboring MD for some good old fashioned equality. And who can even think of smiling when there are decent, tax-paying citizens who wish to claim their piece of the American pie? This from Focus on the Family: *AUDIO SOURCE: Targeting Marriage Supporters in Maryland [Focus On the Family] Ya know, ...

Without mentioning Mancrunch.com specifically, GLAAD yesterday called on CBS to explain why it chose to "exclude an ad with gay content" from Super Bowl programming. Said GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios: “CBS has a problem when they do something like this at the same time as they allow an anti-gay group like Focus on the Family to place ads during the Super Bowl. This network should come clean to the public about what’s going on because this seems to be a homophobic double standard.”In related news, attorney Gloria Allred is demanding disclosure on the Tebow ad that abortions were illegal in the ...

While CBS is still deciding whether or not to air an ad submitted by gay dating site Mancrunch and mulling the outrage over the Tim Tebow Focus on the Family ad, they've already rejected an ad from GoDaddy.com, a company known for trying to make a splash with its bawdy Super Bowl ads.Said Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons of the rejected ad, which features an effeminate retired football player who pursues a career as a fashion designer: "Of the five commercial concepts we submitted for approval this year, this never would've been my pick for the one ...

Mancrunch has received a formal rejection of the ad it submitted for the Super Bowl which features a gay couple kissing, CNBC reports: "CBS said in its rejection that the creative 'is not within the network's broadcast standards for Super Bowl Sunday.' The rejection also said the sales department 'has had difficulty verifying your organization's credit status.' Mancrunch.com said they offered to pay a cash advance."'Said Mancrunch.com spokesperson Dominic Friesen: "We are very disappointed that in 2010 such discrimination is happening especially given the fact that Focus on the Family is allowed to promote their way of life ...

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Two harmelss ads that CBS has rejected for the Super Bowl, even though it will be accepting an anti-abortion ad from Focus On The Family. ...