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Is Anti-Gay Group "Focus on the Family" Dying as Donations Drop? A Look Back at 7 of Their Strangest and Most Appalling Moves

Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet. September 19, 2011.

As donations fall and jobs are cut, are Focus on the Family's days of using gay rights as a wedge issue finished?

Judge Nixes 'National Prayer Day' But Obama Administration Will Fight to Protect Christian Right

Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet. April 22, 2010.

A federal judge ruled that National Prayer Day's 'sole purpose is to encourage citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise.'

Planned Parenthood Posts Pro-Woman Ad, Putting the Pressure on CBS

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. February 4, 2010.

With Super Bowl Sunday only a few days away, the fight over Focus on the Family's overtly anti-choice ad featuring University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow is raging.

At the Values Voter Summit, Wing-Nut Christian Right Plots Its Comeback

Rob Boston, Church and State. September 28, 2009.

Religious conservatives, safely out of the public eye, let loose a string of shocking diatribes at the Values Voter Summit.

The Nightmare of Christianity: How Religious Indoctrination Led to Murder

Max Blumenthal, The Nation. September 14, 2009.

The authoritarian culture of the Christian right pushed a deeply disturbed young man named Matthew Murray over the edge.

Power Struggle: Who Will Be the Religious Right's New Kingpin?

Rob Boston, Church and State. May 1, 2009.

With James Dobson inching toward retirement, many wonder who will fill the religious right's bully pulpit.

Prominent Voice of the Religious Right Arrested in Underage Sex Sting (Part 75,256 in the Series)

Susan Wallace, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 6, 2009.

Yet again, the hypocrisy of America's self-appointed moral scolds becomes clear.

James Dobson Resigns as Focus on the Family Chairman

Amanda Terkel, ThinkProgress AlterNet: PEEK. February 27, 2009.

Dobson will, however, "continue to host Focus on the Familyâ€™s flagship radio program, write a monthly newsletter and speak out on moral issues."

Yes on 8 Spending Forces Layoffs at Focus on the Family

Lisa Derrick, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. November 18, 2008.

James Dobson's Focus on the Family is poised to announce major layoffs.

Group Headed by James Dobson Asks Christians to Pray for Rain at Obama Speech

Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: PEEK. August 13, 2008.

Stuart Shepard's video asked everyone to pray for God to smite Denver with "abundant rain, torrential rain ... flood-advisory rain."

Focus on the Family Caught in a Pack of Homophobic Lies

Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. July 5, 2007.

Pam Spaulding: The religious right organization is foiled in their attempts to pray the gay away.

Confess Infidelity, Win Votes

Jeffrey Feldman, AlterNet: PEEK. March 9, 2007.

Frameshop: Republican initiation into the religious right...

Updated: Dobson slammed on "fiction[al]" anti-gay Time Mag column [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, AlterNet: Video. December 21, 2006.

'I trust that this will be the last time my work is cited by Focus on the Family'