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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?

Supposed Progressive Obama Religious Leader Uses Health Care Debate for Anti-Abortion Views

Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. October 8, 2009.

Rev. Jim Wallis says he's progressive. That got him a seat on a White House council despite his opposition to abortion -- which he's using to monkey-wrench health-care reform.

Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party

Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. September 5, 2009.

Max Blumenthal's new book traces the rise of the Radical Right and how it captured control of the GOP and turned it into the party of Sarah Palin.

After 5 Years of Legal Gay Marriage, Massachusetts still has the lowest state divorce rate and Western Civilization is intact

Bruce Wilson, AlterNet: Politics. August 24, 2009.

James Dobson Claimed Gay Marriage Would "Destroy the Earth." Instead, the MA Divorce Rate Has Dropped To a Pre-WW2 Level.

Right-Wing Hypocrites: 10 Reasons Conservatives Should Shut Up About Letterman's Sarah Palin Gaffe

Karl Frisch, Media Matters for America. June 22, 2009.

Each and every day conservative radio hosts, cable-news hosts, pundits and columnists use divisive, insensitive, and downright hateful rhetoric.

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.

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 Family’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.

Sarah Palin's Big Bad Creationism

Nathan Schneider, AlterNet. September 9, 2008.

People are whispering that McCain's VP pick doesn't believe in evolution. But how much would this really affect policy?

James Dobson Has Second Thoughts About 'Forsaking' McCain

TBogg, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. July 23, 2008.

"While I am not endorsing Senator John McCain, the possibility is there that I might."

Is The Religious Right Losing Its Edge?

Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report AlterNet: PEEK. July 21, 2008.

James Dobson reconsiders the ‘circumstances,’ goes back on his word and warms up to McCain.

Christian Right Threatens to Ditch the GOP If the Nominee Is Like Giuliani

Rob Boston, Church and State. November 12, 2007.

James Dobson and Religious Right allies threaten to dump the Republican Party if the presidential nominee fails "family values" test.

Corruption & Insiderism Eroding the Conservative Coalition

David Sirota, AlterNet: PEEK. May 9, 2007.

David Sirota: The Right goes to war...with itself.