Wednesday, May 4, 2005

LGBT: Now ABC is starting to piss me off!

Thy won't air a gay-friendly commercial about a church, but they will air James Dobson and his "Focus of the Family" commercial? Come on!!

Posted by Geoff at 5:40 AM

4 comments:

Kyle said...

Perhaps if the Dobson commercial focused (hehe) on what bad parents non-conservatives are, it would be comparable to the church ad, which makes a clear statement as to how hateful conservatives are.

The statement that all conservatives hate homosexual persons and want to create a theocracy is unfair and false.

The statement that all homosexual persons are promiscuous and are the downfall of our noble (?) western civilization are unfair and false.

It's just sexy to say either one these days.

1:05 PM
Anonymous said...

I went to the Focus on Your Child and it didn't seem that bad - nothing too scandelous (except for this one thing about a mother about how her family handles the "dangers of Halloween", although to be quite honest it is a kinda dangerous holiday what with the candy-from-strangers and all). It seemed mostly to be straightforward advice. Lots of references to God's strength and guidance etc. but no insults to nonbelievers or Democrats or anything of the sort. Remember - Focus on the Family did just that before they got involved in politics and the family advice stuff is still the centerpiece of the organization.

9:02 PM
Anonymous said...

have you ever read the excerpt from his book on discipline/raising kids where he recalls an episode of beating the family daschund with a belt because it wouldn't get out of it's spot on the bed? he uses this often as a parallel to the strategy he recommends for raising/disciplining children - show them "who is really the boss." ugh. dobson.

~nicole

12:30 PM
Anonymous said...

here is the text from his book "The Strong Willed Child."

"Please don't misunderstand me. Siggie is a member of our family and we love him dearly. And despite his anarchistic nature, I have finally taught him to obey a few simple commands. However, we had some classic battles before he reluctantly yielded to my authority.

"The greatest confrontation occurred a few years ago when I had been in Miami for a three-day conference. I returned to observe that Siggie had become boss of the house while I was gone. But I didn't realize until later that evening just how strongly he felt about his new position as Captain.

"At eleven o'clock that night, I told Siggie to go get into his bed, which is a permanent enclosure in the family room. For six years I had given him that order at the end of each day, and for six years Siggie had obeyed.

"On this occasion, however, he refused to budge. You see, he was in the bathroom, seated comfortably on the furry lid of the toilet seat. That is his favorite spot in the house, because it allows him to bask in the warmth of a nearby electric heater..."

"When I told Sigmund to leave his warm seat and go to bed, he flattened his ears and slowly turned his head toward me. He deliberately braced himself by placing one paw on the edge of the furry lid, then hunched his shoulders, raised his lips to reveal the molars on both sides, and uttered his most threatening growl. That was Siggie's way of saying. "Get lost!"

"I had seen this defiant mood before, and knew there was only one way to deal with it. The ONLY way to make Siggie obey is to threaten him with destruction. Nothing else works. I turned and went to my closet and got a small belt to help me "reason" with Mr. Freud."

What developed next is impossible to describe. That tiny dog and I had the most vicious fight ever staged between man and beast. I fought him up one wall and down the other, with both of us scratching and clawing and growling and swinging the belt. I am embarrassed by the memory of the entire scene. Inch by inch I moved him toward the family room and his bed. As a final desperate maneuver, Siggie backed into the corner for one last snarling stand. I eventually got him to bed, only because I outweighed him 200 to 12!"

12:31 PM

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