Focus on the Family

Colorado Springs, CO 80920

Influential pro-family organization. Seeks to defend family, faith and traditional values. Founded and led by family counselor James Dobson, Ph.D. The organization has grown so large it has its own zip code. It's former Washington based lobbying arm is now known separately as the Family Research Council, which is led by [former] Republican Presidential Candidate Gary Bauer.

cyncooper
Talk to Action
August 17, 2006

Swift Boating Stem Cells

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/8/18/2126/43916/Front_Page/Swift_Boating_Stem_Cells

Focus on the Family launched one of the most astonishing disinformation campaigns in the nation in Missouri in August. The subject was stem cell research, but the style was pure Swift Boat Veterans. Focus on the Family covertly distributed 90,000 brochures, stealing feminists' rhethoric and then using those feminists to argue against stem cell research. It's a switcheroo.

Wyatt Buchanan
San Francisco Chronicle
December 5, 2005

Christian group pulls Wells Fargo accounts

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/06/MNG5TG3K661.DTL&type=printable

Focus on the Family objects to donation to gay rights group

...Focus on the Family has closed all its Wells Fargo accounts because the San Francisco bank contributed to a gay rights group that promised to use the funds to "fight... the anti-gay industry."

..."...we're absolutely proud of our support for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community," said Chris Hammond, spokesman for the banking giant, which gives about $2 million a year to gay and lesbian organizations.