Focus on the Family Lays Off 49 More Workers

[Chronos]

Focus on the Family Lays Off 49 More Workers

This new 7 percent staff reduction in the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based pro-family group brought the employee number to 650, down from a 2002 peak of 1,400 people, according to The Denver Post.

"God has never promised us a certain budget number. We're sad today but not distraught about the future," FOTF Vice President Gary Schneeberger was quoted as saying.

Among other things ... or perhaps never anything at all?

He works in his own way on his own time using his own schedule ... which is a random number generator.

[Tank]

$90 million budget, from donations. What a waste of money.

[Recusant]

Don't worry folks, there are other organizations around to take up the slack. For instance, the American Family Association. They have a side project devoted exclusively to the "Won't SOMEBODY PLEASE think of the CHILDREN!" meme, called "One Million Moms." They don't miss a trick. Their latest outrage is Ben and Jerry's Schweddy Balls ice cream.

[KingPhilip]

"Their latest outrage is Ben and Jerry's Schweddy Balls ice cream."

Oh my god, I want some. Right now. Probably not to eat, but to put on display in my freezer as a conversation starter.

[Asmodean]

Oh my god, I want some. Right now. Probably not to eat, but to put on display in my freezer as a conversation starter.

I like and support anything and everything that gets to those overprotective parents without being directly harmful. Totally buying stock in that one 

[Tank]

"Their latest outrage is Ben and Jerry's Schweddy Balls ice cream."

Oh my god, I want some. Right now. Probably not to eat, but to put on display in my freezer as a conversation starter.

You have conversation starters in your freezer? How does that work? "Come on folks, let's go look at what's in my freezer!"     

[Sweetdeath]

Oh, go fucking drink some tainted punch and kill   yourselves.
I swear, I am DAMN sick of bored housewives who want to "protect the  children"  by attempting to censor reality.  It's icecream, it's funny, it's based off SNL. GET OVER IT.

[Chronos]

If Scweddy Balls keeps you from getting into Heaven, you can't get over it.

I wish B&J would come out with a flavor called:

Right-Wing Nut Job

or

Christ Almighty!

or

Burning Bush

or

Ramadanadingdong

or

Lotsadaughters

etc

[Sweetdeath]

It's such a funny name, especially if  you say it in a German accent. XDD

[Pharaoh Cat]

Their latest outrage is Ben and Jerry's Schweddy Balls ice cream.

Hmm, "fudge-covered rum and malt balls"... you know, that sounds good! 

[Asmodean]

Heh... Had another look at that foolishness and found this:

They are openly recruiting teens and children to become 'gay' on a program that also promotes the transgender and homosexual lifestyle.

http://www.onemillionmoms.com/IssueDetail.asp?id=427

[DeterminedJuliet]

Heh... Had another look at that foolishness and found this:

They are openly recruiting teens and children to become 'gay' on a program that also promotes the transgender and homosexual lifestyle.

http://www.onemillionmoms.com/IssueDetail.asp?id=427

OMM wonders how the helpline helps a child or teenager who may be a bit confused about his or her sexuality, since it openly promotes that "if you call this helpline, you are not persuaded to walk away from the lifestyle. You are persuaded to be proud and embrace it."

Oh my God, they're telling children to be, WHO THEY ARE?! How dare they! Children are supposed to be who we TELL them to be! Outrage! Scandal!

[DeterminedJuliet]

Now I can't stop reading about the "issues" these people have. One of their protests was against oreo cookies because one of their ads used the phrase "shut the front door". Yes.

[BullyforBronto]

Now I can't stop reading about the "issues" these people have. One of their protests was against oreo cookies because one of their ads used the phrase "shut the front door". Yes.

Whoa. Their causes are just...whoa.

If these mothers are so concerned about what their kids watch on TV, why not just cancel the ol' cable subscription? I mean, come on, is Bert and Ernie's televised marriage really that offensive? Those puppets have loved each other for years. Surely, Ernie deserves to be placed on Bert's company HMO.

[Asmodean]

Oh my God, they're telling children to be, WHO THEY ARE?! How dare they! Children are supposed to be who we TELL them to be! Outrage! Scandal!

Well... YES. What's the point of children, if not molding them into perfect clones of their parents' wishes?

Some people are just so... I can't find the right word. Undeserving of having children, for starters. I can actually summon a scrap of pity for the kids growing up in homes where they are sheltered from the real world to the best of their parents' ability... Because when the world inevitably smacks them in the mouth, they feel it the hardest.