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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Is Focus on the Family a hate group?

I'm just posing this as a question. I guess your answer depends on whether, and to what degree, you consider homosexuality a protected class under nondiscrimination laws. But when I read this I was shocked.

DENVER (AP) - The conservative Christian group Focus on the Family says it's withdrawing its funds from Wells Fargo because of the bank's support of gay organizations.

The group says the move is due to what it says are the bank's "ongoing efforts to advance the radical homosexual agenda."

Replace the words gay/homosexual with black, or Vietnamese, or Jewish and tell me there wouldn't be an outcry. Is it okay to be a hate group, so long as you claim a religious backing?

(On their creepily named website, www.family.org (anybody else get a cult flash from that) they've also called on boycotts of Ford, Procter & Gamble in their anti-gay campaign, and Target for using "Holidays" instead of "Christmas". And let's not forget their the same loonies who were going after the doll maker "American Girl" because the donated to a charity called Girls, inc.)

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