Subject: Focus on the Family

• The Focus Remains the Same

  March 9, 2007

• The Devil's in the Details

  November 28, 2006

• Mathew Murray Shooting God’s Plan?

  February 28, 2008

• News Flash: No Rise in Trangender Bathroom Attacks

  June 27, 2008

• Shocker: Focus on the Family's James Dobson loves supporting McCain now

  September 3, 2008

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, October 24 edition

  October 24, 2008

• Denver Blogs: Republicans find their savior in... Facebook?

  We're carving up the mountains of the Colorogosphere in search of hidden trails that we can... ah, screw this metaphor. Here are a bunch of links. Send us more.Colorado Republicans: Coming to a Facebook page near you. (Face the State)If you stumbled on this while surfing the web for a new job, well... I don't know how to say this... You're hosed. (Northern Colorado Business Report, via 5280)Aurora is considering extending benefits to the families of gay city workers. Oddly, we haven't seen a pre

  December 9, 2008

• Group blames James Dobson honor for troubles at Museum of Broadcast Communications

  Our October 24 blog "Protesters Don't Want Focus on the Family's James Dobson in Radio Hall of Fame" told the tale of DumpDobson.com, a website that decried the planned induction of JD in the Chicago-based Museum of Broadcast Communications' National Radio Hall of Fame. These efforts failed, and Dobson was enshrined. But now the Museum is being forced to sell its half-finished headquarters building -- and Truth Wins Out, an organization affiliated with the aforementioned campaign, believes the

  December 15, 2008

• The (International) Noise Conspiracy

  June 22, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  February 12, 2004

• Best New Job for Bill Owens

  March 24, 2005

• What's So Funny

  May 5, 2005

• Go South

  Make a break to Colorado Springs. No, you don't have to be religious.

  June 7, 2007

• I Want Your Sexpo

  Denver hosts the naughtiest of naughty conventions.

  February 23, 2006

• Sin City

  Colorado Springs has a message for James Dobson: Let Ted moo!

  November 16, 2006

• For God's Sake

  The Thermals have fun with fundamentalism.

  October 12, 2006

• Phantom Canyon Brewing Company

  deck?

  February 9, 2006

• What Was So Funny?

  We laughed until it hurt in 2005.

  December 29, 2005

• Teen Angles

  Young Christians learn that they have nothing to apologize for.

  September 15, 2005

• Flick Pick

  5x2

  August 11, 2005

• The Message

  Prophetable

  May 26, 2005

• Artbeat

  Brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.

  April 14, 2005

• Humor High

  Comedy returns to Aspen.

  February 3, 2005

• Boob Tube

  Janet gave Focus on the Family something to focus on. Too bad.

  February 5, 2004

• The Gay Nineties

  Since Amendement 2 passed seven years ago, Colorado Springs has learned a lesson in Family Values.

  November 25, 1999

• Feature

  November 25, 1999

• Letters

  July 22, 1999

• Off Limits

  July 15, 1999

• Fact or Friction?

  The ex-gay movement has its straight man--but ex-ex-gays may have the last laugh.

  October 1, 1998

• Making Book on Bill Owens

  Questions about the religious right are this GOP candidate's cross to bear--or is that bare?

  August 6, 1998

• Slamming the Door on Kerry Dore

  A construction worker faces 32 years in prison after a hostage incident at Focus on the Family.

  December 4, 1997

• Out of Focus

  Demons continue to haunt the injured ironworker who held up Focus on the Family--as well as his victims.

  October 9, 1997

• King James's Version

  James Dobson issues gender "guidelines" for the country's most popular Bible.

  August 14, 1997

• LETTERS

  November 1, 1995

• FOCUS ON THE FRACAS

  JAMES DOBSON URGES A LETTER-WRITING CAMPAIGN AGAINST A DPS GAY-HEALTH POSTER.

  October 11, 1995

• LETTERS

  August 9, 1995

• GIRL CRAZY

  July 26, 1995

• PEOPLE & PLACES

  June 28, 1995

• OUT TO LUNCH

  DEAR EDITOR: THANK YOU FOR HAVING DAVE SHIFLETT TELL HOW THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT CAN INFLUENCE THE MEDIA.

  March 22, 1995

• TALKING TRASH

  SUPPORTERS OF AMENDMENT 16 INCLUDE A TITILLATING COALITION OF PORN-AGAIN CHRISTIANS AND DENVER BLUEBLOODS.

  October 19, 1994

• OFF LIMITS

  May 4, 1994

• Focus on the Family launches more anti-gay tirades

  Focus on the Family's Tom Minnery and Stuart Shepard. James Dobson's February decision to step down as chairman of Focus on the Family doesn't mean the organization is abandoning its ideological agenda. Indeed, his minions are as busy as ever attacking governmental actions that don't represent Focus on the Family values, including pretty much anything having to do with homosexual rights. Today's implementation of designated beneficiary agreements in Colorado, which grant unmarried couples -- in

  July 1, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, July 1 edition

  Photo by Kiernan MaletskyYou'll love these Meeses to pieces. Hotter than July? Or exactly as hot as July? Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night's Show: Meese at Twist & Shout. • DJ Vajra announces new project, offers free mix for download. • Flier of the Week: Get Down at Beta Friday, July 3. • Remembering Tickle Me Pink's Johnny Schou one year later. • SP Double returns with mixtape and upcoming projects. • 3OH!3 grace the cover(s) of AP. Again. Today in Cafe Society: • Parisi

  July 1, 2009

• Focus on the Family: Gay people still can be fixed

  Focus on the Family's James Dobson.​The American Psychiatric Association's rejection of therapy intended to turn gay people straight, announced yesterday, is unlikely to change the views of Focus on the Family, the Colorado Springs-based organization, founded by James Dobson, that's made "reorientation" one of its most prominent missions. Indeed, the outfit has long been defensive about criticism of this practice, as is made clear by the following introduction to a website section entitled

  August 6, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, August 6 edition

  ​Would you like to sniff the cork? Today in Cafe Society: • Grapes and grilling tonight at Strings. • Guess where I'm drinking? • Martini Ranch and Hiccups III dry up. • And the new, New York Times restaurant critic is... • Tonight's shochu dinner at Elway's Cherry Creek could be the blowout food orgy of the year. Today in Backbeat Online: • The Denver Boot: Hot IQs final show at Larimer Lounge. • NPR's All Songs Considered weighs in on the best music of 2009. • Mile Hi-F

  August 6, 2009

• Focus on the Family getting out of the fixing-gays biz

  Focus on the Family's James Dobson.​"Focus on the Family: Gay People Can Still Be Fixed," a blog published last week, made the point that the Colorado Springs-based, James Dobson-founded evangelical organization continues to hold that homosexual proclivities can be "cured" through therapy despite the American Psychological Association's blanket excoriation of such practices. Days later, Focus confirms that it's getting rid of Love Won Out, a program intended to straighten out gays, transfe

  August 13, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, August 13 edition

  Back when punks were punks....​Set the Waybac Machine for the Carter administration.... Today in Backbeat Online: • Denver punk reunion (1978-1988) changes venues. • Otis Taylor's latest record earns praise in Spin. • Q.Burse returns with Lenny Lenn-directed video "The Puzzle." • John Common wants you to make him a movie. • Details of Chad Price's new solo album revealed. Today in Cafe Society: • Tonight: Wines from California vines at Opus. • Mysteries of Sheehan's Desk: D

  August 13, 2009

• Focus on the Family wants your latte money

  Focus on the Family president and CEO Jim Daly.​The Colorado Springs Gazette's parent company may have declared bankruptcy this week, but the paper's still reporting the big news in its community, including details about layoffs at Springs-based Focus on the Family; 75 jobs, or about 8 percent of the total workforce, are being slashed. Although this development isn't exactly front and center on Focus' most prominent sites, two of them offer indications that times are getting tighter. The

  September 3, 2009

• Denver Blogs: James Dobson's minions focus on another state's families

  In the name of J.D., not necessarily J.C.​Our daily homage to local bloggage. Focus on the Family is spreading its hate in Maine. 5280's on the case. Rep. Jared Polis is speaking out against the what he calls a "sweep of terror" being done on illegal immigrants, Colorado Independent reports. At HuffPo Denver, Erin Rosa says the DEA's assertion that drug cartels are getting rich(er) off of medical marijuana is skunky at best.

  October 21, 2009

• Focus on the Family prepares for life without James Dobson

  James Dobson will be signing off in February. Sad?​Word that Focus on the Family founder James Dobson would stop producing his trademark radio show and cut the cord between him and the organization in February likely spurred cheers among people whose vehicles sport one of those "Focus on Your Own Damn Family" bumperstickers. But Focus supporters feel very differently, according to Gary Schneeberger, the organization's spokesman. "We've been getting e-mails and phone calls from people sayin

  November 5, 2009