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Over the weekend, Focus on the Family's James Dobson released his pit bulls and personally attacked me. He is irate because I dared to launch a campaign to keep him out of the Radio Hall of Fame. Dobson is a venomous bigot who has said that same-sex marriage will "destroy the earth." Clearly, he does not deserve to be honored and must be stopped.
YOU are the only thing standing between James Dobson and a Hall of Fame victory dance. The last thing we want is for him to parade around on-stage with a trophy, using his platform to spew more bile against the GLBT community. There are four things you can do TODAY to stop this troglodyte.
You must act NOW, as Hall of Fame voting ends on July 15.
1) Sign TWO's formal request to have the Radio Hall of Fame dump James Dobson as a candidate. SIGN HERE
2) Contact Radio Hall of Fame CEO Bruce DuMont directly, to express your displeasure: brucedumont@museum.tv
3) As an option, vote for nominees other than James Dobson or Laura Schlessinger (the general public may vote, and the other nominees are Bob Costas and Howard Stern). VOTE HERE
4) Donate to Truth Wins Out. Only with your help, can we continue to fight the right wing and take on extremists like James Dobson.
Though we are in complete agreement in regards to the vile impact of Dobson's "ministry", as I've shared before, I believe that attacking him on this front only gives him fodder for fund raising. His "honor" will read with an asterisk and, not that many years from now, there will be great consensus that he belongs in a Hall of Shame, though his impact on broadcasting cannot be treated as if it never happened, and I'm not sure that we would want that, even if it were possible.
However, given the many who would testify to the harm done by ex-gay "ministries" under the aegis and influence of FOF, I've never understood why no one has ever gone after his professional licenses. For the rest of us common folk in professional services which require licensor, if we disregarded evidence-based methodologies in the manner Dobson has, we would, at a minimum, have to respond to our professional organization's Board of Ethics. That, in my opinion, is where this discussion needs to take place. It then can be added to the "asterisk" attached to the broadcasting honor.
posted by KJ, at
7/14/2008 4:06 PM
Dobson has professional licenses?
posted by Anonymous, at
7/15/2008 1:07 PM
