DOBSON’S PYRRHIC VICTORY…. James Dobson and his far-right Focus on the Family empire invested $539,000 in cash and another $83,000 worth of non-monetary support into making sure same-sex couples in California can’t get married. The efforts, at least in the short term, paid off, and the infamous Prop. 8 narrowly won at the ballot box.
It was, however, a pyrrhic victory. Dobson’s group was spending money it could ill afford to lose.
Because of a weak economy and cash-strapped donors, Focus on the Family said it is eliminating 202 jobs, the deepest cuts in the 32-year history of the Colorado Springs-based Christian nonprofit. The ministry laid off 149 workers, and cut another 53 vacant positions.
The cuts announced Monday slash Focus’ local workforce by nearly 18 percent — from about 1,150 to 950. Twenty percent of the cuts are in management.
The layoffs come just weeks after Focus announced it was outsourcing 46 jobs from its distribution department.
The word “schadenfreude” keeps coming to mind.
Wonkette added a brief message to those Focus employees who’ve suddenly lost their jobs: “Sure, you have no income now because James Dobson burnt all of your company’s money on a state ballot proposition. But imagine the alternative! Would you want to be employed knowing that several hundred miles away, in another state, pairs of consenting adults that already have been living together, people whom you’ve never met and will never meet, were applying for state licenses (pieces of paper, really) that offered them some new tax and medical options??”
