Dobson’s Hateful Business Continues Unabated

Wells Fargo is next on the conservative fuckwits’ shitlist, since they had the temerity to give a grant to GLAAD:

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

"Focus on the Family has elected to end its banking relationship with Wells Fargo, motivated primarily by the bank's ongoing efforts to advance the radical homosexual agenda," says a statement on the Focus Web site dated Thursday and attributed to Focus President and CEO Jim Daly.

"Our decision is not personal, but principled, and we trust our constituents and others will respect it," it says.

Let’s have a look at that “principled” decision. Wells Fargo provides a $50,000 grant to support the leadership counsel of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Defamation, particularly of gays and lesbians, is Focus on the Family’s bread and butter. Seems to me their decision to target Wells Fargo wasn't so much principled as financial. They don’t want to keep their dosh with a bank who supports a group that might undermine their relentless attacks on the gay community, which is one of their most profitable fund-raising activities.

”Let's just call this what it is another attempt by an anti-gay group to try and intimidate companies into not supporting or doing business with gays and lesbians," [Glennda Testone, spokeswoman for GLAAD] said of the action by Focus.

In fact, let’s call it what it really is—just another cynical business move by the anti-gay industry.

Groups like Focus on the Family are part of an industry whose product is hatred of gays. They package up the product in boxes with names like “Marriage Protection Act” and point to everything from children’s TV characters to the placement of Fortune 500 company adverts as evidence of the existence of the radical homosexual agenda. The product flies off the shelves, as security moms and NASCAR dads, who know no other way of life than a suspended state of fear, scrabble to protect their children from the insidious gay element about which their ministers and politicians can’t stop talking. It’s a booming business, and Dobson and his other anti-gay CEOs are as good at pumping out product as is Coca-Cola, Nike, or any other successful industry with a high-demand item.

So let’s not even give Focus on the Family the credit for being “principled,” even if their principles are so much garbage. Let’s call this bullshit what it is—a business decision. They’re no better than any other corporate monolith with shareholders to answer to, and their profits helped buy the same president. Moral values? Get real. Big Oil has nothing on Big God.