Focus On The Rainbow

According to an articlein Friday’s edition of the Denver Post and as written by Electa Draper, the anti-gay group, Focus On The Family, has purchased two 30 second spots, one which will run prior to the Super Bowl coverage on CBS and the other during the game which will be held on February 7.

The ad’s production cost and actual buy time cost were not revealed by Focus On The Family but this year’s 30 second spots run between 2.5 and 2.8 million dollars. This year’s ad rates are down from last year’s spot rate of 3 million dollars when NBC covered the Super Bowl.

It’s reported by the Denver Post that 2007 Heisman Trophy winner and star quarterback for the University of Florida, Tim Tebow, will appear in the ad with his mother.

As Focus On The Family spokesman Gary Schneeberger puts it, the Tebows will be sharing “one of their many personal family-affirming stories”. The Focus On The Family ministry is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Needless to say I’m extremely disappointed with my former employer, CBS Broadcasting, in it’s decision to sell ad time to a gay hate group.

I know times are tough in broadcasting for ad revenue, both radio and TV (ergo my downsizing in 2006), but to sell ad time to a hate group which professes to spread the gospel and “family values” is unconscionable.

I suppose if we were back in the 30’s and 40’s CBS would be selling ad time to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

As I said to my boss the day I got the news I was being downsized, “as they said in the Godfather, it’s business, it’s not personal”.

This time Sonny it’s personal.

Dr James Dobson “Same-sex marriage would lead to marriage between daddies and little girls … between a man and a donkey”

Dobson and Medved warned of purported pro-gay subtext in movie “Happy Feet”

“[The homosexual] agenda includes teaching pro-homosexual [sic] concepts in the public schools, redefining the family to represent “any circle of people who love each other,” approval of homosexual adoption, legitimizing same-sex marriage, and securing special rights for those who identify themselves as gay. Those ideas must be opposed, even though to do so is to expose oneself to the charge of being “homophobic.”
– “Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide” by James Dobson

Spongebob will make you gay

A writer once stated, “Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.” When we become so accommodating of evil that we neither recognize nor oppose it, our moral collapse is imminent.

The apostle Paul described a similar society in Romans 1, which addressed the epidemic of homosexuality that was rampant in the ancient world and especially in Rome at that time. He wrote, “They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless” (v. 29-31, NIV).

In an e-mail signed by Tom Minnery, senior vice president for government and public policy, Focus says the measure “helps protect millions of children from radical indoctrination in the homosexual lifestyle,” and “safeguards religious liberty in our most populous state.” - in regards to Prop 8