Popular Culture Review Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 2005 | Page 55

Out of Focus on the Family
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not by gays who have been forbidden to marry.3 Even those clamoring to
“protect marriage” aren’t doing a very good job preserving its “sanctity.”
The California-based Bama Group is a marketing research company
that “has been providing information and analysis regarding cultural trends and
the Christian Church since 1984.” In a report entitled “Bom Again Christians
Just As Likely to Divorce As Are Non-Christians,” issued September 8, 2004,
they noted that: “Among married bom again Christians, 35% have experienced a
divorce. That figure is identical to the outcome among married adults who are
not bom again: 35%.” They also noted that “nearly one-quarter of the married
‘bom agains’ (23 percent) get divorced two or more times” (www.bama.org).
Demographers put the American homosexual population at about 2%.
It’s unrealistic, at best, to assert that whatever percentage of that 2% who
actually marry have the ability to “destroy traditional marriage,” which is
obviously not their intention or they would not be fighting so hard to participate
in the institution. Dobson further asserted that the gay community is trying “to
create an entirely different legal structure,” but it is not they who keep trying to
reshape the judiciary by unseating, removing, or defeating judges whose legal
decisions they don’t like. That’s been the agenda of the Christian Right and
Focus on the Family.
While addressing a “Take a Stand for Marriage” rally in Sioux City,
Iowa on October 2, 2004, Dr. Dobson once again asserted “Now judges are
telling us they want to redefine the definition of marriage. We say, not in our
lifetime.” But the FOF head ignored what the judge he came to attack said when
not acting in his professional capacity. From the Advocate.com article reporting
on the rally:
Organizers said Dobson was drawn to Iowa by the November
ruling of Iowa district judge Jeffrey Neary terminating the
civil union of a lesbian Sioux City couple joined in Vermont.
The Iowa Family Policy Center, sponsor of the rally, is the
group whose legal arm appealed Neary’s dissolution decree.
Dobson said the court system is determined to allow same-sex
marriages, led by activist judges who are creating laws rather
than interpreting them. He encouraged the audience to voice
their opinions by voting and “maybe find some of these people
another line of work.”
“I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but you’ve got one of them
right here, Judge Jeffrey Neary,” Dobson said at the rally.
The Judicial Accountability Group, a political action
committee formed in September to try to unseat Neary, had
information tables at the event entrance and distributed printed