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US fundamentalist Christian organisation

Focus on the Family
FOTF logo.svg
Founded 1977; 45 years ago  (1977)
California, United states
Founder James Dobson

Tax ID no.

95-3188150 (EIN)
Location
  • 8605 Explorer Dr
    Colorado Springs, Colorado 80920, United States

Area served

74 countries

Key people

Jim Daly
(President and CEO)
John Fuller
(VP Sound division)
Paul Batura
(VP Communications)
Tim Goeglein
(VP External and Governmental Relations)
Robyn Chambers
(Executive Managing director, Advancement for Children)

Acquirement

$99,205,813 (2019 FY)[i]

Employees

640 (every bit of 2013)[2]

Volunteers

112
Website www.focusonthefamily.com

Focus on the Family unit (FOTF or FotF) is an American fundamentalist Christian[three] system founded in 1977 in Southern California by James Dobson, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.[4] It promotes social conservative views on public policy. The grouping is one of a number of evangelical parachurch organizations that rose to prominence in the 1980s. As of the 2017 tax filing twelvemonth, Focus on the Family declared itself to be a church, "primarily to protect the confidentiality of our donors." Traditionally, entities considered churches accept been ones that accept regular worship services and congregants.[5]

Focus on the Family promotes creationism,[6] forbearance-only sex education,[7] adoption merely by heterosexuals,[viii] school prayer, and traditional gender roles. It opposes homosexuality, incest, pre-marital sex, pornography, drugs, gambling, divorce, and abortion. Information technology lobbies against LGBT rights, including LGBT adoption, LGBT parenting, and aforementioned-sex marriage.[9] Focus on the Family has been criticized by psychiatrists, psychologists, and social scientists for misrepresenting their research in order to bolster its religious credo and political agenda. They have too been criticized for their homophobic and transphobic views.

The cadre promotional activities of the organization include the flagship daily radio broadcast hosted by its president Jim Daly together with co-host Focus VP John Fuller. Focus also provides free resources in line with the group's views, and publishes magazines, videos, and sound recordings.

The organization besides produces programs for targeted audiences, such every bit Adventures in Odyssey and Ribbits! for children, and dramas.

History [edit]

Focus on the Family's erstwhile logo

Focus on the Family's Visitor'southward Welcome Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado

From 1977 to 2003, James Dobson served equally the sole leader of the organisation. In 2003, Donald P. Hodel became president and chief executive officer, tasked with the day-to-day operations.[10] Dobson remained chairman of the board of directors, with chiefly creative and speaking duties. In March 2005, Hodel retired and Jim Daly, formerly the Vice President in charge of Focus on the Family's International Partitioning, assumed the role of president and main executive officeholder.[11]

In November 2008, the organisation announced that it was eliminating 202 jobs, representing xviii percent of its workforce. The organization also cutting its budget from $160 million in fiscal 2008 to $138 1000000 for fiscal 2009.[12]

In February 2009, Dobson resigned his chairmanship.[13] He left Focus on the Family in early on 2010, and subsequently founded Family Talk as a non-turn a profit organization and launched a new broadcast that began airing nationally on May 3, 2010. He is no longer affiliated with Focus on the Family unit.

On June 23, 2017, Vice President Mike Pence attended the system'south 40th ceremony celebration; at the event, he praised founder James Dobson, stated that President Donald Trump is an ally of the organization, and added that the Trump administration supports its goals (including the abolitionism of Planned Parenthood).[xiv] [15] [sixteen] Pence's attendance at the event, along with Focus on the Family's stances on LGBT rights, were criticized past the Human Rights Campaign.[17]

In its IRS Form 990 for Tax Year 2015, dated Oct 26, 2017, Focus on the Family unit for the first fourth dimension declared itself a "church, convention of churches or association of churches", claiming that it was no longer required to file the IRS disclosure form and that the sources and disposition of its $89 1000000 budget were "Non for public inspection". Taxation chaser Gail Harmon, who advises nonprofit organizations on tax law, said she found the announcement "shocking", noting that "There'due south nothing about them that meets the traditional definition of what a church is. They don't have a congregation, they don't take the rites of various parts of a person's life."[18] A spokesperson for the organization stated that it changed its condition "primarily to protect the confidentiality of our donors".[5] Past 2020, the arrangement would accept offices in 14 countries and partnerships in 60 countries, for an international presence in 74 countries. [19]

Programs [edit]

Wedlock and family [edit]

Focus on the Family strongly opposes same-sex union, civil unions, and domestic partnerships.[xx]

Wait No More [edit]

Focus on the Family's Wait No More ministry works with adoption agencies, church building leaders and ministry building partners to recruit families to adopt children from foster care.[21] In Colorado, the number of children waiting for adoption dropped from about 800 to 350, due in-part to the efforts of Expect No More.[22] Focus on the Family's efforts to encourage adoption amongst Christian families is office of a larger effort by Evangelicals to, in their perception, alive out what they meet as the "biblical mandate" to assist children.[23]

Option Ultrasound Plan [edit]

Focus on the Family unit's Option Ultrasound Program (OUP) provides grants to crunch pregnancy centers to pay the cost of ultrasound machines or sonography training. Focus on the Family unit began OUP in 2004 with the goal of convincing women not to accept abortions. FOTF officials said that ultrasound services help a woman better empathise her pregnancy and baby'southward development, creating an important "bonding opportunity" betwixt "mother and unborn kid".[24]

A study released in February 2012 shows that ultrasounds do not have a direct touch on an ballgame decision.[25] In 2011, FOTF appear that they would like to talk with pro-choice groups like Planned Parenthood to work towards the shared goal of making abortion less mutual.[26] Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) introduced a sonogram neb in 2011 and – citing Focus on the Family – told Congress that "78 percent of women who run into and hear the fetal heartbeat choose life." She was later on corrected past Focus on the Family, which released a statement saying they did not release such data.[27] [25] :one

Boundless.org [edit]

Boundless.org is Focus on the Family's website for young adults[28] featuring articles, a blog, a podcast, and a conference. The website covers topics such as singleness, dating, relationships, popular culture, career, and sexual practice.[29]

Pluggedin.com [edit]

Pluggedin is a Focus on the Family publication created for families that reviews magazines, films, books, music, and Television shows.[30]

Day of Dialogue [edit]

The Day of Dialogue was a student upshot which took place April 16. Since 2018 the event is no longer marked on a single appointment, or organized nationally.[31] Founders described the goal of the event, created in opposition to the anti-bullying and anti-homophobic Day of Silence, as "encouraging honest and respectful chat among students about God's design for sexuality." It was previously known as the Solar day of Truth and was founded by the Alliance Defence force Fund in 2005.[32] In 2007, Exodus International began supporting the Day of Truth, an upshot created by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) in 2005 that challenges homosexuality.[33] In 2009, the ADF announced they had passed on their leadership role for the event to Exodus. In October 2010, Exodus appear they would no longer support the upshot. President Alan Chambers stated they realised they needed to "equip kids to alive out biblical tolerance and grace while treating their neighbors equally they'd like to be treated, whether they agree with them or not", adding that the Mean solar day of Truth was becoming too divisive. Chambers said that Exodus had not inverse its position on homosexuality, rather they were reevaluating how to best communicate their message.[34] [35] Focus on the Family later took leadership of the issue, and renamed it the Day of Dialogue.[36]

National Day of Prayer [edit]

The National Mean solar day of Prayer Task Strength is an American evangelical conservative Christian not-turn a profit organization which organizes, coordinates, and presides over Evangelical Christian religious observances each year on the National Twenty-four hours of Prayer. The website of the NDP Task Force states that "its concern affairs are dissever" from those of Focus on the Family, only also that "betwixt 1990 and 1993, Focus on the Family unit did provide grants in support of the NDP Task Strength" and that "Focus on the Family is compensated for services rendered."[37] Shirley Dobson, wife of James Dobson, was chairwoman of the NDP Job Force from 1991 until 2016, when Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of evangelist Baton Graham, assumed the post.[38]

Radio Theatre [edit]

Radio Theatre is a programme run by Focus on the Family that makes both original and adjusted radio dramas. Much of the staff involved with Adventures in Odyssey is also involved with Radio Theatre such every bit Paul McCusker.[39] They have made adaptations of many novels including Les Miserables and Anne of Green Gables as well as an adaptation of the consummate Chronicles of Narnia.[40] Radio Theatre often hires famous actors to be a function of their adaptations such equally Andy Serkis.[41]

One-time ministries [edit]

Love Won Out [edit]

Focus on the Family formed Love Won Out, an ex-gay ministry in 1998. In 2009, it was sold to Exodus International. [42]

Political positions and activities [edit]

Focus on the Family's 501(c)(three) status prevents them from advocating any individual political candidate.[43] FOTF also has an affiliated group, Family unit Policy Alliance, though the two groups are legally split. As a 501(c)(4) social welfare group, Family Policy Alliance has fewer political lobbying restrictions. FOTF's acquirement in 2012 was U.s.$90.5 million, and that of Family unit Policy Brotherhood (formerly CitizenLink) was United states$8 1000000.[44] [45]

Focus on the Family unit maintains a potent stand against ballgame, and provides grant funding and medical training to assist crunch pregnancy centers (CPCs; also known as pregnancy resources centers) in obtaining ultrasound machines. According to the organization, this funding, which has allowed CPCs to provide meaning women with live sonogram images of the developing fetus, has led directly to the nascency of over 1500 babies who would accept otherwise been aborted.[46] [47] The arrangement has been staunchly opposed to public funding for elective abortions.

FOTF's bookstore at their headquarters contains a diversity of material on Christian living, Bibles, etc.

Focus on the Family unit has been a prominent supporter of the pseudoscience[48] [49] of intelligent design, publishing pro-intelligent blueprint manufactures in its Citizen magazine and selling intelligent blueprint videos on its website.[fifty] [51] Focus on the Family co-published the intelligent design videotape Unlocking the Mystery of Life with the Discovery Institute, hub of the intelligent design movement.[52]

2008 presidential campaign [edit]

In the 2008 United States presidential election, Focus on the Family shifted from supporting Mike Huckabee, to non supporting any candidate, to finally accepting the Republican ticket once Sarah Palin was added to the ticket. Prior to the election, a television and letter of the alphabet entrada was launched predicting terrorist attacks in four U.S. cities and equating the U.Due south. with Nazi Germany. This publicity was condemned by the Anti Defamation League.[53] Within a calendar month before the full general election, Focus on the Family began distributing a sixteen-page alphabetic character titled Alphabetic character from 2012 in Obama'due south America, which describes an imagined American future in which "many of our freedoms take been taken away by a liberal Supreme Court of the United states of america and a majority of Democrats in both the Firm of Representatives and the Senate."[54] Co-ordinate to United states of america Today, the letter "is part of an escalation in rhetoric from Christian right activists" trying to pigment Democratic Political party presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama in a negative low-cal.[55]

Focus on the Family unit Activity supported Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) in his successful December 2, 2008, runoff ballot win. The system, co-ordinate to the Colorado Independent, donated $35,310 in radio ads to the Chambliss runoff entrada effort. Equally the Independent reports, the Focus-sponsored ads were aired in near a dozen Georgia markets. The commercials were produced in the weeks afterwards Focus laid off 202 employees – some 20 per centum of its workforce – because of the national economic crunch.[56]

Opposition to aforementioned-sex marriage [edit]

Dobson spoke at the 2004 rally against gay marriage called Mayday for Marriage. It was hither for the beginning time that he endorsed a presidential candidate, George W. Bush. Here he denounced the Supreme Court rulings in favor of gay rights, and he urged rally participants to get out and vote then that the battle against gay rights could be won in the Senate.[57]

In an interview with Christianity Today, Dobson likewise explained that he was not in favor of civil unions. He stated that civil unions are just same-sex union under a different proper name. The master priority of the opposing same-sex union movement is to define marriage on the federal level as betwixt a man and a adult female and combat the passage of civil unions later.[58]

Ceremonious rights advancement groups identify Focus on the Family as a major opponent of gay rights. The Southern Poverty Law Heart, a civil rights and hate group monitoring arrangement,[59] described Focus on the Family as one of a "dozen major groups [which] help drive the religious right's anti-gay crusade".[60] The SPLC does not listing Focus on the Family equally a detest grouping, however, since information technology opposes homosexuality "on strictly Biblical grounds".[61]

Focus on the Family is a fellow member of ProtectMarriage.com, a coalition formed to sponsor California Suggestion eight, a ballot initiative to restrict marriage to reverse-sexual activity couples, which passed in 2008,[62] but was subsequently struck down as being unconstitutional past a federal court in Perry v. Schwarzenegger.

Misrepresentation of inquiry [edit]

Social scientists have criticized Focus on the Family for misrepresenting their research in order to bolster its own perspective.[63] Researcher Judith Stacey, whose work was used by Focus on the Family to claim that gays and lesbians do non make good parents, said that the merits was "a straight misrepresentation of the research".[64] She elaborated, "Whenever you hear Focus on the Family, legislators or lawyers say, 'Studies bear witness that children exercise ameliorate in families with a female parent and a begetter,' they are referring to studies which compare two-parent heterosexual households to unmarried-parent households. The studies they are talking near do non cite inquiry on families headed by gay and lesbian couples."[65] FOTF claimed that Stacey's allegation was without merit and that their position is that the best interests of children are served when there is a male parent and a mother. "We haven't said anything nearly sexual orientation", said Glenn Stanton.[64]

James Dobson cited the research of Kyle Pruett and Carol Gilligan in a Fourth dimension magazine guest commodity in the service of a merits that two women cannot raise a child; upon finding out that her work had been used in this way, Gilligan wrote a alphabetic character to Dobson asking him to apologize and to end and desist from citing her work, describing herself as "mortified to learn that yous had distorted my work ... Not merely did you lot take my research out of context, you did and so without my knowledge to support discriminatory goals that I do not concur with ... at that place is nothing in my enquiry that would lead you to draw the stated conclusions you did in the Time commodity."[66] [67] [68] Pruett wrote a similar letter, in which he said that Dobson "scarlet-picked a phrase to shore upward highly (in my view) discriminatory purposes. This practise is condemned in real science, common though information technology may exist in pseudo-science circles. There is nothing in my longitudinal research or any of my writings to support such conclusions", and asked that FOTF not cite him again without permission.[69]

After Elizabeth Saewyc'due south inquiry on teen suicide was used by Focus on the Family to promote conversion therapy she said that "the research has been hijacked for somebody'south political purposes or ideological purposes and that's worrisome", and that inquiry in fact linked the suicide rate among LGBT teens to harassment, discrimination, and closeting.[70] Other scientists who accept criticized Focus on the Family unit for misrepresenting their findings include Robert Spitzer,[71] Gary Remafedi,[69] and Angela Phillips.[71]

Football game advertisements [edit]

In 2010, Focus on the Family bought ad time during Super Bowl XLIV to air a commercial featuring Heisman Bays winning Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam. In the ad, Pam described Tim as a "miracle baby" who "virtually didn't make information technology into this earth", and further elaborated that "with all our family's been through, we have to be tough" (after which Pam was promptly tackled by Tim). The ad directed viewers to the organization's website.[72] [73]

Women'south rights groups asked CBS not to air the and so-unseen advertizing, arguing that information technology was divisive. Planned Parenthood released a video response of its own featuring beau NFL actor Sean James.[74] [75] The claim that Tebow's family chose not to perform an ballgame was also widely criticized; critics felt that the merits was implausible considering it would be unlikely for doctors to recommend the procedure because abortion is illegal in the Philippines.[73] [76] CBS's decision to run the advert was also criticized for deviating from its past policy to turn down advocacy-type ads during the Super Basin, including ads by left-leaning groups such as PETA, MoveOn.org and the United Church of Christ (which wanted to run an advertising that was pro-same-sex activity marriage). Even so, CBS stated that "we take for some fourth dimension chastened our arroyo to advocacy submissions after it became apparent that our stance did not reflect public sentiment or industry norms on the issue."[77]

Focus on the Family produced some other commercial which ran during the 2nd quarter of the January xiv, 2012 Denver Broncos-New England Patriots AFC Divisional Playoff broadcast on CBS,[78] featuring children reciting the Bible poetry John iii:16.[79] The ad did not generate nearly the amount of controversy that surrounded the Super Bowl commercial. It did proceeds some national media attention, and president Jim Daly stated in a press release that its purpose was to "assist anybody empathize some numbers are more than of import than the ones on the scoreboard."[fourscore]

Recognition and awards [edit]

In 2008, Dobson's Focus on the Family programme was nominated for induction into the National Radio Hall of Fame.[81] Nominations were fabricated by the 157 members of the Hall of Fame and voting on inductees was handed over to the public using online voting.[82] The nomination drew the ire of gay rights activists, who launched efforts to have the program removed from the nominee list and to vote for other nominees to prevent Focus from winning.[83] [84] Nevertheless, on July eighteen, 2008, it was appear that the program had won and would be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in a anniversary on November 8, 2008.[85] Truth Wins Out, a gay rights grouping, protested the ceremony with over 300 protesters.[86]

Controversies [edit]

Focus on the Family supported a Citizens Initiated Referendum on the repeal of section 59 of the Crimes Act 1961, which placed limits on the concrete disciplining of children.[87]

Focus on the Family Singapore came under criticism in October 2014 over allegations of sexism and promoting gender stereotypes during their workshops on managing relationships for junior higher students. The workshop received a complaint from both a Hwa Chong Junior College educatee, every bit well as negative feedback from the college direction as being 'ineffective' and volition stop by the end of the yr.[88]

Headquarters [edit]

The administration building is one of four on the headquarters campus.

The Focus on the Family unit headquarters is a four building, 47-acre (xix ha)[89] complex located off of Interstate 25 in northern Colorado Springs, Colorado, with its ain ZIP Code (80995).[ninety] [91] The buildings consist of the Administration building, International edifice, Welcome Center and Operations building (currently unused), and totals 526,070 square feet.[92]

Focus on the Family moved to its current headquarters from Pomona, California, in 1991,[93] with i,200 employees. In 2002, the number of employees peaked at ane,400. By September 2011, after years of layoffs, they had 650 employees remaining.[94] Christopher Ott of Salon said in 1998 that the FOTF campus has "handsome new brick buildings, professional landscaping and even its own traffic signs" and that "The buildings and grounds are well-maintained and comfy. If there is any ostentatious or decadent influence here, it is nowhere in sight."[ninety]

While visiting the Focus on the Family unit complex, a couple had asked the staff if handling the sightseers in the main edifice was a distraction. The staff told the couple that information technology was a distraction; afterward the couple donated $iv million to have a welcome middle built. A visiting family donated seven miles (11 km) of forest trim from the family'due south Pennsylvania lumber business then FOTF could build its assistants building.

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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • FOTF Programs via Streaming Audio
  • FOTF Commentary info on ABC Radio
  • Focus on the Family New Zealand
  • Boundless Webzine
  • 24-hour interval of Dialogue

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