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James Dobson, Focus on the Family and King of Right Wing, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Oh, James, We Hardly Know Ye.
James Dobson, Founder, Focus on the Family & Family Research Council
In June of 1990, James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, announced plans to move his organization’s entire operation from Pomona, California, to Colorado Springs, Colorado – lured by a tremendous tax incentive awarded by the Colorado Springs powers-that-be, and heavily subsidized by the El Pomar Foundation, the former owner of the 5 star Broadmoor resort. Bill Hybl, the CEO of El Pomar and former head of the embattled U.S. Olympic Committee, was a dedicated Republican and close supporter of Dick Cheney during a later presidential exploratory effort. In a desperately slow economy for the ‘red-lined city’ of Colorado Springs, known as the repossession capital of the U. S., a corporate move of over 800 families was no small event. From an economic development perspective, the incentive appeared to be a good investment on the surface, although the incoming company was a non-profit religious organization, paying no Federal, State or property taxes. But the boost to the local economy could not be denied. What would happen next was not anticipated by the local leaders. They were not from Texas.
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Let Ye Who are Without Sin Cast the First Stone
I have been doing a little more discovery on Dr. Dobson. We actually had much in common.
I wish that he and I could feel a bit more kin-ship, as we both descended from ministers, although his was a long line of evangelists, but then you were born just around the corner in Shreveport, La. and I entered the earth plane in Wichita Falls, Tx. We both grew up with Southern Bible Belt values, shared by Texas and Oklahoma, although I never left the Lone Star State as a child.
I did spend time in Midland with the Bushes, but I know that you have been skeptical of them for an age, so I guess that doesn’t help us find much common ground either.
I was even a Girl Scout, but you found reason to attack the Girl Scouts for promoting “humanism and radical feminism” when they voted to allow the Christian “God” in the Girl Scout promise, to be optionally replaced with other spiritual traditions’ monikers for the Divine, so as to be inclusive for all the Girl citizens of the world. I reprint it below, for I feel the depth of what it means for our girl-children, today as always:
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