Focus on the Family’s show airs on more than 1,000 stations in the U.S. reaching millions of listeners. Dobson's organization prides itself on its devotion to the family and its Christian ethics.
I think that a Christian organization who prides itself on 1. being Christian and 2. being political just AUGHT to consider the fact the MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE MISSING WHOLE SECTIONS OF THEIR FAMILY before they spread vile garbage like this:
Focus on the Family compares Obama victory to Nazi bombing.! Via Think Progress:
The author of the e-mail, Focus on the Family Action senior vice president Tom Minnery, told his readers not to despair, saying that the right wing would overcome this situation just as Britons overcame Hitler’s bombing in World War II:
The spirit of Winston Churchill was alive and well on Tuesday night at Focus on the Family Action headquarters.
You may recall that in the most desperate days of World War II – when Great Britain was being pounded daily by Hitler’s Luftwaffe – that Winston Churchill called on his countrymen not to despair from danger but to rise to the challenge. [...]
As our incredible team of staff members watched the election results pour in on Election Night, an amazing thing happened that Churchill might have recognized. Despite some sobering disappointments, there was no mood of despair and no "bunker mentality."
(HT: C&L)
UpdateBen Smith points out that, on the Corner, John Derbyshire compares Obama's Americorps program to Nazi concentration camps and medieval forced labor.
This is deplorable hate speech coming from a Christian show that is suppose to focus on the family.
Let's focus on my family.
Specifically, let's focus on the portion of my family that is dead and murdered at Auschwitz and other German Concentration Camps during World War II. At least half of my family on both my mother's and father's side lost their homes during Kristallnacht.
Chrystal Night was the night when all Hell broke loose on the Jews in firestorm of rage and breaking glass as Hitler intentionally inflamed the hate against Jews and he allowed the antisemitism to explode in the city. Jews hid in closets or attics as they heard the shouts and curses and sound of broken glass. They saw their families hauled off and put on trains--sent to an unknown place.
During Chrystal Night over 7500 Jewish shops were destroyed and 400 synagogues were burnt down. Ninety-one Jews were killed and an estimated 20,000 were sent to concentration camps!
They lost everything they loved and everything they owned.
They lost their lives and they slowly starved to death as they prayed for death in the concentration camp.
Yes. What happened on Kristallnacht happened to some people in my family. They're gone. Aunts, uncles, cousins that never got to "bunker down..." as Focus on the Family so crassly phrases it.
Let me tell you, Focus on the Family's statement is an insult to families who lost loved ones in Chrystal Night and during the Holocaust!
We have witnessed inappropriate intolerance and hate speech from the religious conservatives this whole election season.
Mr. Dobson and his organization should know full well that they've crossed the line. You know you've crossed the line when you compare our President-elect to a man who murdered millions of Jews and innocent people. You know you've crossed the line when you compare a U.S. President-elect to one of the dictators who committed the worst inhumane crimes against humanity. Furthermore, you know you've crossed the line when your supporters are doing things like this.
Mr. Dobson owes us an apology and a retraction. I suggest that if you've lost family in the Holocaust (even if you're a non-Jew) then contact Focus on the Family here and remind them that their words and actions are indecent and decidedly unchristian.