Not all news about the current depression is bad. Focus on the Family, the personal empire of the loathsome James Dobson (the Martin Bormann of the religious right), is in big trouble. For the third time in a year, it's laying off employees. Apparently, the chumps who listen to Dobson's daily rants can't send in enough cash to keep Dobson's empire intact. From a peak of some 1400 employees, Focus is now down to 860. That's pretty serious shrinkage--almost 40%! Focus still rakes in plenty of loot: more than $130 million this fiscal year. But empires are expensive, and there's no reason to suppose that the belt tightening at Focus is stopping any time soon.
There is an interesting twist to this story. Apparently like every other kind of business operation, Focus spins off its subsidiaries to raise cash or cut costs. Focus has been running a giant scam for many years: a so-called ex-gay operation called "Love won out." Well, Focus has spun this scam off to ex-gay scammers at Exodus International, their former partners in crime--literal crime, consisting of swindling money out of pathetic, self-hating gay people trapped in anti-gay fundamentalist religious cults. So I guess that this closes a sordid chapter in Focus's sordid history; right-wingers just can't make the big bucks peddling anti-gay hate the way they used to.
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