Focus on the Family is coming out with a movie

[alp227]

PZ Myers writes at Pharyngula:

It’s called Irreplaceable and it’s about…the traditional family. The only allowable kind of family. The family you must have, or face an eternity in Hell after the bigots make your live miserable now.

Watch the trailer and cringe. They start of with a cute little kid talking about the importance of love, and then they start talking about the horrors of modern life: divorce, gay marriage, temporary marriage, single parents, out-of-wedlock births, and they counter it with how much they love the traditional family.

Hey, I grew up in a traditional family, and I have a traditional family — there’s nothing wrong with that. But somehow I can be happy with my lifestyle without insisting that everyone else must live exactly the same way.

One unusual thing here though: yes, go ahead and read the youtube comments. Everyone is calling them out on Focus on the Patriarchy’s hypocrisy. I predict this movie will bomb spectacularly. FotF is one of the most hated organizations around.

PZ's link goes to the Trans Advocate blog: "Trigger Warning! Focus on the Family is coming to a theater near you!" Excerpt:

The very organization that has traumatized untold numbers of LGBT people is going mainstream. If you are a survivor of the conversion therapy movement, you should prepare yourself to see the people who informed the abuse you faced thrust in your face when you visit your hometown movie theater.

After 38 years of targeting LGBT adults and children for demonstrably harmful and traumatic “therapeutic” techniques, on May 28, 2013 Exodus International announced that they would no longer support conversion therapy and apologized for the trauma and suffering their group inflicted on LGBT people. Exodus International President Alan Chamber said, “I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center, the organization that tracks American hate groups, describes Focus on the Family (FOTF) as one of a “dozen major groups (that) help drive the religious right’s anti-gay crusade.” FOTF continues to actively promote conversion therapy practices, even going as far as to picket the American Psychological Association for not endorsing their efforts to “cure” LGBT people.

[Fridays Child]

1. Damn! Where are my sunglasses?

Hmm. Is the unspoken message that white families are the best families?

[Initech]

2. That was extremely nauseating.

Fathom Events should be publicly flogged for promoting this hate filled propaganda bullshit.

[TlalocW]

3. I heard the Australian accent and thought

Oh, good... Roy Comfort is making movies and not about bananas.

TlalocW

[Ilsa]

4. Well, hell, even Jesus had a step-daddy.

If you buy the Biblical story, that is.

[yellowcanine]

13. Even if you don't (buy the Biblical story) gotta give credit for creativity.

I mean, how many young couples would think of blaming the bun in the oven on the Holy Ghost?

"We were just making out, keeping everything above the waist, and shazam!, the Holy Ghost showed up!"

[Lint Head]

5. English and Australian accents make things sound more legitimate.

[Heywood J]

8. "That's not a family. THIS is a family!" (NT)

[MsPithy]

6. All the things said about love, marriage and family

are just as true about gay marriage as heterosexual marriage. And, by the way, Black folks get married, too.

[safeinOhio]

7. Ill be endorsing any

effort to "cure" FOTF people.

[Gothmog]

9. Is Rick Santorum involved in this movie

Rick has a great track record with movies

[Zorra]

10. The LGBT Community should come out with a satire film about FOTF.

One possible title I suggest is Fucking Up Our Families.

[yellowcanine]

11. Are they going to discuss domestic violence in "traditional families."

Somehow I think not.

[yellowcanine]

12. "Focus on the Family is coming out" Really?

I did not even know they were gay.