PROTEST: James Dobson's Induction Into the Radio Hall of Fame Is Outrageous and Offensive

[Bluebear]

CHICAGO, Nov 07, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- James Dobson's Induction Into the Radio Hall of Fame Is Outrageous and Offensive

Focus on the Family's James Dobson spent $800,000 on Proposition 8 to stop gay people form marrying in California. On Saturday evening, this dangerous ideologue will be inducted into the Museum of Broadcast Communication's Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago. He will be met with a protest from outraged gay organizations at 5:30 PM on Saturday, November 8, outside of the Renaissance Chicago Hotel, 1 W. Wacker Drive (corner of Wacker & State).

"It is mind-blowing, that the Radio Hall of Fame would honor a primary leader of Proposition 8," said Wayne Besen, Executive Director of Truth Wins Out. "Dobson put his Media Empire and vast amounts of money into the service of denying equal marriage rights for same-sex couples. And, the Radio Hall of Fame reacts disgracefully by giving this demagogue a trophy."

"If Dobson had helped organize and fund a campaign to take away African American voting rights, he would be properly shunned as a hater,'" said Bob Schwartz of the Gay Liberation Network. "However, because the Museum of Broadcast Communications has chosen instead to honor Dobson, they apparently think it's okay to promote those who publicly organize discrimination against gays."

It is ironic that the Museum will be honoring a promoter of hate like Dobson, while at the same time many mourn the recent passing of journalistic legend Studs Turkel, whom the Museum never got around to honoring.

The campaign against the honoring of Dobson was initiated by the Gay Liberation Network ( www.GayLiberation.net) and Truth Wins Out ( www.TruthWinsOut.com and www.DumpDobson.com), and endorsed by dozens of groups and individuals signing on to a series of full-page protest signature advertisements.

For information about Saturday night's protest, contact the Gay Liberation Network at 773-209-1187 or [e-mail]

Truth Wins Out is a non-profit organization that counters right wing propaganda, exposes the "ex-gay" myth and educates America about gay life.

Contact: Andy Thayer
Gay Liberation Network
773.209.1187
[e-mail]
SOURCE Truth Wins Out

[Mike 03]

1. Yup. That is uncategorically obscene.

He is an intolerant, deceived, dangerous sociopath of the highest order.

[Enthusiast]

2. Tell me Dobson's church has been stripped

of their tax exempt status. :wtf:

[Dervill Crow]

5. I don't think his organization is a "church."

Don't know if his organization, Focus on the Family, is tax exempt. It sure shouldn't be.

[Bluebear]

11. kick

[Bluebear]

12. .

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Sent letter via DumpDobson.

[LeftishBrit]

4. Obscene. The only hall that this hatemonger deserves to be in

is Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors!

[MnFats]

6. That's like honoring Eichmann or Goebbles with....oh, fill in the blank...

it's hard to think of a proper analogy....Dobson he has a lot to answer for..

[yellowcanine]

7. I believe Limpballs is a member so it is probably a lost cause. Sometimes we have to choose our

battles.

[Mike 03]

8. He's "famous" for attending and teaching at the university I attended, and

to me it is an intense source of humiliation that he had anything to do with this school.

He's despicable.

[Generic Other]

9. He had a face made for radio?

:)

Love to see Dobson picketed. No more deserving guy. Maybe people should throw rice at him and all homophobes at the protests. (Cooked rice to spare birdy tummies from bursting).

[LaurenG]

10. He's a bad man - a really bad man because of his hate.

:shrug: