traditional marriage group expands mission

[niyad]

(unfortunately, this group, funded by fungus and who knows who else, isn't that far off from that group in WA--unfortunately, they are dead serious about their aims, and it isn't to show how absurd their belief systems are)

Traditional-marriage group expands mission

Colorado Family Action gets new funding, hires lobbyist

By PERRY SWANSON THE GAZETTE

A group that successfully led efforts last year to defend a traditional definition of marriage in state laws now hopes to expand its influence across Colorado politics. Many such groups fade away after an election, but Colorado Family Action has found new funding sources, hired a part-time lobbyist and made other moves to guard its vision of families. It was one of the main groups last year opposing Referendum I, which would have established legal recognition of gay couples, and supporting Amendment 43, which called for enshrining opposite-sex marriage in the state constitution. Referendum I failed and Amendment 43 passed.




Colorado Family Action paid for its campaigns with money from Focus on the Family, a Colorado Springs-based Christian ministry. Other big donations came from the ministry’s lobbying arm, Focus on the Family Action.

Now, Colorado Family Action is getting money from other sources, said President and CEO Jim Pfaff, but he wouldn’t identify them. Organizers have formed the Colorado Family Institute, a related nonprofit that’s one of 37 state Family Policy Councils allied with Focus on the Family.

Pfaff said Colorado Family Action will focus on “protecting life from conception until natural death, protecting religious liberty, working to point out examples of judicial activism and help define the proper role of the courts, and upholding the principle that parents are the primary educators of their children.”

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http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1329898&secid=1

[Kixel]

1. Can't these nutjobs find something productive to do?

Volunteer at a battered womans shelter, work for Habitat for Humanity? Do something good instead of preaching hate and intolerance.

Save family's my ass.

[marmar]

2. What's next, a plea for the return of miscegination laws?

These pigs make me sick.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Or in other words, working to destroy democracy in America, by eliminating

the authority of courts to uphold the Constitution and public education. Same old, dominionist ideas.

[AndyA]

4. The IRS really needs to take a good, hard look at Focus On the Family.

They seem more of a political movement these days than a religious one.

They like to judge others, forbidden by their religious beliefs.

And what about do unto others?

I think they've become something other than a religious organization.

[yardwork]

5. If only they actually followed their mission as stated!

They say that they believe in: "...protecting life from conception until natural death."

That would mean that they were opposed to war, opposed to the death penalty, and highly supportive of laws protecting the environment, health, and safety. They'd logically be in favor of universal health care, high quality free day care, safety in the workplace, pension plans, etc.

I could get behind an organization that REALLY believed in "protecting life from conception until natural death." Somehow, I don't think that this is one.