Dobson has to let some people go

I feel a bit conflicted about the following: Focus on the Patriarchy needs to layoff some of their employees.

Focus on the Family announced this afternoon that 202 jobs will be cut companywide — an estimated 20 percent of its workforce. Initial reports bring the total number of remaining employees to around 950.

I'm conflicted because, even though Dobson's organization promotes morals that many would consider purely evil, the people getting laid off are probably the low-wage earners who can least afford a lapse in employment. But I'm sure they have good reasons.

The cutbacks come just weeks after the group pumped more than half a million dollars into the successful effort to pass a gay-marriage ban in California.

Critics are holding up the layoffs, which come just two months after the organization’s last round of dismissals, as a sad commentary on the true priorities of the ministry.

“If I were their membership I would be appalled,” said Mark Lewis, a longtime Colorado Springs activist who helped organize a Proposition 8 protest in Colorado Springs on Saturday. “That [Focus on the Family] would spend any money on anything that’s obviously going to get blocked in the courts is just sad. [Prop. 8] is guaranteed to lose, in the long run it doesn’t have a chance — it’s just a waste of money.”

There are those repugnant morals I was talking about.