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If you're going to quote me, quote me completely. You didn't, apparently, because your entire argument would then fall apart.
I said in my original letter, "all the royalties from his books sold through the organization ..." (emphasis added here to show the part of my quote you left out). You said, "your statement that 'all royalties form his books' are returned to Focus on the Family is patently false." Everyone is free to see my original quote and bobbyjoe's partial quote to see who is being patently false here.
You then go on to cite what you seem to think is a smoking gun, but which isn't seeing as that's precisely what I said in the first place. Talk about either stupid or dishonest.
You can check the property tax records for Colorado Springs and surrounding El Paso County and you'll see that Dobson in fact owns only one house. Yes, it's a nice one in a gated community. (If you had so many people who hated you and even sent you death threats, do you think you'd just live on Main Street?) He's made a lot of money from his books, money all honestly earned. None is from soliciting donations. He has to earn a living somehow. He does it by writing best-selling books and enjoyes the fruits thereof just like Stephen King, Amy Tan, Tom Clancy or any other best-selling author.
Second, Gil Alexander-Moegerle left Focus on the Family after divorcing his wife and marrying a much younger emplyee (that's the Alexander part of his hyphenated last name). Dobson begged him not to divorce his wife, even offered to pay out of his own pocket for marriage counseling, but Gil refused. Because Focus maintains a position against divorce, it couldn't very well have a senior employee who divorced his wife to marry a woman much younger. They had a final farewall chapel service for him (this is while they were still in Arcadia, CA), and everyone left on mutual good terms, with Gil offering praise to Dobson upon his departure.
But a funny thing happened: Gil thought he could trade in his time at Focus to create a lucrative Christian ministry of his own, but seeing as he'd traded in his sickly older wife for a younger model, not too many people took him seriously, and all his business and ministry attempts failed. Finding himself unable to make the living he thought he was due, Gil turned on Dobson. He wrote a book that flopped, and he's become a professional Dobson critic since, with gullible people like you gobbling it all up.
Yes, James Dobson Inc. is the business that controls the rights to all the material created by James Dobson, not by the ministry of Focus on the Family. Anything produced by Focus employees is owned and controlled by Focus on the Family, not James Dobson Inc. You can request a sample author or content-creator's contract to see this is so. It states clearly who owns the copyright.
So Moegerle is plain and simple a liar. This is all a matter of public record, since Focus' books are open to the public (if you're really interested in facts and not rumors you can get a copy from the Evangelical Counsel for Financial Responsibility), and the tax filings for James Dobson Inc. are also public record.
It's a shame you have to resort to dishonest half quotes, distortions and outright lies to libel someone you disagree with. It just shows how weak your case is and merely confirms that your hatred is based on mere bigotry and not any actual facts.
Gay bashers? Whose bashing any gays here?
Cite some evidence before you make accusations.
Sad. Your long-winded reply that your bigotry is not based on mere disagreement of ideas is all belied by your words:
But if you willingly choose to be a FUCKING IDIOT CHRISTER, then you get no fucking sympathy from me.
Beside, the entire premise that bigotry can only be based on unchangeable characteristics such as skin color or ethnic origin is definition of mere convenience to let bigots like you off the hook.
Bigotry, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary, is: "bigoted attitudes; intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself."
According to Merriam-Webster, it's: "obstinate and unreasoning attachment to one's own belief and opinions with intolerance of beliefs opposed to them."
Nothing in there about skin color or ethnic origin.
Both perfectly define you and your words.
Again, sad.
Let's put the shoe on the other foot.
Do you support the position that should an infant survive an abortion attempt (it happens more often than you'd think), the doctor has no duty to help it survive?
Do you think said child should be just left in a surgical tray to die?
Your candidate, Obama, holds this positions.
How about you?
My friends here don't believe me when I tell them that I believe that McCrazy and his crazy Mary Kay saleslady/soccermom running mate will win the election. ... The depths of the racism and the rank stupidity of our countrymen (especially the men) are beyond them.
And Democrats wonder why working class voters have abandoned them. They know that they're secretly detested by elitists like this letter-writer.
We'll be seeing Obama's "bitter" speech replayed over and over again in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania an W. Virginia, and it'll be contrasted with Palin's record as an outdoor enthusiast, hunter and fisher.
Guess who just lost all those delegate-rich states? And it won't because of stupidity or racism. It'll be because those voters are smart enough to know who holds them in contempt and values them only up until election day.