Focus on the Family

Focus on the Family is a crazy Conservative Christian organization devoted to making America a Christian theocracy and take away people's rights. To make it look better, they claim their primary mission is:

"To cooperate with the Holy Spirit in sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with as many people as possible by nurturing and defending the God-ordained institution of the family and promoting biblical truths worldwide.."

To put that into plain English, they have six "pillars", which they call as follows: The ones that look bad are bad and the ones that look like they're good ideas are misleadingly so.
 * 1) The Preeminence of Evangelism
 * 2) The Permenance of Marriage
 * 3) The Value of Children
 * 4) The Sanctity of Human Life
 * 5) The Importance of Social Responsibility
 * 6) The Value of Male and Female

The current CEO is Jim Daly.

The Preeminence of Evangelism
According to Focus on the Family, the whole reason we are on Earth is to "know and glorify God and attain eternal life through Jesus." We are supposed to "reach out to our own families first" and then reach out to a "suffering humanity." Apparently, God must be pretty lazy if he is unwilling to do this himself.

The Permenance of Marriage
Focus on the Family says on their website that "Marriage is intended by God to be a thriving, lifelong relationship between a man and a woman enduring through trials, sickness, financial crises and emotional stresses."

Like any other evangelical Christian organization, Focus on the Family wants to bring same-sex marriage down and deny LGBT couples their basic civil rights. Jim Daly says that same-sex marriage will fail simply because evangelical Christians don't like it, which is like saying that hell exists just because evangelical Christians say so. It also makes God seem more lazy than before: even though this is "bound to fail," Focus on the Family is working against it anyway.

Focus on the Family also hates cohabition and divorce. Cohabition supposedly leads to divorce; and then there's the "no sex before marriage" part. Ironically, the divcorce rate is highest among conservative Christians and lowest among atheists and agnostics.

The Value Of Children
Focus on the Family thinks that "children are a heritage from God and a blessing from His hand. Parents are therefore accountable to Him for raising, shaping and preparing them for a life of service to His Kingdom and to humanity." This basically means families should have more children than what is good for the environment. It also means that families should use child indoctrination to make sure that the children only belive what the parents want them to.

The Sanctity of Human Life
This is where, in opposition to abortion rights, Focus on the Family begins to hint at their anti-feminist agenda. This is definitely one of the most misleading parts:

We believe that human life is created by God in His image. It is of inestimable worth and significance in all its dimensions, including the preborn, the aged, the mentally disabled, those deemed unattractive, the physically challenged, and every other condition in which humanness is expressed from the single cell stage of development to natural death. Christians are therefore called to defend, protect, and value all human life.

In reality, Focus on the Family "cares" about the baby until the day it is born, when "mission is accomplished." Although Focus on the Family itself probably will only interfere if the baby is LGBT; you have to remember that many members are also conservatives who are pro-gun, pro-Iraq war and pro-death penalty. In other words, once the baby is born, they don't care.

The Importance of Social Responsibility
"We believe that God has ordained the social institutions of family, church, and government for the benefit of mankind and as a reflection of His divine nature." The last part is ironic because conservatives also believe in limited government.

However, the next sentence solves all of that: "Christians are called to support these institutions, according to God's design and purpose, and to protect them against destructive social influences." In other words, Focus on the Family wants America to become a Christian Theocracy, with limited rights for individuals.

The Value of Male and Female
The first part of this condems homosexuality again (apparently, once was not enough); this time because "God created humans in His image, intentionally male and female, each bringing unique and complementary qualities to sexuality and relationships."

This is awful, but in reality it is only sugar-coating: Focus on the Family's website has an article where the words "tomboy" and "sissy-girl" behavior are aclled "concerning." and an article on "male headship" that encourages women to "recognize your husband's authority." Focus on the Family is very clearly an anti-feminist organization that frowns upon equality in marriage and women having careers.