In James Dobson retirement from Focus on the Family, we must not forget that he built an evangelical empire on families' vulnerabilities, including urging parents to keep their kids in line by hitting them. He not only encourages spanking kids, but also leaving belts around the house to remind them of the consequences of defiance. "Spare the rod, spoil the child," is the biblical quotation that Dobson exploits in his Christian approach to raising kids.

Tips-Q has a marvelous article on the new website “TrueTolerance.org”, a venture of Focus on the Family, Exodus International, and the Alliance Defense Fund. The site is a direct response to GLSEN’s Day of Silence, scheduled for this Friday, April 17. More on that later.

James Dobson, you owe America an apology. The fictional letter released through your Focus on the Family Action organization, titled "Letter From 2012 in Obama's America", crosses all lines of decent public discourse. In a time of utter political incivility, it shows the kind of negative Christian leadership that has become so embarrassing to so many of your fellow Christians in America. We are weary of this kind of Christian leadership, and that is why so many are forsaking the Religious Right in this election.