TWO Launches New Website, DumpDobson.com, Calling on the Radio Hall of Fame to Withdrawal Honors From Focus on the Family's James Dobson

TWO Launches New Website, DumpDobson.com, Calling on the Radio Hall of Fame to Withdrawal Honors From Focus on the Family's James Dobson

Coalition to Protest Awards Dinner if Undeserved Award Is Not Rescinded

NEW YORK, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- TruthWinsOut.org (TWO) launched a new website today, http://www.dumpdobson.com/, that calls on the Museum of Broadcast Communications to reverse its decision to honor Focus on the Family's James Dobson in its Radio Hall of Fame. Unless the museum withdraws its pledge to induct Dobson, TWO will join Equality Illinois and the Gay Liberation Network to protest the awards ceremony, Saturday, Nov. 8 (5:30 PM - 7:30 PM), at the Renaissance Chicago Hotel.

"There is still time to reverse the reckless and irresponsible decision to honor James Dobson in the Radio Hall of Fame," said Truth Wins Out's Executive Director Wayne Besen. "It is simply unconscionable that the Museum is giving its imprimatur to a demagogue who has profited from divisive and discriminatory rhetoric. If the museum wants to regain its respect and credibility, it will choose to dump Dobson."

"We believe that you and your associates at the museum must be aware of Dobson's contribution to anti-gay hate, and yet you chose to ignore, or perhaps even applaud, his harm to our community," wrote Andy Thayer, co-founder of the Chicago-based Gay Liberation Network in an open letter to Bruce DuMont, president of the Museum of Broadcast Communications. "Museums should be places that celebrate the best of human endeavor, not the worst."

Dobson's ugly rhetoric is so polarizing that former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) said that, "Dobson and his gang of thugs are real nasty bullies." Focus on the Family co-founder Gil Alexander Moegerle said that, "I believe Dobson-style politics have been inept, simplistic, exclusionary, divisive and alarmingly sectarian ... James Dobson's political style has been one of relentlessly demonizing his adversaries."

Dobson told The Daily Oklahoman on Oct. 23, 2004 that, "Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth." Dobson also told the Daily Oklahoman that Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is "a God's people hater. I don't know if he hates God, but he hates God's people."

To fight back against this offensive decision, DumpDobson.com is asking fair-minded people to take four actions.

1) E-Mail Radio Hall of Fame CEO Bruce Dumont, brucedumont@museum.tv, and
urge him to withdraw Dobson's honor.
2) Sign our letter to the Radio Hall of Fame urging them to reverse their
foolhardy decision to celebrate Dobson's shameful and ignoble career.
3) If you live in the Chicago area, please sign up to participate in our
protest.
4) Donate to Truth Wins Out to help us fight back

In the past two years, at least seven researchers have accused Dobson of manipulating or cherry picking their results to back his anti-gay teachings. Letters and videos documenting the concerns of these respected professors can be viewed on http://www.dumpdobson.com/.

Dobson also profits from intolerance. He founded a ministry, Love Won Out, that promises to "cure" homosexuals -- even though the so-called "ex-gay" leader of Love Won Out, John Paulk, was photographed in a gay bar. Dobson continues to promote dishonest psychological theories about gay people that are rejected by every respected medical and mental health association in America, including the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association.

Truth Wins Out, which operates http://www.dumpdobson.com/, is a non-profit organization that counters right wing propaganda, exposes the "ex-gay" myth and educates America about gay life. For more information, visit http://www.truthwinsout.org/. The Gay Liberation Network is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered direct action group.

Contact:

Wayne Besen, Truth Wins Out
Phone: 917-691-5118
e-mail: wbesen@truthwinsout.org

Andy Thayer, Gay Liberation Network
Phone: 773-209-1187
e-mail: LGBTLiberation@aol.com

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Source: Truth Wins Out

CONTACT: Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out, +1-917-691-5118,
wbesen@truthwinsout.org; or Andy Thayer of Gay Liberation Network,
+1-773-209-1187, LGBTLiberation@aol.com

Web site: http://www.truthwinsout.org/
http://www.dumpdobson.com/

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