{"id":416433,"date":"2010-03-11T13:05:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79019"},"modified":"2010-03-11T13:05:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:05:25","slug":"%e2%80%98i-think-humpty-dumpty-was-pushed%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/416433","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Think Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t paid much attention to the shrinking role of James Dobson at Focus on the Family &#8212; he&#8217;d been on the way out for a while &#8212; but <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/03\/dobson_and_focus_on_the_family_less_than_amicable.php\">TPM&#8217;s follow-up<\/a> with the would-be whistleblower of this story, Kenneth Hutcherson of Antioch Bible church, is worth reading. As is Hutcherson&#8217;s angry column that sparked this round of arguments about whether, post-Dobson, Focus on the Family is going too soft.<span id=\"more-79019\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A great example of the products currently coming out of the new Focus on the Family is the Tim Tebow ad during the Super Bowl. It said nothing. What a great opportunity that was to promote the pro-life position by revealing what abortion really is. But I guess they didn&#8217;t want to offend the world and wanted to make sure everyone loved them.<\/p>\n<p>The current emphasis at Focus is on being loved and understood. I have read the entire Bible from Genesis 1:1 through Revelation 22:21 \u2013 and while it says, &#8220;The truth shall set you free,&#8221; nowhere does it say, &#8220;Sensitivity shall set you free.&#8221; What set the Focus board free to take Dr. Dobson off the air?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Focus on the Family is helping Dobson and his son launch a new radio show, starting in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t paid much attention to the shrinking role of James Dobson at Focus on the Family &#8212; he&#8217;d been on the way out for a while &#8212; but TPM&#8217;s follow-up with the would-be whistleblower of this story, Kenneth Hutcherson of Antioch Bible church, is worth reading. As is Hutcherson&#8217;s angry column that sparked this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}