This item was apparently “dumped” into late Friday news cycle last week, although it’s unclear who was trying to downplay it, James Dobson, the leader of the tax-exempt anti-gay group, Focus on the Family (FOTF), or Mike Huckabee, the no-shot Republican presidential candidate:
Ironically, evangelical Christian couples have a higher divorce rate that normal couples, and yet their leaders are too obsessed with their hatred of gay people to act against this this scourge within the church family.

James Dobson, one of the nation’s most prominent evangelical Christian leaders, backed Mike Huckabee’s presidential bid Thursday night, giving the former Arkansas governor a long-sought endorsement as the Republican field narrowed to a two-man race.

In a statement first obtained by The Associated Press, Dobson reiterated his declaration on Super Tuesday that he could not in good conscience vote for John McCain, the front-runner, because of concerns over the Arizona senator’s conservative credentials.

Dobson and his confederates promote FOTF as an advocacy group for “moral values.” However, it apparently does not concern them that Huckabee has two advisers who are notorious adulterers: Dick Morris, the professional Clinton-hater who consorted with prostitutes while married, and Rev. Tim Hutchinson, the former Arkansas senator who was conducting an extramarital affair in 1998 when he voted to convict Pres. Clinton for lying about having an affair with a staffer.

(Similarly, Pat Robertson, the TV preacher who also raises millions by promoting homophobia, endorsed Rudolph Giuliani, a serial adulterer, whose second wife learned he was leaving her for another woman when he announced it at a news conference.)

Dobson and his fellow professional homophobes vehemently deny their organizations are hate groups. And yet, it is the issue of adultery that exposes them for what they are. Dobson and his cronies claim their persecution of gay people is based on Scriptures, and yet, among sexual sins, the Bible gives much more weight to adultery, which is prohibited in the Ten Commandments, than it does to gay sex which is one of dozens of abominations in the Old Testament (others include women wearing pantsuits, improper covering of one’s poop in the desert and eating shellfish and ham). Furthermore, Christian dogma says that the Old Testament laws, except for the Ten Commandments, were rescinded by Jesus by his “New Covenant.” (In the New Testament, Paul described men have sex with their slaves as a grievous sin but the passage has been mistranslated to refer to gay sex in general.)

FOTF claimed revenues in 2006 of $142 million, the vast majority of which it raised by its relentless promotion of hatred for gay people. A central tenet of their fundraising and marketing is an entirely specious claim that gay marriage presents a threat to “traditional marriage.” In reality, adultery is the real threat. It is the predominant cause of divorce in the 50 percent or more heterosexual marriages that fail.

Ironically, evangelical Christian couples have a higher divorce rate that normal couples, and yet their leaders are too obsessed with their hatred of gay people to act against this this scourge within the church family. For example, while FOTF advocates denying civil rights to gay people, including preventing them from marrying or from having or adopting children, it has no programs or policies that seek to make curtail the rights of adulterers, such as making it illegal for them to remarry or raise children. FOTF and others lobby against laws that would prohibit employers from firing gay people at will or landlords from evicting them, and yet they have no position on whether the same should apply to adulterers because of their status as sinners.

Huckabee has made his homophobia a talking point during the campaign in order to attract sympathizers with FOTF and similar hate groups. On several occasions he has smeared gay people by inferring that consensual gay sex is no different from non-consensual sex acts such as pedophilia and bestiality.