HRC: tell CNN/Larry King Live to stop promoting James Dobson

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HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN ACTION ALERT http://www.hrc.org

Tell CNN, Larry King Live to Stop Promoting James Dobson's Anti-Gay Attacks!

The Sept. 5, 2003 edition of CNN's Larry King Live featured an hour-long interview with James Dobson, the virulently homophobic founder of the anti-gay industry's largest organization, Focus on the Family. Dobson used his hour-long appearance to insult and denigrate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and families.


Go to http://www.glaad.org/action/alerts_detail.php?id=3485 to write to Larry King Live executive producer Wendy Walker Whitworth using GLAAD's TAKE ACTION function. Tell her that you expect Larry King to stop allowing Focus on the Family and James Dobson to launch one-sided, unchallenged attacks on the LGBT community. Let them know that after Dobson's anti-gay diatribes on Sept. 5, you expect Larry King Live to produce a show featuring individuals and/or couples who can challenge Dobson's attacks on our lives and talk about the harm caused by our nation's refusal to extend basic protections, rights and dignity to same-sex couples and families.

CNN - Septemer 5, 2003
"Larry King Live with Dr. James Dobson"


Following a diatribe against the Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas, King asked Dobson why he seemed so interested in dictating LGBT people's private lives. Dobson responded by attacking civil marriage equality for same-sex couples, claiming, "that will destroy the family, which will destroy the nation, and I think eventually have a major impact on Western Civilization. Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family."


Dobson also repeatedly claimed same-sex couples "want to destroy marriage." After King asked Dobson why he believed that, Dobson claimed, "Many, many homosexuals are not committed for life. The research shows that they have as many as 300 to 1,000 partners in a lifetime. Why would they want to commit themselves to a binding relationship that prevents that?" King did not challenge either Dobson's claims or his highly dubious statistics.

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[Hawkeye-X]

1. Time to start circulating the petition

to get Focus on the Family relocated outside of Colorado to somewhere say, Pago Pago.

Hawkeye-X