To each their own of course. Sorry you feel that this thread, which was made in jest to encourage users to help increase traffic, is a "pointless bashfest."
Not to turn this into a discussion on FotF (because, really, I'd like it to be a discussion about the continuing effort to bring more traffic to TFP), but since it is part of the topic of the thread, I'll point out a little more of why I think "beating" their traffic is a good (and fun) goal for us to have here at TFP.
Regardless of political affiliation - liberal or conservative - we all enjoy TFP for a variety of reasons. The fact is, in a perfect, Focus on the Family world, sites like TFP would either not exist, or be extremely hard to get access to. Honest and frank discussion and expression of sexuality among adults would be frowned upon, not celebrated as we attempt to do here. And we could forget about having things like the Exhibition Board.
What follows are some choice statements by "Dr." James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family:
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Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.
(On gay marriage, from The Daily Oklahoman, Oct. 23rd, 2004)
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Whether or not you think homosexuality is wrong, there aren't many people out there who are willing to say it will "destroy the earth," not to mention statements that are just plain untrue, such as "homosexuals are not monogamous."
Another patently false statement. Someone who was truly concerned about family would take accusations like those that were made against Mark Foley far more seriously.
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I certainly believe that God is displeased with America for its pride and arrogance, for killing 40 million unborn babies, for the universality of profanity and for other forms of immorality. However, rather than trying to forge a direct cause-and-effect relationship between the [9-11] terrorist attacks and America’s abandonment of biblical principles, which I think is wrong, we need to accept the truth that this nation will suffer in many ways for departing from the principles of righteousness. "The wages of sin is death," as it says in Romans 6, both for individuals and for entire cultures.
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=4257
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He stops just short of saying 9-11 happened because America isn't Christian enough.
Finally, if none of that is outrageous enough, how about the
homosexual agenda of the movie Happy Feet, which he
discussed with Michael Medved on his Focus on the Family radio show?
Of course, we are all free to support whatever organizations we want, and one should certainly not feel like they can't participate on TFP while also supporting Focus on the Family. One should also know, on the other hand, that what Focus on the Family stands for is, in many ways, not what TFP stands for. In fact, with the Erogenous Zone, Exhibition Forum, and frank sexual discussion that takes place on TFP, not to mention that many discussions encourage users to explore their sexuality in ways that Focus on the Family would deem immoral, I feel confident in saying that Focus on the Family would view TFP as a downright evil site.
But, really, when it comes down to it, I just focused (no pun intended) on Focus on the Family because it was one of the first sites that popped into my head whose traffic statistics were relatively close to TFP's. Once we pass them up, that just means we'll have to get another goal. Maybe it'll be Greenpeace!