October 1--A large headline screamed across the Metro section of the Boston Globe. It was an attack on James Dobson and his Christian organization, "Focus on the Family." It was a full assault.  

The headline said: "Interfaith group assails ‘inflammatory’ view of homosexuality." 

The story opened this way: "A group of religious leaders that supports gays and lesbians has accused James Dobson, president of the conservative Focus on the Family, of disseminating ‘false and inflammatory rhetoric’ about homosexuals through his print ministry and worldwide broadcasts." 

Who were these "religious leaders" who attacked James Dobson? 

The article never told us. 

It did say that forty people founded the "interfaith" group just last year and called it The National Religious Leadership Roundtable.  

I was so puzzled that I went to the Internet and discovered – almost instantly – that The National Religious Leadership Roundtable is a creation of the militant homosexual group, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. They took credit for its formation on their website on July 24, 1998. 

Didn’t the Globe know this? 

This new organization, the National Religious Leadership Roundtable, has no purpose other than to call a news conference once or twice a year and hope that some friendly – or gullible – newspapers will publish a story about how an "Interfaith Group" has revealed the "truth" about someone they don’t like. 

Obviously, it has such a friend in the Boston Globe.  

This year the group traveled (we have no idea how many made the trip) to Colorado Springs, the home of Focus on the Family, solely to engage in a dialogue with Dobson even though he was on vacation during their two-day meeting. One must assume that the writer of the article in the Globe, religion editor Diego Ribadeneira, knew all of this background before he wrote the article – but he didn’t bother to tell his readers. All we saw was the huge headline.  

A large subhead had a quotation from the group: 

"What we want to see stopped is the dangerous rhetoric that portrays gays and lesbians as monsters."  

They Had Help 

Although the news about the Roundtable was announced by the Gay/Lesbian group, they did it in cooperation with other left-wing groups, including the Unitarians. They said: 

"The unprecedented national Religious Leadership Roundtable is co-convened by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and Equal Partners in Faith." The latter group is another umbrella, "front" organization, composed of the Unitarian Church and a litany of other left-wing religious leaders. 

Therefore, there was a group of left-wing people forming a dummy organization called Equal Partners in Faith which joined with the militant homosexual organization to form another dummy organization called The National Religious Leadership Roundtable. The whole purpose of the exercise is to create the "fronts" and make it sound as though there are many clergymen attacking Dr. Dobson. 

No wonder the Globe didn’t tell us who is behind this "dummy" organization and how many people there were at the "conference" in Colorado Springs. 

How They Attacked Dobson 

The article started by saying that this new group "supports gays and lesbians." One must wonder who decided that Dr. Dobson does not "support" gays and lesbians? 

If this article were to be unbiased, it would say that the new group supports sexual activity among homosexuals whereas Dr. Dobson also supports homosexuals; but he believes that any casual sex, whether between heterosexuals or homosexuals, is immoral.  

Even more troubling is the headline that this group wants Dr. Dobson to stop portraying homosexuals as "monsters." 

The religion editor of the Globe knows that no Christian leader in America ever portrays homosexuals as "monsters."  

Globe Is Run By People 

Who are the people at the Globe who decided to run this story? Who wanted to cooperate with these phony groups to push the radical agenda? 

Obviously, anyone who belongs to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and works at the Globe was contacted in order to get the story placed in the newspaper. Because of the civil rights laws in Massachusetts, every newspaper is watched very carefully as to who their employees are and what they write. We know what happened to the Globe columnist, Jeff Jacoby, who wrote about signs that were torn down by homosexual activists at Harvard Law School after a Christian group of students announced that a young man would speak who had stopped practicing homosexuality. Jacoby was chastised by the paper’s ombudsman who reported that Jacoby had written "homophobic" columns before. 

The ombudsman went on to state that both of Jacoby’s editors are, according to him, "gay activists," who had tried to stop the printing of Jacoby’s column. Apparently, the activists were more successful with the religion editor. They undoubtedly belong to the Gay Task Force and were told to get this story placed in their newspaper. 

Also, John Buehrens, who is President of the Unitarians over on Beacon Hill undoubtedly put pressure on the editor.  

Of course, the Globe made its obligatory telephone call "in fairness" to Focus on the Family to see if they wanted to comment on the charges. But if they truly wished to be fair, they would have written an accurate story. 

Ironically, the title above the Globe article was "The Spiritual Life." They should advise their religion editor that deceit is not a part of a spiritual life.