Saddleback Needs $900,000 ASAP – Broke FoF Wants $4 Million Super Bowl Ad
January 2, 2010 by James Hipps
This is a great way for me to ring in the New Year! It looks as though the anti-gay, holier than thou, James Dobson and Rick Warren are experiencing a bit of financial stress. Could it be that less and less are “buying” their B.S. rhetoric?
Is this social Darwinism? The Religious Right is feeling the economic pinch as Rick Warren begs for dough, and Focus on the Family laid off 150 more staff members, but is willing to drop $4 million on a Super Bowl ad.
I can’t help but think this is God’s way of telling Rick Warren to STFU. The megachurch pastor, liar and pop feel-good author took the internet to plead for his congregation to dig deep and donate $900,000 within the next 48 hours. Or else the godless heathen homo-lovers win.
With 10% of our church family out of work due to the recession, our expenses in caring for our community in 2009 rose dramatically while our income stagnated. Still, with wise management, we’ve stayed close to our budget all year. Then… this last weekend the bottom dropped out. On the last weekend of 2009, our total offerings were less than half of what we normally receive – leaving us $900,000 in the red for the year, unless you help make up the difference today and tomorrow.
With 22,000 members, that about $41 per person. And $900,000 a huge deficit caused simply by a low dip in one weekend’s donations–kinda makes you wonder what the weekly take is. And why the IRS doesn’t consider taxing churches…
In other broke, morally bankrupt rightwing church news, Focus on the Family–which, citing a decrease in donations, laid off employees in 2005, 2006, 2007 twice in 2008 and in September of this year let go another 8% of their staff, a almost 500 people total–is poised to spend approximately $4 million on a Super Bowl commercial promoting their anti-choice agenda.
Warren, FOF and every other religious right “christian” are a disgrace to what Christianity really is. I would suggest to Mr. Warren and FOF that they trim a little from their salaries and not burden the members of the church. I seriously doubt if any leader in any religious entity lives paycheck to paycheck.
And I don’t think any of them have ever been without health insurance either.
The main reason my husband and I watch the Superbowl is just for the commercials, the last thing I want to see is homophobic BS when we’re trying to relax!
I can tell those losers what it’s like to be without health insurance and enough money. The first time I got laid off during the Bush years (I got laid off from 3 jobs during those years) I spent a full YEAR in pain due to inflammation in my feet, I had to take 2 jobs (both of them on my feet) to make half of what I had been making at my other job. None of them have any clue what it’s like to be in pain and unable to do anything about it! They are a complete disgrace to everything they pretend to stand for!
Unfortunately, they raised 2.4 million. There are a lot of dim bulbs out there.
Sad isn’t it?