"Bald-Faced"

I knew James Dobson was a liar, but I hadn't realized just how brazen he was. See this e-mail message sent to the members of Focus on the Family (and, according to Box Turtle Bulletin, it's not mentioned on their Web site at all, so this is apparently a hush-hush effort):

Gay-activist groups have mobilized to oppose an editorial in Time magazine written by Dr. James Dobson. Write the publication’s editors and let them know that you appreciate them publishing “Two Mommies Is One Too Many,” Dr. Dobson’s piece on why children “do best on every measure of well-being when raised by their married mother and father.” …

Homosexual-advocacy groups posted Internet and email alerts this week expressing “outrage” that Time published Dr. Dobson’s essay. Supporters of same-sex marriage, parenting and adoption are trying to challenge long-standing social science data that children do best with a married mother and father, claiming that newer research discredits these findings — a claim that many respected experts in this field reject. As part of this effort, gay activist organizations are asking their supporters to write Time and complain that Dr. Dobson’s essay is inaccurate.

Well, no. I guess by Dobson's standards, I count as a "homosexual advocacy group." Sorry, it's not groups that are mobilizing, it's individuals who are outraged at Dobson's effrontery -- including the two social scientists he named in his article. Second, children do not "do best. . . etc." At least, there is absolutely no evidence to support that contention. None.

Third, no one is claiming that new research discredits those findings, because those findings never existed to begin with. "Gay activist organizations" are not asking their supporters to write to Time -- although anti-gay hate groups are.

My mom, bless her Appalachian heart, used to talk about "bald-faced liars." Guess what.