Colorado Springs is home to one of the nation’s oldest anti-LGBTQ hate groups

Focus on the Family Welcome Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
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Colorado Springs, Colorado — home of Club Q, a gay bar where a Saturday night mass shooting killed five and injured 18 — is arguably one of the most anti-LGBTQ cities in the nation because it’s home to Focus on the Family (FOF), a large and decades-old Christian anti-queer hate group that is one of the most vociferously anti-LGBTQ outfits in the nation.

FOF was founded in 1977 by James Dobson. It is possibly the largest theocratic-right organization in the United States.

The group — which recently registered with the IRS as a church to hide its donors — has a four-building, 47-acre complex in north Colorado. It has raised over $515 million budget in the past years, much of which goes towards anti-LGBTQ public campaigns and anti-LGBT candidates championed by FOF’s related organization, CitizenLink. FOF has over 800 employees, 14 international offices, and partnerships in 60 countries.

FOF opposes same-sex marriage and sex education in schools (except “abstinence-only”), supports so-called conversion therapy, and generally opposes anything that promotes the so-called “homosexual agenda” — even concepts of tolerance and diversity which, according to Dobson, are “buzzwords for homosexual advocacy.” The group has called the LGBTQ rights movement a “particularly evil lie of Satan.”

Dobson also compared proponents of same-sex marriage to…

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