[After a brisk nap]

Focus on the Family is your standard extremist Christian right group. They are homophobic and anti-gay rights. They are anti-abortion and pro-Death penalty. They campaign for extremely conservative gender roles. They work to undermine the separation of Church and State.

A big part of their activity are their efforts to rid the media of anything they don't like. They're the kind of people who try to pressure cinemas into not showing Brokeback Mountain. The scary thing is that they're often quite successful, and have managed to impose a system of voluntary censorship on media corporations and retailers.

Of course, the group advances its agenda through the system of conservative influence-peddling that makes the Bush administration and Republican Congress run. For instance, the leader, James Dobson, has been implicated in the Jack Abramoff scandal, in a scheme to defraud Indian casinos.

I don't argue that everybody should shun products associated with Focus on the Family. But I think that those of us who find its agenda abhorrent are quite reasonable in doing so.