Yes, Focus on The Family’s ostensible mission statement is the strident defense of every homespun convention that can be invoked under the name of Jesus, Santa Claus, or Uncle Sam, but we all know what the watchdog group’s true raison d’être is: condemning smut while teeth-gnashingly wallowing in it and convincing its members they’re above it all.
This vintage F.O.F. seminar on porn addiction is hysterical on multiple levels: the wonderfully trashy Ho Stroll opening montage, the assertion that the strategy behind our hugely successful War on Drugs should be applied to combating porno cartels, James Dobson‘s hilarious “The fags and the dykes, and every kind of perversion!” rhetoric that sounds lifted right out of Myra Breckinridge, and best of all, the most over-the-top drink-the-Kool-Aid audience reactions ever.
I once went to a funeral for a family friend that almost immediately descended into an interminable hour-and-a-half-long Evangelical sermon on the dangers of pornography in which the deceased was barely even incidental. Watching this brought back the same avoid-the-groupthink phrase I kept repeating over and over in my head to keep me sane:
Not a looker among ‘em.
Hat tip to Found Footage Festival.
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Sure there were. I saw a few hot men peppered throughout the video. Me bad?
Dobson’s most telling slip of the tongue happens when he’s describing what I suppose was a sex emporium and he’s talking about men doing things to women, or men and women together, and–in his words–WHATEVER YOU WANT. Well duh, those good Xtian sheep aren’t SUPPOSED to want anything sexual at all, except for a husband screwing his wife once a year in the missionary position with the lights out, with the clear intention that the encounter results in a baby’s birth!
I love the shot (around 00.23) of the two guys listening intently and TAKING NOTES. Keep studying, boys. You’ll get there.