James Dobson invites trouble

Via Ezra, Via Tapped, Via Brad Plumer, it looks like James Dobson's newsletter has come up with a cure for being the "Gayest thing since Gay walked into Gaytown." Dobson's Focus on the Family likes to give tips to fathers on how to stop their kids from becoming Full-on Gay, so here, they provide some helpful tips on how to spot the Gayness and then how to root it out. As usual with the Family Right, the fearful signs are aimed at any deviancy from the Gender-roles Dobson likes best. But what is new to this reader is that Dobson would suggest the following solution:

Meanwhile, the boy's father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son's maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger.

It's hard to beat "pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard" what with the images that allows us to ponder. But seriously, are these folks so daft as to not realize the pandora's box they are suggesting opening. I mean what good could it possibly due for the kid to get introduced to same sex showers?

Four words, every Focus on the Family mother should know before following this, Repressed Homosexual Conservative Christian.

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