Did TOMS’ Blake Mycoskie Really Not Know About Anti-Gay Focus on the Family?


TOMS Shoes Focus On The FamilySoulforce was featured prominently in a recent LA Weekly article covering the connection between TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie and the anti-LGBT group Focus On The Family.

Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS shoes, landed in a heap of trouble when news broke on Friday that he spoke at a June 30 Focus on the Family event in Orange County.
Focus on the Family’s longtime anti-gay agenda is ugly and widely known.

Soulforce, the gay rights organization that exposes anti-gay religious groups, notes in a special report that FOTF has pushed such ideas that homosexuality is a mental disorder caused by family problems and bad parenting, that gays want to destroy marriage and the family, that same-gender parents are unfit and seek to hurt children, that homosexuality can be prevented by parents and cured through ‘reparative therapy,’ and that gays are sick, ungodly people who want ‘special rights,’ not civil rights.

Mycoskie, who lives on a sailboat in Los Angeles, says he simply didn’t know about these things.

Read the article at LA Weekly »

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  • Andersbo6

    i turned my life to Christ and my struggle with my orientation has and continues to be a major issue in my life.  How do I come to terms with that and my total desire to follow Christ?  I am not a “youngster” and am searching for answers and guidance that will keep me in true fellowship with Him.  I trust God to lead me in the right and true direction.

  • http://www.briangerald.com/ Brian Gerald

    Many in Soulforce readily identify as Christian (including myself), though not all of us. For those of us who hold the Bible as our spiritual source and guide, we all agree that the Bible is a living scripture, constantly breathed by God, and not a collection of words and books that died the moment they were written. For more information on the living, breathing scripture, you may want to read What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say About Homosexuality or Jesus, The Bible, And Homosexuality by Jack Rogers.
    What The Bible Says–And Doesn’t Say–About Homosexuality is available (along with an email series) here: http://www.soulforce.org/article/homosexuality-bible-gay-christian

  • guest

    I think trusting God to lead you is a huge step. I think He still speaks and still works powerfully too. Jesus came to bring abundant life and died for that very reason for you. I say  keep that focus for true fellowship with Him as your focus and He’ll %100 lead you in the right and true direction. Keep searching for that true fellowship, cause when you find it, you’ll find life.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VOZQV3USWWO65GS7LKGU5JGLWY Jim Florence

    Along the Shores of Galilee, Our Savior Jesus, And Exemplair, called to Simon Peter;
    “Come With Me, and I Will Make You a Catcher of Men”.
    What we as a “Wayward” Generation may ore may not discern, in Christ’s Chaste,
    Celebate Walk, is the “Domino-Affects” it would have on our youth.  The Example
    it would set for the impressionable, and “Gender Assignment Issues”.
    As in Californias’ Proposition 8, The “Accountabity of Sin/Short-Comings” at Age 8, and
    Babtism into the Church of Jesus Christ, prove as a worthwhile goal in the prevention
    of Youth, in preventing a life of Crime, Sexual Impurity, and the trials and tribulations
    of Juvinelle Hall.

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