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Thursday, August 17, 2006

Focus on Your Own Family

Posted by on August 17 at 12:22 PM

Have you ordered free stuff from (and thus bled) Focus on the Family yet? Instructions are in today’s Stranger and here. Hurry, I’m betting they’ll change their site to not allow zero as a valid donation amount very soon.


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Just ordered my stuff.

If they're a non-profit (ha!) like the site says, are they allowed to charge for those things at the prices currently suggested?

I guess I'm a little fuzzy on the rules.

Awesome. I snagged a copy of the Narnia DVD, some Narnia audio CDs, along with a copy of Growth Into Manhood.

Ooh, Narnia!

3 copies of the Chronic DVD for me! Just in case one or two break or I need extra coasters or something.

This is great!

Oh, and I am a Reverend now. I mean, I chose it as my honorific, and now it's in print on my receipt, and anything in print must be true, right?

i just ordered the back to school kits for boys and girls... i'm unsure of which i am, in the eyes of FotF and i want to see what they're teaching our kids these days...

...damnit should have gotten the f-ing narnia dvd. maybe levislade can send me one of his coasters. i mean, copies.

Sure, SA, I'll have it up on eBay in a couple weeks. Or you could just go back and order a few more for yourself! I'm thinking it would be cool to be able to make some sort of gleaming suit of Narnia DVDs for special occasions.

I got the Narnia DVD and a copy of "The Homosexual Agenda", just in case I haven't been following it properly!

Remember to lie down with the Lion.

Hmmm. Lion. Lying. Ever notice the similarities? I'll bet GWB has.

I'd like to try it, but I don't want them to send me other crap in the mail.

This is truly the most awesomest thing ever!! I just got my father-in-law's Christmas present for freekin' free! He's a CS Lewis nut, so I got him the 19-CD Narnia box set! $79!!!! Hahahaha! Thank you, thank you for teaching us of this magical, wonderful site!

Josh, you probably won't get any extra mail from Focus. I've been doing this for quite some time now (albeit to a PO box) and haven't seen anything but what I ordered.

Please pass these helpful tips along to as many other bloggers as you can! Cheers from Focusville, Noel

Oh, Kate, yeah: it's all suggested donation.

Ack! get Narnia by all means but stay away from the homophobia stuff. Focus buys that stuff from the publishers and I don't want any authors or publishers to profit from my desire to screw them Really - You're making hateful authors richer.

To add to the warm fuzzy feeling of screwing these people over, they then send you an electronic invoice with this delightful nugget:

YOUR DONATION - Today I donated the following in support of the family
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Your Total Donation.......... $ 0.00

sweet! e-confirmation even!

Ha! I told my boyfriend that C.S. Lewis just wrote thinly disguised Christian propaganda, but he didn't believe me!

Just ordered two copies of the Narnia DVD and two copies of the Les Miserables CD ($90 total value). I looked and looked for bibles, but they didn't seem to have any, which is kind of weird. Anyone else find a bible?

And their going to pay shipping too! That's awesome! My order came to 99.00 even. my donation $0.00.

I hope they don't send anybody calling to my address to beg me to join the local hatefilled body of christains.

United Jewish Appeal claim to be "helping the people of Israel", unless you're Lebonese then they kill you. Focus on the Family won't let gays marry. All religious charities are a farce. The Torah and the Bible would be equally good to give out as free toilet paper. Wipe your ass with a Torah or Bible today, you can get them for free at a Synagog or Church.

That's just genius -- can't wait until my Narnia box-CD set arrives!

Damn, I missed the Les Miserables stuff... I guess I'll just have to go back later. I just can't wait to get their crap and alter it to suit my evil "Homosexual Agenda". I figured I'd leave the new, improved booklets in the commons area at school. You know, where those impressionable, at-risk student types hang out! *Glee*

Has anyone gotten there stuff in the mail?

They've changed the site now. If you enter less than the "suggested donation," you are directed to call their 1-800 number. I guess we bled them dry over the last two weeks. And now, a moment of silence for FOF (not)

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