I’ve been finding out more about FRC’s parent org, Focus on the Family, and the Holly Roller Empire they have created in formerly progressive Colorado Springs. FOTF’s headquarters compound (they call it a campus) occupies 47 acres and has its own ZIP code. FRC and another related accomplice, the Family Research Institute, also have large facilities in the Springs.

In a pattern often seen in business and industry, this has apparently triggered a large influx of similar but smaller organizations into the area in recent years.

At one time Colorado Springs was counted to be the national headquarters for 81 different religious organizations, earning the city the tongue-in-cheek nicknames “the Evangelical Vatican” and “The Christian Mecca.”

Some of these are legit, but most are simply variations on the all-too-familiar fundy consumer grift.