Sooner Be Blue

"By Krissah Williams, from washingtonpost.com...

James Dobson, a long-time leader of conservative Christians, today accused Sen. Barack Obama of "deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to justify his own world view."

 

Dobson's comments, which aired today on his Focus on the Family radio show, come as Obama's campaign plans to launch a broad appeal to evangelicals and Catholics.
Dobson and Tim Minnery, a senior vice president at Focus on the Family, spent about 20 minutes of the show harshly critiquing a speech that Obama gave in 2006 to a group of liberal Christian leaders.

 

In the speech, Obama argues for religious diversity and acceptance and prods liberals not to cede issues of faith to Republicans. [..]

 

 

From Sen. Barack Obama's 'Call to Renewal' Keynote Address, 6/28/06....
"Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers."

 

"And even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? Would we go with James Dobson's, or Al Sharpton's? Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is ok and that eating shellfish is abomination? How about Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount - a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application? So before we get carried away, let's read our bibles. Folks haven't been reading their bibles."

 

 

Hmm...it takes big, brass ones to stand up and say those things as a politician...even if the people who disagree with you aren't the people you look to get votes from.

 

This Dobson loony can try to attack it all he wants, but anyone who is half-sane can see that this was a great speech.

 

Isn't Dobson the one who said kiddie cartoon character Sponge Bob Squarepants is gay?

 

Hey James, when The Rapture comes can I have your stuff?

 

Despite feeling that McCain isn't quite crazy enough in the right sorta fundie way -- after all, he did say "I cannot and I will not vote for John McCain" -- Dobson, on McCain's behalf, still launched a loony attempt to try to criticize Obama for "misreading" the Bible and the Constitution.

 

Not to worry...Dobson will fall on the same trash heap of history as Pat Robertson, Jimmy Swaggert, Ted Haggard, Jim Jones, Jerry Falwell, Jim Bakker, and all the rest of those phony saints who set themselves up as spokesmen for the Almighty.

 

An Almighty BTW who seems only concerned with tithing to the church, homosexuality, abortion, and gay marriage. Not like Jesus at all, who was concerned about loving each other, feeding the hungry, healing the sick, etc.