COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution.
*Okay, how can I NOT comment on this: "FRUITCAKE??" JAMES? REALLY?? Who told you THAT was a good idea?!?...
The conservative Christian group provided The Associated Press with an advance copy of the pre-taped radio segment, which runs 18 minutes and highlights excerpts of a speech Obama gave in June 2006 to the liberal Christian group Call to Renewal. ["Call to Renewal," btw, is Sojourners, aka Jim Wallis. Not so liberal, actually.] Obama mentions Dobson in the speech.
"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?" Obama said. "Would we go with James Dobson's or Al Sharpton's?" referring to the civil rights leader.
*Makes sense, right? Huzzah, Obama! And then he goes on to chastise Americans for not reading their Bibles...how, you may be asking yourself, could James Dobson possibly find this offensive? But oh, he can.
"Folks haven't been reading their Bibles," Obama said.
Dobson and Minnery accused Obama of wrongly equating Old Testament texts and dietary codes that no longer apply to Jesus' teachings in the New Testament.
"I think he's deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology," Dobson said.
"... He is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter."
Conclusion: I know it's awfully Pat Robertson of me, but I suggest that Christians unite and pray for an assassination.
2 comments:
so i was listening to sean hannity today (opposition prep, don't worry) and the guest of the hour was...james dobson, holding forth in his confused fashion on the very things you mentioned. he sounded old and tired, if that's any consolation.
there was also a marked lack of actual biblical texts, but plenty of political accusations: he's "afraid" of what will happen to america if obama is elected.
didn't tell us who he's voting for, though. :)
Yes, Jim Wallis is what we call a religious moderate. Never heard of that, the media? Yeop. Though my guess is Jimmy Dobson would call him a liberal.
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