James Dobson.... So James Dobson is saying that Barack Obama is twisting the bible. This coming from a man who has NO legitimate theological training and claims his focus is on the "Family" and not "Politics", hence his political statement on Obama. This is a man who has given great lines such as this...
September 11
After September 11 Dobson was asked whether "God withdrawn His protective hand from the US," Dobson is quoted as saying:
"Christians have made arguments on both sides of this question. I certainly believe that God is displeased with America for its pride and arrogance, for killing 40 million unborn babies, for the universality of profanity and for other forms of immorality. However, rather than trying to forge a direct cause-and-effect relationship between the terrorist attacks and America’s abandonment of biblical principles, which I think is wrong, we need to accept the truth that this nation will suffer in many ways for departing from the principles of righteousness. "The wages of sin is death," as it says in Romans 6, both for individuals and for entire cultures.
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=4257
People for the American Way, "Right Wing Organizations: Focus on the Family
Mark Foley
The Mark Foley affair has "turned out to be what some people are now saying was a -- sort of a joke by the boy and some of the other pages" who came forward with sexually explicit instant messages that Foley sent.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200610060004
Echoing Drudge and Savage, Dobson and Henninger claimed Foley scandal is "sort of a joke" and a "prank" by pages, Media Matters for America Oct. 6, 2006
Islam
Exchange between Larry King and James Dobson that aired on September 18, 2002 on CNN's Larry King Live
KING: Franklin Graham called Islam a very wicked and evil religion. More recently, he said that Muslim leaders haven't done enough to show their sorrow over 9/11. Do you agree with that?
DOBSON: Well, I certainly agree that many factions within Islam are very, very violent. I mean, how can we deny that? The war against the west and against Israel certainly didn't start with 9/11. For us, it began really in 1979 when the Iranians, you know, invaded the embassy there. And from that point on, they've been doing things like this, so there's a lot of violence within the Islamic faith.
KING: But you don't think the faith is violent? You don't think American Muslims are, by nature, violent, or Muslims are by nature violent or do you?
DOBSON: I think some Muslims are, but certainly...
KING: Well, some Christians are.
DOBSON: Yes, but that...
KING: There's a lot of killing in the name of Christ in history.
DOBSON: Yes, there has been down through the years, but I don't think that's the predominant factor. I mean, if you look at the teachings of Christ, the centerpiece is love. That's been the essence of what He has thought.
KING: Not Mohammed -- Mohammed did not teach love?
DOBSON: Not to that degree, no. There's a lot -- you know I'm not an expert on this subject. I told you that last time we were here, and so I can just give you my impressions about it. And there are very, very violent people within the Islamic faith. There are also some that are not violent.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/18/lkl.00.html
CNN's Larry King Live Aired September 18, 2002 - 21:00 ET
Homosexuality
"Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth."
On gay marriage, from The Daily Oklahoman, Oct. 23rd, 2004
Liberals
"Isn't it amazing that there's such a sizable number of people in the media and in the liberal community that despise this country and its freedoms, and they're doing everything they can to undermine it?"
http://mediamatters.org/items/200610180018
Dobson vs Dobson, Media Matters for America Oct. 18, 2006
Focus on the Family and politics
"Here at Focus on the Family, we're not political."
http://mediamatters.org/items/200610180018
Dobson vs Dobson, Media Matters for America Oct. 18, 2006
Child discipline
"[P]ain is a marvelous purifier. . . It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, the spanking should be of sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely."
From Dare to Discipline, pages 6 and 7
"Some strong-willed children absolutely demand to be spanked, and their wishes should be granted. . . [T]wo or three stinging strokes on the legs or buttocks with a switch are usually sufficient to emphasize the point, 'You must obey me.'"
From The Strong-Willed Child, pp. 53-4.
Palestine & Israel
Exchange between Larry King and James Dobson that aired on September 18, 2002 on CNN's Larry King Live
KING: You're an outspoken supporter of Israel. You and Bill Bennett, co-authored an op-ed piece on the subject, responding to a letter from a group of prominent Evangelical Christians who urged George W. Bush to employ an even handed policy toward Israel and Palestine. You don't want an even handed policy?
DOBSON: Well, I do. It depends on what you mean by that. I feel very strongly about Israel. You know it is surrounded by its enemies. And it exists primarily because God has willed it to exist, I think, according to scripture, but also, because America has stood with Israel. If we ever abandon it, it's gone. There are six million Jews in Israel. There are 400 million Muslims around them that hate them and want many of them -- hate them and want to drive them into the sea. And that is a major concern to me. It's the only democracy in the Middle East. Why wouldn't we support them?
KING: And the Palestinian people are the only people without a state...
DOBSON: Yes.
KING: ... of any kind. Should they have a state? Do you agree with the president there? There should be a Palestinian state?
DOBSON: You know, here again, I'm not smart enough to figure out that conflict. That's been going on -- that's ancient. It goes way back. And I'm not sure that I'm -- in fact, I know I don't have the answer for that. But whatever the solution, whether it's a Palestinian state or whatever the answer to it is, it has to involve security for Israel. And that's where I make my stand.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/18/lkl.00.html
CNN's Larry King Live Aired September 18, 2002 - 21:00 ET
Comments on Senator Leahy
...exchange [Nov 7, 2004] between George Stephanopoulos and James Dobson on ABC's This Week:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Dr. Dobson, ...in the Daily Oklahoman, [you were] quoted saying, "Patrick Leahy is a God's people hater. I don't know if he hates God, but he hates God's people." Now, Dr. Dobson, that doesn't sound like a particularly Christian thing to say. Do you think you owe Senator Leahy an apology?
DR JAMES DOBSON: George, you think you ought to lecture me on what a Christian is all about? You know, I think -I think I'll stand by the things I have said. Patrick Leahy has been in opposition to most of the things that I believe. He is the one that took the reference to God out of the oath.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: But Dr. Dobson, excuse me for a second. You use the word hate. You said that he's a "God's people hater." How do you back that up?
DR JAMES DOBSON: Well, there's been an awful lot of hate expressed in this election. And most of it has been aimed at those who hold to conservative Christian views. He is certainly not the only one to take a position like that. But I think that that is -that's where he's coming from. He has certainly opposed most of the things that conservative Christians stand for.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apology?
DR JAMES DOBSON: No apology.
Now that your done digesting that...
James Dobson has done nothing but twist the bible his whole career. If this man is "Christian" then I am Christian (I am an Atheist). I have read the Bible and the things James Dobson says are not in it. He does not love his fellow man and when he got to the part where it says thou shall not judge, he skipped over it. This is a man who cherry picks and adds to biblical text to promote his ultra right agenda. He uses the Bible to coerce and scare people into believing if they don't listen to his moral authority they will go to hell. I'll say this, if there was or is a Hell James Dobson has a seat there waiting, based on his horrific statements and actions. I find it hypocritical and just plain abhorrent that he would even think to call out Obama after all the trash that has come out of his mouth. I really could go on about this forever. But it is a busy day for me and I must end this here. But for your own info I have provided several links that inform you on just a fraction of the things he has said and done.
http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/tags/james_dobson
http://www.5280.com/issues/2006/0607/feature.php?pageID=400
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dobson
http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/dobson.htm
http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000004525.cfm
http://www.elroy.net/ehr/dobson.html
http://mediamatters.org/items/200510070004
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/02/09/evangelicals/
http://www.evangelicalright.com/james_dobson.html
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