Dobson Claims Obama Distorts The Bible
John McCain isn't the only presidential candidate with whom James Dobson has some problems. In an airing on Tuesday of Focus On The Family, Dr. Dobson will take Barack Obama to task for distorting the Bible and pushing a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution.
Focus On The Family 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. 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.
Dobson took aim at examples Obama cited in asking which Biblical passages should guide public policy — chapters like Leviticus, which Obama said suggests slavery is OK and eating shellfish is an abomination, or Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, "a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application."
"Folks haven't been reading their Bibles," Obama said.
Dobson 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."
Dobson will also criticize Obama for his views on abortion, which Dobson and his listener base have long condemned as the taking of innocent life. Obama claimed that the religiously motivated must frame debates over issues like abortion not just in their own religion's terms but in arguments accessible to all people.
Dobson says Obama is trying to govern by the "lowest common denominator of morality," labeling it "a fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution."
"Am I required in a democracy to conform my efforts in the political arena to his bloody notion of what is right with regard to the lives of tiny babies?" Dobson said. "What he's trying to say here is unless everybody agrees, we have no right to fight for what we believe."
It appears that Dobson has run out of presidential candidates whom he could support. If the Libertarians can get Bob Barr on the ballot in Colorado, that will give Dobson one last (though unlikely) option.
1 comments:
Perhaps Mr. Dobson needs to take the Jesus Test at http://www.sentforlife.com/jesus.html .
He will probably fail miserably.
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