COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 24, 2008
Dobson Accuses Obama Of "Distorting" Bible
Evangelical Leader Also Says Ill. Senator Has "Fruitcake Interpretation" Of Constitution
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Focus on the Family Founder and Chairman James Dobson, left, watches near the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 2, 2008, as President Bush, not shown, leaves the White House for a trip to Missouri and then onto his ranch in Texas for the weekend. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
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The criticism, to be aired Tuesday on Dobson's Focus on the Family radio program, comes shortly after an Obama aide suggested a meeting at the organization's headquarters here, said Tom Minnery, senior vice president for government and public policy at Focus on the Family.
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. 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 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."
Joshua DuBois, director of religious affairs for Obama's campaign, said in a statement that a full reading of Obama's speech shows he is committed to reaching out to people of faith and standing up for families. "Obama is proud to have the support of millions of Americans of faith and looks forward to working across religious lines to bring our country together," DuBois said.
Dobson reserved some of his harshest criticism for Obama's argument 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.
He said Obama, who supports abortion rights, 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."
The program was paid for by a Focus on the Family affiliate whose donations are taxed, Dobson said, so it's legal for that group to get more involved in politics.
Last week, DuBois, a former Assemblies of God associate minister, called Minnery for what Minnery described as a cordial discussion. He would not go into detail, but said Dubois offered to visit the ministry in August when the Democratic National Convention is in Denver.
A possible Obama visit was not discussed, but Focus is open to one, Minnery said.
McCain also has not met with Dobson. A McCain campaign staffer offered Dobson a meeting with McCain recently in Denver, Minnery said. Dobson declined because he prefers that candidates visit the Focus on the Family campus to learn more about the organization, Minnery said.
Dobson has not backed off his statement that he could not in good conscience vote for McCain because of concerns over the Arizona senator's conservative credentials. Dobson has said he will vote in November but has suggested he might not vote for president.
Obama recently met in Chicago with religious leaders, including conservative evangelicals. His campaign also plans thousands of "American Values House Parties," where participants discuss Obama and religion, as well as a presence on Christian radio and blogs.
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- hmmmmm rev(ulting)wright taught hussein welll,,, expelling or enslaving people,,,, sounds like fascist nazi terrorislam to me,,,
Posted by terrorislami
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Everything sounds like terrorislam to you and probably will continue to do so untill you get your meds adjusted. - Reply to this comment
- If Obama is not a Muslim let him renounce it the way a Muslim would renounce it!
Obama has to answer a question?
Has he been born again? DAAAA?NO!
Posted by X123123 at 09:54 PM : Jun 24, 2008
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What does that have to do with anything?
My guess is Obama was born just right the first time! - Reply to this comment
- Who really cares what that self-righteous hypocrite says or thinks? Dobson doesn''t have enough sense to pour pi$$ out of a boot. He''s just another religious fool with too much time on his hands. I''ll bet he will be in for a shock when he ''kicks the bucket''.
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- HUSSEIN AND THE NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY
The racist NBPP is led by notorious extremist, Malik Zulu Shabazz, and is a registered team member and blogger on Obama%u2019s campaign website.
Barack Obama and The New Black Panther Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DQAOZlNrO8
Snarling at the White Man
Leaders of the New Black Panther Party, unlike those of its namesake of the 1960s and 1970s, speak of ''white devils'' and ''bloodsucking Jews''
Khalid Muhammad.
Muhammad, who first appeared publicly as the new Panthers'' leader at the Jasper demonstration in 1998, had long been known as the leading spokesman for the black separatist Nation of Islam. He lost that post after Nation leader Louis Farrakhan was widely criticized for Muhammad''s violently hateful speeches.
He has blamed slavery and even the Holocaust on the "hooked-nose, bagel-eating, lox-eating, perpetrating-a-fraud, so-called Jew."
He has launched repeated diatribes against his enemies: "white devil crackers," "bloodsucking Jews" and "*******."
Muhammad had clear ideas for dealing with whites who did not leave immediately: "We kill the women. We kill the babies. We kill the blind. We kill the cripples. We kill them all. We kill the *******. We kill the lesbians. ,,, When you get through killing them all, go to the ******* graveyard and dig up the grave and kill them a-*******-gain, because they didn''t die hard enough" the first time.
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- THE REAL HUSSEIN, HIS REAL HATE OF WHITEY, HIS REAL RACISM
FROM HIS OWN MOUTH
Wright / Obama: "White Folk''s Greed Runs A World In Need"
MALCOLM-O-BAMA LAUDS MALCOLM-X
HUSSEIN THE MARXISTS
HUSSEIN THE RACIST
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There''s only two kinds of white folks, there''s only two kinds, bad white folks and worse white folks. That''s the only two kinds of white folks there are. Malcolm X, used to say, from the teachings of the nation of terrorislam founder Elijah Muhammad, that all white folks are bad. He said if you find one good, kill him first before he turns bad. Because he''s only faking.
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SHOCKING Obama words: what he really thinks of white folks
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The shocking video Barack Obama does not want you to see!!
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- Posted by elz523 at 06:28 AM : Jun 25, 2008
HUSSEIN SAYS MUSIM CALL TO PRAYER IS ONE OF THE PRETTIEST SOUNDS ON EARTH AT SUNSET
%u201CI was a little Jakarta street kid,%u201D Obama said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on Nicholas D. Kristofs''s blog, http://www.nytimes.com/ontheground). He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics %u2014 and more likely to be aware of their nationalism %u2014 if he once studied the Koran with them.
Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it%u2019ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as %u201Cone of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.%u201D
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- It is rich that Dobson would accuse anyone of distorting the Bible. It is because Dobson knows that it is he who distorts the Bible to justify the power and money he gets from his supporters. If his supporters were to start hearing the real truth of the Bible they would dump both him and his ideas. That is why he is striking out. There is nothing more dangerous than the truth to a false prophet like Dobson.
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- If Obama is not a Muslim let him renounce it the way a Muslim would renounce it!
Obama has to answer a question?
Has he been born again? DAAAA?NO!
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Posted by X123123 at 09:54 PM : Jun 24, 2008
He has answered this question in the affirmative. Y''know, beat him on the issues if you can, but this muslim bulls/h/i/t is not worthy of debate. - Reply to this comment
- hmmmmm rev(ulting)wright taught hussein welll,,, expelling or enslaving people,,,, sounds like fascist nazi terrorislam to me,,,
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Posted by terrorislami at 02:41 AM : Jun 25, 2008
Do you understand the concept of the hypothetical? - Reply to this comment
- "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.
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hmmmmm rev(ulting)wright taught hussein welll,,, expelling or enslaving people,,,, sounds like fascist nazi terrorislam to me,,, - Reply to this comment
- Heinz has a problem? They believe a man can do it with a man 57 ways?
Sodomites! Heizomites!
CBS has a funny bone? It needs manlove!
Do sodomites touch the ketchup when its being made with the aides virus? Can Ketchup keep the virus active for up to six months?
Only Obama and Sinclair know for sure? - Reply to this comment
- Heinz has a problem? They believe a man can do it with a man 57 ways?
Sodomites! Heizomites!
CBS has a funny bone? It needs manlove!
Do sodomites touch the ketchup when its being made with the aides virus? - Reply to this comment
- Heinz has a problem? They believe a man can do it with a man 57 ways?
Sodomites! Heizomites!
CBS has a funny bone? It needs manlove! - Reply to this comment
- Posted by hereticzero at 10:10 PM : Jun 24, 2008
A fairy tale you try so desperately to destroy! - Reply to this comment
- Heinz has a problem? They believe a man can do it with a man 57 ways?
Sodomites! Heizomites!
CBS has a funny bone? It needs manlove! - Reply to this comment
- how can anyone fight over fairy tales of a little girl given a magical fruit by a talking snake?
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- is it not funny all these non believers standing up for the morality of what?
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- Is it the Wright way to have Damnation with Obamanation through Decapitation?
AKA God D_A_M_N America!
Listen all, Jews and Christians, and beware of the practice of the Muslim faith!
Sura (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"
There is some cool beheading videos online for those who want to see first hand experience of Muslim people who read the Koran that follow the path of the way of the beheading bliss?
The blade goes around your throat as you cry out for this not to happen? You begin to grasp for air as the Muslim cuts deeper and deeper into you throat. You realize that in a few seconds your head will be removed for the purpose of Islam. The last thing you notice is the eyes of the person who is cutting into your bone. You shriek your final breath as you know that time cannot go backwards for this not to happen to you!
This is the Muslim way to a better way!
Do you think Decapitation is the Wright way to have Damnation with Obamanation?
Listen all and practice!
If Obama is not a Muslim let him renounce it the way a Muslim would renounce it!
Obama has to answer a question?
Has he been born again? DAAAA?NO! - Reply to this comment
- According to the Bible, the only fool is YOU! Posted by mcv57
Yeah right, and you are still waiting after 2,000 years for your blind date to show up. Don''t look now, but you may have been STOOD UP. LOL - Reply to this comment
- Why not publish only the New Testament?
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Posted by formrusmcsgt at 09:24 PM
Why do they want to keep pushing the ten commandments for that matter, since they are also part of the Torah which no longer matters? - Reply to this comment
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