It’s getting close to election time again. Unfortunately, this means that all the fringe lunatics from both sides of the political spectrum will start pushing hard for their own particular agendas. It is interesting to watch closely how such throwing around of political weight actually affects the candidates. Naturally, the far religious right is right in the middle of the fray already. A group in Iowa calling itself “The Family Leader” has already managed to get caught making hash of historic fact and getting at least two of the Republican candidates to sign a pledge that is chocked full of misinformation and factual errors. It always amazes me what the perceived promise of large groups of voters will entice candidates to adapt as policies.
The Family Leader is actually a splinter group of the much larger “Focus on the Family” group run by James Dobson that has a long history of trying to set the agenda for conservative candidates on a right wing religious footing (See earlier post, Focus on the Family? ) Both groups like leading with the idea of being centered around “family” values but are actually only interested in pushing right wing Christian values as is evidenced by information on both of their websites if one takes the time to actually read their propaganda at its source. This is neither surprising nor new for anyone who has taken the time to look into exactly who is funding the Tea Party groups in the country today (See earlier post Tea Party of the Religious Right? ).
Beliefs
The FAMiLY LEADER champions the principle that God is the ultimate leader of the family. Our goal at The FAMiLY LEADER is to honor and glorify God – not a political party, not a candidate, and not a program. The FAMiLY LEADER is a Christ-centered organization that will lead with humility and service to strengthen and protect the family.
Hardly a broad based family organization if you take them at their word here. Obviously, unless you believe that God is the ultimate leader of your family you aren’t welcome in their “family”. In case you want to interpret their use of the term God in some generic way they further define this is a Christian organization with the bit about being Christ-centered. Jews, Bhuddists, Islamics, nor any other widely held views about who or what God is are incontrovertibly disowned in the second paragraph on the website. It is not a family organization at all, it is a Protestant Christian organization specifically aimed at influencing political elections and processes. This becomes even more obvious when one looks into the PAC mission statement on the same webpage which states that they seek to elect conservatives with a biblical world view. While I don’t begrudge them the opportunity to influence elections there is a widespread epidemic in this country of organizations working under the guise of religious organizations according to their tax structure and political organizations in actuality but I will leave that be for the moment.
Recently the Family Leader made headlines for a pledge it was trying to get candidates to sign in order to receive their support in Iowa. Two of the leading Republican candidates signed the pledge immediately after it came out as they were obviously anxious to garner whatever votes this organization could swing their way as a result. Michelle Bachmann and Rick Santorum both signed the pledge immediately upon being presented with it. While it isn’t surprising to see two Republican frontrunners anxious to be more conservative than anyone else running it doesn’t say much for their level of understanding when they both signed something that is so plainly discriminatory and controversial without bothering to read it first.
The very first tenant of the document gives away the intention of the document and the mentality of those who wrote it:
Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA‟s first African-American President
Obviously, it is a backhanded slap at our current president which is only to be expected from any conservative group as most view him as something between the anti-Christ and a socialist intent upon destroying the very fabric of our culture. Anyone who couldn’t smell something wrong after reading this salvo isn’t very astute to begin with. In the first place, slavery in the United States did not recognize the right to have a family so there was technically no such thing as an African-American slave family in 1860. The institution of marriage was not recognized as something that slaves in the United States had a right to participate in. Recognition of slave families would preclude the right of slave owners to sell them separately and we should make no mistake in understanding this was a routine practice for slave owners. Beyond that, in ALL cases slaves had no right of ownership of their own children as it was a routine business practice to separate slave children from their parents at birth. Ownership of slave children was legally bound to the ownership of the parents. In other words, the slaves not only had no right of marriage they also had no right of ownership of their own children who could and often were sold outright with the parents having no say in the matter. In other words, there was absolutely no family unit recognizable to children born into slavery in 1860 and almost no possibility that they would be raised in a two parent household. It would be hard to make a statement more patently and irrefutably false than this one so I wondered where such an idea could come from.
There is a footnote in the pledge with reference to where this particular nugget of information came from. It is a report written to study the effects of marriage on African American families titled “The Consequences of Marriage for African Americans”. This report studies the effects of marriage on socio-economic status amongst African Americans and is an interesting read. However, it is NOT a source that covers anything to do with children born into slavery in 1860. As a matter of fact, the earliest data referenced in this report was taken in 1880 and 1910, fifteen and forty five years after the elimination of slavery in the United States. According to the report only minor changes in the basic numbers of two parent households in the African American occurred before 1950. Much the same can be said for white two parent households in this country as well but I am getting off the subject.
Not only is the original statement in the pledge factually incorrect, the report that was supposedly the source of the statement contains no information whatsoever that relates to it. The Family Leader website has this quote in bold letters on its mission statement page:
“…we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.”
-2 Corinthians 4:2
Obviously, to the people at The Family Leader deception has a different meaning from that the rest of us understand as there is not even a grain of truth in their original statement concerning children born into slavery. Whoever wrote the statement plainly does not understand very much about slavery, nor have they bothered to read the information they use as source material to support the statement. In any case, after the media noticed that two of our leading candidates for president had signed a pledge containing such idiocy the good people at The Family Leader took this section out of the pledge and issued the following statement:
“After careful deliberation and wise insight and input from valued colleagues we deeply respect, we agree that the statement referencing children born into slavery can be misconstrued, and such misconstruction can detract from the core message of the Marriage Vow: that ALL of us must work to strengthen and support families and marriages between one woman and one man." The Family Leader added, "We sincerely apologize for any negative feelings this has caused, and have removed the language from the vow.”
This is a good example of the right wing’s idea of an apology. Obviously, there are some people at The Family Leader who have trouble understanding the English language. The statement is not one that can be misconstrued; it is a statement that is totally and completely without factual basis. Not only is it a flat out lie, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the material it purports to use as source information. None of this is surprising or new but we should start to be aware of the propaganda efforts that are currently underway in this country to convince the American public that this country was based upon some biblical worldview when the truth of the matter is that most of the founding fathers were secular humanists who were no less terrified of the involvement of religious institutions in our government than they were of monarchy and dictatorships. The far right and the religious fundamentalism is no less dangerous in this country than it has been in any other part of the world and groups like the Family Leader and Focus on the Family who are providing much of the financial muscle behind the Tea Party can only easily be defeated by dispersion of the truth. After all, propaganda can only be effective if its antithesis, factual information, is forcibly silenced.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Focus on the Family?
There seems to be a lot of commotion about an upcoming TV commercial on the Super Bowl. In the first place, I can hardly see why there is such interest in a commercial at all, much less one that will be shown during the Super Bowl. We have already been inundated with commercials during this spectacle that pretty much prove that American advertisers have both a dearth of originality and writing talent so it seems that one more bad commercial isn’t going to really hurt anyone. This particular commercial however seems to be stirring up quite a controversy. It seems that Tim Tebow and his mother have made a commercial for the Focus on the Family group. Rumor has it that the Tebow’s commercial will push the pro life agenda.
As far as I know, no one has seen the commercial yet but there isn’t much doubt about the message. The Tebows are well known and unapologetic fundamentalist Christians so it is hardly surprising that they would make such a commercial with such a well known right wing fundamentalist group. They have every right to push their agenda and if a wealthy activist group like Focus on the Family wants to bankroll them in this effort more power to them. Since one of the more recent commercials during the super bowl featured a horse farting into the face of two occupants of a carriage behind him, I think we can hardly rule out anything on the basis of good taste as far as the Super Bowl commercials go.
In the interest of putting the proper descriptive term to the Focus on the Family Group I decided to do a little research on the group itself. Some of what I found explains why so many people are getting upset at the idea; it isn’t the message as much as it is the messenger. In the first place the name Focus on the Family is a misnomer to start with as their own website points out:
Mission Statement:
To cooperate with the Holy Spirit in sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with as many people as possible by nurturing and defending the God-ordained institution of the family and promoting biblical truths worldwide.
While it could be argued that this mission statement at least contains the word family it seems that the “focus” is actually on the Holy Spirit and sharing the Gospel. The “family” in this case only exists because God ordained it to be so and is secondary to promoting biblical truths worldwide. In modern times the Church is often seen as the sponsor of marriage but this is in fact a fairly recent development as the Christian church for much of its history deemed marriage to be at best a secondary institution that was both spiritually less fulfilling and less pleasing to God than celibacy. Reading the writings of Jerome and Augustine it becomes obvious that the early church saw marriage as something of a lesser sin, a necessary evil; but the Church itself didn’t stoop to dirtying its hands with marriage vows until much later. As a matter of fact up until the ninth century marriages were not church involved in any way. It wasn’t until the thirteenth century that vows were exchanged in a church building and religion itself was interjected into the marriage ceremony sometime after that so it is plain to see from history that the Christian church is not the source of marriage or the family.
Unfortunately, this seems to be a truth that Focus on the Family is either unaware of or desperately seeking to cover up. At any rate, the focus of this group on family is secondary to its focus on spreading the gospel. If you doubt this consider the following quote from their website:
Guiding Principles:
Since Focus on the Family's primary reason for existence is to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ through a practical outreach to homes, we have firm beliefs about both the Christian faith and the importance of the family.
Remember this is how Focus on the Family defines their principles, it isn’t my interpretation. It seems that the cat gets out of the bag pretty quickly when you read their literature. Focus on the Family is an evangelical group with a decided political involvement which is probably why so many of the Free Choice groups are a little upset that they are advertising during the Super Bowl, no matter what particular message they are pushing in this commercial. Maybe it would be interesting to see how Focus on the Family has used their considerable influence in the past to see what their real agenda might be.
Focus on the Family is the brainchild of James Dobson who created the organization in 1977. Mr. Dobson is an author whose earliest work, “Dare to Discipline”, was a work that glowingly praised the use of corporal punishment at a time when most child experts were calling for more lax methods of discipline. The success of this book led Mr. Dobson to retire from his position as assistant professor at USC and write full time. Soon after he found a way to reach a wider audience and formed “Focus on the Family” with himself as the founder and chief executive officer. At the end of 2008 this organization had a 160 million dollar a year business and Mr. Dobson’s political influence was a well known fact as he worked closely with the younger Bush during his glory years and regularly supported and pushed for even more right wing agendas amongst national candidates.
As a 501 3c tax exempt corporation Focus on the Family is not supposed to directly advocate any particular political candidate even though their magazine, Citizen, is exclusively devoted to politics. Focus on the Family headquarters is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado on an 81 acre complex which has its own zip code. Dobson employs some 1300 people and sends out over 4 million pieces of mail each month. He is heard on some 6300 radio stations worldwide every day with an audience estimated at 200 million people. He is seen on some 80 television stations in the US every single day and sends out news alerts to over 104,000 activists each day through his Focus Citizen’s Link email system. Clearly, Mr. Dobson’s organization is influential, both within his listener base and within the political parties that he lobbies. While he has predominantly worked for the election of conservative Republicans they can sometimes feel his wrath as well.
In 1996 six contenders for the Republican nomination visited Colorado Springs in search of Mr. Dobson’s support. Dole, who was eventually the Republican candidate that year, incurred Mr. Dobson’s wrath by attempting to soften the anti-abortion plank in the platform at the convention. Mr. Dobson reacted by throwing his support behind Howard Phillips of the US Taxpayer party. Phillips’ campaign statements ranged from the misinformed to the patently absurd during the campaign. He suggested the Clintons were guilty of murder, linked the deterioration of the American family to “the liberation of the wife from the leadership of the husband”, and finally compared Reagan’s treatment of the Soviet Union to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Nazi Germany. Presumably, anything short of an all out nuclear blitz would be coddling of the commies according to Mr. Phillips.
In 1998 Mr. Dobson wrote a letter to one of the candidates he had helped put in office, Rep. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma listing his legislative demands: cutting off government funding to Planned Parenthood and other “pro-abortion organizations,” eliminating “so-called safe-sex and condom distribution programs,” passing parental consent laws pertaining to both abortion and contraception, banning human cloning, ending funding of fetal tissue research programs, and defunding the National Endowment for the Arts. He also voiced support for government funding of religious education via school vouchers, the elimination of the U.S. Department of Education, and a ban on so-called “partial-birth abortion.” As ridiculous as much of this sounds, it is worth noting that the GOP agreed to hold floor votes on these issues that same year.
Also in 1998 Mr. Dobson appeared in a political commercial and officially endorsed Randall Terry in his bid for a seat in the US House of Representatives. Terry is the founder of the radical anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. His sterling character that Mr. Dobson admires so much was on display during a 1989 rally against a Boulder, Colorado family health clinic when he publicly prayed for the assassination of the clinic’s doctor. In a later speech Mr. Terry further expressed his views by threatening abortion providers in this excerpt from one of his speeches:
“When I or people like me are running the country, [abortion providers] better flee because we will find you, we will try you, and we will execute you.”
Presumably, Mr. Terry would wait until after such a possibility becomes the law of the land but one never knows for sure when dealing with people of his ilk who propose to know the will of God. Let us hope that “people like him”, and I am including Mr. Dobson in this generalization, never get to the point where they are running the country.
Mr. Dobson also seems to have a predilection for homophobia which displays itself in various ways in both his writings and those of the candidates he prominently supports. In his 2004 book “Marriage Under Fire”, Dobson likens proponents of gay marriage to the Nazis:
“Like Adolf Hitler, who overran his European neighbors, those who favor homosexual marriage are determined to make it legal, regardless of the democratic processes that stand in their way.”
Really? While this is kind of a world winning stretch of logic from most reasonable people’s point of view seeing that Hitler was bent upon founding a superior race, conquering the world, and eliminating a whole race of people from the face of the earth while the people Mr. Dobson are referring to are simply asking for equal rights under our system; it is fairly typical of much of the logic one will find in his writings. Presumably God whispered this in his ear one night when he was fervently praying for the survival of the family or maybe it was the same night God told Bush to take Hussein out; one can never be sure about such things unless he is a religious zealot in direct contact with an all knowing being.
Since the early 2000’s this predilection seems to be at the center of many of Mr. Dobson’s efforts. He has put great effort into pushing for a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage. Unfortunately, he seems to have been otherwise occupied while classes concerning what the Constitution actually contains were being held at the learning institutions he attended. Perhaps he was listening to a voice from above at the time but he seems to have missed the point of how responsibilities are divided amongst the three branches, judicial, legislative, and executive. Otherwise he probably wouldn’t have made the following statement at an October Mayday for Marriage rally on the Mall in Washington, DC. In an attempt to explain to tens of thousands of supporters that day how marriage could be saved by means of a housecleaning in the US Senate he uttered the following:
“We can’t get our hand on the courts…. They’re out of reach. They’re unaccountable. They’re un-elected. They’re arrogant. They’re independent. They are imperious and they think they rule this country… We can’t reach the court, but we can reach the Senate, and we can do that on November the second. I urge you to remember in November… We must change the make-up of the Senate. We must get the Senate to limit the power of the court, one way or another. We must turn out the vote.”
I am at a loss as to what he meant by getting the Senate to limit the power of the court but then again I am not privy to daily revelations from an all knowing being. He is right about one thing. The court is un-elected. After that I am afraid his speech kind of degenerated into the same kind of logic that equates homosexuals to Hitler. Mr. Dobson has a special affinity for candidates who agree with this agenda. As a matter of fact, they seem to have a kind of one-upmanship quality to their speeches in describing the horrors contemplated by gay people who dare to ask for equal rights under the system. Witness this excerpt from a speech by Oklahoma’s Tom Coburn at a meeting of GOP leaders:
“The gay community has infiltrated the very centers of power in every area across this country, and they wield extreme power…. That agenda is the greatest threat to our freedom that we face today. Why do you think we see the rationalization for abortion and multiple sex partners? That’s a gay agenda.”
Infiltrated? How do you suppose they did that? By getting elected? Those decadent gays are the rationalization for abortion as well it seems. I wonder if Mr. Coburn would think it is ok to abort gay babies; especially since they are the greatest threat to freedom we face today. If that is the case, the world can breathe easier and we can quit worrying about communists, terrorists, and global warming and just euthanize the gays to protect our freedom and make the world safe for democracy, the family, and Mr. Coburn.
Not to be outdone, Mr. Dobson soon released a speech in support of Mr. Coburn’s assertions that contained the following:
“Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage… It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.”
Top that Mr. Coburn. I double dog dare you.
As far as I know, no one has seen the commercial yet but there isn’t much doubt about the message. The Tebows are well known and unapologetic fundamentalist Christians so it is hardly surprising that they would make such a commercial with such a well known right wing fundamentalist group. They have every right to push their agenda and if a wealthy activist group like Focus on the Family wants to bankroll them in this effort more power to them. Since one of the more recent commercials during the super bowl featured a horse farting into the face of two occupants of a carriage behind him, I think we can hardly rule out anything on the basis of good taste as far as the Super Bowl commercials go.
In the interest of putting the proper descriptive term to the Focus on the Family Group I decided to do a little research on the group itself. Some of what I found explains why so many people are getting upset at the idea; it isn’t the message as much as it is the messenger. In the first place the name Focus on the Family is a misnomer to start with as their own website points out:
Mission Statement:
To cooperate with the Holy Spirit in sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with as many people as possible by nurturing and defending the God-ordained institution of the family and promoting biblical truths worldwide.
While it could be argued that this mission statement at least contains the word family it seems that the “focus” is actually on the Holy Spirit and sharing the Gospel. The “family” in this case only exists because God ordained it to be so and is secondary to promoting biblical truths worldwide. In modern times the Church is often seen as the sponsor of marriage but this is in fact a fairly recent development as the Christian church for much of its history deemed marriage to be at best a secondary institution that was both spiritually less fulfilling and less pleasing to God than celibacy. Reading the writings of Jerome and Augustine it becomes obvious that the early church saw marriage as something of a lesser sin, a necessary evil; but the Church itself didn’t stoop to dirtying its hands with marriage vows until much later. As a matter of fact up until the ninth century marriages were not church involved in any way. It wasn’t until the thirteenth century that vows were exchanged in a church building and religion itself was interjected into the marriage ceremony sometime after that so it is plain to see from history that the Christian church is not the source of marriage or the family.
Unfortunately, this seems to be a truth that Focus on the Family is either unaware of or desperately seeking to cover up. At any rate, the focus of this group on family is secondary to its focus on spreading the gospel. If you doubt this consider the following quote from their website:
Guiding Principles:
Since Focus on the Family's primary reason for existence is to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ through a practical outreach to homes, we have firm beliefs about both the Christian faith and the importance of the family.
Remember this is how Focus on the Family defines their principles, it isn’t my interpretation. It seems that the cat gets out of the bag pretty quickly when you read their literature. Focus on the Family is an evangelical group with a decided political involvement which is probably why so many of the Free Choice groups are a little upset that they are advertising during the Super Bowl, no matter what particular message they are pushing in this commercial. Maybe it would be interesting to see how Focus on the Family has used their considerable influence in the past to see what their real agenda might be.
Focus on the Family is the brainchild of James Dobson who created the organization in 1977. Mr. Dobson is an author whose earliest work, “Dare to Discipline”, was a work that glowingly praised the use of corporal punishment at a time when most child experts were calling for more lax methods of discipline. The success of this book led Mr. Dobson to retire from his position as assistant professor at USC and write full time. Soon after he found a way to reach a wider audience and formed “Focus on the Family” with himself as the founder and chief executive officer. At the end of 2008 this organization had a 160 million dollar a year business and Mr. Dobson’s political influence was a well known fact as he worked closely with the younger Bush during his glory years and regularly supported and pushed for even more right wing agendas amongst national candidates.
As a 501 3c tax exempt corporation Focus on the Family is not supposed to directly advocate any particular political candidate even though their magazine, Citizen, is exclusively devoted to politics. Focus on the Family headquarters is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado on an 81 acre complex which has its own zip code. Dobson employs some 1300 people and sends out over 4 million pieces of mail each month. He is heard on some 6300 radio stations worldwide every day with an audience estimated at 200 million people. He is seen on some 80 television stations in the US every single day and sends out news alerts to over 104,000 activists each day through his Focus Citizen’s Link email system. Clearly, Mr. Dobson’s organization is influential, both within his listener base and within the political parties that he lobbies. While he has predominantly worked for the election of conservative Republicans they can sometimes feel his wrath as well.
In 1996 six contenders for the Republican nomination visited Colorado Springs in search of Mr. Dobson’s support. Dole, who was eventually the Republican candidate that year, incurred Mr. Dobson’s wrath by attempting to soften the anti-abortion plank in the platform at the convention. Mr. Dobson reacted by throwing his support behind Howard Phillips of the US Taxpayer party. Phillips’ campaign statements ranged from the misinformed to the patently absurd during the campaign. He suggested the Clintons were guilty of murder, linked the deterioration of the American family to “the liberation of the wife from the leadership of the husband”, and finally compared Reagan’s treatment of the Soviet Union to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Nazi Germany. Presumably, anything short of an all out nuclear blitz would be coddling of the commies according to Mr. Phillips.
In 1998 Mr. Dobson wrote a letter to one of the candidates he had helped put in office, Rep. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma listing his legislative demands: cutting off government funding to Planned Parenthood and other “pro-abortion organizations,” eliminating “so-called safe-sex and condom distribution programs,” passing parental consent laws pertaining to both abortion and contraception, banning human cloning, ending funding of fetal tissue research programs, and defunding the National Endowment for the Arts. He also voiced support for government funding of religious education via school vouchers, the elimination of the U.S. Department of Education, and a ban on so-called “partial-birth abortion.” As ridiculous as much of this sounds, it is worth noting that the GOP agreed to hold floor votes on these issues that same year.
Also in 1998 Mr. Dobson appeared in a political commercial and officially endorsed Randall Terry in his bid for a seat in the US House of Representatives. Terry is the founder of the radical anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. His sterling character that Mr. Dobson admires so much was on display during a 1989 rally against a Boulder, Colorado family health clinic when he publicly prayed for the assassination of the clinic’s doctor. In a later speech Mr. Terry further expressed his views by threatening abortion providers in this excerpt from one of his speeches:
“When I or people like me are running the country, [abortion providers] better flee because we will find you, we will try you, and we will execute you.”
Presumably, Mr. Terry would wait until after such a possibility becomes the law of the land but one never knows for sure when dealing with people of his ilk who propose to know the will of God. Let us hope that “people like him”, and I am including Mr. Dobson in this generalization, never get to the point where they are running the country.
Mr. Dobson also seems to have a predilection for homophobia which displays itself in various ways in both his writings and those of the candidates he prominently supports. In his 2004 book “Marriage Under Fire”, Dobson likens proponents of gay marriage to the Nazis:
“Like Adolf Hitler, who overran his European neighbors, those who favor homosexual marriage are determined to make it legal, regardless of the democratic processes that stand in their way.”
Really? While this is kind of a world winning stretch of logic from most reasonable people’s point of view seeing that Hitler was bent upon founding a superior race, conquering the world, and eliminating a whole race of people from the face of the earth while the people Mr. Dobson are referring to are simply asking for equal rights under our system; it is fairly typical of much of the logic one will find in his writings. Presumably God whispered this in his ear one night when he was fervently praying for the survival of the family or maybe it was the same night God told Bush to take Hussein out; one can never be sure about such things unless he is a religious zealot in direct contact with an all knowing being.
Since the early 2000’s this predilection seems to be at the center of many of Mr. Dobson’s efforts. He has put great effort into pushing for a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage. Unfortunately, he seems to have been otherwise occupied while classes concerning what the Constitution actually contains were being held at the learning institutions he attended. Perhaps he was listening to a voice from above at the time but he seems to have missed the point of how responsibilities are divided amongst the three branches, judicial, legislative, and executive. Otherwise he probably wouldn’t have made the following statement at an October Mayday for Marriage rally on the Mall in Washington, DC. In an attempt to explain to tens of thousands of supporters that day how marriage could be saved by means of a housecleaning in the US Senate he uttered the following:
“We can’t get our hand on the courts…. They’re out of reach. They’re unaccountable. They’re un-elected. They’re arrogant. They’re independent. They are imperious and they think they rule this country… We can’t reach the court, but we can reach the Senate, and we can do that on November the second. I urge you to remember in November… We must change the make-up of the Senate. We must get the Senate to limit the power of the court, one way or another. We must turn out the vote.”
I am at a loss as to what he meant by getting the Senate to limit the power of the court but then again I am not privy to daily revelations from an all knowing being. He is right about one thing. The court is un-elected. After that I am afraid his speech kind of degenerated into the same kind of logic that equates homosexuals to Hitler. Mr. Dobson has a special affinity for candidates who agree with this agenda. As a matter of fact, they seem to have a kind of one-upmanship quality to their speeches in describing the horrors contemplated by gay people who dare to ask for equal rights under the system. Witness this excerpt from a speech by Oklahoma’s Tom Coburn at a meeting of GOP leaders:
“The gay community has infiltrated the very centers of power in every area across this country, and they wield extreme power…. That agenda is the greatest threat to our freedom that we face today. Why do you think we see the rationalization for abortion and multiple sex partners? That’s a gay agenda.”
Infiltrated? How do you suppose they did that? By getting elected? Those decadent gays are the rationalization for abortion as well it seems. I wonder if Mr. Coburn would think it is ok to abort gay babies; especially since they are the greatest threat to freedom we face today. If that is the case, the world can breathe easier and we can quit worrying about communists, terrorists, and global warming and just euthanize the gays to protect our freedom and make the world safe for democracy, the family, and Mr. Coburn.
Not to be outdone, Mr. Dobson soon released a speech in support of Mr. Coburn’s assertions that contained the following:
“Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage… It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.”
Top that Mr. Coburn. I double dog dare you.
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