Dobson Takes Aim at Obama, Soils Self
Well THAT certainly didn't take long.
Read the entire (unedited... I may have added commentary in my quoted segment) article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/24/evangelical.vote/index.html
"In comments to be aired on his radio show Tuesday, Focus on the Family founder James 'The Closet' Dobson criticizes the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee for comments he made in a June 2006 speech to the liberal Christian group Call to Renewal.
In the speech, Obama suggested that it would be impractical to govern based solely on the word of the Bible (not to mention unfuckingconstitutional), noting that some passages suggest slavery is permissible and eating shellfish is disgraceful.
'Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?' Obama asked in the speech. 'Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount?
'So before we get carried away, let's read our Bible now,' Obama said, to cheers. 'Folks haven't been reading their Bible.'
He also called Jesus' Sermon on the Mount 'a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our Defense Department would survive its application.'
In the comments to be aired Tuesday, Dobson (missing the point completely) said Obama should not be referencing antiquated dietary codes and passages from the Old Testament that are no longer relevant to the teachings of the New Testament.
'I think he's deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own world view, his own confused theology,' Dobson said (taking irony to new and unbelievable levels), adding that Obama is 'dragging biblical understanding through the gutter."
Hypocrisy. It's what's for... everything.
Well THAT certainly didn't take long.
Read the entire (unedited... I may have added commentary in my quoted segment) article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/24/evangelical.vote/index.html
"In comments to be aired on his radio show Tuesday, Focus on the Family founder James 'The Closet' Dobson criticizes the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee for comments he made in a June 2006 speech to the liberal Christian group Call to Renewal.
In the speech, Obama suggested that it would be impractical to govern based solely on the word of the Bible (not to mention unfuckingconstitutional), noting that some passages suggest slavery is permissible and eating shellfish is disgraceful.
'Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?' Obama asked in the speech. 'Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount?
'So before we get carried away, let's read our Bible now,' Obama said, to cheers. 'Folks haven't been reading their Bible.'
He also called Jesus' Sermon on the Mount 'a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our Defense Department would survive its application.'
In the comments to be aired Tuesday, Dobson (missing the point completely) said Obama should not be referencing antiquated dietary codes and passages from the Old Testament that are no longer relevant to the teachings of the New Testament.
'I think he's deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own world view, his own confused theology,' Dobson said (taking irony to new and unbelievable levels), adding that Obama is 'dragging biblical understanding through the gutter."
Hypocrisy. It's what's for... everything.