According to The Oklahoman, Focus on the Family chairman James Dobson last week accused Oklahoma Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Brad Carson of lying. The reporter does not include the charge in quotation marks, so it’s unclear whether Dobson used the "L" word:
"He may very well be a nice man, and I’m not attacking his personhood, but there’s a gap between who he says he is and what he does," Dobson said, criticizing Carson for votes on partial-birth abortion and in support of same-sex marriage.
But it appears to be Dobson who is misinforming his audience.
Carson voted for the Federal Marriage Amendment to ban gay marriage. And he voted for a ban on partial-birth abortion. NARAL rated Carson’s voting record just 30 percent "pro-choice."
Why might Dobson wage a battle of untruths against an antigay,
pro-life political candidate? Dobson’s reason, predictably, is party
politics: Carson is a conservative Democrat campaigning against a
floundering Republican, Tom Coburn.
Speaking at a rally at Oklahoma Christian University, Dobson set an
additional bad example for students. He again pre-blamed homosexuals
not only for the high rates of Scandinavian heterosexual cohabitation,
but also for any future, massive terrorist attack on America by
fundamentalists.
Dobson said 80 percent of children are born out of wedlock in Norway.
"Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage," Dobson said.
"It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth."
Dobson also smears the character of Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.:
"Patrick Leahy is a ‘God’s people’ hater," Dobson said. "I don’t know if he hates God, but he hates God’s people."
(Hat tip: David W./Andrew Sullivan)
For more information on marriage in Scandinavia:
Alas, A Blog
Prof. M.V. Lee Badgett vs. Stanley Kurtz
XGW
Who has the Bomb, and who let them have it:
The Washington Post
(Homosexuals are mentioned nowhere in this alarming Oct. 25 report.)
Seems the Ayotollah (Dobson) is so drunk with power and so afraid that any Democrat might win, that he thinks that the ends (of defeating them), justifies any ends (prevarication). Not the first time he’s played fast and loose with the facts.
He’s one of the scariest men in America. Thank God he is not running for office.
RE: Dobson and W’s 2nd term, from the NYT (https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/04/politics/campaign/04conserve.html):
“Dr. James C. Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family and an influential evangelical Protestant, said he had issued a warning to a “White House operative” who called yesterday morning to thank him for his help.
Dr. Dobson said he told the caller that many Christians believed the country “on the verge of self-destruction” as it abandoned traditional family roles. He argued that “through prayer and the involvement of millions of evangelicals, and mainline Protestants and Catholics, God has given us a reprieve.”
“But I believe it is a short reprieve,” he continued, adding that conservatives now had four years to pass an amendment banning same-sex marriage, to stop abortion and embryonic stem-cell research, and most of all to remake the Supreme Court. “I believe that the Bush administration now needs to be more aggressive in pursuing those values, and if they don’t do it I believe they will pay a price in four years,” he said.”
He gave a WARNING to the Bush administration!? Gott mit uns; Let the pogroms begin! I feel a little like the Jews must have felt in 1933 Germany.
I don’t know what man you are describing but you are not describing James Dobson. He does not hate homosexuals. He does believe in the family as the basis of our society. America is choking on her rights– her “anything goes” mentality. That’s why there is so much abuse and chaos in our country. You say he is a liar, but what exactly has he lied about? You talk about rights of individuals, what about the rights of children being brought up in a society that slams sex in their faces at every turn.
Kat:
Dobson is a Dominionist who wants to have a theocratic takeover of the American government. Following that he would return America to a rule-base that is grounded in his narrow anti-gay agenda. Homosexuals would be imprisoned or forced to “change” their orientation. They would also face loss of job, loss of freedom, and loss of family. He only cares about families like his, and judging from the results of his, I don’t think he has much to offer.