James Dobson

Not Too Keen on McCain? Here Are Some Alternatives

Scout Opatut | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Elderly, John McCain, John Mccain Age, Woody Allen, James Dobson, 72-Year-Old, 2008 Election, 1936, Robert Redford, Julie Andrews, Politics News
Scout Opatut

Think about your grandmother. I'm sure she's very sweet. But would she make a good president? If we're going to vote a 72-year-old into office, we better make sure we're voting in the right one.

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James Dobson's Toilet Politics

Christine Wicker | Posted 07.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Gay Rights, The Fall of the Evangelical Nation, James Dobson, Christianity, Christine Wicker, Evangelicals, Colorado, Anti-Discrimination Law, Focus on the Family, Bill Ritter, Tom Minnery, Home News
Christine Wicker

How does a transvestite go to the toilet? I don't mean anatomically. I mean locationally, as in to which bathroom? I never thought about it until Focus on the Family began battling Colorado's new anti-discrimination bill.

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Republicans Flip-Flop for McCain

Andy Ostroy | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: James Dobson, Marriage, Mccain, Republicans, Democrats, Barack Obama, Conservative Base, John McCain Conservative, Obama Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

One by one, prominent conservatives are "coming around" to the candidacy of John McCain after excoriating him for months as nothing more than a liberal in sheep's clothing.

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Dobson Flips, Says He Might Endorse McCain

AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

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Conservative Christian leader James Dobson has softened his stance against Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, saying he could reverse his po...

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Evangelical Sheep? Don't Count On That

Christine Wicker | Posted 07.14.2008 | Home

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Christine Wicker

One out of four Americans identifies as evangelical. A recent Pew survey of their opinions, however, found a diversity that should give political pundits pause and fuel Obama's efforts to woo them.

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Focus on the Fallacies of James Dobson

Wayne Besen | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lies, John McCain, Social Conservatives, Distortions, James Dobson, Truth Wins Out, Religious Right, Ex-Gay, Right Wing, Focus on the Family, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Religion, Obama Religious Voters, Politics News
Wayne Besen

When James Dobson cites research or statistics in this election cycle, news reporters have an obligation to check with the actual researchers who conducted the studies.

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Jesus Thieves Convene for McCain

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Matthew Staver, Religion, John McCain, Grand Theft Jesus, Phyllis Schlafly, Mike Huckabee and Religion, David Barton, Jesus Thieves, James Dobson, Rick Scarborough, Christian Right, Christianitylite, Phil Burress, Tim LaHaye, Obama and Religion, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

Many of the nation's leading Jesus Thieves convened in Denver last Tuesday to work towards uniting behind the candidacy McCain, a man who used to have the courage to denounce such charlatans.

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Obama's Faith-Based Initiatives Won't Pass the "Lemon Test"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: James Dobson, Justice William Brennan, Karl Rove, Christianity, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

I don't think people who find themselves in poverty should have Bibles stuffed down their throats before their own government will give them a loaf of bread and some powdered milk.

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Franklin Graham to Obama: Are You A Muslim? (And How Obama Courted Hagee's Publisher)

Max Blumenthal | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

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Max Blumenthal

On June 10, Barack Obama convened a meeting in a law office in downtown Chicago with a wide array of about thirty evangelical leaders, in an unprecedented effort to win their support.

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Coming to a Screen Near You: John McCain and His Sidekicks, Dumb and Dumber

Elizabeth Shipp | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Politics, Naral Pro-Choice America, Family Research Council, John McCain, Hypocrisy, James Dobson, National Right to Life, Birth Control, Focus on the Family, Tony Perkins, Title X, Politics News
Elizabeth Shipp

James Dobson and Tony Perkins, and John McCain don't have the guts to stand up and speak the truth about their radical, out-of-the-mainstream views.

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Politics on the Couch: Hating the Haters

Justin Frank | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

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Justin Frank

Voters need to overcome their fear in order not simply to hate the haters -- they need to recognize who in fact the haters are.

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The Audacity of Dope

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Call to Renewal, Grand Theft Jesus, George Carlin, Leviticus, Jesus, Jon Stewart, James Dobson, End Times, Barack Obama, Jesus Thieves, Sermon on the Mount, Religious Right, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

I'll take the Christianity of a Jesus Follower like Barack Obama over that of a Jesus Thief like James Dobson any day of the week.

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Jenna Bush's Wedding Pastor Launches Pro-Obama Website

Washington Post | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

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Sparks are flying in the 2008 culture wars. The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, leader of the largest Methodist congregation in the country, launched a websi...

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God Bless Barack Obama

Bill Press | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: James Dobson, Religious Right, Constitution, Separation of Church and State, Leviticus, Barack Obama Religion, Politics News
Bill Press

Obama is standing up to the religious right, saying that when making the laws that govern our nation, we don't turn to the Bible. We base our laws on the only sacred text all Americans worship: The U.S. Constitution.

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Dobson and Obama: Who is 'Deliberately Distorting'?

Jim Wallis | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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Jim Wallis

James Dobson is insinuating himself into this presidential campaign, and his attacks against his fellow Christian, Barack Obama, should be seriously scrutinized.

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Media Whitewashes Dobson, Hides 'Beat-Your-Child' Dogma

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media

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Jeffrey Feldman

The media has ignored that Dobson is best-selling author famous for advising parents to whip their children with sticks. Why should he have a prominent place in American politics at all?

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Dare To Discipline: How Obama-Critic Whipped The Mini Weiner Dog Rebellion

Bruce Wilson | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: James Dobson, Focus on the Family, Barack Obama, James Dobson Beating Children, Politics News
Bruce Wilson

For James Dobson and a growing cadre of supporters, the only sane approach parents can take towards childhood rebellion is to beat it out of them. Otherwise chaos, socialism and Satan will prevail.

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Jim Wallis, Evangelical Leader, Defends Obama, Rips Dobson

Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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Greg Mitchell

Wallis says, "Dobson and Minnery's language is simply inappropriate for religious leaders to use in an already divisive political environment."

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Screw the Evangelical Vote!

Ian Gurvitz | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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Ian Gurvitz

How did this country become so colossally retarded? Sure, there will always be the lunatic fringe, but they belong on the fringe -- not playing host to presidential candidates.

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James Dobson's "Fruitcake" Interpretations

John K. Wilson | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home

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John K. Wilson

Dobson's attacks on Obama reveal what Dobson truly is: a right-wing nut with delusional interpretations of the Bible who unfortunately wields enormous influence within the Republican Party.

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Dr. Dobson Has Just Handed Obama Victory

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

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Frank Schaeffer

With enemies like this, Senator Obama doesn't need friends. Dobson's comments will energize his fellow evangelicals to vote for Barack.

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James Dobson Accuses Obama Of 'Distorting' Bible

AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accuse...

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A Thousand Points of Blight: Lindsey Graham and the McSmear Campaign

Linda Hansen | Posted 06.19.2008 | Home

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Linda Hansen

Lindsey Graham wants to be a kinder gentler right-winger. Really he does. He doesn't want to talk about which church Obama attends, he says, and, as we say down here in the Deep South, "That's mighty white of him."

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Aimed at Children, Nationally Distributed Christian Comic Book Called a "Training Manual" For "The Next Pogrom Against Jews"

Bruce Wilson | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Christian Zionism, James Dobson, Mccain, Hagee, Christian, Jewish, Tyndale House, Anti-Semitic, Lahaye, Politics News
Bruce Wilson

The historically covert anti-Semitism within American Christian Zionist culture is mutating, changing and entering a new phase: the anti-Semitism is becoming overt.

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McCain's Dilemma: Who's Next After Hagee & Parsley?

Chris McGowan | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Hagee, Jerry Falwell, Rod Parsley, Paul Crouch, George W. Bush, James Dobson, Mccain Endorsements, Religious Right, John McCain Hagee, McCain Hagee, Tim LaHaye, Trinity Broadcasting Network, John McCain, Pat Robertson, Tbn, Politics News
Chris McGowan

John McCain is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't accept endorsements from popular leaders of the Christian Right, many of whom have taken con...

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