Distorting the Bible? Daddy Dobson Ought to Know - He Does It All the Time

My Way News is reporting that James Dobson, disingenuous homophobe and head of the Christianist organization, Focus on the Family (pictured at left), has his panties in a major wad because Barack Obama is reaching out to evangelical Christians and reminding them that there are passages in the Bible other than those that Dobson and company use as a basis for the hate and intolerance they disseminate daily. The disingenuous - think LIAR - Dobson claims that it's Obama who is distorting the Bible. On the contrary, it is Dobson, his bogus "Love Won Out" ex-gay program, and his minions who distort the Bible, ignore medical and mental health knowledge, and deliberately misquote experts (or quote fraudulent "experts like Paul Cameron) virtually everyday of the week, 365 days per year.

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Dobson's coniptions show that attempting to apply the Bible literally is a two edged sword and that if the passages favored by the Christianists get a literal application, then there is much that comes back to bite Dobson in his ample ass. Biblical literalism is a take it all or nothing proposition, yet Dobson wants to pick and choose when a literal application does not support his theocratic agenda. Frankly, if Dobson's lips are moving, odds are that he's lying and/or selectively quoting the Bible in order to denigrate others. The man is anything but a true Christian. As for attempting to perverting the U. S. Constitution, no one does it better than Dobson. Here are some story highlights:

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution.

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[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.

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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.

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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.

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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.