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Conservative Christian leader blasts Obama speech
by Dave Keating | June 25, 2008 at 12:24 am | 82 views | add comment | 0 recommendations
Barack Obama has responded to Dobson's criticism by saying he is "making stuff up." This incident highlights the challenge that Obama presents to the Conservative Christian right political movement, which has gone unchallenged in the world of American evangelicalism for a quarter century. Dobson's fiery reaction to Obama's speech reflects how the religious right sees its political influence under threat, as Obama presents an alternative view of Christian-influenced politics to their own.
As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accused the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee yesterday of distorting the Bible and pushing a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution.
The criticism, aired on Dobson's radio program, came shortly after an Obama aide suggested a meeting at the organization's headquarters in Colorado Springs, said Tom Minnery, senior vice president for government and public policy at Focus on the Family.
Dobson took aim at a speech Obama gave in June 2006 to the liberal Christian group Call to Renewal in which he asked about biblical passages as guides for 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."
June 25, 2008 at 12:24 am by Dave Keating, 82 views, add comment
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