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Janice Hahn Walks Out Of Event After James Dobson Calls Obama The 'Abortion President'
Posted: 05/01/2014 5:17 pm EDT Updated: 05/01/2014 5:59 pm EDT
Rep. Janice Hahn (D-Calif.) walked out of the National Day of Prayer event at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, saying she was "outraged" after James Dobson, founder of the conservative Christian advocacy group Focus on the Family, called President Barack Obama the abortion president.
In an interview with The Huffington Post on Thursday, Hahn called the speech deeply "inappropriate" and a violation of the event's symbol as a nonpartisan day of unity.
He goes on about health care and providing abortions, and at that point I stood up and I pointed my finger at Dr. Dobson and I said, This is inappropriate! and walked out, Hahn told HuffPost.
Dobson just blew a hole into this idea of being a nonpartisan National Day of Prayer. It was very disturbing to me and really a shame, Hahn, the co-chair of the weekly congressional prayer breakfast, added. James Dobson hijacked the National Day of Prayer -- this nonpartisan, nonpolitical National Day of Prayer -- to promote his own distorted political agenda.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/01/janice-hahn-james-dobson-national-day-of-prayer_n_5248819.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)like the National Day of Prayer and all those prayer breakfasts. This is supposed to be a secular government - if people want to pray on their own time I don't care, but there shouldn't be official events whose purpose is to pray, any kind of prayers. Just stop it. Dobson's remarks are the natural consequence of these things.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)sakabatou
(42,176 posts)truebrit71
(20,805 posts)It has ALWAYS rubbed me the wrong way...and this was before I became an atheist...the prayer breakfasts, the daily prayer in the house and the senate are ALL out of order in a secular government...
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Good God.
VAliberal
(297 posts)the National Day of Prayer task force. There is nothing non-partisan about the NDP. The materials of the NDP task force are always predicated on right-wing evangelical presuppositions.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)overturn Roe v Wade? Why didn't they introduce all that legislation in the state legislatures prior to now?
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)hate? What the fuck did she expect from James Dobson? Why would she think that this display somehow mitigates her involvement in this abomination?
I am so sick of politicians who endorse these bigots. It has to stop. This is like a 'Prayer Breakfast With Cliven Bundy'.
Hahn is a huge disappointment, as are all the participants in this yearly indulgence in self important hypocrisy by a bunch of bigoted people calling themselves Christians. Every year, their speakers is some anti gay freak.
To me, this is the same as a KKK meeting, and Hahn is one of the organizers, I think.
Nobel_Twaddle_III
(323 posts)babylonsister
(171,094 posts)This day means something to some people; others, including myself, not so much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Prayer
Dobson wasn't the best choice imo...that might have been an understatement.
Takket
(21,634 posts)How can obama be the abortion president? It only gets harder every year to get an abortion. states are putting in absurd restrictions like forcing the transvaginal ultrasound. i believe mississippi is about to shut down its only clinic....... calling obama the abortion president is like calling bush the enemy of big oil