Voters told to let morals guide them

Last update: October 03, 2006 – 11:49 PM

Voters told to let morals guide them

At a rally in St. Paul, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson urged his supporters to vote with their "family values" in mind.
Pamela Miller, Star Tribune

James Dobson told an enthusiastic crowd of about 3,000 supporters Tuesday in St. Paul that they should consider political candidates on the basis of their views on fighting terrorism, gay marriage and abortion.
"Culture bends and sways with the outcome of elections," Dobson, the founder of the group Focus on the Family, told the crowd at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium at RiverCentre.

"If you can find a politician who understands the institution of the family, who wants to protect children from immorality, who understands that we are at war with those who want to destroy us and who understand that liberal judges are undermining us and need to be reined in," Dobson said, "and if you can find a politician who lives by a strong moral code and believes in Jesus Christ ... if you can find such a person, it would be a sin not to vote for him."

Speaking in front of a large U.S. flag, Dobson said he wasn't telling people whom to vote for but rather urging those who hold conservative family values to vote those values.
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http://www.startribune.com/587/story/719834.html

a f***ing liar too

...of his own twisted convictions. On the one hand, he says that voting for the wrong candidate is a sin. On the other, he won't tell people who to vote for. Therefore, he is condoning sin. See you in hell, Jimbo.

Culture changes when people change, when the mix of classes and backgrounds and educations change. So get yourself and your sheeple some class and education, if you want to see a change!

my dad was a staunch conservative southern baptist minister before he passed...

I know he would have looked at that picture, seen the stone replica with the words 'Do Not Bow Down To Idols' and said

"i see that man brought plenty of idols for people to worship with him (including himself)." One idol actually says, do not bow down to me on it.... incredible

and look at the pose they caught him in, looks like he wants people to worship him, doesn't it?

:applause:

..If it is, I am sending the IRS a request to investigate his Theocratic Ass!

try sending it to the IRS.. :D

Dobson Denials Echo Saint Peter
By Jonathan Hutson Fri Mar 10, 2006 at 10:54:47 PM EST
topic: Reed & Abramoff



Dr. James Dobson is not the first Christian leader to deny a relationship in the strongest terms, only to be found out as a false witness. In the First Century, there was Saint Peter, who cried, "I don't know what you're talking about!" when a servant girl asked if he knew Jesus.

In the Twenty-first Century, there is Dobson, founder and leader of Focus on the Family, who has been caught on tape, bearing false witness against Harper's Magazine and a writer who reported accurately on his political endorsements. Dobson denied ever endorsing candidates who call for abortion providers to be executed. But newspaper reports and broadcast news videotapes show otherwise.

At the same time, Dobson and his organization are attacking writers for questioning their involvement -- knowing or unknowing -- in the scandal swirling around convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, his gambling industry clients, and certain religious right leaders.

Dobson and his organization slam writers -- whether from the political left, the right, or the center -- who report accurately and who dare to ask tough questions based on Dobson's own words and deeds. Such counterattacks would be more credible if Dobson and his organization did not engage in broad-brush smears and defensive rhetoric that is at times misleading or even, at least in this instance, false.
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http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/3/10/225447/890

Dobson needs to get his head out of his ass.

Curdles the milk in my coffee and raises my ire almost as badly as the hate-monger Phelps.


Uh, just realized how that reads...

Clarification - Speaking of Dobson, not you wageslave71. Welcome to DU :hi:

Phelps would be a wake-up call for some. Thanks for the welcome.

is only understood by them.

he is the torch bearer of manufactured hate.

Actually, all I see is the Christian flag behind him.

in the shape of 2 large tablets now.

the "group-think" that's so pervasive among the christian right is dangerous and frightening. My only hope is that these mindless drones are pushed back onto the periphery of politics where they belong. Dobson? Why hasn't he lost his tax exempt status yet? Why doesn't the IRS go after that charlatan like they go after Christians for peace?
Our government is rotten, rotten to the core. And Republicans are the cause of this blight. They must be removed. Now.

cloaked in supposed "christian" morality we turn them into the IRS eventually they'd have to take away their tax exempt status.

When he will open his mouth, Dobson will utter the same old "Jesus Forgives him" bullshit!

into the shower with them and show off their penises. He claims this is to prevent the kid from becoming gay.(LOL) Actually, I think it's kind of creepy and perverse and have wondered since I first read that how long it was going to take before some idiot followed his advice and ended up getting arrested when the kid mentioned to a teacher or other adult that his dad was taking him into the shower for show and tell.

Considering that Dobson advocates man/boy showers, I don't think you'll be hearing anything too specific from him on the Foley matter.

before them?!!!!!!!!!!

And that's why I'll be voting straight ticket for the Democratic Party.

don't actually seem to effect our behavior in this country. Witness the "moral leaders" who get caught with their hand in the cookie jar... or an altarboy.

Excerpts from the LTTE that I've had published in three different papers:

I read of a survey recently which found that about 85 % of Americans believe in God, much higher than in most developed countries, and according to a 1997 study by the University of Michigan, more Americans attend church at least once a week (44%) than attend in any other modern industrial country in the world. We also have the highest violence and murder rates.

 Britain (25% church attendance), France (21%), and Germany (14%) have much lower crime rates and microscopic violence and murder rates compared to the United States.

 Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Sweden have international reputations as law-abiding and peaceful countries, yet their church attendance rates are around 5%.
 
I don’t believe that belief in God or church attendance increases violence and crime, of course, but those figures indicate that at the very least we don’t seem to relate our religious beliefs to our conduct.

Some of our political leaders - Democrats and Republicans - don’t seem to let their belief in God or religion stand in the way of their sexual urges…just like some of our kids, since we also have (by far) the highest teen pregnancy rate in the world.

I don’t know what these other countries have (or don’t have) that makes them less violent and more “moral” but I’m uncomfortable that we have high church attendance…urging us to be good, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world (2 million Americans in prison)….urging us not to be bad, and we still have the highest violence and murder rates in the developed world.

The other countries seem to have developed some sense of morality in place of religion, or beyond it. Perhaps we should look in that direction, since beliefs in God and religion and prayer, while they give comfort to many, haven’t done much to improve our conduct.

immorality,...it would be a sin not to vote for him."

Dobson is telling us to vote Democratic now?

Comversely, it is a sin to vote FOR Denny Hastert and Tom Reynolds?

Did Dobson really say this YESTERDAY or is this an Onion article?

Let alone his family values?

That's MY morals.

And, you know what they consider "morals." They are going to vote for the Thugs. The irony, it burns!
People like this, are almost beyond hope. I say, almost, because I think everyone has potential.
But, if what has been going on lately is not enough to sway their votes, then I don't know what would be.
Poor Jesus. Whether you believe he existed or not, the parable of his life, and his teachings are being so distorted, and perverted by sociopaths like this one.

Imperialism is immoral.

Lying in order to start an imperialist war is immoral.

Torture is immoral.

Mass murder is immoral.

Bigotry (to include homophobia) is immoral.

asshole Republican using God's name in vane. Why do Christians put up with this?

as though you want your followers to vote for Democrats.

Unless they like the idea of obscene phone callers working on the public's dime, and aiming for underage boys, arriving drunk to get into their dorm, and asking them how big they are...

ASSHOLE.

war...check

killing innocent people...check

torture...check

pedophilia...check

drunken pedophila...check

right then, see you in november!

But of course, that is the operative word -- "IF" (and we know he's talking about Republicans).

Indeed, "if" one could only find such a Republican...