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Bjorn Against Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 10:39 PM
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We Know Why You do Not Speak Out on Foley: An Open Letter to James Dobson
Edited on Tue Oct-03-06 10:43 PM by MN Against Bush
Dear Dr. Dobson,

It is strange to see you being so quiet all of a sudden. It seems like you have just disappeared and I am really wanting to hear your insight Dr. Dobson, because you seem to have a great deal in common with Mark Foley.

All you have to do is look at this passage on your website to know just where you stand on the Foley issue.

"Meanwhile, the boy's father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son's maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger."


Dr. Dobson, you are the only person I know of who advocates for fathers to take a shower with their sons in order to compare penis sizes. This really seems like a view that Foley would share with you so why don't you just go on the news and speak out? No one is representing Foley right now, he needs you Dr. Dobson. Most of us may disagree with what you are saying, but unlike the theocrats you prop up we allow people to express their viewpoints.

So stand up James Dobson and defend your party from us liberal heathens who believe it is wrong for a Congressman to make sexual advances on children. If you don't speak out now we are going to win this debate Mr. Dobson, and then you will lose your precious theocratic aristocracy that you hold so dear.

I have yet to hear a word from you though Dr. Dobson, but at least you had a spokesperson come out and say something on behalf of Focus on the Family. Here is what http://www.focusaction.org/press/A000000220.cfm">he said:

"Those truly interested in protecting children from online predators should spend less time calling for Speaker Hastert to step down, and more time demanding that the Justice Department enforce existing laws that would limit the proliferation of the kind of filth that leads grown men to think it's perfectly OK to send lurid e-mails to 16-year-old boys."


So let me get this straight Mr. Dobson, apparently there is nothing wrong when Hastert completely ignores the existing law, but we need to spend more time time demanding that the Justice Department enforces the existing law. Wow, Dr. Dobson I really admire this level of consistency. Your spokesperson actually made it a whopping nineteen words into his really long sentence before completely changing his position.

Your spokesperson of course had a bit more to say than that little bit in his statement however Dr. Dobson, he also remembered who is really to blame for this whole incident.

"If any lasting cultural good could come out of this awful incident, it would be Americans discarding the politically correct notion fed to us by those on the left that obscenity is just another form of free speech."


Yes, Mr. Dobson it is those of us that support free speech who are responsible for this whole mess. Never mind that you won't find a single one of us who supports middle-age men soliciting sex from minors that he is in a position of power over. Only your party supports that form of speech. Your organization just know that we don't want to ban every thing you disagree with so we are somehow responsible for what the man your people elected did.

So keep ignoring this issue Mr. Dobson, we know where you really stand. You stand for sexual predators.

Signed,

An American who believes that people who want to compare their penis size with their children's have serious issues.










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rhiannon55 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 10:42 PM
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1. Good letter, but
you might want to edit it and change his name to MARK Foley. :hi:
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 10:43 PM
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2. That's wonderful!!
Dobson is a fucking fraud. He should be shut down, but, free speech and all that, so he has a right to spew his dangerous, unchristian, bullshit.

But there will be a special place in hell for him and for all who use religion for their personal financial gain.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 10:45 PM
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3. Pretty damn sick
Edited on Tue Oct-03-06 10:51 PM by Erika
I often wonder why these groups don't care about the needy of the world? Did Christ waste his time on the size of male father/son penis?

Someone might want to ask this nut what the penis size of Jesus's father was?
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-03-06 11:05 PM
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4. Excellent letter, MN Against Bush!!!
REALLY well done!!!

:applause: :applause: :applause:
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 12:04 AM
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5. The Religious RightWingNuts are in a terrible bind.....
....They are now forced to repudiate Mark Foley who was "their champion" whom they cleaved (sp?), clove (sp?) to so closley and supported. Who fought for their policies and wrote legislation on their behalf. For this they enthusiastically and very visibly supported him. Oh, but he's gay now. And a child molester to boot. This causes great confusion of course because making such distinctions are contrary to Religious RightWingNut thinking. In almost every issue which involves human sexuality, they can't seem to otherwise separate the person and WHO he/she is, from WHAT he/she is -- if he/she is gay.

This in turn, forces them into a much more dark and complex area of assessing human behaviors and forcing the question to be raised: "can good come from evil?"

And as we've all seen before, this idea too is anathema to the Religious RightWingNut Evangelical Black/White world and thoughts on such issues. From their view, anything that is gay is contrary to god, so therefore it must be repudiated in whole. It must be suppressed. It must be expunged from society. But this then undercuts Foley's past participation with their organization, not to mention their open and quite visible support for him and the things he stood for on their behalf. How could they not know? Is this a message from god? Nahhh.

But wait. Could it mean that there is something wrong with their message? Could their interpretation of the bible be wrong? Or their support for legislation to require mandatory sex offender registration? Or maybe being gay and being a pedophile and/or sexual deviate aren't synonymous? Or, or, or..... never mind. No comment.

LEFTWING LIBERAL REPORTER:

*****dialing Focus On The Family to get their comments on Mark Foley*****

Ring, ring, ring....

FOF AUTOMATED PHONE SERVICE:

Hello. If you know your party's extension, please dial it now. Please listen to our menu options because VERY RECENTLY many of them have been changed. And none too soon.

If you wish to make a donation to Focus On The Family, please hold on and an operator will be with you IMMEDIATELY.

If you require the menu options to be provided in Spanish, dial 2 now. And have your green card information ready.

If you require the menu options to be provided in Aramaic, dial 3 now, and your call will be transferred to the Rev. John Haggee Enterprises. We like Jews, we just don't do that sort of thing here.

If you require the menu options to be provided in an Unknown Tongue, dial 4 now and wait by the phone and listen to the voices in your head. Someone from security will be with you shortly.

If you require the menu options to be provided in the form of Prophesies, Portents or Signs that can be easily twisted, screwed and/or bludgeoned into appearing as if they are coming from ALMIGHTY GOD, I'm sorry but Dr. Dobson is unavailable for consultation.

If you are a reporter calling to ask for a comment about THAT GAYMAN Mark Foley that we've never heard of, please dial 666 and you'll get what you're asking for. Soon. Very soon....

LEFTWING LIBERAL REPORTER:

*****dials 666***** :nuke:
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LearnedHand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 12:12 AM
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6. OMIGOD!
This is HILARIOUS! It reminds me of something Dave Barry would write. You're not Dave Barry, are you?
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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 12:56 AM
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7. No, not Dave but I love him too....
...just an as yet unpublished scribbler. <sigh>

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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 08:23 AM
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9. pretty much
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 01:30 AM
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8. I wrote to dr. "Focus on the Pharisees" about jeff gannon.
Wondered why he was silent when we NEEDED our strong, Christian, moral leadership to speak out against this male prostitute running rampant through the White House.

Not a peep. Hardly even a chirping cricket.
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apnu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 08:35 AM
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10. K & R Great letter! (eom)
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 09:13 AM
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11. Great letter.
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