Okay, saw my friend wezlo just post something on Dobson; and I just had to repost it here, too.

This James Dobson quote is from a Reuters Article:

“I am convinced Sen. McCain is not a conservative, and in fact, has gone out of his way to stick his thumb in the eyes of those who are … I cannot, and will not, vote for Sen. John McCain, as a matter of conscience,” he said in a statement on Tuesday.

Later on he says:

I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for president in my lifetime. I certainly can’t vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions. If these are the nominees in November, I simply will not cast a ballot for president for the first time in my life,” he said.

Read the full statement if you’re not prone to violent allergic reactions to ridiculous rants of Evangelicalism™.

I’ll admit that I had to look up the word “virulently” — it’s not one that I use regularly in my vocabulary. But seriously Mr. Dobson — a virulent, anti-family policy position? Come on. So that would mean affordable health care is anti-family; and keeping jobs here in the United States as opposed to shipping them off… so families can have food on the table. And what of the war in Iraq? Are we going to continue to sacrifice family members for a poorly-justified war, a war based on false pretenses?

No, James Dobson, last election, George W. Bush was the worst choice in our history for a president. Look at where his brilliant, “Christian” leadership has led us — into a multi-trillion dollar deficit, a war he once declared “Mission Accomplished”, a crisis with the housing and lending industry, an economy sliding towards a recession, a much higher unemployment rate, a weak dollar, and a failing school system. Oh and while we’re at it, much of the rest of the world is on pins and needles, not sure how to relate to us as a nation because our leader is a moron and doesn’t play well with the rest of the kids in the sandbox — always having to have his own way. No, James Dobson, the worst option for a president was George W. Bush, by far the most incompetent president I have seen in my lifetime.

In a way, this pertains to my journey towards Orthodoxy and away from Evangelicalism™ and protestantism in general. It’s his severe overreactions to the events in our culture and the political realm, that causes me to wonder about the substance of his faith. Is his job to make America an Evangelical nation or to serve Christ? I think the former.

James Dobson, stop sticking your thumb in the rest of the nation’s eyes — those who don’t think like you do. We don’t care what you think or what you have to say anymore. Your virulent theology is poisoning the minds of innocent believers throughout the United States. Make it stop.

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