Posted by Dave on 06/26/08 at 12:45:36 pm
Categories: Religious Right, Religion and Politics, Barack Obama

I am sure that many of you have heard about Dr. James Dobson attacking Barack Obama's religious views, along with Dobson's attacks of Obama's constitutional views.

Any reader of this blog will not be surprised at what I think of the situation, and what I think of Dr. Dobson, so I not really going to get into it.

It is simple. Dobson is wrong. And Dobson has also completely distorted what Obama has said, which is not a big surprise.

What IS ironic is that a man with a doctorate in child psychology is attempting to lecture a man with law degree, and a background in constitutional law, about how to interpret the constitution. I would love to see a debate between Dobson and Obama on constitutional law - now that would be fun.

I also think it is ironic that Dobson is questioning Obama's "Biblical authority" as if Dobson is supposed to a greater Biblical authority.

And as soon as Dr. Dobson actually takes a political stand on issues that extend beyond abortion and gays, then he may have some credibility to talk about theology. You know, issues that were just a bit important to the prophets, Jesus, and other figures throughout the Bible, like war/violence, poverty, sickness, loving our enemies, etc. And I am pretty sure that any good, or even decent, theology would also care about things like genocide, AIDS, and even the environment. So until Dobson wants to step away from the conservative political party line and actually have a conversation about theology and Biblical values, he will continue to lack credibility.

Oh well.

Lets just hope that Dobson sticks to his promise of not voting for John McCain. And brings a lot of his politically conservative and theologically confused followers with him.

For more, take a look here:

• James Dobson Doesn't Speak for Me


• Jesus Creed: Dobson on Obama

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