Posted on 10/09/2005 5:11:43 AM PDT by Crackingham
The bullet hole just inside the headquarters of Focus on the Family is carefully preserved, a reminder of that 1996 day when a gunman held four employees hostage at the nerve center of James C. Dobson's evangelical empire. According to a sign near the bullet hole, the power of prayer helped end that standoff. In those days, Dobson was known primarily as a folksy child psychologist, an avuncular figure with a popular radio show who used a heavy helping of Christian morality to flavor his advice on child-rearing.
Today, prayer is only part of what Dobson is dispersing through radio, books, and a panoply of other media as he takes his fight for family values from the shadow of Pikes Peak to the halls of Congress and the steps of the Supreme Court. To Dobson, the stakes could not be higher.
''Two starkly contrasting worldviews predominate today's moral and cultural debate," Dobson said in an e-mail response to questions from The Boston Globe. ''One side defends the traditional values that have made this nation great for more than 225 years; the other works to chisel away at that foundation."
Dobson stands in the vanguard of a crusade by evangelical Christians to place their agenda at the forefront of public debate over presidential and congressional elections, judicial appointments, gay marriage, and the ''life issues" of abortion, euthanasia, and embryonic stem-cell research. Dobson, 69, is arguably the dominant ideologist of the movement.
His influence is so considerable among conservatives that, before President Bush nominated Harriet E. Miers for the Supreme Court, White House adviser Karl Rove reportedly called Dobson with private assurances about Miers's judicial philosophy.
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Imagine the reaction to "Sharpton's Racial Empire wields political clout"
*yawn*
go back to bed - it's Sunday morning
Was???
I knew it. Karl Rove is behind this whole mess.
God bless James Dobson. His group has spent tens of millions to equip crisis pregnancy centers with 3D ultrasound machines--enabling women considering abortions to see the life growing inside them. Most then decide not to go through with it. "Raymond" star Patricia Heaton has donated $1.2 million of her own money for this cause as well, which Dobson has matched as well. Meanwhile, so-called "pro-life" Bush has not proposed even a single penny for this cause, nor cut a single penny from Planned Parenthood.
Is it really necessary to type "yawn" to a post that might not appeal to you but maybe others find interesting to read? Just wondering.
O.K., which one is it: cut Planned Parenthood or give them 3D ultrasound machines? Also, this Administration's fight against partial-birth abortion is something to sneeze at?!
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