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Dobson Says He Won't Support Thompson
AP ^ | 9/19/07 | Erik Gorski

Posted on 09/19/2007 7:14:10 PM PDT by pissant

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To: Beagle8U

Some folks perfer to drink and doing things other members choose not to do.

Eternity is a long time now all are not comfortable in certain situations!

God loves all his Children, Jesus said, in my father’s house are many maison I do to prepare a place for you!:)


241 posted on 09/19/2007 8:56:23 PM PDT by restornu (No one is perfect but you can always strive to do the right thing!)
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To: ansel12; eyedigress

You’d both have to go back to #140 to understand the conversation. :)


242 posted on 09/19/2007 8:56:49 PM PDT by Paperdoll ( Duncan Hunter '08)
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To: restornu

I remember that, and I seem to remember it being in the context of a private conversation that was not meant to be a public pronouncement, just like this email.


243 posted on 09/19/2007 8:57:07 PM PDT by lesser_satan (FRED THOMPSON '08)
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To: pissant; Saundra Duffy
Dobson seems to be leaning towards Romney:

Dobson, the influential leader of the Christian organization Focus on the Family, praised Romney on a radio program and said he may end up supporting him.

"I mean he's very presidential and he's got the right answers to many, many things," Dobson told conservative commenator Laura Ingraham on her show. Dobson said he hasn't decided whom to back, but that Romney "is still on the list."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/05/19/conservative_christian_offers_praise_for_romney/

 

244 posted on 09/19/2007 8:57:40 PM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: JRochelle

You’re right, of course. Mormons keep insisting that they’re Christian, all the while insisting that Christians aren’t saved. Let’s see beyond their convenient sound bites. They follow Joseph Smith and his false doctrine, read the book he supposedly got from an angel/golden tablets. Their false religion would be sad if it weren’t so laughable.

Where are those golden tablets, I wonder? And why isn’t anyone else allowed to “translate” them? Why? Because they’re Egyptian, not ancient Hebrew. And that fact would cause all of this false religion to collapse.


245 posted on 09/19/2007 8:58:40 PM PDT by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: ExpatGator

A “retard”? You’ve got quite the vocabulary.


246 posted on 09/19/2007 8:59:48 PM PDT by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: Thumper1960
Dobson should tend to his flock and make sure none of them cheat on their wives, embezzle church funds or play footsie in public toilets.

Dobson is not a pastor. But don't let the facts get in the way of your insults.

247 posted on 09/19/2007 9:00:55 PM PDT by xjcsa (Hillary Clinton is nothing more than Karl Marx with huge calves.)
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To: Saundra Duffy

Now why would you have “respect” for someone who thinks your religion is false, based on a phony “translation” of Egyptian tablets?

Call them Pharisees — you’re the one being phony.


248 posted on 09/19/2007 9:01:09 PM PDT by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: Paperdoll

“No, but it is going to take a great deal of inner strength as well as extraordinary physical endurance to be our next president.””

That sounds familiar, I think that I posted about FDR sickly from childhood and a picture of his life in a wheelchair to correct you, and then Kennedy was close to death, and Johnson and Nixon weren’t exactly body buiders.


249 posted on 09/19/2007 9:02:14 PM PDT by ansel12 (Romney longed to serve in Vietnam, ask me for the quote.)
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To: CindyDawg

So many people are eager to judge Dobson, without considering either the context of his e-mail or the source of this article. Talk about anti-Christian bias — even here on FR.


250 posted on 09/19/2007 9:02:35 PM PDT by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: Petronski
You’re a slave

A slave to who?? I am a very very indepentent thinker. I just happen to have a lot of confidence in Dr. Dobson, and after listening to his reasons, have made up my OWN mind. I don't call that a slave any more than you would listen to someone you had confidence in, giving YOU pointers on a candidate and you making up YOUR mind too...Dr.Dobson is a great man.He isn't however, GOD! I think independent of him , but agree with him on this issue. That is NO slave!

251 posted on 09/19/2007 9:02:51 PM PDT by pollywog (Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid,)
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To: pissant

Dobson seriously overestimates his clout among Evangelicals.


252 posted on 09/19/2007 9:03:32 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: eastsider

” James Dobson, one of the nation’s most politically influential evangelical Christians, made it clear in a message to friends this week he will not support Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson.

Now the Dems won’t be able to hang Dobson around Fred’s head in the general. Good. The more Thompson Democrats, the better.”

I really think you are on to something here!! Go, Fred


253 posted on 09/19/2007 9:03:34 PM PDT by Islander2
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To: Perdogg

Do you have any evidence for that statement? Or are you just spouting the anti-Christian bias you’ve heard on TV?

Go back to DU.


254 posted on 09/19/2007 9:03:59 PM PDT by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: Thumper1960

No.

He has a choice to make among several candidates, or to sit out the election. He is an American. If Fred is not his choice, nor the others he’s mentioned, he’s not saying anything one way or the other about Jesus Christ as his Saviour.

Jesus was not the friend of an unrepentent harlot. He preached repentance and remission of sins. He told sinners to go and sin no more. He was the son of a Jew but Dobson doesn’t hate Jews. He just doesn’t agree religiously with those who rejected Jesus. Jesus being “born out of wedlock” is a crude, misleading way to put the Biblical teaching that Mary was with child by the Holy Spirit, not by a man. Which is what made Jesus a divine being, which is why Dobson claims Jesus. But you say he would reject him for it. Impossible. He well knows it, and openly claims Jesus. If not, he wouldn’t be famous and you’d have never heard of him.

All of which is beside the point concerning Jesus himself. He committed no sin, there was no fault found within him. Again, according to Scripture. Dobson believes he has accepted a perfect Saviour. He sees no flaws in that Saviour.

I think you mix apples and oranges when you try to compare how Dobson sees various Presidential candidates with how he views Jesus Christ.

If I were to criticize Dobson I could find some political grounds on which to do so. I can’t see a thing there that causes me to think that his rejection of Thompson should cause him to be criticized on religious grounds, which is how you critiqued him, even to the extent of saying he would, or does, reject his own perfect (those flaws you mentioned weren’t any flaws of Jesus Himself, even if true) Saviour because he rejected an imperfect politician.

Unfair. IMO.

Not that you asked...


255 posted on 09/19/2007 9:04:07 PM PDT by txrangerette (Congressman Duncan Hunter for POTUS...check him out!!)
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To: gidget7
I realize social 'conservatives' have no use for the Constitution, except perhaps to wield it over others for a short period of time. Of course any Amendment limiting the rights of others (i.e. the 18th Amendment) would be overturned in short order. The Constitution was originally designed to limit the federal government alone and not meant to deal with moral issues that may arise.
256 posted on 09/19/2007 9:04:54 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: SuziQ

Dobson wasn’t speaking for you either.

This was a PRIVATE email. Publicized by people who hate Dobson. Try to keep in mind the context.


257 posted on 09/19/2007 9:05:00 PM PDT by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: Paperdoll
The "Extra Ordinary" endurance is good.

How much did FDR have? How much did Taft have? How much did Johnson (pick one)have? How much did Harrison have? How much did Hayes have? How much did Cleveland have? how much did Mckinley have?

If I have to watch Kerry or anything like it on a board again, I'm gonna get sick.

258 posted on 09/19/2007 9:05:11 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: quark

“As distasteful as it may be, Gov. “Flip-flop” Romney is heading for the GOP nomination.”

In what alternate universe? He’s started polling in the single digits in many states, an has virtually no support in the South. No south = no GOP nomination.

Its between Thompson and Guiliani now.


259 posted on 09/19/2007 9:05:38 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: Theo
oh jeez. not too much of a leap there, huh?

i have no idea who dobson is. but he's being a little silly, imho. pinning your presidential support on a gay marriage ban and mccain-feingold? yeah, nice set of priorities.

this guy is the one clamoring about religion, not me. my remark was made tounge-in-cheek considering this guys issues with the IRS.

fact is i respect his religious values and he can say whatever he wants no matter how silly. but so can i.

260 posted on 09/19/2007 9:05:42 PM PDT by thefactor
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