Father Frank Pavone said as much on the O'Reilly Factor in 2004 in talking about Senator John Kerry.
Now there is talk of Dr. James Dobson and other Christian leaders promoting a Third Party Candidacy.
As individuals, they can state their preferences without regard to the organizations that they represent.
Since both Dr. James Dobson and Rev. Frank Pavone are indeed good friends, it would be advisable for them and other Christian leaders to come out with such a statement.
The immorality of the Hillary Clinton/Rudy Guiliani Candidacies are clear.... And Christian/Catholic leaders could (and should) cite the Bible as to why...
>>I would like to see an effort by Christians to put pressure on Dr. James Dobson and Father Frank Pavone to come out and tell Christians/Catholics that it would be a sin to support either Hillary Clinton or Rudy Guiliani.
Father Frank Pavone said as much on the O’Reilly Factor in 2004 in talking about Senator John Kerry.
Now there is talk of Dr. James Dobson and other Christian leaders promoting a Third Party Candidacy.<<
Some concerns -
First “putting pressure on Dobson” - while he is not my favorite public figure I must admit he does not respond well or buckle to pressure. If he believes voting Rudy/Hillary is a sin he’ll likely say it any way.
Two, Dobson is already talking third party while the early primaries have not started. There are some truisms about third parties. At the right moment, they can lead to a new major party but the rest of the time the most they can do is play spoiler.
There may come a time, God forbid, when Rudy and Hillary are the only choices. That would be a time for each person to search his conscience and decide between unpleasant choices.
But we are not nearly there yet - the main thing a third party movement does is to push the Republican party to the middle to try to get crossover voters to make up for the social conservatives they can no longer count on.
What we need now is to be pushing conservative issues - balancing the budget - opposing new spending, making sure we don’t cut and run in Iraq and cause a catastrophe.
It would be very useful if Rudy could lose the first few primaries while we take a look at Fred and any other conservatives who emerge with a chance.
But Dobson’s approach seems mainly to increase his power base rather than increasing the chance of a conservative President.