RE: "Opinions on homosexuality, or SpongeBob, or Dobson are trumped by this."
For once, I find myself in agreement. Our opinions of homosexuality aren't nearly as important in this case as our opinions on who determines the upbringing of a child in America-- the federal government or their own parents. I'll side with the parents every time, and I believe that anybody who calls themself a conservative should be in favor of putting family above government in deciding the course of a young child's life. Though I may angrily disagree with the actual teachings of said parents, the idea of a group of people who have never met or known the child, and who don't have the child's best interests at heart, deciding what a parent may or may not teach their own child to believe in is anathema to my basic support of religious and speech freedoms and personal liberty in every American.
Dr. Dobsen can rest on this one...but it won't be long before I'll have cause to rip him to shreds again.