Dobson is full of himself. He doesn't speak for the majority of Christians. He also underestimates how badly the base want to beat back the libs this election, especially after this Iraq bill.
I spent the better part of a couple hours in a private conversation with a Protestant minister...he was sponsoring group activities for home schoolers...our kids were involved.
At the end of our conversation...spanning subjects like morality, history, politics...he gave me a pamphlet explaining how I might be born again. Geez he musta liked what he heard. To bad he was so full of himself he couldn't recognize the obvious truth with regard to me, and my salvated condition. Makes me shake my head, and wonder about the qualities of character that drive some persons to lead the flock: a lot like most politicians, I reckon. "Dig ME!!!!"
On the other hand, the Pentecostals are pulling even with the RCs, and just about anybody who wishes speaks for them.
Dobson is part of a small minority of mainstream Protestants ~ Thompson's own church is part of an even smaller minority that could be inside or outside the mainstream ~ depending on whether or not the congregation voted on his eligibility for baptism into that group.
Church of Christ in Tennessee is pretty much like that ~ so it would be interesting to find out just which version/brand/group Thompson's family chose for him to join, or he could even be a member of the reconstituted and renamed "Puritan" denomination. In that case I'd wonder why he bothered joining up with them in Tennessee. That would be truly strange.