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Sundays Face the Nation program was put in its place by the honorable Doctor James Dobson of Focus on the Family. Host Bob Sheefer could not force any of his pre-arranged "trapdoor" questions in an interview with Dr. Dobson.

'Killer Culture': A call to the churches Posted: January 26, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: Early in 2003, while preparing our February Whistleblower issue (titled "Taking America Back") on restoring the nation's political, cultural and spiritual heritage, our editors asked WorldNetDaily columnist, veteran talk-show host and media expert Bob Just to write on what role America's churches should play in taking America back. The issues he addressed in that story – centered around today's neo-pagan and highly sexualized youth culture – were so potent that we decided not to publish it in that edition, but instead to produce an...

Conservative Episcopalian bishops and church leaders are organizing a network of socially conservative parishes in order to stem the tide of liberalism within the Episcopal Church USA. Frank Griswold, the leader of the movement, emphasizes that the members of the new network will remain Episcopalian and that their mission is both religious and political. The new group, The Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes, joins the diverse group of religious conservatives commonly known as "The Religious Right." In "The Orthodox Alliance" (November/December 1995), Fred Barnes discusses how theological conservatives of Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant churches, who now have more...

Chatterbox thinks the best bet for a third-party candidacy would be someone like the Dr. James Dobson*, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family. Christian fundamentalists have the funding base to sustain a third-party candidacy, while at the same time they aren't so numerous as to risk actually putting a Dobson in the Oval Office. And it's laughably easy to stoke their alienation from the mainstream culture. One tack might be to get them even more riled up than they already are about gay marriage. Democrats could campaign more overtly for repeal of the idiotic and bigoted Defense of...

Dobson Praises President's Support for Marriage; Pro-Family Leader Calls for Renewed Efforts to Protect Marriage COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Jan. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, issued the following statement Tuesday in response to President Bush's State of the Union address: "I am immensely encouraged by President Bush's unequivocal support for the sanctity of marriage. The President believes, as does the overwhelming majority of Americans, that marriage is the exclusive union of one man and one woman. "Marriage is under attack today, not because the American people are eager to intentionally deny...

Man of the Year: Roy Moore by Ann Coulter Posted Dec 19, 2003 Uttering the standard liberal cliché a few years ago, Richard Reeves described "representatives of the new South" as "Republicans of old Puritan definition, righteous folk afraid that someone, somewhere, is having fun." (I'll skip the context of Reeves' insight, except to note that apparently aging liberals view sodomy with the chubby intern in the back office as "having fun.") Like all beliefs universally held by liberals, Reeves's aphorism is the precise opposite of the truth. It's the blue states that are constantly sending lawyers to the red...

MEDIA MATTERS'Focus on the Family' too political?Radio station manager complains show makes some uncomfortable Posted: December 18, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Producers of the widely popular daily radio program "Focus on the Family" have pulled the show from a Columbia, S.C., Christian station after its general manager refused to air an episode he thought was too political. After airing on WMHK-FM for 24 years, the radio program hosted by author and psychologist Dr. James Dobson has been pulled effective Jan. 2, reports the Columbia State newspaper. "'Focus on the Family' seems to think the political agenda is intertwined with the...

Focus on the Family's founder and chairman talks at length about the Terri Schiavo case — and the extraordinary efforts of Americans to help save her life. It was a momentous day in Florida yesterday, when the Sunshine State's Legislature passed "Terri's Bill — legislation giving Gov. Jeb Bush the authority to rescue Terri Schiavo from the court-ordered dehydration she's been suffering through since last week. As of this moment, Schiavo is receiving the nourishment she needs to live. Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, told a national listening audience on his daily "Focus on...

Radio Ad: Hello everyone, this is Dr. James Dobson, I very rarely get involved in partisan politics, but the campaign for California governor is too important for any of us to just sit on the sidelines. You have a wonderful candidate in Tom McClintock. He is a principled, pro-life defender of the family. Tom McClintock has the courage to stand and fight the left-wingers who have overrun the State Legislature. They have made California a laboratory for disaster for families, and it will take a strong hand to steer California back on course. Tom McClintock and I have discussed what...

<p>By Jan Fletcher, Faith Correspondent A seven-hour drive to Montgomery, Ala., Monday, brought one Campbellsville man to the very center of the national controversy over public display of the Ten Commandments.</p> <p>Ricky Cox, a dentist and former state representative, made the decision Monday morning to leave for the showdown at the Alabama Judicial Building after his office closed at 5 p.m. He was back at work at 10 a.m. Tuesday, after participating in a vigil for three hours -- from midnight to 3 a.m. -- alongside 150 protesting citizens. Protesters vowed peaceful resistance to stop a court order to remove a 5,300-pound monument to the Ten Commandments.</p>

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Christian radio host James Dobson said federal judges are "determined to shove their beliefs down our throats" by removing a Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building's rotunda. The internationally syndicated talk show host joined more than a thousand supporters of suspended Chief Justice Roy Moore on Thursday to pray and rally for the return of the justice's monument. Dobson said the fight is about "an unelected, non-accountable, arrogant, imperialistic judiciary determined to shove their beliefs down our throats." A group that sued to have the monument removed said Dobson and other religious leaders were...

Focus on the Family founder and chairman Dr. James Dobson has urged Christians to support Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore in his fight to display the Ten Commandments. Here are five ways you can do that.• Ask Congress to preserve constitutional rights.Dr. Dobson has written a letter to Focus supporters that spotlights the real issue of the Ten Commandments crisis -- the destruction of constitutional rights by the federal judiciary. Read that letter here, and then contact your congressman and senators and urge them to act now to stop runaway federal judges.You can tailor your comments along these lines: "I...

Dr. James Dobson, a well-known and respected national Christian leader in speaking at a rally in front of the Alabama Courthouse containing the disputed monument of the Ten Commandments compared the ongoing struggle with that of the Black equal rights movement of the 1950's. Dr. Dobson described the irony of how in 1955 when Rosa Parks refused to "Go to the back of the bus." by racially-driven bigots sparked a national equal rights movment and said that another national "movement" was now underway to protect the rights of Christians. Dr. Dobson declared, "We are not going to the back of...

Vowing to maintain his campaign despite removal of the Ten Commandments monument from public view, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore will host a rally today in Montgomery joined by evangelical leader James Dobson and former U.N. Ambassador Alan Keyes. Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, will address the rally, called "Restore the Foundations," at noon at the judicial center. Ten Commandments monument was moved yesterday (Photo: Wsfa.com) "The issue in Alabama is not simply about a 5,300-pound monument depicting the Ten Commandments in an Alabama courthouse," Dobson said. "The larger issue is that the unelected, unaccountable judiciary,...

Somehow it doesn't seem fair that Judge Roy Moore should have the entire Ten Commandments spotlight to himself. There are, after all, three judges and three plaintiffs who think that God should be removed from public life in America. They've now seen fit to make their private thoughts the law of the land. Let's take a look at them. And as Dr. James Dobson has called for Christians to go to Montgomery, these unelected oligarchs may soon find themselves exposed to the same light of day Judge Moore has been. Judge Myron Thompson, the original district-court judge, has in the...

Dobson to Attend and Speak at Ten Commandments Rally at Noon Thursday in Montgomery, Alabama 8/27/03 4:50:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: David Gasak of the Focus on the Family, 719-548-4570 gasakdp@fotf.org COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Focus on the Family founder and chairman Dr. James Dobson will attend and speak at a Thursday rally at the Alabama state judicial center in Montgomery, where he will address fellow Christians about the controversy surrounding Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore -- and the right of the American people to acknowledge God in the public square. Dobson will...

As defenders of "10 Commandments judge" Roy Moore continue their vigil at the Alabama judicial building, a prominent evangelical leader is urging his 5 million radio listeners nationwide to head to Montgomery in a show of support. "It's not just an Alabama issue, and it's certainly not just (about) Justice Moore," said Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Colorado-based Focus on the Family. Roy Moore speaking to supporters (Photo: Wsfa.com) "There's much more at stake here," Dobson told listeners yesterday. "This is part of a larger plan to remove every vestige of faith or reverence for God from the...

Evangelical leaders James Dobson and Pat Robertson came down on opposing sides of the Alabama Ten Commandments controversy Aug. 25, while a third evangelical, Richard Land, released a further elaboration of his position. Speaking on his daily Focus on the Family radio program, Dobson said he supports Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and "strongly" disagrees with evangelicals who have criticized Moore's legal strategy. Robertson and Land both said that while they believe Moore's Ten Commandments display is constitutional, they think he should have obeyed a federal court order and removed the monument. Robertson made his comments on the "Jay Sekulow...

Dobson Joins Call to Montgomery; Backs Citizens Engaging in Civil Disobedience 8/25/03 11:00:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Rev. Schenck of the National Clergy Council, 770-310-6663 or 703-447-7686 (on site in Montgomery, Ala.) MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, the most listened to religious radio show in the US, today interrupted his normal broadcast schedule to interview suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and former US Ambassador Alan Keyes as they called Americans to travel to Montgomery, Alabama, to join in a public stand to preserve the display of...

Focus on the Family Ready to Respond to Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Ruling; Decision Could Dismantle Idea of Marriage 7/9/03 4:19:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: David Gasak of Focus on the Family, 719-548-4570 e-mail: culturalissues@family.org; web: http://www.family.org COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A ruling could come in the next few days -- legal experts expect the decision to be released on Friday or Monday -- in the Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health court case in Massachusetts. This historic decision has the potential to dismantle our culture's understanding of marriage by allowing same-sex couples...