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Focus
on The Family's Hate Campaign Against Obama [Cheating
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On The Family, an extreme evangelical organization led by Dr.
James Dobson, a psychologist with no formal theological training,
has sent out a hateful letter predicting what America might be
like in 2012 with Barack Obama as president. 
Dr.
Dobson, who as an evangelical should be bound by the commandment
not to bear false witness (i.e. not lie) against a neighbor, has
no qualms about inventing the most ridiculous scenarios under a
Obama presidency. Why would Dobson wish to claim that the Boy
Scouts will cease to exist? It is the worst kind of
fear-mongering.
It will be amusing in 2012 to see how each
one of
Dobson's predictions proves to be false -- and to ask Dobson why he
lied about our president?
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Dr. James Dobson of Focus on The
Family hopes to steal votes from Obama by spreading fear in the
electorate. He does not seem to be succeeding.
[GO
TO: Evangelicals fear an Obama presidency, see dark forces at
work]
HELP IS AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE
BEEN PERSECUTED by an evangelical group. Many religious
groups use fear and shunning to keep members under control. Start
here at Factnet.org to protect yourself. 
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In his despicable
letter, Dobson's organization writes: "Terrorist strikes on four
American cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe. Israel hit
by a nuclear bomb. Gay marriage in every state. The end of the
Boy Scouts." Dobson,
who no doubt considers himself a good Christian, should be
praying for both candidates and for the safety and security of
the nation. He should not be using fear of terrorist attacks to
undermine a candidate. Dobson hasn't a shred of evidence for any
of his scenarios, but is hoping that fear-mongering will
influence conservative Christians to support McCain-Palin. He
should certainly not be spreading outright lies about Obama, who
has never indicated, hinted at, or suggested that he might seek
to end, ban, prevent the Boy Scouts from continuing -- nor even
that he will help to enact legislation that will force or
encourage the Boy Scouts to disband. Dobson
has hardly been consistent in this election campaign. At first
he said "I cannot, and will not, vote for Senator John
McCain, as a matter of conscience", then he wavered saying
he might, then when fellow evangelical Sarah Palin was added to
the ticket, he became enthusiastic, even avoiding criticism of
Bristol Palin's out-of-wedlock pregnancy (one call only imagine
what he would have said if one of Obama's daughters had been in
a similar predicament). "It looks
like, walks like, talks like and smells like desperation to
me," said the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell of Houston, a
Methodist pastor, who called Dobson's letter "false and
ridiculous." A Methodist minister in Chicago
who wished to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals from
Dobson's organization -- something for which it is known --
said: "Dr. Dobson is extremely insulting about our possible
future president. Dobson has no theological training from which
he can make these pronouncements. He is operating out of fear,
deep-seated racial prejudice, and homophobia verging on hatred
of gay people. I would like to remind Dr. Dobson that we are all
God's children. He is an extremely hateful and intolerant man. I
hope he apologizes to Barack Obama in 2012 when he, and everyone
else, sees that he lied and attempted to spread hatred in the
country." [Sarah
Palin Says God Will Guide Her To The White House]
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freedom also means that evangelical groups have no right to
persecute you for not following their teachings. You are free to
leave any church where you do not feel comfortable, which does not
allow you to ask questions, or which threatens you will hellfire
and damnation for your beliefs or lifestyle. Do not allow yourself
to be terrorized by religious groups such as Focus on the Family.
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Focus on The Family Smears
Obama
Far right hate
group targets Obama in letter Focus
On The Family, a far right evangelical group led by psychologist
Dr. James Dobson, has sent out "A Letter from 2012 in Obama's
America". It paints a far-fetched and extreme scenario in
which the Boy Scouts are disbanded, gay marriage is the norm in
every state, and four American cities are under attack.
| Carrie Gordon
Earl,
senior director of public policy for Focus on the Family Action,
said the organization wanted to "articulate the big picture
... If it is a doomsday picture, then it's a realistic picture,"
she said. Hardline evangelical
Christians are sensing that Obama |
EVANGELICALS:
Not all evangelicals support or
sympathize with McCain-Palin or Dr. James Dobson's Focus on
The Family. Many evangelical Christians consider James
Dobson to be a force for intolerance and hatred. These
evangelicals support Obama-Biden. They can be found at Evangelicals
For Obama |
is
going to win the election,
and they are doing what they can -- lying and spreading hate -- to
scare voters into supporting McCain-Palin.
This is how the letter
begins: "Dear friends,
I can hardly sing "The Star
Spangled Banner" any more. When I hear the words .. I
get tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat. Now in October of
2012, after seeing what has
happened in the last four years, I don't think I can still
answer, "Yes," to that question. We are
not "the land of the free and the home of the brave."
Many of our freedoms have been taken away
by a liberal Supreme Court and a Democratic majority in both the
House and the Senate, and
hardly any brave citizen dares to resist the new government
policies any more. The 2008
election was closer than anybody expected, but Barack Obama still
won. Many Christians voted for
Obama -- younger evangelicals actually provided him with the
needed margin to defeat John
McCain -- but they didn't think he would really follow through on
the far-Left policies that had marked his career. They were
wrong."
We have checked
through the entire letter and found it be unfounded nonsense and
fear-mongering. Even the claim that Obama is far left is
ridiculous. People on the far left do not see Obama as one of
their own. He is a centrist Democrat, no closer to socialism than
any other mainstream politician in American. Obama is also a
Christian, with as much right to call himself a Christian as
anybody in, or associated with, Focus On The Family. Unlike Dr.
Dobson, Obama is a tolerant man who seeks to unify America rather
than divide it.
SARAH PALIN SPEAKS
TO JAMES DOBSON
Palin: "You can't pick a fight with
those who buy ink by the barrelful ... this is where my faith
becomes even more important to me. I have to have faith that our
message will get out to the American people minus the filter of
the mainstream media... We can't get that message through the
mainstream media... I have to have that faith that God's going to
help us get that message out there."
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Palin: "This is a strong platform
[built] around the planks in this platform that respect life and respect
the entrepreneurial spirit of this great country and those things, back
to the social issues that are what Republicans, at least in the past,
had articulated and tried to stand on. Now, finally, we have very solid
planks in the platform that will allow us to build an even stronger
foundation for our country. It's all good and it's encouraging. You
would maybe have assumed that we would have gotten further away from
those strong planks. But no, they're there, they're solid, we stand on
them."
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