Nine-Commandment Christians and "Justice Sunday"

[DoctorJ]

Courtesy of the invaluable Media Matters for America.

James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family, speaking about “Justice Sunday” on Scarborough Country, 4/25:

mean, you’ll notice that they never quote people who come from our point of view. We have never said that those who disagree with us are un-Christian and un-American. That’s just unconscionable to say things like that without saying where it occurred.

Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, in a 4/26 Knight Ridder article:

We are not saying that people who disagree with us are not people of faith. We have not said that. We will never say that.

Rev. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, on Hannity and His Bitch on 4/25:

They never said that they [filibuster supporters] were not American or not Christian. Tony Perkins started off the – I’ve seen the broadcast. He started off by saying, “We are not saying that people who disagree with us are not people of faith. We haven’t said that and we never will.”

Yet, in a letter to supporters about Justice Sunday, Perkins said:

As the liberal, anti-Christian dogma of the left has been repudiated in almost every recent election, the courts have become the last great bastion for liberalism

Tom Minnery, FotF’s VP for public policy, said this about the Democratic opposition to some of Bush’s judicial nominees:

As a Catholic, I would think the senator [Ken Salazar (D-CO)] would be especially alarmed about the anti-Catholicism of some of his colleagues…

Dobson himself, back in April, about Patrick Leahy, ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee:

Patrick Leahy is a ‘God’s people’ hater. I don’t know if he hates God, but he hates God’s people.

And the kicker: the fucking slogan for Justice Sunday was “Stopping the Filibuster Against People of Faith”.

And yeah, before anyone says it, I know I shouldn’t be shocked that these people are straight-up liars, and that so many people are drinking the Kool-Aid that we run the risk of a national epidemic of people breaking through walls and shouting “Oh Yeah!”. But it’s like they’re not even trying anymore. They’re not going to great lengths to say things that are “technically true”, or to hide the things they say. They’re responding to criticisms by just flat-out lying about it. (You could call it the “O’Reilly Defense”.)

Next week on Hannity & Bitch:
Dobson: stands up, drops his pants, and starts jerking off I am not jerking off on national television right now.
Hannity: You’re absoulutely right, James. You’re not jerking off at all.
Colmes: I don’t know…I think it’s possible that some people could make the argument that you might, possibly, in fact, be jerking off.
Dobson: God-hater!
Hannity: America-hater!

[jayjay]

@DoctorJ

Next week on Hannity & Bitch:
Dobson: stands up, drops his pants, and starts jerking off I am not jerking off on national television right now.
Hannity: You’re absoulutely right, James. You’re not jerking off at all.
Colmes: I don’t know…I think it’s possible that some people could make the argument that you might, possibly, in fact, be jerking off.
Dobson: God-hater!
Hannity: America-hater!

Yeah, right, like Colmes (or as Al Franken put it, colmes) would have the balls to even tentatively argue with Hannity…

[NurseCarmen]

@mohler

We have never said that those who disagree with us are un-Christian

@mohler

“I believe that the Roman church is a false church and it teaches a false gospel,”
“And indeed, I believe that the pope himself holds a false and unbiblical office.”
“any belief system” leading "away from the cross of Christ and toward another way of ultimate meaning, is, indeed, wicked and evil.”

Hrmmmm. I guess he never really said “un-christian”. He just said “wicked and evil”.

[Maus_Magill]

I thought the commandment said something about bearing false witness against one’s neighbors, not oneself.

[Graycat]

@Maus Magill

I thought the commandment said something about bearing false witness against one’s neighbors, not oneself.

I think it works either way; if you translate it “Thou shalt not lie”; they’re lying about what they said; if you translate it “Thou shalt not bear false witness”; they’re lying in the original statements with the “evil, wicked, un-Christian” accusations.