This deserves way more of an OP than I can give it as I’m tired and having eye problems, so I’ll just let it speak for itself. From Focus on the Family and James Dobson comes [PDF] LETTER FROM THE FUTURE- OBAMA’S AMERICAcourtesy of James Dobson’s Focus groups.
Highlights (written from 2012):
Man, if I didn’t have reason to vote for Obama before, this clinches it! No more Rush Limbaugh, graphic sex on network television, homos get bonus money for enlisting in an all gay military, and no more Fundies teaching biology, hell yeah!
Unfortunately there’s no more Israel since Iraq (or Iran or someone) blew it up after Obama drew the all-gay armed forces out of Baghdad (they kept complaining that “everyone says Lagos is what Tikrit used to be and you can still get hand woven baskets for $4!”) so I guess I won’t be going to that “New Herod’s Pleasure Palace Dead Sea Foam Party”, but as the good book says, “You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of life. The facts of life.”
Liberal elitest laws I look forward to:
Mandatory availability of free pornography
Mandatory participation in the production of free pornography
Mandatory wife swapping
-Taking the Supreme Court back from neo-cons - check.
-Legalized gay marriage - check
Separation of church and state? -check.
Legal abortion and porn… legal rights for “suspected terrorists” being prosecuted…free health care for all citizens…? -check.
Damn, how did they get hold of my list of demands?
So TV would become the Internet without trolling? Sign me up!
It’s also interesting how often that document calls the Bible ‘hate speech’ and mentions that its position on homosexuality in specific is hateful. Also, there’s this little tidbit:
(Emphasis mine.) So none of the church members are willing to allow their own church to meet in their homes? Not one member is willing to open his home to his fellow Christians? What kind of people does Dobson think Christians are?
This is also interesting:
Doesn’t Dobson think his fellow Christians are competent parents? Again, what kind of people does Dobson think worship Christ?
He also goes on about how getting Barnes & Noble and Borders and other big chain bookstores to drop his kind of literature would lead to Christian publishers going out of business. He obviously has a very low opinion of the ability of Christians to seek out alternative bookstores or even purchase books online. This isn’t just him being behind the times: Small, local booksellers dominated the landscape before the big chains and they still exist, even out here in the boonies. Dobson thinks Christians only shop at big-box stores to the exclusion of all else.
Dobson must think the Christian faith is very fragile and shallow. He must have an even lower opinion of those who hold it. I’m an atheist and I largely dislike religion in general and I have personal reasons to dislike Christianity, but Dobson makes me want to defend the faith against his puerile, alarmist, and insulting tactics.
Obviously because homosexual acts are so damn tempting that everyone would choose to be gay if they weren’t strictly monitored by society’s watchdogs and firmly molded into the heterosexual standard.
