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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

James Dobson is an Idiot

How about this one folks? James Dobson, the christo-fascist, has a strange interpretation of the constitution. Here is a quote from Obama, "Even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? Would we go with James Dobson's or Al Sharpton's?" Now the way I understand this is that we cannot be forcing any ones religious beliefs on anyone else because we all have a constitutional right to believe and worship as we feel we should. But people like Jimmy D don't understand that basic idea behind 'freedom' or 'liberty', Dobson has accused Obama of wrongly equating Old Testament texts and dietary codes that no longer apply to Jesus' teachings in the New Testament. Now correct me if I am wrong but wasn't Jesus Jewish? Wouldn't those codes apply? In fact as I recall the dietary codes are not really referred to until the later books of the new testament. You see Dobby you can't have it both ways either the Bible is the literal word of God or it isn't. You can't pick and choose some parts over others can you? Is God that fickle? How about this quote, "Am I required in a democracy to conform my efforts in the political arena to his bloody notion of what is right with regard to the lives of tiny babies? What he's trying to say here is unless everybody agrees, we have no right to fight for what we believe." Um, no, that wasn't what he was saying at all. And it appears you have no understanding of our republican form of democracy. Though I will agree it hasn't been very democratic lately. You're not required to conform your political efforts, but you are required to leave people alone if they are behaving in accordance with the law. Bonehead. And by the way the 14th amendment to the constitution guarantees constitutional protection to all people born or naturalized in the United States. Last time I took biology a fetus wasn't born yet and I daresay it can't be naturalized as a citizen. So technically it, a fetus, has no protection under the constitution. Now do I think we should prevent abortions, sure I do. But not by making it illegal. And I give that example to show just how some conservative right wing-nuts misunderstand both the Bible and the Constitution. I guess old Jimmy D was sleeping in civics class eh? Dummy.