Excellent work!  This is how we push back.

I'm firmly of the belief that we can swing the young evangelical vote to the Democrats this year if we can convince them that Jesus's values - economic justice, care for the earth, inclusion of the outsider - are Democratic values.  

We've got the right candidate in Sen. Obama - a man who can speak the language of Christians because of his own religious experiences - and party leadership that appears to be committed to winning over evangelicals when in the past many might have written them off.

And if we get the young evangelicals this year, in the year when the millennials will truly emerge as a major bloc, I think we've got them for the next thirty - which would be a major step in moving this country forward.

Excellent post.  Keep up the good work.

..and choosing which Biblical quotes and passages best conform to his worldview.

Obama was merely pointing out the folly of using Biblical passages to justify policy positions.

Are they online somewhere so I can look at them.

How about getting rid of ALL religious influences in our political discourse?

How about keeping all religious leaders in churches and synagogues and wherever else they preach, and out of policy debates?

I'm definitely angry at the Dobsons of the world, but if we replace him and his kind with "positive Christian voices", then I probably wouldn't know the difference.

Gay marriage, a woman's right to choose, assisted suicide, contraception, birth control, tolerance among peoples-- these are liberal/progressive values, and values that many religious find at odds with their beliefs.

I want to advance progressive ideas and values, and not have to cater to "positive Christian voices" every time there's a question about policy.

Keeping religion out of politics is the best course for our country and for the world.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/24/ 11556/3067/35/541003

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Every time I hear the name James Dobson, this utterly repellent quote unfortunately leaps to mind:

   Meanwhile, the boy's father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son's maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger.
    -James Dobson

Perhaps you haven't seen it diaried here because no one takes Dobson seriously enough to do it.  The guy distorts the Bible to support his twisted version of reality.  

Nor do I care enough about Obama to work up the energy to refute Dobson because to do so would only give Dobson credibility he hasn't earned and doesn't deserve.

"I think he's deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology," Dobson said.

Insert something about goose & gander here.

This Matthew 25 Network has one heck of a bizarre idea this time around.  Why possibly waste time on Christian radio?  This is not "Methodist church goer" radio.  These networks, like Salem, are as far to the right as anything Clear Channel or Fox has to offer.  Rebut Dobson in a one minute commercial?  Impossible--he's their guy.  Nobody even knows who this "Network" is--or cares to find out.

I love that this is happening because this debate must happen. Matthew 25 is a wonderful call to help the less fortunate, but that is exactly what it is, a call for people not government. And for the leaders of the emergent church like Bryan McLaren and the Obama supporters of The Matthew 25 Network to pretend that it is better for the government to take on the responsibilities of followers of Christ is foolishness. The decline of volunteering that has occured since every major government program to fight poverty was started, should teach us something. An Obama administration will not help us solve anything with new government programs. The problems can only be solved by every Christian doing what God calls us to do in Matthew 25 within our own communities. Our current national and international problems are not caused by bad government, Republicans, Democrats, Oil Companies, or George W. Bush. Our problems are caused by sin manifesting itself in bad churches, self absorbed Christianity, "self-help" theology, to name just a few.    

Let me say, Im never suprised by the left.

If you want to really talk about Dobson, why didnt you include that Obama was the FIRST to call Dobson out.  And all Dobson was saying was "Hey, he has called me out and here is why we disagree."

Do you not believe that it is hypocritical not to include that Obama called Dobson out first?

Plus, if you read the Bible and take the New Testament literally then I guess you are "twisting" it.  You may ask, why not the Old Testament.  The reason is because the Old Testament Law was fulfilled with Jesus.

Report the news, thats fine, but report it ALL.