January 22, 2005

Welcome to the Brood of Vipers, Dr. Dobson

Here's another guy who could use a WWJD bracelet. Dr. James Dobson continues to demonstrate that he wouldn't recognize his beloved Lord and savior in a police line-up. He must have been so busy tilting at windmills and cartoon characters that he stopped reading his Bible. If he did, it would remind him that Jesus saved his harshest words for one, and only one, group of people, evangelical and moralistic "religious leaders" with the wrong priorities.

What's at issue is a video by the "We Are Family" Foundation that teaches elementary school kids the importance of tolerance and diversity. What's Dr. Dobson's beef with that? Well, although they didn't put it in the video, the Foundations website includes Tolerance.org's Declaration of Tolerance, which includes "sexual identity" in its list of things to respect and tolerate. Apparently, Dr. Dobson feels that there's a real danger that six and seven-year-olds will watch the video, go home and visit the Foundation's website, discover the Tolerance Pledge, understand the sexual identity item, and decide that they too would like to be reviled and misunderstood by their parents and peers by choosing to be gay.

Christians like this make me think really hard about becoming a Unitarian.

Posted January 22, 2005 10:29 AM
Comments

the only glitch in the unitarian plan, babe, is then you'd have to believe that even mr. dobson will be in heaven (along with sponge bob and all those vile homosexuals). could be fun, but you never know.... ;)

Posted by: Jen Lemen at January 22, 2005 10:37 AM

Dave, Hans and I were *just* talking about this over lunch today. He pretty much said the exact same thing!

Posted by: Sandie at January 27, 2005 12:45 AM

and Yet Jesus preached that there is only one way into heaven and talked about marriage too, only refering to Husband and Wife. feel free to walk along the edge but its better to play it safe.

Matt 7:14 - For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.

Posted by: Andrew at January 27, 2005 4:56 AM

Hi Andrew,

That was a very gentle response to one of my most vicious and sarcastic entries to date.

Jesus talked about marriage between a man and a woman, because the problem that bothered him most was *divorce*! Check out this article by Jack Miles, entitled "What Would Jesus Say About Gay Marriage?"
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/140/story_14050_1.html

Perhaps you're aware that "born-again" Christians have been found to divorce their spouses at a higher rate than non-Christians!
http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2005/001/3.8.html

My suggestion to Dr. Dobson and any others who would want to follow Jesus with a sense of integrity: Try hard not to behave like the group of people whom he despised the most!

And, Sandie: Hans said it. I believe it. And that settles it!

Posted by: Dave Lemen at January 27, 2005 8:46 PM