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Uh-Oh! James Dobson Isn't Happy

The Obama campaign has reached out to evangelical voters in recent weeks while still being consistently critical of the insane theology pushed by crypto-fascist Christian leaders like James Dobson.

Now Obama's statements on Christianity are creating all kinds of drama (and we'll be playing all the wacky Dobson audio on the show in the second hour of the show). It started way back in 2006 when Obama wondered which Bible passages would govern public policy if the right got its way. He then went on through a laundry list of silly commandments found in Leviticus (like prohibitions against shellfish) as examples of why religious rule is a bad idea. This didn't sit well with Dobson, who responded to Obama in a statement and radio commentary:

Dobson and [Focus on the Family Senior Vice President Tom} Minnery accused Obama of wrongly equating Old Testament texts and dietary codes that no longer apply to Jesus' teachings in the New Testament.

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

And if there's one person who knows how to distort the Bible to fit his own world view, it's James Dobson. Seriously people, this is his turf. But wait, it get's better:

Dobson reserved some of his harshest criticism for Obama's argument that the religiously motivated must frame debates over issues like abortion not just in their own religion's terms but in arguments accessible to all people.

He said Obama, who supports abortion rights, is trying to govern by the "lowest common denominator of morality," labeling it "a fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution."

Mmmmm, Barack Obama fruitcake!