President Bush, right, sits with Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson, left, and Shirley Dobson, center, during the National Day of Prayer ceremony, Thursday, May 3, 2007, in the East Room, in the White House in Washington.
James Dobson is complaining about the secular media and the FACT they have been reporting the Religious Right is disintegrating. Dobson wrote an Op-Ed for the New York Times to 'set the record straight.' He did it to try to 'circle the wagons.' I don't think he'll succeed. He is too extreme.
They there own admission they are disintegrating as a political entity.
These are entries from a Reigious Site called, "Right Wing Watch, National Right to Life Committee Archives"
To begin these 'MORALISTS' are against the State Children's Health Program. They state rather clearly that the SCHIP bill was 'anti-neonate' yet in REALITY it pays for Pre-Natal Care. They state that there are provisions for 'absinence education,' but their objection is the FACT that SCHIP would provide OTHER sex education as well.
Funny, but, I thought we lived in a democracy where education was equitable, fair and unbiased. It would seem that the Religious Right Moralists feel there is no room in the American Education system for 'open' and 'free' education and where there is then children need to pay the price for that freedom and be denied health insurance.
Right-Wing Coalition United against SCHIP (Mostly)
While the conservative movement coalition of the economic right and social right has shown some small cracks in the last year, one bill in Congress has them singing the same tune: a proposal to expand the coverage of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The Religious Right is complaining that the bill defines “children” beginning with birth, rather than conception. According to Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, making “unborn children” ineligible to sign up for insurance “is a calculated move to open the door to federal taxpayer-funded abortions.” (FRC’s David Christiansen clarified: “The federal dollars wouldn't necessarily be used to do the abortion, but it's freeing up states to perform these other services, including abortion, with their own state money.”)
Meanwhile, National Right to Life Committee asserted that the bill would lead to Medicare “rationing” and thus “involuntary euthanasia.” “They have attacked the sanctity of life both at the beginning and the latter stages of life,” cried Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention, speaking of “the Democratic leadership” in Congress.
In addition, the Religious Right warns that the bill renews funding for abstinence education, but doesn’t restrict it to abstinence-only programs. “They’re simply giving states more money to fund Planned Parenthood and the programs that teach our children to have sex,” complained Linda Klepacki of Focus on the Family. “Comprehensive sex education will once again have a monopoly on your school systems.”...
As to the substance of the Op-Ed? Let's take a look:
...Speaking personally, and not for the organization I represent or the other leaders gathered in Salt Lake City, I firmly believe that the selection of a president should begin with a recommitment to traditional moral values and beliefs. Those include the sanctity of human life, the institution of marriage, and other inviolable pro-family principles. Only after that determination is made can the acceptability of a nominee be assessed....
From the Website:
National Right to Life Welcomes Thompson Today, But Reviled Him Ten Years Ago
Former Sen. Fred Thompson, who is reportedly going to announce his candidacy for president soon, recently offered his video greetings to the annual convention of the National Right to Life Committee, an organization that endorsed him when he ran for Senate in 1994. While Thompson has so far been favorably received by the Religious Right– with the possible exception of James Dobson – the recent Supreme Court decision regarding the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act is a reminder that groups like NRLC may have second thoughts about him....
FROM THE OP-ED:
....The secular news media has been reporting in recent months that the conservative Christian movement is hopelessly fractured and internally antagonistic. The Los Angeles Times reported on Monday, for example, that supporters of traditional family values are rapidly “splintering.” That is not true....
Thou Shall Not Criticize Dobson
For the last few weeks, we’ve been keeping an eye on the fight between various far-right anti-abortion groups that culminated in Operation Rescue/Operation Save America, Colorado Right to Life, and others placing a full-page ad in the Colorado Springs Gazette and the Washington Times demanding that James Dobson and Focus on the Family “repent” for saying that a recent Supreme Court decision upholding the federal “Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act” would “protect children.”
Now, it looks as if Dobson has emerged on top, because Colorado Right to Life has been kicked out of the National Right to Life coalition:...
The Religious Right adds 'quality' to their candidate choices by 'appearing' to be Pro-Family when they are nothing but religiously bigoted and anti-democracy. The fact is, by their own admission, there has been considerable infighting due to the extremist views of many of it's members. James Dobson is a political animal and nothing else. Everything he does and says is to promote unilateral government bigoted against all else except Christian Evangelical Right Wing views to insure the USA Treasury is always at their disposal.
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Why give them a forum at all because they do nothing but extort and lie and attempt control over the political arena where Americans learn about their candidates to choose the best for office. The Religious Right and Right Wing media peddles GOSSIP. That is all it is. There is absolutely nothing based in fact in any of their policies.
