i was invited to join this group on Facebook and i encourage you to do the same if you find James Dobson to be divisive and bigoted. Dobson sure sounds ignorant, alarmist, and is invoking fear that the Bush/Cheney administration has mongered among our populace the past 8 years. AND the people of the United States of America has had ENOUGH and showed this by electing Barack Obama as our NEXT PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA! Get a life, James Dobson, and STOP inflicting your moralistic views on us!
"Focus
on the Family Action recently put out a hypothetical letter that
outlined what America would look like from the perspective of a
Christian looking back on an Obama presidency from 2012. The letter
starts off by saying, “Many Christians voted for Obama – Younger
evangelicals actually provided him with the needed margin to defeat
John McCain – but they didn’t think he would really follow through on
the far-Left policies that had marked his career. They were wrong.”
Here are just some of their scenarios Focus on the Family paints for us:
- The Supreme court leans liberal, 6 to 3.
- Terrorist attacks have occurred in 4 US cities.
- Christian doctors, nurses, counselors, and teachers have either been fired or quit.
- Iran perpetrated a nuclear attack on Israel, drastically reducing the size of its borders.
- Pornography is freely displayed.
- Inner city violent crime has dramatically increased due to gun control.
- Russia has occupied 4 additional countries.
- Gas tops $7 a gallon.
- Euthanasia becomes commonplace.
- Blackouts occur throughout the country.
- Homosexual marriage becomes law in all 50 states.
- Campus ministries, Christian adoption agencies and Christian schools nearly cease to exist.
- Home school families emigrate to Australia and New Zealand by the thousands.
- Bush officials are jailed and bankrupt.
- Taliban-like oppression overtakes Iraq and death of American sympathizers reaches millions.
- Homosexuals are given a bonus to enlist in the military.
As
you can see, Focus on the Family Action has abandoned reasonable
appeals and resorted to shameless tactics of fear mongering. They have
abandoned the belief that voters can make informed decisions and have
instead appealed to fear as their fundamental motivator.
As
Christians, we stand appalled and ashamed at such tasteless
demagoguery. We believe that civil, educated, and compassionate
dialogue should and can occur with the active engagement of our faith,
but believe that Focus on the Family Action has, in this letter,
stepped far outside of reasonable boundaries into pure sensationalism.
We believe that such thoughtless expressions coming from an
organization that purports to represent Evangelicals continues to mar
our legitimacy and voice in the public arena, and damages our basic
Christian witness.
The original letter can be found here:
http://focusfamaction.edgeboss.net/download/focusfamaction/pdfs/10-22-08_2012letter.pdf
It can also be found by going to the original Focus on the Family Action page on the right side under "Election Coverage": http://www.citizenlink.org/focusaction/
Christianity Today also has a description of the letter here: http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2008/10/an_obama_admini.html
Join
this group, but more importantly please let Focus on the Family Action
hear your voice by contacting them through email at
citizenlink@family.org or through http://www.matthew25.org/fotf_response.php
For
those interested in the relationship between "Focus on the Family
Action" and "Focus on the Family," please see the following:
http://www.citizenlink.org/focusaction/A000006808.cfm
There
are few places where people from both sides can come together. Please
keep discussions civil, as this is a Bipartisan stance against Focus on
the Family Action's letter, and not a partisan support of either
candidate or party.
You can also contact the "non-political" branch of Focus on the Family
in the following link. They have email, phone, and snail mail
information. This may or may not be more helpful in letting Focus know
how you feel, as it is technically a legally separate organization
(though obviously not ideologically or pragmatically).
http://family.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/family.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=18
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[10/28/08]
After a mere 3 days of existence, this group has garnered more than
1000 members. Thank you for the civil and respectful conversations we
have had. Please continue to write to Focus on the Family Action to
express your concerns about this letter.
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Christianity
Today blogs about the letter, referencing Jim Wallis' response, Focus
on the Family Action's defense of the letter, and this Facebook group!
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2008/10/jim_wallis_dema.html
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Relevant Media Group discusses the letter: http://www.neueministry.com/2008/11/a-reply-to-dobsons-letter/"
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