James Dobson of Focus On The Family fame had this to say about the possible Presidential candidacy of Fred Thompson:
“Everyone knows he’s conservative and has come out strongly for the things that the pro-family movement stands for,” Dobson said of Thompson. “[But] I don’t think he’s a Christian; at least that’s my impression,” Dobson added, saying that such an impression would make it difficult for Thompson to connect with the Republican Party’s conservative Christian base and win the GOP nomination.
Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Thompson, took issue with Dobson’s characterization of the former Tennessee senator. “Thompson is indeed a Christian,” he said. “He was baptized into the Church of Christ.”
In a follow-up phone conversation, Focus on the Family spokesman Gary Schneeberger stood by Dobson’s claim. He said that, while Dobson didn’t believe Thompson to be a member of a non-Christian faith, Dobson nevertheless “has never known Thompson to be a committed Christian?someone who talks openly about his faith.”
“We use that word?Christian?to refer to people who are evangelical Christians,” Schneeberger added. “Dr. Dobson wasn’t expressing a personal opinion about his reaction to a Thompson candidacy; he was trying to ‘read the tea leaves’ about such a possibility.”
And just who does Dobson think would connect with Evangelical Christians:
While making it clear he was not endorsing any Republican presidential candidate, Dobson, who is considered the most politically powerful evangelical figure in the country, also said that Gingrich was the “brightest guy out there” and “the most articulate politician on the scene today.”
You know, the guy who’s been married three times, divorced his first wife while she was recovering from cancer, and had an affair during his second marriage with the woman he’s know now married to. I like Newt Gingrich’s ideas, I think he’s a great speaker, but I’ve come to the conclusion that he just has too much baggage to be a serious contender for the White House
What I don’t get is why a supposed paragon of morality would support him.
H/T: Virginia Virtucon
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I’m afraid that Dr. Dobson is minimalizing himself with these statements. It is amazing that he could back Speaker Gingrich while putting Sen. Thompson down. It is incidents like this that promote the liberal socialists right into office. Nobody is good enough for the likes of Dr. Dobson. I think that when Christ returns he would not be good enough for these evangelicals.
I have to laugh at these self-righteous holier-than-thou Christians that have a doctrine that is based on Catholicism, which tried to annihilate the thoughts of most of the Disciples of Christ. Only through the efforts of a couple of monks in Egypt do we have the rest of the Bible. While Dr. Dobson is blithely ignorant of the actual teachings of Christ, he is immensely cogniscent of anything in the Bible that would provide funds for his church. He would, for instance, claim that I am not a Christian because I used to be a Quaker, a member of the Society of Friends, and now have become a Gnostic.
May G-D be with us,
W Howard Baker
Bardstown, KY