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Dobson Sharply Attacks 2006 Obama Speech

By Howard M. Friedman

Yesterday, according to CNN, evangelical leader James Dobson used his radio show to sharply attack a speech made two years ago by Barack Obama. At issue was Obama's keynote address to the liberal Christian group Call to Renewal. (Full text of address.) In the long speech, Obama focuses on how religious people can bring their beliefs into public policy debates. Dobson accused Obama of using that speech to "deliberately distort... the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own world view, his own confused theology," saying that Obama is "dragging biblical understanding through the gutter." Here are links to audio of Dobson's full broadcast in which he refers to some of Obama's remarks as a "fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution." Obama, in turn, took issue with Dobson's criticisms. (AP).

Full post as published by Religion Clause on June 25, 2008 (boomark / email).