Dobson surrenders: The hate crimes bill is ‘utter evil,’ but there’s nothing I can do about it.
Dobson surrenders: The hate crimes bill is ‘utter evil,’ but there’s nothing I can do about it.
Focus on the Family’s James Dobson yesterday used his daily broadcast to complain about the hate crimes legislation that recently passed the House. Dobson called it “utter evil” and said it will “undermine the rule of law and seriously damage morality and decency in the culture.” Dobson frequently rails against various cultural issues. But as Dan Gilgoff at U.S. News notes, what was different in this broadcast was Dobson’s utter hopelessness:
I want to tell you up front that we’re not going to ask you to do anything, to make a phone call or to write a letter or anything.
There is nothing you can do at this time about what is taking place because there is simply no limit to what the left can do at this time. Anything they want, they get and so we can’t stop them.
We tried with [Health and Human Services Secretary] Kathleen Sebelius and sent thousands of phone calls and emails to the Senate and they didn’t pay any attention to it because they don’t have to. And so what you can do is pray, pray for this great nation… As I see it, there is no other answer. There’s no other answer, short term.
Dobson recently made headlines when he conceded that the far right had lost most of the recent so-called “culture war” battles. “Humanly speaking, we can say that we have lost,” said Dobson, adding that he would keep on fighting.
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Dobson surrenders: The hate crimes bill is ‘utter evil,’ but there’s nothing I can do about it.
– - Onward Christian Soldier? Yeah, not so much.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:10 pmSo Dodbson is essentially saying that he and his merry followers should have the right to verbally & physically abuse gays and protecting gays is “utter evil”.
Real nice. And not really very Christian.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:10 pmSurrendering, Little Jimmy? Well, that’s a good start.
Now, may I suggest that you sit down and STFU?
May 15th, 2009 at 12:14 pmFAIL.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:15 pmActually, there IS something Dobson can do about it, he can STFU!
May 15th, 2009 at 12:16 pmHumanly speaking, we can say that we have lost,” said Dobson.
Translation: I CAN’T MAKE MONEY OFF IT !!!
May 15th, 2009 at 12:16 pmYeah, nothing says morality like killing someone because you don’t like their ethinic heritage or sexual orientation.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:16 pmTake some time off, James; get your wife another face lift…she needs it.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:16 pmShorter Daddy Dobson: Screw you gays, I’m going home.
Toodles.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:17 pmDobson surrenders: The hate crimes bill is ‘utter evil,’ but there’s nothing I can do about it.
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And with that, the former Christian power broker proceeded to run around the room, waving his hanky in the air and hysterically shrieking, “Teh gays!!! Teh Gays!!! they’re HERE!!! Run! Run!!”
May 15th, 2009 at 12:17 pmMy God, it must be horrible for Dobson and his followers to see our great nation devolve into a liberal haven where hate crimes are illegal and the right to privacy is upheld! Hell on earth, I tell you, hell on earth!
I guess all Dobson has left is praying for the Rapture to beam him up.
PEACE
May 15th, 2009 at 12:18 pmNow he can go home and shower with his sons — to inoculate them against teh gay.
Ewww.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:20 pm…there is simply no limit to what the left can do at this time. Anything they want, they get and so we can’t stop them.
Really? Ok, let’s proceed with prosecutions of war crimes and universal health care, for starters.
Can’t the ‘right’ say anything without such extreme exaggeration?
May 15th, 2009 at 12:20 pmDobson and people like him are so evil and dangerous. I hope that they stay powerless and in the minority. Let them sit in the corner and sulk as the world moves on from religious nonsense.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:20 pm“Anything they want, they get and so we can’t stop them.” — Dobson
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Ah — if only that was the case. Then gays could get married and serve in the military. Universal health care would be reality. EFCA would pass. We’d be out of Iraq. Fat cat greedheads would be ponying up more in taxes and we’d be on our way to economic recovery. Veterans would be treated decently, and their war injuries would be taken care of. We’d be taking global warming seriously. And we’d be making real progress on developing alternative energy sources to be ready for that day when we use the last drop of oil.
No, we don’t get everything we want. But it’s a relief to know that the wingnuts don’t either — anymore.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:21 pmjust more evidence that religious belief is a mental illness and people suffering from it should be provided professional help
it is cruel and inhumane to allow mental illness to go untreated
May 15th, 2009 at 12:22 pmJames, if you had been a little more Christ-like, and a lot less “Christian”, you would not find yourself in this position.
Ranting about abortion and homosexuals while ignoring the thousands of innocent children killed in illegal wars by your “Christian” government, and having nothing to say about the criminal mismanagement of the economy and the tax system that condemned hundreds of thousands of AMERICAN children to poverty and a lack of affordable health care did not exactly make you a believable spokesman for Jesus.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:23 pmYes! Dobson=0, Rational Thinking=1 !!!! Oops did I say rational thinking? I meant Satan.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:24 pmRest assured, you can still hate in private Dobson.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:28 pmOne might think that a supposed minister of God’s Word would have a more expansive view of “utter evil” than a bill legislating against hate crimes.
One would be wrong.
Although, to clarify, I think what one would be wrong about in this case is the gentleman in question being a true minister of God’s Word.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:29 pmJesus loves the little “straight” children, all the “straight” children of the world….
I think it’s such a wonderful song, don’t you Dobson?
May 15th, 2009 at 12:29 pmI guess all Dobson has left is praying for the Rapture to beam him up.
Does anyone have Rapture’s email address. I would like to send a note and second this request!
May 15th, 2009 at 12:30 pm.
Shorter Dobson: “I hate the hate crimes bill.”
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May 15th, 2009 at 12:33 pm“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”
May 15th, 2009 at 12:35 pm~~~Cicero
I think it’s telling that he feels his actions are covered under hate crimes.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:36 pmWell, then, Mr. Dobson, perhaps you should follow the dogma you profes to believe and preach, as specified by the figure you deem to be the first and last word (tht’d be that Mr. Jesus fellow), and go pray alone, in private, and in silence.
Or, to put it shorter, STFU you cromagnon boneheaded hate-filled perverted greedy slime bag. (too harsh?)
May 15th, 2009 at 12:36 pmSo if Dobson and his fellow religionists were correct wouldn’t there be divine intervention to make sure they were in power and their policies were adopted? The world is as God wants it to be, and just can’t see Dobson saying that is not true. And if it is true it must mean Dobson is wrong. Thank God.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:36 pmProtecting the right to beat teh gay is a basic tenant for upholding family values ™ and being strong on national defense ™.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:37 pmDobson said the Hate Crimes Bill will “undermine the rule of law and seriously damage morality and decency in the culture.”
May 15th, 2009 at 12:38 pmHe really feels that protecting people from hatred & violence will do that? No wonder people are moving away from the church with Dobson & others like him around.
You mean this rabid 18%er is actually acknowledging that the rest of the country has finally realized they are tired of the hate and fear screeching from the whackos? That maybe we can return to such dubious pursuits as rule of law over divine decree as interpreted by neurotics?
May 15th, 2009 at 12:39 pmif there was a god there would be no Dobson
there would be no religion either, as a REAL god would not need an army of salesmen
May 15th, 2009 at 12:40 pmWiz Says:
Ooohhh… don’t apply logic to their twisted views of their religion. See… God ™ hated Sodom and Gommorah, so He, in his loving benevolence and gentle persuasion, destroyed that entire city for its pervasive evil.
But He’s older now, and He just don’t have that kind of gumption anymore, so He leaves the dirty work of persecuting those He hates to the righteous faithful followers, who must not judge others, but they may act as the jury and executioners (yeah, its a technical loophole, but He left it that way on purpose, you see).
God IS love, except when He hates.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:40 pmYep, I think Shayne had this troll pegged right off.
OS = Obviously Stupid.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:46 pmholy rollers suck
May 15th, 2009 at 12:47 pmThis is when normal Americans need to be worried… when religious righties feel that there is nothing they can do ‘legally’ to keep the country in the 19th century, and that their only hope is to ‘pray, that’s when their nutjob contingent will begin to take matters into their own hands, ala Tim McVeigh, Jim David Adkisson, abortion clinic bombings, Gwatney’s murder, etc…
May 15th, 2009 at 12:47 pm(sigh) More lame troll. Not even anything to whack at there.
Bad troll. No cookie.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:47 pmI love it when the devil whines about something being ‘evil’, what a joke.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:49 pmBuford Says:
Agreed. Desperation, whether real or imagined, leads people to do dangerous and unlawful acts.
Sad statement on their belief in “the power of prayer”, though, isn’t it? “pray hard, and go blow people up”….. hmmmmm… reminds me of some other looney religious freaks, but who?…. but who?……
May 15th, 2009 at 12:50 pmOS=Operating System (or lack thereof).
I don’t think rebooting would help.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:50 pm…the far right had lost most of the recent so-called “culture war”
Looks like bigotry is not so popular on the left as it is on the right…
…and the right (who are wrong) are getting smaller and smaller every year.
Fcuk the Republic Fascist Party.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:50 pmTired Of Fighting: What kind of Christian are you if you cant support a bill that punishes you for hate? What kind of Christian likes to hate? What kind of Christian hates? What kind of Christian stands by and watches hate? Why are so many so-called Christian’s so hateful?
Tired Of Fighting: Are these people even Christians?
God: NO!!
RIP
May 15th, 2009 at 12:50 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
I hate hate.
Oscillating Shithead.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:50 pmSend in the dancing trolls.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:54 pmHere’s what you can do, Preacher boy:
Sit down, Shut Up, and let the sane people run the government.
And go shopping.
Freakin Jesus freaks!
May 15th, 2009 at 12:54 pm“God is dead” Time magazine
May 15th, 2009 at 12:55 pm“God is alive” The Reverend James Dobson
“Who is this Dobson yutz?” God
As soon as the evangelicals discover that there are mega bucks to be made catering to gay and lesbian couples they’ll convert their houses of worship to wedding chapels for those gays and lesbians who want to marry.
May 15th, 2009 at 12:55 pmJeebus can’t stop “utter evil”?
wow…that doesn’t say much about the made up KKKristian deity
May 15th, 2009 at 12:56 pmseriously damage morality and decency in the culture
So, a bill that protects people from being injured or killed because of the person’s hate of their sexual orientation, skin color or religion will damage morality and decency in our culture. Sorry Mr. Dobson, I think that condoning hate towards any group of people is more likely to damage morality and decency than providing protections for those groups.
As far as his letters to congress and Kathleen Sebelius, I’m sure both have received manyh calls, letters and e-mails. But, I suspect the majority of them were supporting this hate crime bill not bashing it.
May 15th, 2009 at 1:03 pmit’s a little OT, but I was reading this morning about the difference between a historically Protestant Christian country like Switzerland, and how Christianity there helped emphasize a thriving public sphere for the country, with a great deal more tolerance than the U.S. The U.S. seems to have taken a more maniacal tack with the Christian thing.
I know there’s obviously a lot of other factors. But it’s just interesting how that initial communal culture of Christianity really got perverted here in the U.S., almost to the point of 180 degree culture of selfishness and xenophobia we see today.
May 15th, 2009 at 1:05 pmOS Says:
they are tired of the hate and fear screeching from the whackos?
The only hate, fear screeching and whackos are the progressives that live here, 24/7. Proof abounds.
If you want hate, fear and whack jobs, go to redstate.com or any of the other right wing blog sites. They put the so-called “hate” (really just differing opinions) that is supposedly here to shame. Every once in a while I wander over to these sites to see what they are saying. After less than 5 minutes I want to vomit and feel like I need to take a shower.
May 15th, 2009 at 1:08 pmHumanly speaking, why would you participate in, promote, and use culture wars for political gain?
May 15th, 2009 at 1:09 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins Says:
If you want hate, fear and whack jobs, go to redstate.com or any of the other right wing blog sites
Shhhh…thats…the truth. You know the one thing the hatewingers actually hate is when you give examples of them hatin’.
May 15th, 2009 at 1:18 pmWell, then, Mr. Dobson, perhaps you should follow the dogma you profes to believe and preach, as specified by the figure you deem to be the first and last word (tht’d be that Mr. Jesus fellow), and go pray alone, in private, and in silence.
Or, to put it shorter, STFU you cromagnon boneheaded hate-filled perverted greedy slime bag. (too harsh?)
Nah…I thought ir rather brilliant actually!
May 15th, 2009 at 1:32 pmRanting tommy–There are actually Christians out there who work
May 15th, 2009 at 1:37 pmfor social and economic justice.
Check out the Sojourners. Some Christians are actually liberal
like Christ was.
There is nothing you can do at this time about what is taking place because there is simply no limit to what the left can do at this time. Anything they want, they get and so we can’t stop them.
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Really? Cool!
I can’t wait to try this out. Let’s see:
I want a full criminal investigation into the use of torture by the previous administration.
Did we get it? Hmm.
I want a viable single-payer health care proposal to be part of the health-care reform discussion.
How about that?
I want a sensible plan for withdrawal from Afghanistan and an end to indiscriminate bombing in the Afghan-Pakistan region.
Did we get it?
I want a pony.
Hmmm. Seems like something’s broken somewhere cause I haven’t gotten anything I want yet.
May 15th, 2009 at 1:41 pmI’m not saying all Christians are evil, just that religious beliefs are a mental illness
We should help people that have mental illness
May 15th, 2009 at 1:48 pmJames Dobson is an angry culture warrior who wants everyone to be subjected to his PERSONAL, literal interpretation of “The Bible.” Absolutely everything must be done to keep him, his followers and their ilk from EVER having an ally such as George W. Bush in the White House again!
May 15th, 2009 at 1:54 pmIt’s too bad that surrender doesn’t mean that they’ll give up their ranting and raving. It doesn’t mean that they’ll ever change their distorted view in the slightest. It doesn’t mean that they’ll stop garnering headlines on the far right media.
It pretty much means that the only thing that’s changes is that they can now declare martyrdom.
May 15th, 2009 at 2:03 pmWe had a slightly different perspective on this:
http://www.tips-q.com/924694-james-dobson-pathological-liar
May 15th, 2009 at 2:07 pmWhy wait for the Rapture Dobson? Get ahead of the game, don’t stand in line, drink the Kool Aid and meet your maker before he’s too busy to even shake your hand. Same for you OS/POS.
But if you don’t have the balls to pull the trigger, STFU.
May 15th, 2009 at 2:34 pmIf they are going to be politically involved to the point that they’re broadcasting messages about bills in Congress, then they should be paying taxes.
May 15th, 2009 at 2:40 pmPeople like Dobson caused me to give up church.
May 15th, 2009 at 2:44 pmDobson is scared. He’s scared because all signs are pointing to a change in this country. This change will make it improbable, if not impossible, for delusional people like himself to be elevated to positions of authority.
Non-Belivers are nearly as many as the shrinking “religious right”. More than 30% of 18-29 year-olds identify themselves as “agnostic, atheist, or non-denominational”. The Reichwing Psychochristians are a failing breed who’s own pathetic inability to govern has reduced them to this sorry state in such a short time. And all that was needed was to give them the keys to power for 6 years. They were tested and found lacking.
May 15th, 2009 at 2:44 pmThis is the guy that said father & son should take showers together so that the sons won’t become gay.
May 15th, 2009 at 2:49 pmRantingTommy Says:
I’m not saying all Christians are evil, just that religious beliefs are a mental illness
May 15th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
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There may be some truth to this, though I’d characterize it as a genetic mutation rather than a mental illness: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7147-genes-contribute-to-religious-inclination.html
May 15th, 2009 at 3:00 pmof the left: “Anything they want, they get and so we can’t stop them.”
May 15th, 2009 at 3:06 pmOn top of being a fat cat bigoted fear/war monger, he is also a whining lier.
Obama is way to open to their schemes; we need real CHANGE; is the whitehouse listening? Grow a pair.
OS Says:
Wad ‘em up, loons!
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Bite me MORON
May 15th, 2009 at 3:10 pmOS Says 34
OK so you are a liar a fool a moron and brainwashed to boot. Good luck with that
May 15th, 2009 at 3:11 pmOperating System? I thought OS stood for Overtly Stupid
May 15th, 2009 at 3:14 pmCT and RT: As taught in Sociology 101, the latent function of religion is to maintain an orderly and civil society.
May 15th, 2009 at 3:16 pmCan you imagine the meltdown and chaos if the rightwingers didn’t have at least a few controls on their behavior?
Another one of Dobson “babbling” rueful stratagems. Dobson’s “faith-based initiatives” entitlement funds must have dried up and he’s upset that he didn’t get a good return?
…or…
Could it be Dobson is upset that the “have mores” are the “have no’s”, now?
Dobson, just another “hateful” social racist.
May 15th, 2009 at 3:27 pmHas anyone ever been to Dobsons’ cultist compound in Colorado Springs, CO? I have. They had (now shut down due to cost) a children’s section with an indoor playground and a vending area with pizza, hot dogs etc, etc. EVERYTHING a kid would want. They brainwash them young so, until these “new generations” run the course of life, I don’t see the reich-wingers leaving the fight soon.
May 15th, 2009 at 3:41 pmYeah, go ahead and pray. Maybe that will keep you and the rest of the radical christian right out of politics.
May 15th, 2009 at 4:07 pmIf you want hate, fear and whack jobs, go to redstate.com or any of the other right wing blog sites. They put the so-called “hate” (really just differing opinions) that is supposedly here to shame. Every once in a while I wander over to these sites to see what they are saying. After less than 5 minutes I want to vomit and feel like I need to take a shower.
I’m with you, Bilbo…….I once went (out of curiosity) to a website called Little Green Footballs……..OMG!!!! I didn’t even last 5 minutes….I needed a shower after that. The same with Faux Noise and Rushbo……they turn my stomach. I’m a firm believer in freedom of speech, though, so they can continue to spew their poison, but I fear the psychologically damaged people who take their word as gospel….lots more bombings of churches and schools to come at this rate. Sad.
May 15th, 2009 at 4:15 pmOh please! Dobson equals double-speak…he’s “trying” to use his fancy-schmancy reverse psychology on his own people, wink-wink…he knows they’re all stupid enough to fall for it!
He knows they’re indoctrinated; he’s a cultist psychologist! His dirty work is done. He’s crazy-making his followers…crazy-making, just like Jim Jone’s white lightening “drills”…this is only a test to see who’s loyal to him and who’s not. What a piece of work.
May 15th, 2009 at 7:04 pmDobson surrenders: The hate crimes bill is ‘utter evil,’ but there’s nothing I can do about it.
Except buy more stock in Remington, Beretta, Colt, etc, and pump up the weak-minded into a lathered, gun-buyin’ frenzy.
Ka-Ching!
May 15th, 2009 at 7:12 pmGo away blogwhore
May 15th, 2009 at 11:11 pmDobson is the False Prophet of Revelation.
May 16th, 2009 at 11:48 am“undermine the rule of law and seriously damage morality and decency in the culture.
Yes, that is exactly what Dobson does in his promoting politicl agendas and political enterprises from the pulpit. He violates the IRS code every waking day.
ALL RELIGION SHOULD BE ALLOWED, BUT IT SHOULD BE TAXED AT THE SAME RATE AS MAGICIANS. RELIGION DEMANDS EXACTLY THE SAME LEVEL OF SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF. IT IS LIKE A MIGICIAN AND SHOULD BE TAXED AS SUCH.
May 16th, 2009 at 5:32 pmJ. Fred Smug Says:
James Dobson is an angry culture warrior who wants everyone to be subjected to his PERSONAL, literal interpretation of “The Bible.” Absolutely everything must be done to keep him, his followers and their ilk from EVER having an ally such as George W. Bush in the White House again!
ALl Religion is personal, ergo it is NOT for mass appeal. All Religion cannot be corroborated such as repeating an experiment. Ergo, it is not of human commonality.
All religion only helps humans ignore their logical, rational thinking ability, by providing a stupid explanation that goes against the human’s own understanding of the world around him.
Religion is for mentally compromised people, who disaalow their own experiences and allow other people’s experience to be the experience they prefer.
“Trust your feelings Luke.”
May 16th, 2009 at 5:43 pmHate crimes aren’t evil, but outlawing them is. Torture and murder of detainees aren’t evil, but outlawing them is. Killing over a million people, most of them innocent women and children, isn’t evil, but protesting against the war is. Spending trillions of dollars on weapons isn’t evil, but spending millions helping the poor is, according to the great and famous Doctor Dobson. What would Jesus say?
May 16th, 2009 at 8:44 pmNo hate speech/thoughts shown in the above notes. Only love and kindness.
May 17th, 2009 at 7:51 pm