From WingNutDaily:
A prominent Christian leader whose radio and magazine outreaches are solidly in support of biblically-based marriages - and keep in touch with millions of constituents daily - says he cannot consider Arizona Sen. John McCain a viable candidate for president.


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John from AmericaBlog addresses James Dobson's fantasy account of growing up in 1930s/40s Louisiana:
What’s Dobson’s background? - He was born in Louisiana in 1936, and remembers his hometown as an idyllic slice of heartland America. “There were no drugs in my racially mixed, public high school,” he wrote. “There were no punkers, no skinheads, no ( Read more... )

I just saw an article on BBC about how Bush has declared Sept 16 as National Day of Prayer for Katrina victims, and I was gearing up to do a big post about how fucked up that would be - a national day of government-sponsered prayer? What the shit is that? I mean, aren't we supposed to have a thing in this country called freedom of religion ( Read more... )

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Ack! Ex-Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm Dies and Rep. Matsui Dies From Illness at Age 63

Sad.

Also, we need to start a Dr Dobson watchdog organization: Evangelical Leader Threatens to Use His Political Muscle Against Some Democrats

Hasn't he been planning that for the last, hmm, 40 years?

PS - I'm kinda liking our new Minority leader.

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