James Dobson Lets Loose On Barack Obama

Dr. James Dobson a child psychologist, best-selling author and founder of Focus On The Family let loose on Sen.Barack Obama on Tuesday.

Boston Globe reports:

As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accused the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee yesterday of distorting the Bible and pushing a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution.

The criticism, aired on Dobson's radio program, came shortly after an Obama aide suggested a meeting at the organization's headquarters in Colorado Springs, said Tom Minnery, senior vice president for government and public policy at Focus on the Family.

Dobson took aim at a speech Obama gave in June 2006 to the liberal Christian group Call to Renewal in which he asked about biblical passages as guides for public policy - chapters like Leviticus, which Obama said suggests slavery is OK and eating shellfish is an abomination, or Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, "a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application."

Dobson and Minnery accused Obama of wrongly equating Old Testament texts and dietary codes that no longer apply to Jesus' teachings in the New Testament.

"I think he's deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology," Dobson said. " . . . He is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter."

Obama told reporters that his speech made the argument that people of faith, like himself, "try to translate some of our concerns in a universal language so that we can have an open and vigorous debate rather than having religion divide us."

Of Dobson, he added, "I think you'll see that he was just making stuff up, maybe for his own purposes."

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