The Threat of the Evangelicals

To read or listen to the opinions of James Dobson is to be chilled to the bone.

Mr. Dobson is founder and head of Focus on the Family. He is power mad and he is powerful - so powerful in fact that he holds the key to the Oval Office and has for several years now.

His op-ed piece in today's NY Times is available here.

Note the way he has captured language for his own purposes.

The people who attended a meeting were "pro-family" leaders, as if all others are against families.

If you are not against abortion, as he and his disciples are, you cannot possibly hold as a value the sanctity of life.

In speaking of the "institution of marriage," he means of course no homosexuals, no gay marriage. Focus on the family has spent millions of dollars and millions of human hours in volunteer and paid labor lobbying furiously against almost anything gay.

When he speaks of "other inviolable pro-family principles," who is to know what he means. Vegetables? Playing Risk or Monoploy together after dinner?

In my opinion, Mr. Dobson and his friends are dangerous Anti-Democrats, occupying a tiny, narrow uptight band of human understanding.

Unfortunately, they got the Worst President in American History elected twice and they continue to be powerful, determined and clever.

This is a desperate shame for all of us.