Focus on the Fruitcake

More on the Dobson - Obama spat that I blogged about recently. Apparently, the Obama side of it is from a speech he gave in 2006 and only now, because he is the presumptive nominee, is Dobson bothering to comment. Dobson is head of Focus on the Family.

Dobson's main claim is that Obama has a "fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution" because Obama said that laws must have a secular rationale. Religious organizations can (and should) say whether they are for or against a particular law (or such things as abortion) but they need to back it up with more than a biblical or papal decree. Dobson also implies that the views of non-Christians can be discarded because they are in the minority.

There is new data out from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life that show Dobson's rigid approach to theology is less appealing to Americans. One tidbits of the survey: 63% believe that various sacred texts are the Word of God, but only 33% insist they must be taken literally.

So the louder Dobson and friends yell, the more Americans are driven from Christianity.

A related blog entry notes that Dobson has consistently distorted the Constitution -- such as denying the concept of separation of church and state (the words as such don't exist in the Constitution but the concept is in the First Amendment and Jefferson used the words in a letter to pastors) -- and Obama taught Constitutional law at the University of Chicago for 12 years. Who would you trust with your Constitution?