Showing posts with label focus on the family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label focus on the family. Show all posts

Monday, September 21, 2009

James Dobson Breaks Ties With Glenn Beck

My previous post on Glenn Beck was a satire all in good fun but here is something real:

Fundamentalists vs Mormons… Is the honeymoon over?

About a month ago I quoted Lisa Derrick from the Huffington Post:
During the Yes on 8 campaign, Mormons got used like an ugly chick by a sleazy rock band–it was fine for her to pay for rent, food and gas, and provide certain services, but when it comes time for the record release party, she won’t be on the list.


Here is an example, a prime example.

The Mormon Times is reporting that Focus on the Family has pulled an article off their website because the faith of the person is a “cult” and is a “false religion” and shouldn’t be promoted by a Christian ministry.


This all started on December 22, when an anti-Mormon group called Underground Apologetics issued a release through Christian News Wire which read:
Focus on the Family has a story on Glenn Beck, a Mormon, on their CitizenLink Web site.

Glenn Beck was a CNN host and will move to Fox News in January.

Beck is currently promoting his book, ‘The Christmas Sweater.’

The CitizenLink story focuses on Beck’s faith and why he wrote ‘The Christmas Sweater.’

While Glenn’s social views are compatible with many Christian views, his beliefs in Mormonism are not. Clearly, Mormonism is a cult. The CitizenLink story does not mention Beck’s Mormon faith, however, the story makes it look as if Beck is a Christian who believes in the essential doctrines of the faith.

Through the years, Focus on the Family has done great things to help the family and has brought attention to the many social ills that are attacking the family. However, to promote a Mormon as a Christian is not helpful to the cause of Jesus Christ. For Christians to influence society, Christians should be promoting the central issues of the faith properly without opening the door to false religions.


Can I get an “OUCH!”

Hey Glenn seems your money was good, however, you, your products, and your beliefs, are no good.


Sigh...oh those loopy fundamentalists.

Monday, October 27, 2008

I've Tried To Keep Politics Off Of Here...

But this is too rich:

Dr. James Dobson, of Focus on the Family has published a letter trying to "scare" Christians into voting for John McCain. It is a fictional letter written by a Christian in 2012, four years after Obama is elected. Frankly, it is one of the most offensive things that I have ever read. I believe that it important for Christians not to be scared or bullied into voting one way or another. I'm tired of hearing people say that McCain is the way Christians need to vote, hearing about how pastors have said it is "unchristian" for people to vote for Obama, and seeing Church signs pushing their parishioners one way or another.

Read more from my friend Christina Whitehouse-Suggs' Livejournal.


Read Dobson's actual letter: Here.

Here is Christina's letter of response:

Dear Dr. Dobson,

I am so very tired of your ranting about politics and theology, claiming that all good Christians agree with your views. Your most recent fictional letter is yet another brick in the fundamentalist wall you continue to build around your narrow-minded kingdom. I'm sure others are saying they are appalled and outraged at your sensationalist tactics, but I'm far past that. For years you have not shown yourself to be concerned with anything that lines up with the message of the risen Christ.

If you truly consider yourself a follower of the Jesus portrayed in the Gospels, then you need to write a letter of apology to Senator Obama, as well as the entire Democratic party. Your work of fiction is the most vilifying piece of trash I've read since the Left Behind series. As Christians, we should be active in the political process but never stoop to such low-handed, strong-armed tactics.

Rev. Christina Whitehouse-Suggs


I must say I actually agree with Christina's letter moreso than Dr. Dobson's eventhough I may be a registered Republican (though I don't support either party). However, being thoroughly Baptist---I respect Dobson's right to believe as he chooses, but I believe Dobson went too far here. Especially, since coercive faith is against basic, fundamental and standard Baptist principles or as Roger Williams would say: “forc’t Worshipp stincks in Gods nostrils.”

Write your own response letter: Here.