Inspired by the So-called Justice Sunday, April 24, 2005
Dr. Dobson,
Every week you and your organization add another outrage to an already endless list. Your latest outrage, called “Justice Sunday: Stop the Filibuster Against People of Faith” is perhaps the greatest yet. We quote from your website:
For years activist courts, aided by liberal interest groups like the ACLU, have been quietly working under the veil of the judiciary, like thieves in the night, to rob us of our Christian heritage and our religious freedoms...
We now have a President who is committed to nominate judicial candidates who are not activists, but strict constructionists... However, there is a radical minority that has launched an unprecedented filibuster against these outstanding men and women... They are being blocked because they are people of faith and moral conviction. These are people whose only offense is to say that abortion is wrong or that marriage should be between one man and one woman.*
The filibuster isn’t against people of faith, and you know it. The filibuster is against judicial candidates like Janice Rodgers Brown of California. Justice Brown, according to Hilary Shelton of the NAACP, “has a record of hostility to fundamental civil and constitutional rights principles, and she is committed to using her power as a judge to twist the law in ways that undermine those principles.”
Perhaps by "people of faith" you mean people of your “faith.” I must admit that I don’t understand your so-called faith. It is obviously a faith of well-to-do white middle Americans, hungry for power, hateful of anyone who is different. You appear to have two or maybe three commandments: 1. Thou shalt vilify liberals 2. Thou shalt hate homosexuals and do everything within your power to treat them as subhuman monsters.” Of course you “take a stand against abortion” but we already know you don’t really care about the unborn. The statistics—that women in the U.S. have more abortions when your candidates are in power—demonstrate otherwise.
Your use of Christian jargon is confusing at best. You obviously have a very different sort of Savior than the compassionate Nazarene who held company with prostitutes and tax gathers, the gentle Messiah whose justice for the adulterous woman was “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” The very Savior who “left His throne and kingly crown,” who gave up all power and glory for a humble life and and ignominious death, all to “save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all” is foreign to your power-grabbing ways.
Finally, your use of the pulpit--pulpits across this land--for your divisive conservative-Republican-partisan agenda is positively shameful. Do you really want a justice Sunday? Search the Scriptures. Study the Book of Deuteronomy. Ponder one single verse: “Justice, justice you shall pursue.” But stop closing the door on those of us for who choose to express our faith by imitating our compassionate—and dare I say liberal—Savior.
Sincerely,
JB
Co-Founder
Believers Against Bush
*From Family Research Council website © 2005 Family Research Council
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