The Staying Power of the Ever Intolerant Christian Right

According to an article on progressive.org;

Issues such as the war in Iraq, “Islamofascism,” and immigration drew as much or more enthusiastic attention as abortion and gay rights. The event ended with a farewell speech by James Dobson, a Christian Right founder and icon. Dobson used the opportunity to rake his political allies across the coals for supporting Republican Presidential candidates who were too soft on issues such as abortion and gay rights, or whose personal peccadilloes suggested their moral values lacked a righteousness rudder. And this was before McCain emerged as the Republican front runner. Even then, liberal pundits were declaring the Christian Right fractured and fading.

But McCain has not written off the Christian Right as powerless. The same McCain who, in his last bid for the Presidency, labeled various Christian Right leaders as “agents of intolerance” has not only apologized and embraced those leaders (Robertson and the late Falwell), but initially accepted the endorsement of one of the worst of the bunch, John Hagee, who infamously called Hurricane Katrina an act of God against New Orleans for scheduling a gay pride event.

Prayer For “Biblical Proportion” Rain Yanked from Website

It was reported earlier on gayagenda.com that Stuart Shepard, correspondent for the Focus on the Family network and a Dobson crony, mused on bothering God about prayers for some biblical rains to wash away Obama’s convention speech in Denver this month. In the video he claims, what’s a little rain when the institution of marriage and millions of unborn lives are at stake?

Well, looks like his video has backfired and people from within his own Anti-Gay hate group have grumbled enough to have the video pulled off the website.  According to a blog on queensspeach.com, “they’re saying it was just a joke. Well, it’s a joke that the religious right used to target Obama, because he’s a Democrat. This only fuels the concern that the religious right isn’t about God anymore, they’re about Republicans. And that’s just sad.”

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Dobson Trying To Get In Bed With McCain

As recently as April, Dobson told the WSJ, “I have seen no evidence that Sen. McCain is successfully unifying the Republican Party or drawing conservatives into his fold. To the contrary, he seems intent on driving them away.” Dobson added that McCain has “written off” social conservatives. And yet, Dobson has suddenly discovered that his hatred of McCain is not as intense as his hatred of Barack Obama. Read the rest at thecarpetbaggerreport.com.