{"id":195649,"date":"2008-06-24T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/24\/from-a-man-who-advocates-beating-children-and-pets\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T23:14:00","slug":"from-a-man-who-advocates-beating-children-and-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/24\/from-a-man-who-advocates-beating-children-and-pets\/","title":{"rendered":"From a Man Who Advocates Beating Children and Pets&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Dobson, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/06\/24\/evangelical.vote\/index.html\">suggesting that Barack Obama distorts biblical values<\/a>, this from a man who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rj-eskow\/rev-dobson-on-rev-dobso_b_8734.html\">advocates beating children and pets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that this attack was the result of Obama raising a very valid point, &#8220;Even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? Would we go with James Dobson&#8217;s or Al Sharpton&#8217;s?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which is a valid point.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Dobson feels that Sharpton is a racist, and thus that Obama was tarring him as a racist.<\/p>\n<p>If the show fits dude.  A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=100&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;as_qdr=all&amp;q=%22james+dobson%22+racist&amp;btnG=Search\">quick google<\/a> finds many quotes where Dobson claims black genetic inferiority, revulsion toware mixed race marriage, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Dobson, is suggesting that Barack Obama distorts biblical values, this from a man who advocates beating children and pets. It appears that this attack was the result of Obama raising a very valid point, &#8220;Even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,977,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-presidential-campaign","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}