Focus on the Family Action: Blaming Young Christians for Obama Win

Number one - "Obama administration that's disastrous for religious conservatives " - There is nothing on this great earth that can harm my faith in God. Nothing any politician can do will be any worse than what the bible already promises will happen to true believers.

Number two - Obama represents Christian beliefs in a way that McCain is not able to understand. From what I can tell, Obama encompasses the spirit of Christ in everything that he does (he isn't perfect of course). Obama's sense of fairness and pragmatism are refreshing and I pray daily for his success and increased wisdom in God. I am a life-long Christian and I consider my self deeply religious. I will be Voting for Obama because I sense that he is motivated by real love for God, family, community, and his country.

How can groups like this purport to be Christian and yet violate the Commandment: Thou shalt not bear false witness? Their bigotry blinds them to their own sinfulness. Fortunately for them God is forgiving; their followers should be less so.

As a Christian, I'm sadden by all of the "hate" I hear on Christian radio, and read on Christian sites and publications. Groups like Focus on the Family and other Christian leaders using their platforms to disseminate hate is the only true sign the fall of this great nation - - Using the banner of Christian, Christ Like, to spread fear and hatred. Heaven help us all.

Let me begin by saying that I really respect Dr. Dobson and all of his work over the years in providing Biblical guidance for family life. It is for that very reason that I was so much in line with his inititial take on this election. Both candidates are imperfect and leave much to be desired. In retrospect, many of us has grown to feel the same about our current President.

I too contacted Focus Action (twice) to express my concern with the level of blind partisanship reflected in recent communications. I believe that Dobson was closer to right back in Feb 2008, when he stated that he would not be able to vote for the first time in his life. That to me was a better response. For good reasons he indicated that he could not support a McCain presidency (immoral personal life, soft on family issues and life issues). Since that time, I have spent alot of energy trying to get to the detail behind that position. It was crystal clear during McCain's run against Bush. Other details that came to the surface are items like McCain's gambling habit and close ties to the gaming industry (lead player in the Indian Reserve Casino legislation). In addition, a good portion of his family wealth comes from the Anneheiser-Bush company, where his wife is the Chairwoman, son form first marriage is an executive and Mccain severed in a leadership role.

It is quiet clear that Focus has chosen not to focus on these issues, which account for arguably a far greater degree of moral decay in our society (how many abortions start as uninhibited nights drinking in casinos). Aside from that drunken driving, gambling addictions, casino's are often associated with the adult entertainment and prostitution industry. McCain gets a pass because he figured out the right combination of big moral issues (as if God assigns greater weight to one or the other).

According to 2 Tim 2:23-25 (NLT) "Again I say, don't get involved in foolish, ignorant arguments that only start fights. The Lord's servants must not quarrel but must be kind to everyone. They must be able to TEACH EFFECTIVELY and be patient with difficult people. They should GENTLY teach those who oppose the truth. Perhaps God will change those people's hearts, and they will believe the truth."

I am glad to see the gentle responses and hope in the messages of disagreement in these comments. I hope others will pray for the hearers of the accusatory and harsh message of released by Focus on the Family. I pray it will not turn people away from God or God's will. God works through love not through hate or condemnation! Nor are God's people future/fortune tellers. God is fully in control no matter what the outcome of the election. Finally, we all stumble and God, through Christ, provides forgiveness for all of our short falls. We can and ought to test the words, and the works, of man against the Bible and ask the Holy Spirit to direct us in Truth. I pray that TRUTH will be revealed, and those ensnared by lies will escape through HIS FORGIVNESS! In HIS NAME!

It is the level of both discourse and intelligence that one expects from Dobson. Maybe he should just content himself with getting upset over cartoons.

I would think it would be entertaining to lock Jesse Jackson and him in a room and let them lament to each other on how no one pays any attention to them any more.

The more I see of Obama and actually learn about him I really have no fear of him. I am a 58 year old who has been ACTIVE in my faith since I was 16. I have attended a variety of churches over my lifetime, visiting to see what other churches do differently and even wen to Catholic school a couple of years. It would appear that Obama's faith is pretty sound.

We need to keep in mind that no candidate will ever be without fault or sin. I don't think you can measure the breaking of one commandment against the other. Lies, deception, disrespect of any of Gods people, destroy our own relationship with God.

Issues such as R v Wade have been political fodder as long as I can remember and what politician has ever substantially changed it ? I suspect that the only change that will ever happen is when the moral compass of the world, THE CHURCH, gets its act together, get out of politics which are inherently corrupt, gets back into the love of Christ ministers to Gods people where in a world community of faith and love demonstrated by acts of love we can correct some of these issues. Obama is right on his view of the role of the parent, beyond that the church is to be the parent. It is not our role to legislate to the non believers, it is our role to win them over.

So let us minister to the people and to the problems of our society. It is in my mind equally dangerous to be on the "right" side of religion which I have always perceived as self righteous as on the "left" side which I have always perceived as dismissing of Gods expectations - both extremes want to tell God what He thinks and tell the rest of us what He thinks, Both are self serving not Christ serving.

Whomever is elected president should not effect in any way the mission of the body of the church, to love as Christ loved. Whenever we have to pick up a gun and go to war, any war we should always remember it is a representation of our failure as Christians to fulfill our mission to all of Gods people.

It warms my heart to see so many here are "New Testament" Christians full of love, caring and forgiveness. It is a stark contrast from the comments and actions of the "Old Testament" Christian behavior of law, war campaigns and judgment. Jesus rebuked many such "Scribes & Pharisees" as outwardly religious, but inside evil & twisted for their own purposes. Some use the teachings to change themselves, while others us it to force change on others - in other words, terrorists by any reasonable standard. I see no difference regardless of what faith they proclaim, the fruit they bear is the same.

Christians = Republicans? I don't think God would even get a chuckle out of that one.

Christians = Americans? I'm kind of thinking that God might have a problem with that one too.

Christians = War mongers? Uh... definitely not what God had in mind.

Christians = Only what deranged folks like Dobson describe. I kind of believe God's a little bigger than that.

Christians = Only people who need someone else to do their thinking for them? Only certain kinds of people. Only people who vote for a certain political party? Only...what?

So where does that leave us... ?

No wonder so many people are leaving "organized" religion.

My idea of God is that He's a lot bigger than what has been described to me by these small minded people.

I'm voting for GOD IS BIGGER THAN YOU in '08.

I attend a church that founded this great country and I wonder how these mega-pastors came to have such power...Many of them have slick marketing campaigns, selling anthing from books to socks with their names and mega-churches written on them. When was it decided (Isupposed it was decided by money) that Rick Warren or James Dobson speaks for us...I have a strong family with well-adjusted children and I don't agree with James Dobson and Focus on the Family on many issues .I say enough! I don't know how they can say they believe in the concepts Christ put forward...they are so judgmental and hateful. Don't they understand that peace begins here on the homefront and what creates it is the words we use? I believe in Christ's message and I see it also in Barack Obama, the Biden's and both of their families....Barack Obama's latest ad featuring just him speaks to that...he looks forward and how to start working for good change instead of constantly fighting about what is wrong. I'm voting Barack Obama because he embodies what I believe the Christian path is.....

Focus on the Family has enriched my life a number of times, but they have pretty much been losing credibility in my book for a while, and this new "doomsday" scenario should lose them the title of being a "Christian" organization. If they want to be political, it should only be on "family" issues. What does Focus on the Family know about Eastern European politics or terrorism? And what right does it have to go around fearmongering? God is in control, no matter who wins; they should act like it. Beyond as dishonest and fearmongering this latest thing is, even worse is that it just sounds pathetic.
Despite this, however, my vote goes to McCain. With all his gaffes (the Palin pick being the biggest one) and the myriad mistakes of the Republican Party, abortion is still a big deal to me, and I wouldn't give my vote to a pro-choice candidate yet. Nevertheless, I wouldn't have voted for McCain either if Obama had even a "moderately" pro-choice record on the issue. But he has been so radical on the issue that my vote goes to McCain. And I don't buy what any politician says about their personal spirituality anymore. Politicians will say anything to get elected. Remember W on Jesus Christ; how would you grade that remark now?. In light of that, why do people here so easily accept what Obama says? He's a politician; that gives everyone plenty of reason to at least withold judgment. And I don't buy McCain's less pronounced spiritual statements either. But McCain at least has a long pro-life voting record and a long record of bipartisanship; Obama has neither.

Please read the "Freedom of Choice Act " before you cast your vote. Obama has pledged to Planned Parenthood that he will sign the bill as soon as possible. This bill allows for taxpayers' money to be used for funding abortions, allows for partial birth abortion,negates parental notification, and disallows any state restrictions to abortion. Do we want a country that endorses this immortality?

Focus on the family is the problem, not the solution. They are the antichrist.

It's time to dump Dobson. His megalomaniac view of his own importance in the world has done more harm than good. It's high time the Christrian Right got off their collective behinds to stand up for the poor and disenfranchised in this world rather than the greedy big money crowd that brought about our current economic mess.I'm no Democrat but my prayers go with Mr. Obama that he would bring us together as a country. Stop demonizing him and find at least some common ground to begin getting this country back on its feet.

I just saw a "gay rights" demonstration on the Sundance Channel, with a crowd trying to get inside Dr. Dobson's church. I didn't note the date, so it may have been a re-run. The best part was when polite, but firm, police officers led hand-cuffed trespassers to the pokey. I looked for this site as soon as it was over.

Genesis 2:24 says marriage is a union between one man and one woman. This is in spite of the December 8, 2008 Newsweek trying to refute the Bible & hetero marriage. I wonder if Newsweek will follow the circulation drop that miami Herald, Washington Post, NY & LA Times? One can only hope - and pray.

The same ones who believe in the "living, breathing constitution" must be the same crowd that believe in a "living, breathing, Bible".

This in no way casts any dispersion on "The Living Bible", as I have found it an informative, easily read book, which does _Not_ distort God's Word, but explains it for modern readers.

When we were given the Ten Commandments, I didn't see where we receive a 'pass' for 70 or 90%. As difficult as it may be at times for most of us, we were given TEN to obey.

Jackson