Letters to the Editor
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Hah...
Dobson finally proves himself the hypocritical schmuck he's always been. Don't have the courage of your convictions, James???? What a worm.
So, now, since blaming the democrats and liberals hasn't worked, guys like Dobson will just say that really, nothing happened, what's your problem anyway?
These guys are just too much. Will their followers EVER question them? People are so stupid. It's to weep.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Oh, I can't stand it...that's such a funny joke...the one a about the closeted gay Republican congressman who...oh, my stomach is starting to hurt...jacking off in the House bathroom while IMing a teenage page about the length of his man-meat...oh, I'm starting to get a headache...
Hey, James, have you heard the one...oh, this is just too rich...about the illegal war in Iraq...ow, my side...where more than 2,700 soldiers died and there were no WMD?
It's a killer, James.
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Has anyone told Foley?
I would think he would want to withdraw his resignation now that we know it was all just a prank.
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just maybe...
...Mr. Dobson never knew IMs were retrievable.
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Upside-down World
Things have come to a pretty pass when the so-called secular community is condemning a man for illicit contact with a minor while the leaders of the so-called Christian right are making excuses for him. Pathetic. Dobson is more concerned about protecting his image than he is with protecting his integrity. Remind me again how the leaders of the Christian right differ from politicians?
I'm reminded of one of the most visible mantras of the Christian right: What Would Jesus Do? Well, I'm pretty sure that he'd forgive Foley for his actions, as he would anyone else. I'm not so sure, though, that he'd seek to gloss those actions over. When Jesus confronted the Pharisees as they were about to stone the woman taken in adultery he never tried to rationalize or explain away her "sin"; rather, he invited those without sin to go right ahead and condemn her. They couldn't do that, of course, not because she wasn't guilty but because we all are (according to Christian doctrine). He then told the woman to "Go and sin no more."
Not being too Christlike today, are we, James?
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Translation
"It's okay to send creepy messages to minors, as long as you don't actually follow up and have sex with them." If you're a Republican, at least. I wonder if Dobson would be so tolerant if Foley were a Democrat? Actually, that's not true - I don't wonder at all.
When are they going to figure out that 1) What Foley did was wrong. As a person in authority, he had no right to send out instant messages or e-mails that made these young men feel "sick". And 2) What the leaders did was wrong. They had the responsibility to stop him. No, this isn't the worst think that has ever been done by a congressperson. Not by a longshot. But it is wrong, nonetheless, and they chose to ignore it and protect Foley. The "party of accountability" is sounding an awful lot like a kid who got caught doing something wrong and doesn't want to 'fess up.
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and this from a child psychologist...
From Dobson's own website (family.org):
Dobson was for 14 years an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, and served for 17 years on the Attending Staff of Children's Hospital of Los Angeles in the Division of Child Development and Medical Genetics. He has an earned Ph.D. from the University of Southern California (1967) in the field of child development. He is a licensed psychologist in the state of California and a licensed marriage, family and child counselor in both California and Colorado. He is listed in Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare.
What I have a hard time understanding is how a man with such a pedigree and such a hardcore Christian faith can completely side step the obvious psychological issues that both the pages and Foley have to deal with and move right into line with the far-right political poo flinging machine.
He harps on Clinton and brushes off the pages by claiming it was all one big joke. He has to know that calling it a joke is at best unsubstantiated conjecture and at worst and outright malicious lie said with the intent to mislead his followers.
I wonder if he encountered this behavior in a private session with a client if he would be so cavalier? I'm all for people holding their own opinion, even when it is obviously wrong. All of us could be smarter than we currently are. However, he seems to willfully undercut his own legitimacy as a child psychologist by suggesting - without proof - that these kids (the pages) somehow snookered Foley into hitting on them, sleeping with them once they were of age, and resigning from Congress once the word got out. Not to mention Foley’s immediate self-representation as the victim of a pedophile priest and a the evils of alcohol.
That wasn't Foley, it was those pesky pages!
Does that really sound like the wisdom of a psychologist to you?
It’s one thing to have your religious beliefs, to be a religious leader, and to wield influence in both the religious and political spheres – but the wholesale dismissal of the effects a Congressman can have on a teenager for political damage control is beyond the pale.
Don’t you think?
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No mystery
DMBfan34, I don't wonder at all about Dobson and his ilk.
These Chrinos (Christians in Name Only) are nothing but Neocons with a pulpit: power-mad politicians who cloak themselves in the rhetoric of family values and righteousness when in reality they are only interested in one thing: POWER. The power to reshape the world according to their desires and ram their doctrine down our throats.
The "true" Christians that I know don't spew about their faith and how it makes them superior to others. They do good works, help others, and tolerate and love people like me who do not share their faith. In other words, they are Christ-like.
Nothing surprises me about the James Dobsons, Ralph Reeds, Pat Robertsons and Jerry Falwells of the world or those like them. These days, when I hear someone start spouting off about how he's "a Christian," I immediately start watching out for the dick headed for my ass.
Case in point: read the piece on Pastor Baldwin. P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C.