James Dobson/Focus on the Family

According to news reports, Florida Representative Bob Allen (Republican) was arrested last July 11 for soliciting sex from an undercover black male cop. The reason he gave was his fear of black men...

Now many will quickly ask what rational person would believe such a cockamamy story ?

But hold on, now.. READ THE REST

Maybe I've been wrong about the American Taliban.

For as long as I've been aware of the Family Research Council (FRC) and Focus on the Family (FOF), I've always assumed that they only existed to polarize the country along religious lines, undermine the Constitution, elect right-wingers and foster hatred of gay people.

But now, with election day approaching, they've actually done a 180 on me and provided an incredibly helpful guide for how proud liberals should vote on Tuesday.

FRC and FOF recently took a break from pushing intolerance and bigotry long enough to publish their 2006 Vote Scorecard in which they have monitored the votes made in the second half of the 109th Congress and rated all Representatives and Senators on
"significant votes representing a cross section of issues affecting the family."

Well, at least we know that James Dobson's Focus on the Family (FOF) occasionally showers Republicans with a little hateful smearing along with their usual Democratic targets.

While researching some anti-gay assertions made by Kansas Republican Sam Brownback on the Senate floor yesterday, I stumbled across this charming little ad about same-sex marriage being run by FOF against Chuck Hagel (R-NE):

Isn't that sweet?

"It is a painful but very real truth. Homosexual marriages intentionally create motherless families or fatherless families," reads the newspaper ad. "But a compassionate society would not deliberately deny a child a mother or father."

On Wednesday's Hardball, Christopher Hitchens referred to Richard Armitage as Colin Powell's "bitch" - so I guess that term is fair use now.

Rep. John Duncan (R-TN) is James Dobson's bitch. That's why he will introduce a resolution making July 30 the day Americans celebrate the 1956 adoption of "In God We Trust" as a national motto. Carpetbagger Report has the scoop:

The national motto as the 'American trust in the Christian Deity'

The battle over the filibuster of judges is really a battle over James Dobson's powerful effort to seize control of the Republican Party.

Who is James Dobson? Unfortunately most Democrats have no idea, because he is not a nutcase like Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell. Also, Dobson is based in Colorado, rather than the Washington DC area, so he gets a lot less media coverage.

Dobson used to be the third most powerful leader of the religious right. But Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition became irrelevant after Ralph Reed left to serve Mammon rather than God, according to Robertson himself.

For months, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has been threatening to unleash the "nuclear option" to end Senate filibusters and force Bush's seven most outrageously ideological judicial activists through the Senate.

But internal GOP polls show the "nuclear option" will create a "nuclear meltdown" for the GOP.

Santorum reads nuke polls, applies the brakes
By Alexander Bolton

Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), a leading advocate of the “nuclear option” to end the Democrats’ filibuster of judicial nominees, is privately arguing for a delay in the face of adverse internal party polls.

Details of the polling numbers remain under wraps, but Santorum and other Senate sources concede that, while a majority of Americans oppose the filibuster, the figures show that most also accept the Democratic message that Republicans are trying to destroy the tradition of debate in the Senate.

The religious right is taking credit for Bush's "victory" and demanding its spoils - in the form of a religious crusade here in the USA. James Dobson is the leader of this crusade, even more than Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. So let's mark his words carefully...

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If you really want to rub salt into the wound, you invite the most disgusting example of Xtian extremism who has managed to glom onto the "mainstream" media, say, someone like that sanctimonious champion of beating children, "Dr." James Dobson.

And Dobson, a man who has been described by at least one Christian writer as an outright fascist, was precisely whom ABC offered up as its contribution to the political discourse this Sunday.

Naturally, Dobson praised Dear Leader, saying "He makes the right choices." (Translation: he's going to cut and run with the extreme Taliban-Xtian agenda -- abolishing the right to choose, fetishizing embryos that will never be implanted in mothers, criminalizing gays and lesbians for being gays and lesbians, taking science out of schools and replacing it with superstition.)