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Who do you have to sleep with to not get a top rating from the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family?
by John in DC - 10/24/2006 12:00:00 PM
Apparently philandering and being accused of beating (and strangling) your mistress isn't enough to get the political arms of the religious right's Family Research Council and Focus on the Family to drop you as a favored candidate.
FRC Action and Focus on the Family Action have given rave reviews - an 85% positive rating - in their latest "Voter Scorecard" to Rep. Don Sherwood (R-PA), who not only admitted recently to having a five year affair with a woman not his wife (five years folks, this wasn't just a one-time indiscretion), but what's more, Sherwood's mistress has accused him of beating her for five years and frantically called 911 claiming Sherwood had just attempted to strangle her in the midst of one of their romantic trysts in his DC love pad.
The list of issues the FRC and FoF looked at in deciding who was a good "pro-family" member of Congress were: abortion; gay marriage; the pledge of allegiance; stem cell research; abortion again; defunding the ACLU; and gay marriage yet again.
FRC and the FoF had enough room on their scorecard list to include abortion and gay marriage twice, but they couldn't include adherence to the Ten Commandments even once? Adultery is a pretty big sin in the Bible, and I'm sure it's not a big stretch to find some Biblical admonition against trying to kill your mistress.
http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarti.../10/who-do-you-have-to-sleep-with-to-not.html
Let's not forget what Mr. Dobson just said recently:
Dr. Dobson Responds to Liberal Attacks over Foley Situation
by Pete Winn, associate editor
What does the reprehensible behavior of a now-disgraced gay Republican congressman have to do with Christian conservatives? Nothing, says the founder of Focus on the Family Action.
Focus on the Family Action Chairman Dr. James Dobson took on liberal news media and politicians today and accused them of using the behavior of former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., to try to make political hay and tarnish the reputation of conservative candidates and all Christians — including him — in the process.
"What Congressman Foley did was inexcusable, reprehensible and morally depraved," Dobson said. "Let there be no question about the position we have taken on this."
"As we know, the media and the Democrats saw an opportunity to make much, much, more out of it," Dobson said, "impugning the morals and character, not only of this disgraced congressman, but of entire the entire Republican Congress — and Christian conservatives, including me."
"It will be interesting to see how Dr. Dobson," Krugman wrote, "who declared about Bill Clinton that no man has ever done more to debase the presidency — responds to the Foley scandal. Does the failure of Republican leaders to do anything about a sexual predator in their midst outrage him as much as a Democratic president's consensual affair?"
Dobson emphatically said he stands by his assessment of President Clinton's scandal. As for Foley's action …
"In fact, it does outrage me, Mr. Krugman," Dobson said. "We condemn the Foley affair categorically. And we also believe that what Mr. Clinton did was one of the most embarrassing and wicked things ever done by a president in power.
http://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0042242.cfm
by John in DC - 10/24/2006 12:00:00 PM
Apparently philandering and being accused of beating (and strangling) your mistress isn't enough to get the political arms of the religious right's Family Research Council and Focus on the Family to drop you as a favored candidate.
FRC Action and Focus on the Family Action have given rave reviews - an 85% positive rating - in their latest "Voter Scorecard" to Rep. Don Sherwood (R-PA), who not only admitted recently to having a five year affair with a woman not his wife (five years folks, this wasn't just a one-time indiscretion), but what's more, Sherwood's mistress has accused him of beating her for five years and frantically called 911 claiming Sherwood had just attempted to strangle her in the midst of one of their romantic trysts in his DC love pad.
The list of issues the FRC and FoF looked at in deciding who was a good "pro-family" member of Congress were: abortion; gay marriage; the pledge of allegiance; stem cell research; abortion again; defunding the ACLU; and gay marriage yet again.
FRC and the FoF had enough room on their scorecard list to include abortion and gay marriage twice, but they couldn't include adherence to the Ten Commandments even once? Adultery is a pretty big sin in the Bible, and I'm sure it's not a big stretch to find some Biblical admonition against trying to kill your mistress.
http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarti.../10/who-do-you-have-to-sleep-with-to-not.html
Let's not forget what Mr. Dobson just said recently:
Dr. Dobson Responds to Liberal Attacks over Foley Situation
by Pete Winn, associate editor
What does the reprehensible behavior of a now-disgraced gay Republican congressman have to do with Christian conservatives? Nothing, says the founder of Focus on the Family Action.
Focus on the Family Action Chairman Dr. James Dobson took on liberal news media and politicians today and accused them of using the behavior of former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., to try to make political hay and tarnish the reputation of conservative candidates and all Christians — including him — in the process.
"What Congressman Foley did was inexcusable, reprehensible and morally depraved," Dobson said. "Let there be no question about the position we have taken on this."
"As we know, the media and the Democrats saw an opportunity to make much, much, more out of it," Dobson said, "impugning the morals and character, not only of this disgraced congressman, but of entire the entire Republican Congress — and Christian conservatives, including me."
"It will be interesting to see how Dr. Dobson," Krugman wrote, "who declared about Bill Clinton that no man has ever done more to debase the presidency — responds to the Foley scandal. Does the failure of Republican leaders to do anything about a sexual predator in their midst outrage him as much as a Democratic president's consensual affair?"
Dobson emphatically said he stands by his assessment of President Clinton's scandal. As for Foley's action …
"In fact, it does outrage me, Mr. Krugman," Dobson said. "We condemn the Foley affair categorically. And we also believe that what Mr. Clinton did was one of the most embarrassing and wicked things ever done by a president in power.
http://www.family.org/cforum/extras/a0042242.cfm