James Dobson, “Utter Evil Coming Out of Washington”

James Dobson, the founder of the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family Christian ministry, warned today that there is “utter evil” coming out of Washington, D.C., these days.

“I want to tell our listeners something has come up that is so shocking and so outrageous, we must make our friends out there aware of it,” he said on his daily radio program.

“I’m going to speak very bluntly today because there’s no other word for it: the utter evil that’s coming out of Congress,” he said. “I’ve been on the air 32 years and I’ve never seen a time quite like this.

“The radical left controls the executive branch through the president, and the Congress where the Democrats have control of both the House and the Senate,” he said, adding the courts are expected to move even further to the left.

The target of his worry is the so-called “hate crimes” bill already approved in the U.S. House and now pending in the Senate.

A hearing on the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, already approved by the U.S. House as H.R. 1913 and pending in the Senate as S. 909, is expected in the Senate Judiciary Committee soon. It’s been described by Shawn D. Akers, policy analyst with Liberty Counsel, as a bill to create penalties against “victims” who were chosen based on an “actual or perceived … sexual orientation, gender identity.”

Many have dubbed it the “Pedophile Protection Act,” and Reps. Louis Gohmert, R-Texas, and Steve King, R-Iowa, explained on Dobson’s program how they tried to have majority Democrats in Congress define “sexual orientation” in the bill – and were refused.

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US Religious Right Concedes Defeat

Editors Note- The defeat is only temporary, if you read the back of The Book, ultimately we win…

Leading evangelicals have admitted that their association with George W. Bush has not only hurt the cause of social conservatives but contributed to the failure of the key objectives of their 30-year struggle.

James Dobson, 72, who resigned recently as head of Focus on the Family – one of the largest Christian groups in the country – and once denounced the Harry Potter books as witchcraft, acknowledged the dramatic reverse for the religious Right in a farewell speech to staff.

“We tried to defend the unborn child, the dignity of the family, but it was a holding action,” he said.

“We are awash in evil and the battle is still to be waged. We are right now in the most discouraging period of that long conflict. Humanly speaking, we can say we have lost all those battles.”

Despite changing the political agenda for a generation, and helping push the Republicans to the Right, evangelicals have won only minor victories in limiting the availability of abortion. Meanwhile the number of states permitting civil partnerships between homosexuals is rising, and the campaign to restore prayer to schools after 40 years – a decision that helped create the Moral Majority – has got nowhere.

Though the struggle will go on, the confession of Mr Dobson, who started his ministry from scratch in 1977, came amid growing concern that church attendance in the United States is heading the way of Britain, where no more than ten per cent worship every week.

Unease is rising that a nation founded – in the view of evangelicals – purely as a Christian country will soon, like northern Europe, become “post-Christian”.

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