SEESHOLTZ: Litigating Shadenfreude for the Christianist Right

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Litigating Shadenfreude for the Christianist Right

June 6 2007
Counterbias.com
MEL SEESHOLTZ


The Alliance Defense Fund was founded by some of the Christian Right’s most anti-gay patriarchs:

-- James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family. Dobson uses his down-home grandfatherly persona to help scare the sheeple into believing his anti-gay nonsense. His 2004 book Marriage Under Fire was a testimonial to that. Using coy, folksy lingo, Dobson deployed outdated research taken out of context (see “Out of Focus on the Family: A Response to Arguments Against Same-Sex Marriage,” Popular Culture Review, 16:1 , 45-75), ignored real-world, contemporary statistics and facts from the General Accounting Office and corporate America – as well as common sense – to arrive at his conclusion: if gay and lesbian Americans are allowed to enter into the civil union called “marriage,” the world would end. Dr. Dobson has no theological training. He’s a psychologist: a child psychologist who advocates spanking.

-- D. James Kennedy, a die-hard dominionist and pastor of Coral Ridge Ministries. Kennedy regularly calls on his followers to exercise “godly dominion” over every aspect of American life. At a Reclaiming America for Christ conference in February 2005, he exhorted the flock ...

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