THE most dangerous man in America

If you ask me, the biggest threat to the security and welfare of the United States does NOT come from abroad. The most dangerous man is NOT Osama bin Laden, or the leader of North Korea or whoever is in charge of Iraq or Iran (So Faraway).
The most dangerous person sits in Colorado, claims to be a doctor and shows open disdain for anybody who disagrees with his personal perception of individual lifestyle, philosophy, religious doctrine or anything else.
I refer to Dr. James Dobson, leader of the ultra-right religious group, Focus on the Family, an oxymoron if there ever was one. Since the 2004 election, this blowhard thinks he has been personally empowered to dictate the nation’s morals and values to all of us who dare say “I don’t want to think like you.”
Among his targets are gay people, judges, non-Christians and liberal Americans. Which roughly covers half the country … maybe more.
Just a few examples of what I am writing about:
A McKinney (Tex.) woman was forced to cancel a special event concerning economic empowerment of women because she had the audacity to book that 1970s disco group, Sister Sledge to sing their one-hit wonder, “We Are Family.” Where’s the harm, Dr. Dobson?
Oops, one of Dobson’s most frequent targets is the We Are Family Foundation, which he claims to be pro-homosexual and helps promote a gay lifestyle. The validity of his argument is not relevant because the song and the foundation have NOTHING IN COMMON. However, his attack on the group was confused by potential conference attendees and tickets sales dried up, forcing cancellation and some economic hardship upon the organizers.
“My bad,” was all that a spokesman for Focus on the Family could muster.
A report two weeks ago from the Air Force Academy, just a couple of minute from FOF’s headquarters in Colorado Springs, found many complains that evangelical Christians have so much influence at the military school that anti-Semitism and other forms of religious harassment have become pervasive, according to the Associated Press reporter.
AP reported that 55 complaints of religious discrimination at the academy in the last four years have been made, including cases in which one Jewish cadet was told the Holocaust was revenge for the death of Jesus and another was called a “Christ killer” by a fellow cadet.
More than 90 percent of the 4,300 cadets claim to be Christian and a 2003 cadet survey revealed that half of them had heard religious slurs and jokes, and that many non-Christians believed Christians received special treatment.
“There were people walking up to someone and basically they would get in a conversation and it would end with, ‘If you don’t believe what I believe, you are going to hell,’” said Vice Commandant Col. Debra Gray.
“They are deliberately trivializing the problem so that we don’t have another situation the magnitude of the sex assault scandal. It is inextricably intertwined in every aspect of the academy,” said Mikey Weinstein of Albuquerque, N.M., a 1977 graduate who has sent two sons to the school. He said the younger, Curtis, has been called a “filthy Jew” many times.
Academy superintendent Lt. Gen. John Rosa conceded to civilian overseers that there was a problem.
“The problem is people have been across the line for so many years, when you try and come back in bounds, people get offended,” he said during a recent meeting of the Board of Visitors, the group that oversees the academy.
The commanding general acknowledged a problem, but not Dr. Dobson’s group.
Tom Minnery, an official with Focus on the Family, disputed claims that evangelical Christians are pushing an agenda at the academy, the AP said, and complained that “there is an anti-Christian bigotry developing” at the school.
From whom I ask! Just because a few Americans wish NOT to be bludgeoned over their non-Christian heads with teachings and philosophy they find contrarian does NOT constitute anti-Christian bigotry. If anything, the shoe is on the OTHER foot.
But there is more. Dobson has likened judges who disagree with him to the Ku Klux Klan and has called for the most drastic of measures to remove them from the bench … merely for disagreeing with their rulings. Regardless of the validity and the legal standing, if you disagree with Dobson, you are unpatriotic and should NOT be allowed to exercise the same freedoms as guaranteed in the Constitution.
Dobson is the main advocate of impeaching federal judges he does not like and eliminating all federal funding for their court’s operation in order to force them to comply to his will.
Sadly, many conservative Republicans, too afraid of Dobson’s ability to rally voter support from his sheep-like followers, condescend and follow in lock-step behind these fascist rantings. They are the weakest of the weak because of the potential power they wield and destroy lives.
Lipstick fascists like Ann Coulter are not the threat to many Americans; she is merely a sideshow in a mini-skirt who would rather drink and party than affect long-term change. Dobson is a true believer who wants to alter the axis of this earth toward his warped philosophy of exclusion and discrimination. Because he can command votes and raise money for that purpose, he IS dangerous.
It would be woeful for liberals, Democrats and ordinary free-thinking Americans to dismiss men like him. Each time in mankind’s history when THAT has happened, the result has been tragic and horrific.