Evangelicals have now begun to explicitly challenge Dobson's attacks on Thompson. We really don't know what Dobson could've been thinking. First of all, he's just being unfair. Fred's position isn't in support of gay marriage any more than his opposition to a federal ban on abortion is in support of abortion - it's a principled federalist position coming from the guy who was on the bottom of a 99-1 in the Senate because he was against giving states anti-terrorism funds with strings attached.
Even if that wasn't true, Dobson's standards are unreasonably higher than his congregation. This is going problem for him, because evangelicals are not the slavish caricatures that the MSM makes them out to be. Dobson speaks for evangelicals to the larger world, but he doesn't determine how they'll vote. If they disagree with him on Fred - and they do - they'll tell him to go pound sand. Who're evangelicals going to vote for? Mitt? Not if the recent polls are right. And they'll stay home in a general against Hillary? Not so much.
The Richard Land quote behind the link includes the phrase "furious at Doctor Dobson." Good stuff.
[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]
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I consider Dobson to be a spiritual and political mentor of mine and I am even upset with him over this.
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