WHY IS DR. JIM DOBSON OPTIMISTIC WITH A TRUMP
ELECTION?
In pursuit of the truth - http://www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com
- Sunday, August 14, 2016
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY CHRISTIAN ACTIVIST DR. JAMES
DOBSON BELIEVES THAT A DONALD TRUMP PRESIDENCY "WOULD UNLEACH CHRISTIAN
ACTIVISTS TO FIGHT FOR THEIR BELIEFS."
( WAIT A MINUTE! CHRISTIAN ACTIVIST MUST BEGIN TODAY
AND SPEND ALL THEIR TIME DAILY TO REGISTER THE THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIANS WHO ARE
NOT REGISTERED TO VOTE. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY TRUMP GETS ELECTED. FOCUS ON VALUES
AND ISSUES INVOLVED. GHK)
WRITING ON THE WEBSITE WND, DOBSON RECOUNTED A JUNE
MEETING IN WHICH HE MET WITH TRUMP AND OTHER CHRISTIAN LEADERS AT TRUMP TOWER IN
NEW YORK CITY.
AT THE MEETING, HE TOLD TRUMP, "OUR SUPREME COURT HAS
STRUCK DOWN BIBLE READING IN SCHOOLS ANE EVEN PROHIBITED PRAYER TO AN
UNIDENTIFIED GOD. THEN, THEY BANNED THE POSTING OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ON
BULLETING BOARDS. FROM THERE, THE LIMITATION OG RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES HAS BECOME
EVEN MORE EGREGIOUS," HE WROTE.
"Most recently, President Obama and Hillary Clinton have
been referring to "freedom of worship," rather than freedom of religion." Do you
understand their motive?They are suggesting that Americans are free to worship
in their churches and synagogues, but not in the public square," he told Trump.
HE SAID THAT TRUMP RESPONDED BY CALLING IT AN "OUTRAGE
THAT CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN DEPRIVED OF THEIR RIGHTS TO SPEAK OPENLY ON BEHALF OF
THEIR VALUES AND PRINCIPLES IN WHICH THEY BELIEVE."
Dobson noted that Trump criticized the Johnson
Amendment, a 1954 piece of tax code that bans political participation by
churches, as well as other tax-exempt not-for-profit groups. The amendment was
supported by then-Senator Lyndon Johnson, D. Texas.
Dobson said Trump's promise to overturn the amendment
"would have a great impact on Washington because it would unleash Christian
activists to fight for their beliefs." Trump has kept faith with the ministers
with whom he met. The Republican platform includes a plan to abolish the
amendment.
"We're going to get rid of that horrible Johnson
amendment and we're going to let evangelicals, we're going to let Christians and
Jews and people of religion talk without being afraid to talk," Trump said last
month.
Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, has
said that eliminating the amendment "is almost as important as the appointment
of Supreme Court justices." Trump himself said that ending the ban can be a
catalytic moment for religion in America.
"I think maybe that will be my greatest contribution to
Christianity - and other religions - is to allow you, when you talk religious
liberty, to go and speak openly, and if you like somebody to represent you, you
should have the right to do it," Trump told Dobson and other clergy at their
June meeting, saying religious leaders in America were "petrified" of running
afoul of the ban.
"You talk about religious liberty and religious freedom,
you don't have any religious freedom if you think about it," Trump said
then.
GEORGE H. KUBECK
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