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Politics : The Clown-Free Bible Study Zone

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From: S. maltophilia10/25/2008 1:29:54 AM
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The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency
By Bill Berkowitz
October 24, 2008

Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action circulates a ‘Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America,’ depicting a doomsday scenario of Bible-banning, a disbanded Boy Scouts, taxpayer-funded abortion, gay marriage from coast to coast, talk radio outlawed, God expunged from the public sphere and, gulp, no guns.

As the election nears its final days, the fevered imaginations at Focus on the Family Action—the political action arm of Dr. James Dobson’s multi-million dollar media ministry—are working overtime to demonize Sen. Barack Obama. Posted on October 22nd, a “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America” plumbs the depths of the Religious Right’s worst collective nightmare.

“Reporting” back after four years of an Obama presidency which has allowed “Liberals [to] … dominate the government in a way they haven’t in decades,” this portrait of liberal bogeymen gone Lord of the Flies......
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