Dick Armey On Dobson

Former GOP Majority Leader Dick Armey on Focus on the Family's Dr. James Dobson, one of the Christianists trying to run the Republican Party:

As Majority Leader, I remember vividly a meeting with the House leadership where Dobson scolded us for having failed to “deliver” for Christian conservatives, that we owed our majority to him, and that he had the power to take our jobs back. This offended me, and I told him so.

In a later meeting Dobson and a colleague came into my office to lobby against a trade bill, asking me to stop the legislation from going to the House floor. They were wrong on the issue, and I told them no. Would you at least postpone the vote, they asked? We have a direct mail fundraising letter about to go out to our membership, they said.

I wondered then if their opposition to the bill was driven less by their moral compass and more by the need to rile their membership and increase revenue. I wondered then, if these self-appointed Christian leaders, like many politicians, had come to Washington to do good, but had instead done well for themselves.

You can read the whole letter here. Hat Tip: Average Gay Joe

And I'll just quote St. Jerome: "Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business." To which we can add "and partisan politics."

And Sancho Panza: "He preaches well that lives well, that's all the divinity I understand."