Evangelical Christian leader James Dobson has recorded an 18-minute speech blasting the religious and constitutional views of President Barack Obama, as expressed in his 2006 keynote speech to the left-leaning Christian group Call for Renewal. The tape aired on June 24, 2008, on Dobson's Focus on the Family radio program.

The following are brief excerpts from Dobson's June 24 speech.

On Obama's interpretation of the Bible:

• "I think he's deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology... He is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter."Associated Press: Dobson accuses Obama of 'distorting' Bible (June 23, 2008)

On Obama's support of abortion rights:

• "[It's] a fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution... Am I required in a democracy to conform my efforts in the political arena to his bloody notion of what is right with regard to the lives of tiny babies?"Associated Press: Dobson accuses Obama of 'distorting' Bible (June 23, 2008)

Here is an excerpt from Obama's speech on religion's role in the public sphere, given June 28, 2006.

• "[If] we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools? Would we go with James Dobson's, or Al Sharpton's? Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is abomination?... Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount—a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application?"Senate.gov: 'Call to Renewal' Keynote Address (June 28, 2006)

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