Dobson: Christian Right Needs Leadership

[JackBeck]

By ROSE FRENCH – 8 hours ago

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — With a generation of Christian right leaders dead or aging, the founder of the conservative evangelical group Focus on the Family says he's concerned about the movement's future leadership.

James Dobson told a group of Christian broadcasters Tuesday night that the passing of Jerry Falwell, the Rev. D. James Kennedy and Ruth Bell Graham represent the end of an era.

The radio talk show host noted that others like Billy Graham, Chuck Colson, Pat Robertson and Chuck Swindoll will also soon pass from the scene, and questioned the impact on the conservative Christian church.

"It causes me to wonder who will be left to carry the banner when this generation of leaders is gone," Dobson told an audience of nearly 1,400 at the National Religious Broadcasters conference. "The question is, will the younger generation heed the call? Who will defend the unborn child in the years to come? Who will plead for the Terri Schiavos of the world? Who's going to fight for the institution of marriage, which is on the ropes today."

Dobson's comments come as national groups like the Christian Coalition are struggling, and the organizational muscle of the movement now rests with local pastors, not national figures.

More at: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iGo1cb71eJHSiRIhlUs3IchhkyeAD8VBQDC00

Bush's reign of terror isn't the only one I look forward to coming to a close.

[Warpy]

1. I won't mourn their passing

and the only thing that allowed these vicious old men to gain power in the first place was Millennial Fever, a condition that is now on the wane.

All that remains is for the empires they built to be squabbled over and then dismantled by their heirs, all of whom were raised on Dispensationalist and not Christian principles.

[grasswire]

2. I wonder how Colson likes being told that he has one..

...leg in the grave?

[BOSSHOG]

3. Why is marriage on the ropes?

Because hypocritical zealot bastards like to fuck around on their wives? Praise the Lord

How are gays who can't marry have any adverse effect on the sanctity of marriage? I guess if I clung to the value of ignorance like many "christians" do I could understand the lunatics rantings.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. Fred Phelps might be willing to step up

His capacity for compassion seems to fit into the Xtian Right framework.
:rofl:

[JackBeck]

9. You and I know it's a guarantee

that he will be protesting the funeral.

[SpiralHawk]

5. Are the republicon "Christians" getting tired of Rev. Moon as their leader?

I mean, having embraced "Second Coming of Christ" Moonie as a leader and BIG TIME FUNDER, are they now going to turn their backs on their own special "Christ"????

How fickle.

What would the real Jesus do?

[timtom]

18. Whoa, I almost forgot that, for a moment.

Have you ever heard or seen anything so outrageous???

I'm appalled. I'm embarrassed at confused college age kids who get sucked into that -- but "Christians"??

[bmbmd]

6. The Christian right needs leadership, alrighty-

to lead them back to the left where Jesus lived.

[islandmkl]

7. who is the next best crazed fundamentalist fascist leader....

to mask him/her(unlikely)self in the cloak of TRUE CHRISTIANITY and wage the war against sin (all seven deadly) and everything else contradictory to the Bible (excusing any acknowledgements to contradictions WITHIN the Bible)....

while helping to promote war, suffering, poverty, ignorance and a general degrading of any gains of 'secular' intelligence....

step right up...we need you before we lose the 'Youth Movement'....

what will we do with all the brown shirts?

[TlalocW]

8. This article had me smiling at...

"With a generation of Christian right leaders dead or aging..."

The world will be better off at their passing.

TlalocW

[msongs]

10. I thought the mythical jesus character was their leader nt

[Goat or Panic]

11. Ack

"The question is, will the younger generation heed the call? Who will defend the unborn child in the years to come? Who will plead for the Terri Schiavos of the world? Who's going to fight for the institution of marriage, which is on the ropes today."

Who's going to fight injustice?
Who's going to fight poverty?
Who's going to fight for the sick and the needy?

Not the "Christian Right," apparently.

I can't even think of anything clever or snarky to say.....

[FSogol]

12. It's you Dobson. God wants you to run from President against McCain

Please.

[hyphenate]

13. I wouldn't mind leading them

personally--there are a few cliffs I know that you don't see coming at you. ;)

[tanyev]

14. Or they'll start wearing shoes on their heads and eat mayonnaise for breakfast?

That would be just too bad.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. I hope no one will "heed the call", but I imagine that is expecting too much

[AlCzervik]

16. excellent, best news i've heard all day. The free market they love can have unexpected consequences

maybe people just do not want the product anymore.

[timtom]

17. Christian leadership is to be found, as always,

in the Bible.

Anything else is BS.

Dobson needs to sell everything he owns, give all his assets to the poor and needy, and begin to follow Jesus.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

19. Is God on vacation again? Or, just broke, as usual?

Pass the basket and Dobson will see that God can pay his rent.