Colorado Springs, Colo., Jun 24, 2008 / 11:29 am
After having launched an effort to reach out to religious conservatives, Barack Obama is being criticized for deliberately misinterpreting the Bible by Dr. James Dobson, president of Focus on the Family.
The critique of Obama’s use of Scripture is part of a series that Dobson and Tom Minnery, senior vice president for government and public policy at Focus on the Family, are conducting on the two presidential candidates as the national elections approach.
Interestingly, Tom Minnery told CNA that “we’re open to have Obama or McCain visit” the headquarters of Focus on the Family. Minnery also told the Associated Press that one of Obama’s aides recently suggested a meeting at the organization's headquarters.
Focus on the Family sent an advance copy of the radio show to CNA, in which the two radio hosts analyze a speech Obama gave in June 2006 to the liberal Christian group, Call to Renewal Covenant for a New America. The speech came to Dobson’s attention, in part, because he is cited by Obama in the address.