Both Wrong
Please, please, do not let election 2008 become Bible Wars 2008. For the record, it’s very doubtful that Dobson or Obama have a proper understanding of the book behind their religion. Obama’s may have the advantage of being more vague and more self-consciously informed by modern ethical notions. Dobson’s may have the advantage in better understanding (slightly) the consensus moral viewpoint of the original authors, at least on some issues.
Obama portrays a commonly growing trend of thinking that the only bad ideas about gay people in the Bible are in Leviticus with the dietary codes. He probably believes that Jesus rejected the Hebrew Law.
Dobson most likely thinks that Moses wrote the Pentateuch, Matthew wrote Matthew, Paul wrote Timothy, and that the original autographs (copies originally written down by the authors) of he Bible - which cannot be reconstructed, and in some cases may never have existed until long after the authors’ deaths - were the inerrant Word of God… and somehow transfers this notion to our modern Bibles, which actually are merely the best possible reconstructions of documents that are now lost forever in their original forms.
These are subjects for the seminary and the Bible history classes, not a Presidential election in the 21st century United States of America.
I’m not really sure of your purpose for this tempest in the tea cup.
There’s little in the article that says this disagreement was going to explode as you fear. As far as I know McCaine, not Dobson is Obama’s competitor.
Well…it does let you make a disparaging remark about Obama and what he may or may not believe without any evidense to support it.
And of course you make no such comment about McCaine at all…hmmm. Interesting.