THE GUARDIAN: Barack Obama today came under fire from James Dobson, founder of the conservative Focus on the Family organisation, who accused the likely Democratic nominee of twisting the Bible to confuse people.
The attack from Dobson, a leading figure of the Christian Right, was framed as a wholesale rejection of Obama's views on faith, and appeared intended to thwart his efforts to reach out to evangelical Christians.
It was delivered in Dobson's regular radio programme as a line-by-line dissection of a speech that Obama gave to a liberal Christian organisation two years ago on the role of religion in public life.
Dobson's organisation also emailed links to the programme out to news organisations.
"I think he is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter," said Dobson. "I just don't know whether he is doing it deliberately or accidentally." US Elections: US Evangelical Leader Attacks Obama >>> By Suzanne Goldenberg | June 24, 2008
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