James Dobson, "The Jesus Machine," the ever-expanding power of the Christian Right, and how it's changing
This man either needs to be stopped or forced to tell his followers to vote for RON PAUL OR MIKE GRAVEL..
James Dobson is perhaps the most powerful leader of the Christian Right, more powerful than Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson ever were according to my guest, Dan Gilgoff. He's the author of a new book about Dobson called "The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and evangelical America are winning the culture war." Gilgoff is a senior editor at US News and World Report and has been covering how the Christian Right is influencing current politics, including the Democratic and Republican presidential primary campaigns. We'll talk about that a little later. Gilgoff says James Dobson's organizational empire provides the national armature for the modern-day Christian Right, like the Moral Majority and Christian Coalition had done in earlier decades. Dobson is a child psychologist who, in the 1970's, started the radio show, "Focus on the Family," that dispenses biblically based family advice. It's now on about 2,000 stations in the US. Dobson also took the lead in founding the Family Research Council which Gilgoff describes as the premier lobbying group for the Christian Right. Dan Gilgoff, would you describe the group Dobson founded, Focus on the Family, which has been his home base.
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