James Dobson in the news

This morning I ran across a couple of items about James Dobson. Dobson heads the evangelical organization Focus on the Family and is one of the most powerful leaders of the Christian right. When I was in junior high I had to sit through a day of Focus on the Family videos. At a public school!

On Monday Terry Gross of NPR's "Fresh Air" broadcast an interview with the author of a new book about Dobson.

And Andrew Sullivan blogged about another evangelical leader, Jim Wallis, who is calling on Dobson to join him in a dialogue about what really constitute the "great moral issues of our time." Dobson says they are abortion, the sanctity of marriage, and teen sexual abstinence. Wallis counters with global warming, poverty, hunger, disease pandemics, and genocide in Darfur. Check our Wallis' open letter here.