Obama’s 2006 speech provoked Dobson by treating Scripture as contested.

Evidence

Within the evangelical community, Dobson emerged as Obama’s fiercest critic. In June 2008 he lashed out at Obama on his radio program, accusing him of distorting the Bible to fit his worldview, of having a “fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution,” and of appealing to the “lowest common denominator of morality.” Dobson especially took issue with a speech Obama had given in 2006 in which he had defended the right of people of faith to bring their religious beliefs into the public square, while also pointing out that Christians disagreed among themselves on how best to do so. Whose Christianity would win out? “Would we go with James Dobson’s, or Al Sharp-ton’s?” Obama had asked. “Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy?” Should Old Testament passages dictate that slavery was acceptable but eating shellfish was not? “Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount—a passage that is so radical that it’s doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application?” Dobson was not amused. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 529

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Obama’s inclusive religious framing angered critics who saw him as both Muslim and secularist. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 999
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Obama’s inclusive religious framing angered critics who saw him as both Muslim and secularist. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 999