Daddy Dobson's getting a whipping on the Right
Friday, February 17, 2006
For some reason this post was eaten, so here it is again...
Colorado is considering extending basic rights for any two people who can't marry under state law (which would include gays) -- reciprocal beneficiary agreements -- and Focus on the Family has endorsed the measure.
When I last posted about this (Daddy Dobson folds on his home turf), Dobson was already catching hell from the unhinged Paul Cameron, as well as the Freeper set, and it has beautifully escalated since. (365gay):
Bloggers and Christian commentators have criticized Dobson for endorsing a Colorado measure that would allow any two people who can't marry -- everyone from gay couples to two elderly sisters -- to sign up and get the right to visit one another in the hospital, transfer property and make medical decisions for one another.
Dobson said he believes in providing equality under the law but doesn't want to redefine what marriage is. He speculated that commentators who aren't as well-known as him are trying to get more attention for themselves by criticizing him.
He said one blogger posting on Alan Keyes' Web site called the proposal "a drag queen in proper conservative blue blazer, button down shirt and red tie." The posting had been removed by Thursday and Keyes also issued an apology to Dobson on the site.
"I'm used to getting beaten from the radicals, from the left. I deal with that because that goes with the territory," Dobson said. "I really find it very difficult to be attacked in such an unfair way from conservatives who claim to follow the cause of Christ."
