Focus on the Family Chairman James C. Dobson, Ph.D., saying he is "concerned about my country," is devoting the next two days of his nationally syndicated radio show to urge fellow Christians to vote on Election Day.
"If people of faith — the so-called values voters — don't come out and let their voices be heard, there are going to be some major implications for this country," he says in the two-part broadcast that began today, much of it recorded at a rally earlier this week in Nashville, Tenn. "There are these statements from the media that values voters don't care this year and that they're going to stay home."
One way liberal media outlets are trying to make that happen, Dobson added, is by publishing stories like a recent New York Times piece that suggested Americans don't care about protecting marriage like they did in 2004, when 13 states passed marriage amendments by overwhelming majorities. Eight states have marriage-protection amendments on their ballots Nov. 7.
"Liberals are constantly telling us what they want to happen, and I pray that they aren't right," he said. "If one of those states is lost — or two or three — it has serious implications for the future of the family. It means adoption laws will change. It means textbooks will all have to be rewritten to include man and man and woman and woman marriage."
And marriage isn't the only issue that could be affected if values voters stay home. Dobson also cited the future makeup of the Supreme Court, the status of laws to protect the unborn and the threat of Islamofascism to the U.S.
"I'm concerned about my country. I have been concerned in the past, but I don't know that it's been any greater than it is right now," he said. "I have never, ever seen such hatred in my life. I am being bludgeoned in the media. Why? Why now? Well, it's not really personal to me. But they identify me as one of the people who turned out the values voters last time – and they are determined to never, ever let it happen again.
"For two years they have just been livid over what happened in 2004. I'm getting the brunt of it – but you know what, I don't really care about that. And I'm going to cast my vote anyway. Are you?"
