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Thursday, March 02, 2006

Strip Search Sammy the Stem Cell Alito (hearts) James Dobson
Posted by Jill | 6:28 AM

Oh, lovely:

Dear Dr. Dobson:

This is just a short note to express my heartfelt thanks to you and the entire staff of Focus on the Family for your help and support during the past few challenging months.

I would also greatly appreciate it if you would convey my appreciation to the good people from all parts of the country who wrote to tell me that they were praying for me and for my family during this period.

As I said when I spoke at my formal investiture at the White House last week, the prayers of so many people from around the country were a palpable and powerful force.
As long as I serve on the Supreme Court I will keep in mind the trust that has been placed in me.

I hope that we'll have the opportunity to meet personally at some point in the future.

In the meantime my entire family and I hope that you and the Focus on the Family staff know how we appreciate all that you have done.

Sincerely yours,
Samuel Alito


(via Jane Hamsher)

Here's the guy Sam Alito, who holds our freedom (or lack of same) in his hands, regards as such a good buddy:


  • He fondly remembers his youth in the segregated, Jim Crow south:
    "There were no drugs in my racially mixed, public high school..There were no punkers, no skinheads, no neo-Nazis, no freaks, no witches, and no gay or lesbian activists."

  • The Dobson cure for gender confusion:
    [T]he boy's father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son's maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger.

  • He believes children should be taught blind adherence to authority figures:
    "By learning to yield to the loving authority... of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life -- his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers." (The Strong-Willed Child, p. 235)

  • He believes in some kind of massive homosexual conspiracy to "convert" others:
    "childhood symbols are apparently being hijacked to promote an agenda that involves teaching homosexual propaganda to children...While words like "diversity" and "unity" sound harmless — even noble — enough, the reality is they are often used by gay activists as cover for teaching children that homosexuality is the moral and biological equivalent to heterosexuality."

  • He likens stem cell researchers to Nazis:
    "In World War II, the Nazis experimented on human beings in horrible ways in the concentration camps, and I imagine, if you wanted to take the time to read about it, there would have been some discoveries there that benefited mankind... You know, if you take a utilitarian approach, that if something results in good, then it is good. But that's obviously not true. We condemn what the Nazis did because there are some things that we always could do but we haven't done, because science always has to be guided by ethics and by morality. And you remove ethics and morality, and you get what happened in Nazi Germany."



So the next time a Democrat decides to vote for cloture on a Bush Supreme Court Nominee, think about Sam Alito's letter to James Dobson when the next troglodyte is painted as a "mainstream conservative."
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