James Dobson Gay Marriage Analysis

James Dobson, a famous evangelist, talks about the prior supreme court decision to legalize gay marriage. Before the announcement that that the supreme court did legalize gay marriage -- there was an uproar from evangelicals like James Dobson who said “gay marriage will undermine the family,” and that “it will further divide our country up.” In this video, Dobson asks the question “ how are parents supposed to teach their children about what the bible says in this issue [ marriage and the definition of it ] and then go on to a school bus and be taught something different by their elders?” Dobson describes gay marriage as “ the death knell of religious liberty in the United States.” Throughout this video, Dobson uses his opinion based on his religion to make the assertions he is

making. He argues that gay marriage will essential cause war between two sides of our country. Dobson makes the assumption that everyone in America is Christian and because of that gay marriage should not be legalized because it infringes on Christian’s rights. In an article about the current presidential campaign, Chris Weigant of the Huffington Post, argues on Ben Carson’s recent responses to the press in regards to whether or not he would support a Muslim president. Weigant uses Carson’s word for word responses to the topic of Muslim presidents and the connectivity between the constitution and Sharia law. Through these responses, Weigant is able to point out the hypocrisy between Carson’s evangelical background and his views as a politician.

After showing this hypocrisy, Weigant asks the question, “Why won't someone ask Carson why a public official -- who had to swear an oath to the Constitution when she got the job -- should be able to ignore parts of that Constitution because she puts her own faith above it (even answering that her authority to refuse to issue marriage licenses to gay couples came from "God's law"). If Carson thinks a Muslim should not be able to put Sharia above loyalty to the Constitution, how can he support a Christian doing exactly the same thing for the tenets of her faith?” Weigant points out many interesting facts that discredit Carson’s evangelical and political view. By pointing out this hypocrisy I am able to see the discrimination that Carson’s views possess. In a video from the Late Show, Stephen Colbert creates a sarcastic piece on certain presidential candidates and their belief on the refugee policy here in America. Colbert goes on to talk about how Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush -- current presidential candidates -- proposed that we only let in Christian

refugees. In the video, Colbert references to Ted Cruz when he said, “There is no meaningful risk of Christians committing acts of terror.” After referencing this, Colbert shows a picture of the KKK and says “ I’m sure these guys right here are just campers sitting by a fire -- we know they are campers because of their one man tent [ pokes fun at the head-dress of the KKK]” Colbert pokes fun at the republican candidates belief of just taking Christian refugees by saying, “like the statue of liberty says: ‘give us your tired, your poor, your mostly Christians, and maybe one or two Indian guys with engineering degrees.” Colbert says this sarcastically to show that what these Candidates are proposing is not at all what the country was founded upon. Later on in the video, Colbert shows a clip of candidate Jeb Bush answering the question “how could one prove they are a Christian?” Bush responds with “ I think you can prove it.” Colbert then goes on to say, “ if you want know if someone is Christian ask him to complete this sentence: ‘ For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you ____’ and if they don’t say ‘welcomed me in’ they are either a terrorist or they are running for president.” Colbert uses the true words from these candidates as well as the bible as his method to poke fun and to blatantly point out the hypocrisy and fallacy between these candidates belief system and what they actually display. In a segmented video from Rachel Maddow’s news report, Maddow reports on the topic of abortion. Maddow digs up research onof the background of Troy Newman, a radical anti-abortion activist. Newman is one of many violent anti-abortion activist here in the United States who has been involved in many abortion related crimes in the past couple years. Maddow uses his words, “The Land was polluted -- scriptural language -- polluted with innocent blood.