Congresswoman storms out of National Day of Prayer event in protest & Janice Hahn Walks Out Of Event After James Dobson Calls Obama The 'Abortion President' & Janice Hahn Walks Out of Prayer Gathering to Protest Dobson’s ‘Abortion President’ Remarks 2&1MAI14

dr james dobson of focus on the family fame disgraced himself and the whole meaning and purpose of the non partisan National Day of Prayer meeting in Washington on 1 MAI 14. If dr dobson was actually focused on the family he and his organization wouldn't be puppets of the extreme right wing social engineers decimating the American social safety net. He and his organization would condemn rep paul ryan's proposed budget. He and his organization would take on the wealthy and corporate America who control the gop / tea-bagger / third way democratic politicians who are denying families health care by blocking the expansion of Medicaid, and who are cutting SNAP (food stamps), cutting early childhood education, cutting unemployment benefits while we are still in a recession, cutting housing assistance, cutting job training programs, cutting all the social safety net programs that provide much needed aid for the most needy, the least among us, the ones Jesus Christ teaches us to provide for, to care for. While dr dobson thinks he publicly challenged Pres Obama on faith and family values what he actually did was make more of America aware of his own hypocrisy and the questionably Christian agenda of focus on the family. Well done and well said Rep Janice Hahn D CA, we need more people of faith like you in office. From Daily Kos , HuffPost and Roll Call blog 218 ......
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Rep. Janice Hahn attended the annual non-partisan National Day of Prayer gathering on Capitol Hill yesterday, expecting a unified, peaceful event. But after listening to Dr. James Dobson from Focus on the Family rail against President Obama, repeatedly calling him the "abortion president", she decided couldn't sit still any longer:

“Before [Obama] was elected, he made it very clear that he wanted to be the abortion president,” said Dobson, whose remarks were captured in a video featured on WND.com. “He didn’t make any bones about it, that this is something that he really going to promote and support. And he has done that. And in a sense, he is the abortion president.” Hahn recalled that Dobson prefaced his commentary by saying this was the first time in all his years participating in the National Day of Prayer that he had felt compelled to make reference to his own politics, and she described his speech as a “10- or 15-minute rant against President Obama.”
After trying to rally support from other people sitting in her row, Hahn said she’d had enough.
“Finally, I couldn’t take it anymore,” she said. “I stood up and pointed my finger at [Dobson] and said, ‘This is completely inappropriate for this day,’ and I walked out.”

She went on to say:

“Dobson just blew a hole into this idea of being a nonpartisan National Day of Prayer. It was very disturbing to me … and really a shame,” Hahn, the co-chair of the weekly congressional prayer breakfast, added. “James Dobson hijacked the National Day of Prayer -- this nonpartisan, nonpolitical National Day of Prayer -- to promote his own distorted political agenda.”

If you want to see Dr. Dobson's repugnant remarks, God.tv will be replaying the event.

Janice Hahn Walks Out Of Event After James Dobson Calls Obama The 'Abortion President'

Posted: 05/01/2014 5:17 pm EDT Updated: 05/02/2014 10:59 am EDT

 

Rep. Janice Hahn (D-Calif.) walked out of the National Day of Prayer event at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, saying she was "outraged" after James Dobson, founder of the conservative Christian advocacy group Focus on the Family, called President Barack Obama the “abortion president.”
“President Obama, before he was elected, made it very clear that he wanted to be the abortion president. He didn’t make any bones about it," Dobson, whose organization recently won a temporary injunction against the Affordable Care Act’s employer contraception mandate, said on Thursday. "This is something that he really was going to promote and support, and he has done that, and in a sense he is the abortion president."
In an interview with The Huffington Post on Thursday, Hahn called the speech deeply "inappropriate" and a violation of the event's symbol as a nonpartisan day of unity.
“He goes on about health care and … providing abortions, and at that point I stood up and I pointed my finger at Dr. Dobson and I said, ‘This is inappropriate!’ and walked out,” Hahn told HuffPost.
“Dobson just blew a hole into this idea of being a nonpartisan National Day of Prayer. It was very disturbing to me … and really a shame,” Hahn, the co-chair of the weekly congressional prayer breakfast, added. “James Dobson hijacked the National Day of Prayer -- this nonpartisan, nonpolitical National Day of Prayer -- to promote his own distorted political agenda.”
Dobson also read from a recent letter he said he had sent to “250,000 people,” in which he proclaimed that “The Creator will not hold us guiltless if we turn a deaf ear to the cries of innocent babies.”
“So come and get me, Mr. President, if you must,” Dobson concluded his letter. “I will not yield to your wicked regulations.”
The event, sponsored by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), was organized by the National Day of Prayer Task Force, a conservative evangelical Christian non-profit, whose chairwoman is James Dobson's wife, Shirley Dobson.
In April, task force vice chairman John Bornschein defended the event against criticism that it was promoting evangelical beliefs, describing the day as a nonsectarian gathering.
"This is not about proselytizing," Bornschein said in April. "This is purely about prayer and praying for our leadership and asking for God's wisdom and blessing over our leaders."

Janice Hahn Walks Out of Prayer Gathering to Protest Dobson’s ‘Abortion President’ Remarks

By Emma Dumain Posted at 5:10 p.m. on May 1

 

Hahn (CQ Roll Call File Photo)

Rep. Janice Hahn just wanted to hear evangelist Billy Graham’s daughter speak at Thursday’s National Day of Prayer gathering on Capitol Hill, but she ended up storming out of the room before that portion of the program could get underway.
The California Democrat said she was appalled by the remarks of Dr. James Dobson, saying she felt he went against the event’s stated nonpartisan and apolitical intent by bashing Barack Obama and calling him the “abortion president.”
“We have this annual, national day of prayer, which is supposed to bring the whole country together to pray for our nation, and typically you put politics aside and you come together,” Hahn told CQ Roll Call. “James Dobson just absolutely violated that, and I really think he did damage to what we try to do up here in Washington, D.C.”
Dobson, the founder of the conservative group Focus on the Family and host of the radio talk show “Family Talk,” told those assembled in the Cannon Caucus Room that Obama’s promotion of policies forcing taxpayers to fund abortion services was “offensive to [his] very conscience.”
“Before [Obama] was elected, he made it very clear that he wanted to be the abortion president,” said Dobson, whose remarks were captured in a video featured on WND.com. “He didn’t make any bones about it, that this is something that he really going to promote and support. And he has done that. And in a sense, he is the abortion president.”
Hahn recalled that Dobson prefaced his commentary by saying this was the first time in all his years participating in the National Day of Prayer that he had felt compelled to make reference to his own politics, and she described his speech as a “10- or 15-minute rant against President Obama.”
After trying to rally support from other people sitting in her row, Hahn said she’d had enough.
“Finally, I couldn’t take it anymore,” she said. “I stood up and pointed my finger at [Dobson] and said, ‘This is completely inappropriate for this day,’ and I walked out.”
The National Day of Prayer is typically held on the first Thursday of May; since its inception every president, regardless of faith or party affiliation, has issued a proclamation in support of the occasion. A spokesman for the National Day of Prayer did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding Thursday’s incident, but the official website states that it is not a “political event” affiliated with any party, position or religious ideology.
“The National Day of Prayer, as designated by our government, belongs to all Americans,” the NDP website declares. “It is not sponsored or owned by any one group. Every American can observe the NDP in his or her own way.”
The page also includes a disclaimer noting that although NDP Task Force Chairwoman Shirley Dobson is the wife of James Dobson, the event is in no way affiliated with Focus on the Family or “Family Talk.” Dobson left Focus on the Family in 2009.
But for Hahn, James Dobson’s actions struck a painful chord.
“I’m the co-chair of the weekly Congressional Prayer Breakfast,” she explained. “I was the co-chair this year of the National Prayer Breakfast. And I work so hard at putting my politics aside every week and coming together with members of Congress I don’t agree with, but we find an hour a week where we put politics aside and pray for our country, and so far, it’s worked. … I was so upset today I felt like abandoning everything I’ve done to try to be bipartisan.”
Hahn said she has calmed down a bit since then and is considering bringing up the issue with her colleagues who regularly attend the weekly prayer breakfasts. “I would hope maybe members of the Congressional Prayer Breakfast consider writing [Dobson] and tell him that what he did really goes against what we’ve been trying to do in weekly in our prayer breakfast,” she said.
She might run into some disagreement with her co-chairman, conservative Republican Louie Gohmert of Texas, whom Hahn said she considers a “friend” despite the fact that she considers him her “political opposite.”
Gohmert told CQ Roll Call in a brief hallway interview on Thursday afternoon that he was familiar with Dobson’s remarks and Hahn’s frustration.
“I can understand Janice’s position and as co-chairman of the National Prayer Breakfast, which every president has attended, we work really hard to keep politics completely out of that,” Gohmert said.
He said he also felt for Dobson, whose religious beliefs and stance on abortion are inseparable. “I can also well understand Dr. Dobson’s frustration because it is their belief that assisting in any way, including providing funding, for abortion, is a sin. It’s not something that he should support and so he felt like this was a good time to let people know what he was going through. So I understand that.”