Spoiled Religion

Jan LaRue, chief counsel for the Washington-based Concerned Women for America, a conservative Christian group, said the fact that Miers is an evangelical and personally opposes abortion does not guarantee she would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.

"Jimmy Carter claims to be an evangelical," she said, quoted in Time magazine, "and I wouldn't want to have him on the Supreme Court."

Robert Parham of the Baptist Center for Ethics said Dobson should still be required to testify under oath.

"Senator Specter should call Dobson to testify about what he asked Rove, what Rove told him and when they talked," Parham said. "Dobson's explanation of the exchange fails the smell test. On one broadcast, he claims insider information from the president's most trusted political adviser as the basis of his support for Miers. On a later broadcast, he shifts direction and downplays his special briefing. The public needs to know how the White House used a religious leader to do its bidding and how a religious right leader served as court prophet for the White House's agenda.

"The Dobson/Rove episode offers a sad example of spoiled religion—religion in which religious leaders get so close to political operatives that they lose discernment."

[via Ethics Daily.com, emphasis mine]