Christian conservative James Dobson has
criticized guidelines developed by the Obama administration advising
public schools on the rights of transgender students.
Last week, Dobson dedicated an entire
radio program to the subject.
“It seems like everything [President
Barack Obama has] tried to do has been to move us toward chaos,”
Dobson
told his listeners. “Chaos in the military. Chaos in medicine,
certainly. Chaos in the family, in marriage. Chaos in the judiciary
and in the courts. Chaos in the economy. Chaos in every branch of
government. Chaos in education, from kindergarten through the largest
and most influential of the universities. It's been chaos. And now
he's trying to tell parents how to raise their children and that will
be the most chaotic of all because that leads towards the next
generation. He gets control of the next generation, then his
predecessors will have an easier time of controlling us and that is
what it comes down to. It comes down to tyranny.”
“If the people have to take a choice
between chaos and tyranny, they will always choose tyranny because
chaos is unpredictable and tyranny is generally not, even when you're
under an oppressive regime. I think control is what it comes down
to.”
“The history of America has been a
people who had a passion for freedom. They were not willing to be
tyrannized. They fought a revolutionary war because they were being
oppressed and tyrannized and we're moving in that direction. I'm not
calling for a revolution, but I am saying we better stand up and
fight because we're losing something precious to us; it's called
liberty,” he concluded.
Dobson, who
previously endorsed Texas Senator Ted Cruz for president, was
recently named to a panel that will advise the Donald Trump campaign
on religious matters.
(Related: Michele
Bachmann, James Dobson, Robert Jeffress to advise Donald Trump.)