Dobson, one of the nation’s foremost evangelical leaders, told Palin that he was “asking for God’s intervention” and praying “for a miracle in regard to the election this year.”

The GOP Vice-Presidential nominee said that she gains strength from the supporters she meets on rope lines at campaign events, “I can feel the power of prayer, and that strength that is provided through our prayer warriors across this nation. And I so appreciate it.”

BUT…that doesn’t explain why they quoted him extensively throughout the Nineties (perhaps up until the early 00s). They did a lot of harm back then by being lazy and taking his quotes for “balance” before truly checking up on him.

A few years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center began to list groups like Dobson’s as hate groups. That was a courageous move: labeling a religious/Christian group as being a hate group. If the media had…ahem, “gumption”…then they’d follow suit and start printing that the SPLC labels FOF as a hate group (true!). Right along side the lists of Neo Nazi groups, KKK remnants, radical militias, violence provoking anti-immigration groups, and more. (They had an article on a radical, African American, Jewish group…again, that preached hate and violence. The SPLC is a great resource.)

Imagine what the outcry would be if he was spouting the same words, only directed at Jews or Buddhists? “They want to destroy our families!” No one would be enshrining him anywhere.