The following excerpts are from today’s edition of the Focus on the Family broadcast, arguably one of the most important and powerful broadcasts in the history of the radio ministry. Dr. Dobson begins by explaining that this is the first time he has ever recorded on the Sabbath, but he has done because of the urgency and priority of the message and to clarify for the American people the real issues in the Chief Justice Roy Moore case. This is necessary, he argues, because of the tremendous confusion being created by well-intentioned, but wrong-thinking Christians (like Jay Sekulow, Richard Land, Marvin Olasky and Pat Robertson) who are actually giving aid and comfort to the enemies of freedom by actively opposing Chief Justice Moore. You simply must listen to the actual broadcast on-line by visiting the Focus on the Family web site. In the meantime, we have transcripted a few choice segments from today’s broadcast.

Dr. Dobson
“We are recording these comments late Sunday afternoon, which our listeners will hear, of course, on Monday. This is, I believe, the only program I have every prepared on the Sabbath—-I don’t remember another one.

The reason we are doing it today is that——even though we honor the Sabbath as a day of rest and worship—-in this case the news story that we are going to be covering is changing so rapidly that we would have been giving old information—-or misinformation—-if we hadn’t come in the studio this afternoon for an update.”

Dr. Dobson
“There is so much at stake. Don, you and I discussed this situation yesterday, and we decided that we absolutely had to let people know what hangs in balance here, ‘Why is this issue so important?’”

Don Hodel
“Well, that’s right, and as you have said, it has not been reported accurately in the media, and I think many Christian people who have stood with Judge Moore on this issue concerning the Ten Commandments for years are now confused about its meaning.”

Dr. Dobson
“Some of our conservative friends, those with whom we are usually in agreement on things, such as Jay Sekulow and Richard Land, both of whom are great friends of mine, are calling Judge Moore’s unwillingness to obey a federal judicial order ‘an outrage’ and ‘the wrong thing to do.’ One of them said that he was ‘dismayed’ by it. And we disagree strongly, and we want to explain why on our program today.”

Chief Justice Moore
[Quoting Justice Curtis’ dissent in the Dred Scott case] “That when a strict interpretation of the Constitution according to the fixed rules which govern the interpretation of laws is abandoned, and the theoretical opinions of individuals are allowed to control its meaning, we have no longer a Constitution. We are under a government of individuals who, for the time being have the power to declare what the Constitution is according to their own view of what they think it ought to mean’ and that’s what we’re doing—-we’re not following the rule of law here. There’s no law at all.

If I could make one point: the issue is, “Can the state acknowledge God?” And many well-thinking Christians think that they’ve got to follow the Federal Government who says ‘no’ when the Constitution and every bit of our history says otherwise.”

Don Hodel
“But Alan, the problem we’ve got—-and you know this better than most—-is that usurpation which began forty or so years ago has been so embedded in the thinking today that we’ve got a bunch of good, solid, right-thinking Christian-based attorneys who themselves are saying, “Well, gee, this is the law of the land.”

Dr. Dobson
“Out great concern…is that this is really part of a larger plan to eliminate every vestige of faith or religion or reverence for God from the public square. That’s where this is headed; and if we don’t stop it here, they are going to have to sandblast half the buildings in Washington.”

Chief Justice Moore
“Christians who go before courts and pretend to try to win and first deny the Sovereignty of God have lost the battle already, and they are playing in a game that they cannot win.”

Dr. Dobson
“I think [Richard Land] is making a mistake here. And he’s quoted in BP News, ‘However much sympathy I may have for Judge Moore’s belief and convictions and the Ten Commandments, and the role they played is Western Civilization and American Jurisprudence, I am dismayed at the prospect of a judge defying a court order,’ said Land, President of Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. ‘One of foundational principles of American Law is that we believe in the rule of law...”
[With passion in his voice]...I wonder if Dr. Land and Jay Sekulow are supportive of the American Revolution where we rebelled against the British tyranny?”

Dr. Dobson
“[This] burns within me. I can’t tell how strongly I feel about what we are talking about here. We are at a turning point, a pivotal point in the history of this country. This is not just another issue.”

Don Hodel
“Unless people are willing to stand up and be counted, what we have got is the perfect usurpation by the courts of our rights as citizens. And they are writing laws now—-they have got our good Christian friends persuaded that the law of the land requires ‘separation of church and state.’