The Reverend elected to take over as president of the Christian Coalition of America said he will not assume the role because of differences in philosophy.
The Rev. Joel Hunter, of Longwood’s Northland, A Church Distributed, said Wednesday that the national group would not let him expand the organization’s agenda beyond opposing abortion and gay marriage.
This is the latest setback for the group founded in 1989 by religious broadcaster the Rev. Pat Robertson. Four states – Georgia, Alabama, Iowa and Ohio – have decided to split from the group over concerns its changing direction on issues like the minimum wage, the environment and Internet law instead of core issues like abortion and same-sex marriage.
Hunter, who was scheduled to take over the socially conservative political group Jan. 1, said he had hoped to focus on issues such as poverty and the environment.
"These are issues that Jesus would want us to care about," Hunter said…
DOBSON: I don’t know. I haven’t talked to him since it happened.
KING: Oh you haven’t?DOBSON: I talked to him the day that the news broke and I have not talked to him since then.KING: Was he sad that day?DOBSON: Oh, of course. I mean you can imagine he was shocked, he was numb, he even lied about it. There’s a video of him saying that none of these things are true, but they were true or a least some of them were.
KING: When you say, Doctor, when you say “restoration” you mean restore him from being gay to not gay or what do you mean?
DOBSON: Yeah, probably that, too.
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