Rep. Janice Hahn attended the annual non-partisan National Day of Prayer gathering on Capitol Hill yesterday, expecting a unified, peaceful event. But after listening to Dr. James Dobson from Focus on the Family rail against President Obama, repeatedly calling him the "abortion president", she
decided couldn't sit still any longer:
“Before [Obama] was elected, he made it very clear that he wanted to be the abortion president,” said Dobson, whose remarks were captured in a video featured on WND.com. “He didn’t make any bones about it, that this is something that he really going to promote and support. And he has done that. And in a sense, he is the abortion president.”
Hahn recalled that Dobson prefaced his commentary by saying this was the first time in all his years participating in the National Day of Prayer that he had felt compelled to make reference to his own politics, and she described his speech as a “10- or 15-minute rant against President Obama.”
After trying to rally support from other people sitting in her row, Hahn said she’d had enough.
“Finally, I couldn’t take it anymore,” she said. “I stood up and pointed my finger at [Dobson] and said, ‘This is completely inappropriate for this day,’ and I walked out.”
She went on to
say:
“Dobson just blew a hole into this idea of being a nonpartisan National Day of Prayer. It was very disturbing to me … and really a shame,” Hahn, the co-chair of the weekly congressional prayer breakfast, added. “James Dobson hijacked the National Day of Prayer -- this nonpartisan, nonpolitical National Day of Prayer -- to promote his own distorted political agenda.”
If you want to see Dr. Dobson's repugnant remarks,
God.tv will be replaying the event.