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While I was cleaning at my church today I noticed a fax sitting by the machine in the sacristy. Typically the junk faxes we get are the usual timeshare-and-vacation-related trash that every office gets. But this one was a bit different.
JANE SMITH
XXXXXX XXXXXX CHURCH
SEATTLE, WA
Dear Pastor JANE SMITH,
You can boldly, safely and legally:
- Preach Scriptures & NAME NAMES
- Explain Sen. Obama's pledges on Same-Sex Unions and Child Sacrifice:
- Repeal Defense of Marriage Act
- Enact "Sexual Orientation" Law
- Enact tax-funded Partial Birth Abortion
- View an eyewitness account of his kill-off of Born Alive Infant Protection
- Join the Rabbi, Priest, & Pastor Signatories who object
- Shepherd your Sheep with Integrity
- And, receive a free subscription!
All of this, by means of: www.thejudeo-christianview.com
Shalom,
Dr. O'Neal Dozier
General Publisher
The Judeo-Christian View
PO Box 734
Vista, CA 92085
A quick bit of Internet research reveals that "Dr." O'Neal Dozier is the pastor of World Wide Christian Center in Pompano Beach, Florida, and is, according to his own unsurprisingly prideful and poorly-written biography, a former outside linebacker for the Chicago Bears and New York Jets. He also served in the army and holds a J.D. from John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, as well as a BA in Religion and Philosophy from Bethune-Cookman College. Astoundingly he was a Professor of Law at the Criminal Justice Institute of Broward Community College and in 2001 was appointed by Governor Jeb Bush to the Florida's Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission. He was reappointed in 2003. He was invited by President George W. Bush as part of a delegation of 24 African-American preachers and business owners to discuss Social Security.
You don't get to be one of a handful of prominent African-American Republicans by being a frightening extremist, right? Wrong! Mr. Dozier has a nasty habit of letting his wacky worldview out in public. For example, in November 2003 the New Times reported that Mr. Dozier proclaimed that homosexuality was “something so nasty and disgusting that it makes God want to vomit,” and quoted Dozier as saying, "Why is it one of the paramount of sins? Well, it is a very bad kind of sin because it really hurts society in so many ways. God, however, found a way to punish the homosexuals through HIV-AIDS. It is a type of judgment for such a sin as this one, homosexuality.” While serving on the Judicial Nominating Commission, Dozier interrogated judicial nominees about their personal religious beliefs, how active they were in their churches, how they would rule in cases relating to sodomy, whether or not they would post the Ten Commandments in the courthouse, and, in the case of female nominees, how they would be able to raise their children while serving on the court. Someone with a law degree should probably know that such questions - especially those about one's personal religious views - are inappropriate questions to ask candidates for judicial positions. But Mr. Dozier believes that the separation of church and state is a myth and that the writers of the Constitution would "want us to compromise our Christian values." No surprise then that he spoke out on behalf of Justice Roy Moore's Ten Commandments crusade.
Dozier is not a big fan of the IRS placing limitations on what can be said from the pulpit of a tax-exempt religious organization. In fact, he dislikes this so much that he largely ignores it. While opining during a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration, Mr. Dozier proclaimed that Governor Jeb Bush was "the greatest governor in the history of Florida." I'm sure Mr. Bush was appreciative, since he was sitting there and actually spoke during the ceremony. But Mr. Dozier claims that he isn't violating the IRS prohibition by speaking out on behalf of conservatism:
“I do not teach people to become Republicans, even though I am a Republican. I do not teach people to become a Democrat. I teach them to know and understand the issues at large. And I know they’re going to do the right thing in the voting booth. We want to be very, very careful as Christians not to ‘cancel out our salvation’ as we enter into the voting booth. Many Christians are doing that. They’re praising God on Sundays, then on election Tuesdays, they are ‘canceling out their salvation’ because they are siding with the enemy, with the devil.”
Following his logic, he is a Republican, and when he votes he votes in line with virtue and God those who don't vote with God (whom is a Republican) are siding with the devil. A vote for a Democrat is a vote for Satan.
So what is God for, anyway? When God steps into his cosmic voting booth and pulls the lever for a straight Republican ticket, what is God affirming?
“Listen, God is 100 percent for capital punishment,” Dozier pronounces slowly and emphatically. “Oh, yeah, God knew some were going to slip through, a few innocent ones. He knew that. But you cannot have a society without capital punishment.”
In Mr. Dozier's mind, God's policy is "kill 'em all and let me sort them out." Why not just nuke the entire Earth?
Mr. Dozier was asked to resign his position on the Judicial Nominating Committee after he criticized plans to build a mosque in the predominantly black part of Pompano Beach. On his radio show, Dozier referred to Islam as a cult and claimed that residents were worried that young black men could be pursued for conversion, and that they didn't want their neighborhood to become a breeding ground for terrorists. To me, that seems pretty par for the course for Dozier. Be as nutty as all get out, but keep it to your own religion.
What's funny about this fax is that it was sent to a church in which a large chunk of the congregation is gay. Two of the priest associates are gay and so is the deacon. This has to be one of the most affirming churches anywhere in the country. I don't think anyone saw it before I folded it up and put it in my pocket. Certainly it would not have shocked anyone, but I'm glad no one else had to read it. It certainly made me feel ill.
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