As a guest on the April 25 edition of MSNBC's Scarborough Country, Dobson said: "I mean, you'll notice that they never quote people who come from our point of view. We have never said that those who disagree with us are un-Christian and un-American. That's just unconscionable to say things like that without saying where it occurred." Perkins similarly denied ever adopting such a position. An April 26 Knight Ridder article on "Justice Sunday" quoted Perkins insisting, "We are not saying that people who disagree with us are not people of faith. We have not said that. We will never say that."
...But promotional materials for "Justice Sunday" made just such attacks. In a letter to supporters describing the event, Perkins wrote: "As the liberal, anti-Christian dogma of the left has been repudiated in almost every recent election, the courts have become the last great bastion for liberalism." In addition, Tom Minnery, Focus on the Family's vice president of public policy, accused Democratic senators currently opposing President Bush's judicial nominees of anti-Catholic bigotry. "As a Catholic, I would think the senator [Ken Salazar (D-CO)] would be especially alarmed about the anti-Catholicism of some of his colleagues," Minnery said. And Dobson himself accused Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, of attacking people of faith. "Patrick Leahy is a 'God's people' hater. I don't know if he hates God, but he hates God's people," Dobson said [Daily Oklahoman, 10/23/04].
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