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and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) would fall. The net impact, according
to the CBO, would be a federal budget savings of nearly $1 billion per year.
8. Religious freedom will almost certainly be jeopardized.
What Dr. Dobson fears is that his brand of faith-based political rhetoric
will be recognized for what it is and that it has nothing to do with “religious
freedom.” That’s exactly what happened in Canada, as Dobson acknowledges
but, as usual, misrepresents:
Censorship is already in full swing. One of our Focus on the
Family radio programs on the subject of homosexuality was
judged by the Canadian Radio and Television Commission to
be “homophobic.” The radio station that carr