They already oppose such reasonable proposals as requiring school administrators to obtain the consent of parents before handing condoms to our sons or sending our daughters to abortionists. A large segment of the Republican Party is working hard to distance themselves from us. A proposal like this will not pass this election or next. However, to reform our society and our government, we need to look beyond the coming election cycle. Finally, Dr. Dobson, we would be surprised if you immediately embraced this idea of National Confession upon reading this letter.
Persuasion takes time.
Therefore, we ask you to consider this idea, pray about it, and ask us questions about it. Any of us would gladly take the time to talk to you or one of your assistants at length on this subject. In that letter Dr. Dobson bewailed the treatment that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia received for lamenting in an address to the Mississippi College School of Law the treatment that Christians receive in our increasingly secular society. In our letter we sought to point out to Dr. Dobson the failure of the Founders to recognize the Lordship of Christ in the Constitution, and the need to seek to correct this omission. He asked for a response from the recipients of his letter, and Bill Gould drafted the above letter which was signed by the executive Board.