The GOsPel, Jack Abramoff, and the wages of sin:

Dobson roused faithful for Abramoff's aims

"Politicians need to root out this infection."

What Dobson didn't explain was his own role in helping advance the aims of Abramoff, who is at the center of a massive corruption scandal and cooperating with a Justice Department probe after defrauding American Indian tribes in Louisiana, Mississippi, Michigan and Texas. Each of the tribes either ran casinos or tried to get into the gambling business.

Hundreds of documents recently released by the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee show Abramoff contacted Dobson through a mutual associate: Ralph Reed, a political strategist and former executive director of the Christian Coalition...

"[Reed] may have finally scored for us!" Abramoff wrote in a Feb. 20, 2002 e-mail to his business partner, Michael Scanlon, who also has pleaded guilty to corruption charges. "Dobson goes up on the radio on this next week!"

Before anybody gets carried away, I'm pretty sure that Dobson didn't know he was being duped into supporting one competing gambling interest against another in a multimillion dollar fraud. (cue violin) He just got schooled. Duped. Used. Cruelly deceived. Led astray. His omniscient, Godly shaft of pulpit power was used behind his back in the commission of sin. Politics is an immoral, dirty business that just plum got the better of the greatest theological light in America.

But that's kind of instructive for the next time he offers you political advice, don't you think?