Big meanie!

Via Roll Call:

California Democrat Janice Hahn wants an apology from Dr. James Dobson for National Day of Prayer remarks last week in which the Focus on the Family founder referred to President Barack Obama the “abortion president.”

The congresswoman sent a letter to Dobson, a talk show host and author, taking issue with the May 1 remarks at the event.

Hahn, who served as a co-chairwoman of the National Prayer Breakfast in February and oversees, with Texas Republican Louie Gohmert, a congressional prayer breakfast for colleagues each week, took issue with Dobson’s political commentary and walked out in protest in the middle of his speech.

“Last week, when I attended the National Day of Prayer, I expected a day to bring people in our nation and Congress together,” Hahn wrote in her letter, obtained by CQ Roll Call. “Instead, your remarks were divisive, and I thought inappropriate for this non-partisan event.

“I think you owe the Members of Congress who took time out of their busy day to attend an apology,” she wrote. “This would be the first step in healing a wound that you inflicted with your disrespectful and inappropriate speech.”

The National Day of Prayer is typically held on the first Thursday of May; since its inception, every president, regardless of faith or party affiliation, has issued a proclamation in support of the occasion. Its official website describes the event as one that “belongs to all Americans” and “is not sponsored or owned by any one group.”

Dobson does, however, happen to be the husband of Shirley Dobson, the head of the National Day of Prayer Task Force.

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