Who cares what a psychologist has to say about the Bible?

More details of religious right leader James Dobson's attack on Obama are filtering out (see our earlier post here). According to an email sent out by Dobson, he had this to say, which is rather odd I think:

In a 2006 speech, Obama compared Dr. Dobson to the Left-leaning Rev. Al Sharpton.

"I don’t want to be defensive here," Dr. Dobson says on the broadcast. "Obviously, that is offensive to me.

"He equates me with Al Sharpton, who is a reverend. I am not a reverend. I’m not a minister. I’m not a theologian. I’m not an evangelist. I’m a psychologist. I have a Ph.D. in Child Development from the University of Southern California. And there is no equivalence to us. I don’t want to overreact to it, but this comment was made two years ago, and it’s taken me two years to find out about it."

Now, his gripe with being compared to Sharpton isn't that Sharpton is very liberal, or kooky, or whatever. Dobson's gripe seems to be that he is a psychologist being compared to a minister. Why would Dobson be offended that someone mistook him for a minister? I thought he was a minister. I certainly didn't think that this guy, who regularly lectures other people about what the Bible "really" says, is just a child psychologist. With all due respect to child psychologists, I don't care what any of them think about the Bible - at least not to a greater degree than what anyone else thinks about it. But to be lectured by a child psychologist about what the Bible "really" says is, well, childlike.