With the Party of Dobson

[Allen] praised Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, Americans United to Preserve Marriage president Gary Bauer and the American Family Association's Don Wildmon, as The Four Horsemen, a reference to Notre Dame's legendary 1924 backfield--or perhaps the original quartet from the Book of Revelations.

[As] Allen sought to dampen the public controversy over his mishandling of his Jewish heritage, his association with these Four Horsemen simply called attention to Dobson's and Perkins's problematic utterances. Dobson's Focus on the Family, for example, published an article in its Citizen magazine last February attacking the parents of federal judge Stephen Reinhardt (whose step-grandfather was a Holocaust survivor) for telling their son "tales of horrific violence" about the Holocaust "that lacked the redemptive power of Christ's atonement." The Anti-Defamation League has repeatedly condemned Wildmon for his conspiratorial diatribes against "secular Jews." And Perkins, for his part, paid $82,500 to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke for his phone-bank list and then spoke at a 2001 fundraiser for the Council of Conservative Citizens, America's largest white supremacist organization.