Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) has asked a top White House official to condemn remarks by conservative activist Dr. James Dobson.

On the Aug. 3 edition of his Focus on the Family radio show, Dobson compared embryonic stem cell research to Nazi experiments on human beings. Two days later, Dobson, reacting to a letter from the Anti-Defamation League, said he wouldn't apologize for the comments.

Lautenberg wrote to President Bush's top domestic policy advisor, Claude A. Allen, appeared on the Aug. 4 edition of Focus on the Family, but failed to condemn the Nazi comparison.

In Lautenberg's letter to Allen, he urged that Allen and the White House disassociate itself from Dobson's comments.

"I urge you, as a representative of the President, to condemn Dr. Dobson's remarks and make clear that the President doesn't equate embryonic stem cell research with Nazi atrocities," Lautenberg wrote. "The President must send a clear message to the overwhelming majority of Americans who support stem cell research that he respects their views and doesn't hold them in the same moral category as Nazi scientists."

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This article first appeared at Journalists Against Bush's B.S.