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James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, has died (edition.cnn.com)
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James Dobson, a politically influential child psychologist who started a radio show counseling Christians on how to be good parents, founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family and was a campaigner against abortion and gay rights, died on Thursday. He was 89.

His death was confirmed by the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute.

Dobson founded Focus on the Family in 1977, which had more than 1,000 employees at its peak and gave Dobson a platform to weigh in on legislation, advise White House panels and advocate against laws to ban conversion therapy to “cure” gay people.

He served on President Donald Trump ’s Evangelical Executive Advisory Board.

Dobson left Focus on the Family in 2010 and founded the institute that bears his name and continued with the Family Talk radio show, which is nationally syndicated and is carried by 1,500 radio outlets with more than half a million listeners weekly, according to the institute.

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Piece of shit lived a life of privilege and luxury and died thinking he was morally righteous. The world is better off with him gone, but that's only because he made the world much worse by simply being shitty to everyone. There is no justice except what we take.