James Dobson died at age 89, and the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute announced his death on its website without providing a cause. Dobson founded the Focus on the Family radio show in 1977, predating Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, and helped forge ties between evangelical Christianity and conservative politics in the United States. He helped create the Family Research Council to advance political aims. Dobson opposed marriage equality and characterized it as a threat to society's structure. The news is described as a developing story.
James Dobson, the infamous anti-LGBTQ+ leader of Focus on the Family who pushed the Republican Party further to the right, died Wednesday. He was 89. The Dr. James Dobson Family Institute announced Dobson's death on its website. The group did not say how he died.
Dobson created the Focus on the Family radio show in 1977, two years earlier than Jerry Falwell began the Moral Majority, the Washington Post notes. Both are seen to have given rise to the relationship between evangelical Christianity in the U.S. and conservative politics. To pursue political aims, Dobson helped create the Family Research Council. Dobson did not believe in marriage equality and, as the Post puts it, "denounced [marriage equality] as a peril to the structure of society."
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