James Dobson, Influential Leader of the Religious Right, Dies at 89

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James Dobson, Influential Leader of the Religious Right, Dies at 89

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LearnedHand (4,928 posts)
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 10:20 AM
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Source: NYT (gift article)

James Dobson, the evangelical Christian broadcaster who waged war on homosexuality and championed “family values” in a long crusade that made him one of the nation’s most influential leaders of the religious right, died on Thursday at his home in Colorado Springs. He was 89.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/james-dobson-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f08.fP_D.ULPeCQgGfRjR&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Finally that dangerous **** meets his own mortality!

hatrack (63,346 posts)
1. And the world is a better place!!
Reply to LearnedHand (Original post)
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 10:21 AM
Awaiting him in Hell - an infinity of dachshunds - and they're pissed off.

JustAnotherGen (36,635 posts)
8. Yeppers
Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #3)
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 10:25 AM
He sure was. He and Rushdooney - an awful duo of ChristoFascist evil.

In the real world, I doubt that as many as 30% of Evangelicals have heard of Rousas Rushdoony, very possibly less than 20%. In ProgLand his influence was close to that of Billy Graham.

niyad (126,185 posts)
55. We here refer to that tax-free group as either "fungus on the family", or,
Reply to Blue Owl (Reply #23)
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 12:21 PM
"focus on fascism", for over 30 years.

Ever classy.

Grins (8,739 posts)
56. Focus on the fetus? What it really was.
Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #3)
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 12:24 PM
And, yes; he was the despicable founder.

mountain grammy (28,097 posts)
4. Focus on the family as another hater
Reply to LearnedHand (Original post)
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 10:24 AM
Drops dead. Good riddance!

JustAnotherGen (36,635 posts)
5. Woo hoooooo!
Reply to LearnedHand (Original post)
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 10:24 AM
 
That s.o.b. has been part of the ChristoFascist movement for decades.

I hope he enjoys his time in hell.

Hey Joe (178 posts)
59. Roast him slowly Satan!!🔥
Reply to JustAnotherGen (Reply #5)
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 12:41 PM

Dobson did not qualify for that eternal destiny.

AverageOldGuy (2,857 posts)
16. Here's an honest obituary for Dobson
Reply to LearnedHand (Original post)
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 10:45 AM
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/james-dobson-burn-in-hell

Finally. This awful homophobe made the world a significantly worse place by his living in it. His brand of hate was tremendously influential in the modern Republican Party. Future Americans should look at Dobson with contempt and disgust, much like the racist scum of our collective past and of the Trump administration today.

(There's a lot more at the link . . . and it gets much better.!

71 replies, at this point in time. This also, at this time, seems to be DU's lone thread about Dobson's death.

[FlippyDoo]

DU is once more showing how they are the party of love and compassion. And displaying why normal, sane individuals view them as useless, hate-filled bags of excrement.

[DLR Pyro]

I went to high school with Dr. Dobson's daughter Danae.  She and I were enrolled in a extra curricular speed reading class that was offered prior to the first period of school and Dr Dobson would often sit in on the class in the back row.  He was a very nice and considerate man who was always had encouraging words to all of the students in the class. 

The DUmp can say all they want about this man but he is in a better place that few of them will ever see.