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andros_rex@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 day ago

James Dobson, influential founder of conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, dies age 89

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James Dobson, influential founder of conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, dies age 89

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andros_rex@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 day ago
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James Dobson, Focus on the Family founder and key leader on the Christian right, dies at 89
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James Dobson, a child psychologist who founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family and was a politically influential campaigner against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, has died at age 89.

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    I like the way you think. 🦀

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    May he rest in agony.

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    May he rest in all the piss he deserves.

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    No idea who that is, but that title tells me it was probably some sort of oxygen waster.

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      Look up Focus on the Family. This motherfucker is partly responsible for the Handmaid’s Tale fetish some of the US has right now.

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    Now send his space dust to the furthest reaches of the universe never to be used again.

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    Woop!

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    BUT DOBSON, WHY NOW? WHY NOT 20 YEARS AGO?

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    Wasn’t he supposedly pro-life? Fucking hypocrite.

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    Yay!!!

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    A good start. Who’s next?

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    Rot in hell

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    Far too late, but still happy days

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