Dr. 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, died on Thursday. He was 89.

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

Dobson started a radio show counseling Christians on how to be good parents and founded Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs in 1977, which at its peak had more than 1,000 employees and gave him a platform to weigh in on legislation, advise White House panels and advocate against laws to ban conversion therapy to "cure" gay people.

He became a force in the 1980s for pushing conservative Christian ideals in American politics alongside fundamentalist giants like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson . He campaig

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