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 Thursday at his home in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

He was 89.

A spokesperson for the family, Jessica Kramer, confirmed the death but did not provide a cause.

In an era of change that revolutionized concepts of family life, child-rearing, marriage and sexual identity, Dobson was for countless conservative Americans a rockbound beacon of resistance who denounced the “wickedness” of abortion and same-sex marriage, and who advised parents how to communicate better with each other and how to educate and discipline their children.

A former professor of pediatrics at the Keck

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