Overview

• Dobson died Thursday at age 89 in his Kissing Camels condo in Colorado Springs, according to local remembrances.
• He founded Focus on the Family and later Family Talk, after helping create the Family Research Council in the 1980s.
• Analysts credit him with mobilizing the Religious Right and shaping GOP culture-war politics from the Reagan era to the Trump years.
• LGBTQ writers and scholars condemn his promotion of conversion therapy, describing lasting harm from teachings that framed queer people as needing to be “cured.”
• Supporters memorialize a Radio Hall of Fame broadcaster and bestselling author known for conservative positions on parenting, marriage, and abortion.