In a Tuesday, March 11, 2008 photo, Christian evangelical leader and founder of “Focus on the Family”, James Dobson, listens to President Bush, not pictured, address the National Religious Broadcasters 2008 Convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, file)
Dr. James Dobson, a politically influential child psychologist who started a radio show counseling Christians on how to be good parents and founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family, has died. He was 89.
Dobson started Focus on the Family in 1977, which had more than 1,000 employees at its peak 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 while also fig