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Dr James ‘homosexuals will destroy the earth’ Dobson, is dead at 89

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THE bigoted, Trump-lovin’ founder of the designated hate group Focus on the Family, is dead — am I allowed to say hallujah!? — but the toxic fundamentalist culture he helped create sadly lives on.

Dobson, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, played an integral role in co-founding, funding and platforming what has become the infrastructure of the modern anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion movements.

During the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Dobson used his platform to spread disinformation so extreme that in 1989, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop publicly called out Dobson’s activity as “reprehensive” and “homophobic.”

In 1997, former Focus on the family staffer Gil Alexander-Moegerle published Dobson’s War on America. The book details Alexander-Moegerle’s 20 years with Dobson and quotes him as saying:

Communities do not let prostitutes, pedophiles, voyeurs, adulterers and those who sexually prefer animals to publicly celebrate their lifestyle, so why should homosexuals get such privileges?

In 2004, Dobson said:

Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth.

Dobson’s racism

Writing for Patheos in 2019, Libby Anne put Dobson in the same camp as American white supremacists under the headline “James Dobson: Migrants ‘Will Soon Overwhelm the Culture‘, and quotes this nasty piece of work as saying:

Their numbers will soon overwhelm the culture as we have known it, and it could bankrupt the nation.

Anne asked:

What does Dobson’s phrase ‘the culture as we have known it’ mean? Dobson already thinks that evangelical Christian influence on American culture has been overwhelmed by secularism, so it’s not that — besides, most migrants from Central America embrace some branch of Christianity (many are evangelicals themselves). What is it, then? I have a informed guess. I think it’s race. In other words, this is a white supremacist statement.

Writing for Defector, Albert Burneko, went so far as to call Dobson a “monster” in a headline.

James Dobson was a nasty dude. He liked to beat children and dogs with a belt and to rain misery and punishment on the vulnerable; we know all of this about him because he said as much in public, repeatedly, over a long and rancid public life. He enlisted a whole bunch of Ideology — patriarchy, social conservatism, utterly fake upside-down Christianity —i n service of those basic motivations, not only to justify his own appetite for and personal acts of sadism and domination, but to cast punishment and predation as far out into the world as he could manage. He studied psychology and the Bible so that he could borrow their authority and instrumentalize them to do widespread cruelty more effectively. He was oriented to evil, at vast scale, by continual lifelong choice. It was his calling, and he made it his job.

Hat tip: Stephen Harvie

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8 responses to “Dr James ‘homosexuals will destroy the earth’ Dobson, is dead at 89”

  1. stephenharvie Avatar
    stephenharvie

    He spent his whole life hating decent people.

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  2. Matilda Avatar
    Matilda

    Not only was this odious man a prominent anti-LGBTQTIA+ and anti-abortion bigot. As bad – if one can classify such things – he advocated that parents beat their children from a few months old. He believed in using Michael Pearl’s book, ‘To Train Up a Child,’ which advised beating a child with a length of plumbing pipe. And placing your newly-crawling baby on a blanket and hitting it with a wooden spoon every time it started to moved off the blanket. He’s caused decades of untold misery, pain, mental health problems, self harm, unhealthy addictions and fetishes ete etc to adults whose parents beat them like that in the name of their jesus.

    There’s YT videos of the adult children of the repugnant pastor Steve Anderson saying both their parents beat them with electrical cord for the most trivial of misdemeanors and then made them wear long sleeved garments in the hottest weather to cover their bruised limbs on Sundays.

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    barriejohn

    Welcome news this morning of yet another prominent Christian bigot (Rev. Martin Smyth of NI) being “called to higher service”. Some of the comments on this blog are interesting!https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2009/05/irish_church_leaders_join_the.html

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  4. malcolmjdodd Avatar
    malcolmjdodd

    Much misery could have been avoided if god had terminated the utterly vile Dobson at birth.

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  5. Broga Avatar
    Broga

    “God works in a mysterious way. Letting Dobson appear is one of the more mysterious.

    President Trump, his current enthusiasm for wreaking the planet continuing unabated , is another. I see Trump has expressed some doubts as to his being admitted. The indications that Trump is unbalanced never cease.

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  6. Broga Avatar
    Broga

    Trump’s doubts were that he might not get into heaven.

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    1. malcolmjdodd Avatar
      malcolmjdodd

      The vile orange horror will not get into hell either, the resident scientists and engineers will have built a wall with a sign on the only door ‘Entry Requirement IQ >30’.

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      1. stephenharvie Avatar
        stephenharvie

        :))))

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