"James Dobson founded Focus on the Family in 1977, and the group's primary focus over the years has been to lobby against LGBTQ+ rights in the US, calling those rights a "particularly evil lie of Satan." The organisation's current president is Jim Daly, who hosts a daily radio programme with co-host Focus VP John Fuller. Focus on the Family also publishes books, magazines and videos. The group is also vehemently anti-abortion, and one of their goals is to abolish Planned Parenthood."
"Focus on the Family also lobbies hard against transgender rights, and works to craft policies opposing the consensus of pro-transgender medical experts. They are also staunchly against any form of same-sex marriage or union, including civil unions, with Dobson stating that civil unions were just same-sex marriage under another name. The Southern Poverty Law Group officially classified Focus on the Family as a hate group in May 2025."
"James Dobson also helped to create the Family Research Council, an activist group and think-tank that opposes and lobbies against stem-cell research, abortion, divorce, , same-sex marriage, anti-discrimination laws, same-sex civil unions and LGBTQ+ adoption. The group has been criticised in the past for falsely claiming that the children of same-sex parents suffer from more mental health problems."
James Dobson died at age 89; his cause of death has not been made public. He founded Focus on the Family in 1977 and led the organization’s long-term campaigns against LGBTQ+ rights, characterizing those rights as a "particularly evil lie of Satan." Focus on the Family publishes books, magazines and videos and runs a daily radio program led by president Jim Daly and co-host John Fuller. The organization is vehemently anti-abortion and seeks to abolish Planned Parenthood. Focus on the Family lobbies against transgender rights, opposes same-sex marriage and civil unions, and was classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center in May 2025. Dobson also helped create the Family Research Council, which has been criticized for false claims about children of same-sex parents.
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