Subscribe to Breaking News
Loading ...Dobson delivers last broadcast for Focus on Family
02.26.2010 1:57pm EST
(Colorado Springs) James Dobson made his last radio broadcast Friday for Focus on the Family, the conservative Christian ministry he founded 33 years ago and built into an influential political and social voice.
“I have a lump in my throat, but God’s in control,” Dobson told listeners.Dobson, an outspoken opponent of abortion and gay marriage, has been gradually withdrawing from the organization, stepping down as president in 2003 and as chairman of the board last year.
He plans to start a new show, “Family Talk with James Dobson,” this spring.
Dobson said Friday the new show isn’t competition for Focus on the Family, noting that Focus agreed to donate $1 million to help him start.
“I’m not setting out to construct some magnificent organization like, frankly, this one is,” he said. “But I also do not believe the Lord is done using my voice in the culture and speaking to parents.”
Dobson said he’ll continue to speak out on family, marriage and public policy.
Co-hosts on the new show will be his son Ryan, who heads KOR World Ministry, and LuAnne Crane, a senior producer of Focus on the Family radio.
He joked Crane would speak to women, his son to younger people, “and I will speak to the geezers.”
Ugg…can’t this man just die already?
jlachett…but when he dies, he’ll be like the mythical Hydra. If you cut off one head, it will be replaced with 7 new identical heads. Creeps like Dobson somehow replicate themselves and no one has determined how to delete them entirely.
Wasn’t he the one who said that young boys should shower with their fathers so the boys can see they have a penis just like Daddy’s, except Daddy’s is bigger?
Sick pfuque!
Gee, I wonder what that lump in his throat is? Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out Mr. Dobson and thanks for the bitter memories!
Now if only Focus on the Phallus would go out of business completely.
Yeah, yeah, yeah……. Just like any OTHER terrorist, one goes down and 3 or 4 others take his place. I can’t say I am sorry to see the bastard go, though…..
Good Riddance, if I ever hear that name again; it would be too soon. I am sure another person will take his place though.
I hope god has his place in the future life all set up.
Memo to all : ignore his request for a fireproof suit – he doesn’t deserve one.
I fear that Dobson won’t live long enough to see the pain he has caused.
I am glad that I won’t hear his voice on the radio anymore. Everytime I have in the past, the only words that I hear him speaking are: I’m a close-minded IDIOT.
Isn’t one group with a hateful agenda enough; now this “spaz” feels the need to start another! Truly nauseating as he spreads his rhetoric like a cancer in our society. Shame on him….but “we” can use his image in a pictionary to depict evil influence!
“Dobson said he’ll continue to speak out on family, marriage and public policy.” Please note that this included politics, but, perhaps oddly, not religion. Focus on the Family was not a Chrisitan organization, but a political organization. It selected its topics/issues based on how they would activate a politically less active group.
Dobson’s organization has charitable tax status. If this group gets this status when they are speaking out and involved in lobbying on political issues, it seems the same status should be granted to groups such as Human Rights Campaign and Egale, speaking out for LGBT people. The alternative is for the governments of Canada and the United States to withdraw charitable tax status from Focus on the Family. EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL; SPECIAL RIGHTS FOR NONE!
Why do we allow prominent figures to say things like “I also do not believe the Lord is done using my voice in the culture and speaking to parents” and not react the way we do as a society to calls that god caused some natural disaster or another due to the immorality of the culture harmed?
Everyone makes fun of Robertson when he blames a flood on the gays, but whackos say things like Dobson’s quote all the time.
The lord is not done using his voice? What lord? What crazy world do you inhabit where you claim your voice is possessed by a spirit and nobody calls you out for the craaaazzzzeeeee you obviously are?
We have to stop allowing this religious pass..its worse than the insanity plea. “I’m brainwashed to believe in fairies in the sky, so I can say crazy things”.
Why, as an educated society, do we allow this?
My little part is to continue to write and call editors when they print these whacko quotes and do not present them as just that, whacko. We simply cannot allow delusional beliefs to go unchallenged. Next you know we’ll have people claiming to be vampires and asking for access to the dying for food.
Will somebody find and deliver a bottle full of maggots for this creap.
I think all you need to do is live in a warm climage, and put a piece of meat in the sun for a few days.
And a card that says – welcum to your future……….