James Dobson

Dr. James Clayton Dobson (born April 21, 1936) is a conservative protestant Christian fundamentalist and psychologist who presents a daily radio program called Focus on the Family on over 6,000 stations worldwide in more than a dozen languages. He is chairman of the board of a nonprofit organization based in Colorado Springs, Colorado of the same name, which he founded in 1977. His programs are estimated to be heard by more than 200 million people every day in 164 countrieshttp://www.family.org/docstudy/aboutdrdobson.cfm, and Focus on the Family is also on 80 US television stations daily.

External links and sources

• Focus on the Family website
• anti-James Dobson Commentary from I Hate Pat Robertson
• Chris Dugan: Would you trust this man alone with your dog? —Anti-Dobson commentary.
• James Dobson: Leader of the `Focus on the Family' cult
• Dobson's campaign contributions
• Dobson endorses advice that dads shower with their sons to prevent homosexuality.

Fundamentalist critics of Dobson

• James Dobson and Rome
• Dobson Exposé
• John MacArthur argues that Gospel preaching and conversion is the answer, not Dobson's emphasis upon political influence
• How James Dobson, leader of Focus on the Family, sets himself up as the moral authority of the nation -- taken from his own words and from other media reports - By Brian Elroy McKinley

Dobson and SpongeBob SquarePants

• Dobson's SpongeBob views distorted
• New York Times article
• Dobson responds
• The Editor of CitizenLink from FOTF responds
• The We Are Family Foundation
• BBC article

Dobson's Political Power

• James Dobson - The religious right's new kingmaker - By Michael Crowley
• Washington Times - James Dobson threatens six senators

Book Review

• James Dobson's War on America, by Gil Alexander-Moegerle - Reviewed by Ron Hogan - "Americans who believe in openness and tolerance should be very wary of James Dobson."