Last week, James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and a longtime social conservative leader, died at 89. He devoted himself to many causes in his life. Perhaps chief among them was the importance of marriage and the family. There was a granular, practical element to this: He spent a great deal of time dispensing marriage and parenting advice. An additional element of his work, however, was in defending these essential institutions from redefinition and decay.
Appearing on Larry King Live in 2002, for example, Dobson warned of the social ills that would follow a redefinition of marriage. In 2004, he wrote:
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