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BountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish ·
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Focus on the Family founder James Dobson Dead (cw for child abuse, conversion therapy)

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James Dobson, Focus on the Family founder and key leader on the Christian right, dies at 89
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James Dobson, a child psychologist who founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family and was a politically influential campaigner against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, has died at age 89.
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    this mans influence is directly responsible for my shitty teenage years, good riddance.

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      He was also deeply connected to the megachurch I had to go to. Funny thing about being the only evangelical out of all my friends was my family also being the most dysfunctional

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    80 years too late just like every other one of these fuckers

  • regul [any]@hexbear.net
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    another ghoul died peacefully in his bed of old age

    • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      At least we will have a new gender neutral toilet soon.

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    crab-party crab-party crab-party crab-party crab-party

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    Finally some good fucking news

    hexcrab-party hexcrab-party hexcrab-party

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    The Focus on the Family newsletter was a major vector of purity culture ideology into my childhood, in addition to his relentless war against the gay agenda. IIRC, my church actually distributed their propaganda for free.

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      Mine as well, I was given and consumed so much of their content

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    RIP IN PISS

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    claims to be pro life

    dies

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    packwatch

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    “And now for some good news…”

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    ANOTHER KKKRACKKKA DOWN!!!111!!

    crab-party crab-party crab-party

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    Hell yeah

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    hexcrab-party

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    Vaxxed?

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    Of course he lived to be 89.

    Only the good die young, as Billy Joel once said.

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