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James Dobson Tried To Destroy Us

Evangelical leader James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family speaks to approximately 1500 supporters a day after a monument of the Ten Commandments was removed from the rotunda and moved to a undisclosed area of the Alabama Judicial Building after Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore had refused to take it down, Aug. 28, 2003 in Montgomery, Alabama. Justice Moore has been suspended from the Judicial Review Board pending a review for not complying with the federal order, drawing protests from Christians who wanted to keep it there. Credit: REUTERS/Tami Chappell

As a former strong-willed child, I’ve had the notion of James Dobson’s mortality in the back of my mind for the last half-decade or so.

I was not expecting a few tears to fall at the news of his death at age 89, but they showed up anyway. Even though this guy hadn’t hurt me for decades, it felt like a relief. I know he inflicted damage on millions of others that might never fade, but his death made it feel like Earth had just become a little less cruel.

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