Editing James Dobson (section)

===Shift to political activity===
In 2004, Dobson founded [[Family Policy Alliance]], a lobbying arm of his media empire. With a more permissive tax status than Focus on the Family, it is allowed to directly fundraise for political campaigns.{{sfn|Gilgoff|2007|p=14–15}} The Alliance also coordinates the action of Dobson's network of state-based Family Policy Councils. Together, these organizations seek to encode traditional [[gender roles]] into public policy and law.{{sfn|Brenneman|2014|p=135-136}} They consider [[LGBT rights]] to be a threatening "[[gay agenda|LGBT agenda]]."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://familypolicyalliance.com/issues/tag/lgbt-agenda/ |title=Who can you trust? |website=Family Policy Alliance |first=Nicole |last=Hudgens }}</ref>

Throughout its existence, Dobson has attacked the [[President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief]] (PEPFAR), a US government program to fight AIDS worldwide. In 2006, he claimed that "80 percent of this money is going toward terrible programs that are immoral as well as ineffective. For example, to promote condom distribution, people associated with these government programs have dressed up like condoms and created ceramic sculptures of male genitalia."<ref>{{cite web |title=Casting the first stone: the US Christian right's war on the Global Fund |first=Theo |last=Smart |date=23 June 2006 |url=https://www.aidsmap.com/news/jun-2006/casting-first-stone-us-christian-rights-war-global-fund}}</ref> He renewed his attack in 2023, falsely claiming that PEPFAR funds abortions.<ref>{{cite news |work=Health Policy Watch |first=Kerry |last=Cullinan |date=June 20, 2023 |title=Lives Are At Risk as Anti-Abortion Groups Attack HIV Programme PEPFAR |url=https://healthpolicy-watch.news/lives-at-risk-as-groups-attack-pepfar/ }}</ref> Focus on the Family received a grant of $49,505 through PEPFAR in 2017 to operate an [[Abstinence-only sex education|abstinence-only]] purity pledge program.<ref>{{cite web |website=USA Spending |title=Project Grant |url=https://www.usaspending.gov/award/50022480 }}</ref>