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Former Moral Majority leader Ed Dobson dies

Former Moral Majority leader Ed Dobson dies

Ed Dobson, a onetime architect of the religious right who later spent a year "living like Jesus," died Saturday (Dec. 26). Dobson, the retired pastor of the prominent Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., suffered for more than 15 years from Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He was 65.

Ed Dobson, a onetime architect of the religious right who later spent a year "living like Jesus," died Saturday (Dec. 26). Dobson, the retired pastor of the prominent Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., suffered for more than 15 years from Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He was 65.…