Ed Dobson, onetime Moral Majority leader, dies at 65

Ed Dobson, a onetime architect of the religious right who later spent a year “living like Jesus,” died December 26 after 15 years with Lou Gehrig’s disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He was 65.

Born in Northern Ireland, Dobson was the retired pastor of Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, Michi­gan. In 2009 he au­thored The Year of Living Like Jesus.

“The way of Jesus is very hard,” Dobson said. “If you take his teaching seriously, it will mess you up.”