Intolerance of Anti-Gay Bigot at Jerry Falwell?s UniversityA Sign of How Fa
2009-04-24 09:05:00 In his book The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University,” Brown University student Kevin Roose writes about his semester as transfer at Liberty University, the Virginia university founded by Jerry Falwell. In an article about that student and this book, AP’s Eric Tucker reports that “A roommate he depicts as aggressively ...
By: GayPatriot
“Jerry Falwell’s God” by Roy Zimmerman
2008-04-22 10:59:00 http://www.royzimmerman.com/ Please subscribe to my Channel “Jerry Falwell’s God” is on my CD “Homeland,” available through my website and on iTunes. Here, I perform the song at the Skeptics Society conference. Tags: Air, Brown, Rihanna, comedy, Justin, kanye, S., Timbaland, funny, no ShareThis
[Sappy] Reverend Jerry Falwell?s widow writes book about her husband, thoug
2008-03-30 09:41:00 NCBuy
Now that Jerry Falwell is dead, what is Pat Robertson going to do come the
2008-02-06 20:19:00 For one thing, Stewie Griffin’s prediction is not going to be coming true. (click here for video)
Jerry Falwell, Jr., endorses Mike Huckabee
2007-11-30 15:35:00 More on God's chosen one, Mike Huckabee. The worm-eaten apple doesn't fall far from the tree... Jerry Falwell, Jr., son of recently departed Jerry Falwell, Sr., no doubt received a lot of divine inspiration before deciding to throw his support behind Huckabee, as reported by Fox News on Wednesday. Here's Huckabee's reaction: The former Arkansas governor and Baptist pastor said Wednesday that prayer has played a big role in his recent polling success. "It defies all explanation, confounds the pundits and I'm enjoying every minute of them trying to figure it out, and until they look at it (as) just experience beyond human they'll never figure out and that's honestly why it's happening," said Huckabee, who appeared with Falwell. Asked if he was saying God is responsible for his surge, Huckabee said he was only referring to prayer: "When people pray, things happen. ... I'm not saying God wants me to be elected. The last time I checked (God) hadn't registered in any of the sta...
By: Bad Thinking
The Passion Of The Threatened Assassinations Of Jerry Falwell
2007-11-28 23:31:00 From the blog Jeremayakovka via Conservative Grapevine In the early 1980s homosexual savages inspired by 1969 riots at the Stonewall Inn bar made death threats against this influential opponent of gay civil rights, as suggested in over 100 pages of recently released FBI files, according to the Washington Post’s “Investigations” blog: [Jerry] Falwell’s FBI file contains a ...
Falwell Family Endorses Mike Huckabee for President
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Jerry Falwell Jr. Endorses Mike Huckabee
2007-11-28 18:18:00 For what its worth… Former Arkansas Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee announced the personal endorsement of Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr. Falwell is the son of the late Jerry Falwell, founder of Liberty University and Falwell Ministries. “I knew Jerry’s dad for more than 30 years and have admired the long tradition of Liberty University ...
Robertson, Falwell, Giuliani Love Fest
2007-11-09 18:04:00 by Geezer Power …10:04 am Video compliments of billybobjoe
By: Suzie-Q
Falwell's ghost apparently residing in UK
2007-07-02 00:00:00 Speaking to the London Telegraph, the Church of England's Rt Rev Graham Dow (Bishop of Carlisle) claimed that the floods that have plagued parts of the UK in recent months are due to God's judgement against us homo-gays. The good...
By: Good As You
Jerry Falwell Views on Israel
2007-06-21 09:26:00 Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. was an American fundamentalist and televangelist. As a Christian, Jerry Falwell is a strong supporter of the existence of Israel. He believes that the Israelis are the chosen people of God. Jerry Falwell lives with the strong conviction that America must protect Israel no matter what it takes. This short post is brought ...
By: Gio's Weblog
Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell dies
2007-06-05 14:08:00 LYNCHBURG, Va. - The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority and used it to mold the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University. He was 73.Ron Godwin, Liberty's executive vice president, said Falwell had been found unresponsive around 10:45 a.m. and was taken to Lynchburg General Hospital.Godwin said he was not sure what caused the collapse but noted that Falwell had “a history of heart challenges.”
Post-Falwell, U.S. Religious Right remains a force
(Reuters)
2007-06-01 13:21:00 Reuters - U.S. evangelist Jerry Falwell has been laid to rest but it is premature to write the political obituary of the conservative Christian movement he once led.
A Last-Minute Falwell Tribute?
2007-05-29 23:26:00 Gee, I wonder where Ewa Sowinska got this idea? Yet another Polish joke apparently (Eh ohhh)?And speaking of Falwell, I didn?t see anything like the information communicated here from Pastor Dan in the various obits (which isn?t surprising, really), but I want to mention it below (re: the fact that Falwell and ?the base? didn?t do much by themselves to elect Republicans)??What Falwell and (James) Dobson particularly excelled at was creating an activist base. Which is to say, a group of people who followed the news, wrote letters, made phone calls, staffed campaigns and did a thousand other scut jobs to fuel the conservative movement.It's just that that never really translated into that many votes. None that weren't already headed into the Republican column, anyway. Falwell and the Religious Right leaders who came after him may have helped sustain the conservative tide in the 70s and 80s, in other words, but there's little evidence that they did much to create it. That work was la...
Hitchens on Falwell
2007-05-29 15:28:00 So Jerry Falwell has left us. Am I happy? You bet. He was a snide little man, spouting hate and discrimination. He and his cronies offered nothing more than religious dogma with the purpose of getting rich and seeking power. But I do feel sorry for him. I have a lot of sympathy because he died without knowing the true wonder of the planet on which he lived. He wasted his life. For that I feel sorry. He never knew just how lucky he was. “We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ord...
Concerned "Man" Baffled by Negative Feelings Toward Falwell
2007-05-23 17:21:00 Matt Barber, who has a new title mentioned at the end of the article..."Matt Barber is one of the?like-minded men? with Concerned Women forAmerica. He is an attorney concentrating in constitutional law and serves as CWA's policy directorfor cultural issues."I only bring it up because he was previously known as just the policy director and has always been the public face of the CWA....a fact I've poked fun at on more than one occasion, lol.Back to Mr. Barber's blathering, though...Like other fundies, he seems completely baffled by the animosity that the left, and homosexuals in general, had for Jerry Falwell. In the title of this article, Barber seems to contend that we are all consumed with hate and self-loathing over our subconscious realization that our lives are inherently sinful. While I wouldn't and haven't made some of the more vicious comments some of my fellow bloggers have made (and that Barber references in this article), I certainly understand where the anger comes f...
Bomb Plot Thwarted at Falwell's Funeral
2007-05-23 06:56:00 From ABC News:Student Arrested With Homemade Bombs, Three Other Suspects Sought May 22, 2007 ? Even in death, the Rev. Jerry Falwell rouses the most volatile of emotions. A small group of protesters gathered near the funeral services to criticize the man who mobilized Christian evangelicals and made them a major force in American politics -- often by playing on social prejudices. A group of students from Falwell's Liberty University staged a counter protest. And Campbell County authorities arrested a Liberty University student for having several homemade bombs in his car. The student, 19-year-old Mark D. Uhl of Amissville, Va., reportedly told authorities that he was making the bombs to stop protesters from disrupting the funeral service. The devices were made of a combination of gasoline and detergent, a law enforcement official told ABC News' Pierre Thomas. They were "slow burn," according to the official, and would not have been very destructive. moreTo stop protesters...
By: Dyre Portents
Rev. Jerry Falwell Laid to Rest
2007-05-22 23:00:00 Thousands Turn Out for Falwell FuneralBy SUE LINDSEYThe Associated PressTuesday, May 22, 2007; 2:35 PMLYNCHBURG, Va. -- Thousands of mourners attended the funeral Tuesday of the Rev. Jerry Falwell, the folksy evangelist who built the Moral Majority into a conservative Christian empire that influenced national politics.The funeral returns Falwell to his roots _ the Thomas Road Baptist Church, where he started as a young preacher in 1956 with just 35 parishioners in an old abandoned soda bottling plant.Today, his son Jonathan Falwell leads Thomas Road Baptist, and the sanctuary seats 6,000.More than an hour before the service, crowds were being directed to overflow seating in Liberty University's 10,000-seat basketball arena and its football stadium. About 300 police and other personnel were helping manage the crowd, Lynchburg Police Chief Charles W. Bennett Jr. said.More than 33,000 people had viewed Falwell's body over four days as it lay in repose."He was a champion of the funda...
By: Dyre Portents
Opinion: How Falwell resembled Farrakhan
2007-05-22 09:33:00 By Clarence Page The Detroit News  Speak not ill of the dead. That’s easy advice to follow until you are remembering those who spoke a lot of ill while they were alive. Yes, I am talking about the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. The founder of the Moral Majority was found dead last Tuesday at age 73 in ...
The Reverend Falwell's Heavenly Timing
2007-05-20 05:45:00 By Frank RichThe New York TimesHARD as it is to believe now, Jerry Falwell came in second only to Ronald Reagan in a 1983 Good Housekeeping poll anointing ?the most admired man in America.? By September 2001, even the Bush administration was looking for a way to ditch the preacher who had joined Pat Robertson on TV to pin the 9/11 attacks on feminists, abortionists, gays and, implicitly, Teletubbies. As David Kuo, a former Bush official for faith-based initiatives, tells the story in his book ?Tempting Faith,? the Reverend Falwell was given a ticket to the Washington National Cathedral memorial service that week only on the strict condition that he stay away from reporters and cameras. Mr. Falwell obeyed, though once inside he cracked jokes (?Whoa, does she look frumpy,? he said of Barbara Bush) and chortled nonstop. This is the great spiritual leader whom John McCain and Mitt Romney raced to praise when he died on Tuesday, just as the G.O.P. presidential contenders were convergi...
jerry falwell "crowd surfing" The Keyword Search of the Day:
2007-05-19 19:43:00 And now we go to Paula the Surf Mom's StatsForYourSite.com for Surf Moms Favorite Keyword Search of the Day: And todays keyword search result from the Queen of the Surf pirates StatsForYourSite.com that brought me the most amusement is a reader inspired correction .....Some of my regular readers may remember earlier this week I said in this report that I did not think there was a picture of ol' Jerry Falwell crowd surfing and instead showed a picture of me crowd surfing. Well I had an angry reader send me an e-mail telling me I was in error about that and he even attached the picture.We at the Queen of the Surf Pirates believe in accurate fair and balanced reporting and are not so big in the britches to admit when we screw up. So to put things right I give you a picture of "Jerry Falwell crowd surfing".I'm going to go hobble down to the beach now to watch other people surf , but before I go I would like to say to this kind reader.... reader dude I don't know how long it took...
Anti-gay Activist Jerry Falwell Dead at 73
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2007-05-18 06:43:00 Anti-gay Activist Jerry Falwell Dead at 73He blamed gays and lesbians for the 9/11 terrorist attacks and made himself a household name by claiming Teletubbie Tinky Winky was gay, and now, the founder of the Moral Majority, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, is dead at 73. Ron Godwin, Liberty University's executive vice president, told the Associated Press Falwell had been found unresponsive in his office at around 10:45 a.m. and was taken to Lynchburg General Hospital. Falwell has a history of heart problems, and while Godwin said he was unsure what caused the collapse, he said the televangelist and outspoken anti-gay rights activist was fine when the two shared breakfast earlier this morning. Falwell founded the Moral Majority in 1979 and became the face of the religious right in the 1980s. He later founded the conservative Liberty University and served as the school?s chancellor. Falwell has a long-time history of taking the LGBT community to task. From the publishing of his monthly Nationa...
Those who Comment about Dr. Jerry Falwell
2007-05-18 06:05:00 I am a bit late to post on this, but I’ve been amazed by the hatred surrounding the death of Dr. Jerry Falwell. Take, for example, the comments that are appearing on an article on Foxnews.com. A couple of the quotes are: Farwell [sic] will be remembered as the pompous, arrogant person that he was. ? Paul ...
By: Prudent Musings
Phelps to picket Falwell funeral
2007-05-18 02:00:00 <right></right><-a href="http://www.foxnews.com/st-ory/0,2933,273313,00.html">F-NC</a>:<br /><span> <p> The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: Daily Daly
Phelps to picket Falwell funeral
2007-05-18 02:00:00 <right></right><-a href="http://www.foxnews.com/st-ory/0,2933,273313,00.html">F-NC</a>:<br /><span> <p> The controversial anti-homosexual Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., plans to "preach" at the funeral of Rev. Jerry Falwell, according to its Web site.</p> <p>"WBC will preach at the memorial service of the corpulent false prophet Jerry Falwell, who spent his entire life prophesying lies and false doctrines like 'God loves everyone,'" reads a posting on Godhatesamerica.com.</p>- <p><span>"Falw-ell warmly praised Christ-rejecting Jews, pedophile-condoning Catholics, money-grubbing compromisers, practicing fags like Mel White, and backsliders like Billy Graham and Robert Schuler, etc.," the site reads.</span></p> <p><span>This one doesn't even need a comment... Though I think NBC should televise it and call it the "Battle of the Bigots." I wonde...
By: Daily Daly
Hitchens on Falwell
2007-05-18 00:00:00 Christopher Hitchens’ book couldn’t have come out at a more opportune time - that of the death of Jerry Falwell. He writes a column in Slate entitled, “Faith-Based Fraud: Jerry Falwell’s foul rantings prove you can get away with anything if you have “Reverend” in front of your name.” He makes a good point - ...
By: BuffaloPundit
Eulogy for Jerry Falwell
2007-05-17 18:08:00 Larry Flynt may be a vile waste of our health care resources, but I can?t say he has done more harm than Jerry Falwell.
By: Kmareka.com
Jerry Falwell - JK Rowling - Madeleine McCann - Simon Cowell - NJ Brushfire
2007-05-17 18:00:00 I haven’t written much in way of an update in a while and mainly it is due to anxiety and depression issues rearing their ugly heads yet again. The main effect is that I am not sleeping through the night, even if I take a sleep aid. I wake up repeatedly all night long and ...
Rev. Jerry Falwell - the passing of an era
2007-05-17 16:12:00 Rev. Jerry Falwell had been dead perhaps only a few hours when the mixed reactions of columnists, editorial writers, reporters and others began to make their way into print and the broadcast media. The News & Advance of Lynchburg, Virginia - Falwell?s hometown - perhaps had the kindest remarks, calling him “a minister who loved ...
If You Didn't Agree With Falwell, Then You're Guilty of Hate Speech?
2007-05-17 15:48:00 I expected this, but not to the degree I'm seeing today. The fundies over at OneNewsNow (I'm so going to have to come up with a nickname for them, lol) have implied that anyone who disagreed with Rev. Falwell is guilty of hate speech. Here's an example..."In some of these things I've been looking at he's being called a bigot;[and] some people are absolutely sure that he's going straight to hell," shesays. That reaction, she continues, is to be expected. "I'm not surprised bythis level of vitriol because it seems like it's [coming from] all these peoplewho've just been very angry at him for holding up a standard to which theycouldn't achieve."I hate to break it to these folks, but Falwell was a bigot, plain and simple. As for where his soul now resides...I wouldn't even hazard a guess. But what I'm most insulted about is the statement toward the end of that quote...that I'm angry with Falwell because I couldn't achieve his standard. What makes this author think tha...
The Reverend Jerry Falwell
2007-05-17 14:57:00 Daily Telegraph - In 1950 he enrolled at Lynchburg College to study Mechanical Engineering, but before completing his course he became a born-again Christian and transferred to the Baptist Bible... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: Engineers Voice
God Breaths a Sigh of Relief, Falwell is Finally Dead
2007-05-17 13:22:00 You know how parents cringe every tme their two year old says something incredibly direct, yet offensive? I imagine that’s much how God viewed Jerry. In case you can’t remember, here are a few classic quotes from the bigot: ?Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions? “If you’re not a born-again Christian, you’re a failure as ...
By: Turd on a Stick
All I've been dying to blog about Jerry Falwell and was too afraid to admit
2007-05-17 02:11:00 The first thing that popped into my mind when I heard about Jerry Falwell's passing was, "ding-dong the witch is dead, the witch is dead." Then I felt horrible...then I felt sad for his family...but, then I felt exactly how this blogger felt. I too realized that if I had died he would probably have spit on my grave because I am a married gay woman...because I'm a liberal...and, possibly because I thought he was crazy when he said the Teletubbies were gay amongst other... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Falwell and New Evangelicals
2007-05-16 17:59:00 There have been a slew of articles surfacing on the web since Jerry Falwell passed away yesterday. One of the most intriguing is from The Washington Post. The story describes the new generation of evangelicals and the generational gap that affected Falwell's influence.You can read it here.
Farewell and Thank You Rev. Falwell
2007-05-16 16:52:00 By: The Source http://www.christiannewssource.-com Yesteray’s sudden death of Rev. Jerry Falwell sparked off a barage of people sounding off about the man’s life and agenda. I visited many blogs and other websites yesterday that either proclaimed him a Saint that’s death has made heaven a bit richer yesterday, to a devil that is burning in hell. Regardless of your ...
Westboro to Picket Falwell's Funeral
2007-05-16 16:35:00 Is there any group that this church (and I use that term very loosely) doesn't hate? According to their latest manifesto (and, no...I won't give you a link to their site), not only will the extreme, batsh*t crazies at Westboro Baptist be picketing Falwell's funeral, but they've given a litany of reasons as to why he is now burning in hell. I was never a fan of Falwell, but no grieving family deserves the kind of treatment that Westboro is notorious for giving.Not only do they regularly picket the funerals of fallen soldiers, but they do so bearing signs reading such hateful things as, "Thank God For Dead Soldiers." Their behavior is abominable and heartless. Mr. Phelps, your behavior bears absolutely no resemblance to the love that Christians and their God are supposed to have. Either walk the talk or shut up!
A Farewell to Falwell
2007-05-16 15:35:00 Jerry Falwell died on Tuesday. He is credited with the rise of the “religious right” and their political power over the last few decades. How he will be remembered is a question open to debate. The Washington Times pays tribute to Falwell. He may be dead, but one only has to watch the Republicans running for office to see his legacy. Zev Chafets says that Falwell “was a born-again Christian,
By: punditbuzz
Gays have anti-memorial for Falwell
2007-05-16 14:24:00 I don't really blame them. Falwell said some pretty nasty things about them.
By: Asymmetric
News & Current Events :: Televangelist Jerry Falwell Dies at 73
2007-05-16 14:00:00 Author: Eric Subject: Televangelist Jerry Falwell Dies at 73 Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 8:00 am (GMT -4) Televangelist Jerry Falwell Dies at 73 By Sue Lindsey LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) - The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who founded the Moral Majority and built the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University, a school executive said. He was 73. Ron Godwin, the university's executive vice president, said Falwell, 73, was found unresponsive around 10:45 a.m. and taken to Lynchburg General Hospital. "CPR efforts were unsuccessful," he said. Godwin said he was not sure what caused the collapse, but he said Falwell "has a history of heart challenges." "I had breakfast with him, and he was fine at breakfast," Godwin said. "He went to his office, I went to mine, and they found him unresponsive." Falwell had survived two serious health scares in early 2005. He was hos...
Evangelist Jerry Falwell led Christian right to political power
2007-05-16 11:10:00 Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell, who died Tuesday at 73, teamed politics with evangelism to leave a conservative mark on society.
Rev. Jerry Falwell Dead at 73; "Religious Right" and "Moral Majority" to Fo
2007-05-16 11:10:00 For a "liberal" media, I'm already quite stunned by the impressive and immense media coverage dedicated to Rev. Jerry Falwell's death.Though I am personally and politically biased, Rev. Falwell represented very little to my own perception of what America is about. I believe in a country rooted in religious tolerance, which offers the citizenry not only the right to practice religion, but choose not to as well. I believe in a country that should practice democracy, and less theocracy.I believe in a country where morals are to be accepted and practiced by the citizenry, not determined by rich, politically-fueld pastors and members of the clergy.But those are only my own personal beliefs regarding America. Rev. Falwell clearly had his own perception, which clearly identified with America's "moral majority" and "religious right." But is Rev. Falwell's death a precursor to the already-fading "religious right" as well? Ever since the last national electio...
By: KC for Obama
Jerry Falwell
2007-05-16 09:51:00 If you didn’t hear, Jerry Falwell died. Jerry Falwell, as you may or may not care, was an outspoken televangelist who helped define the insanity that is the religious right in the United States today. The easy thing to do when such a despised and public person dies is share some of the dumbest and/or ...
By: Love Uncle Sean
Jerry Falwell, RIP
2007-05-16 08:27:00 Thank you, dear Lord, for taking our earthly brother, Reverend Dr. Jerry Falwell to his just reward. I know he worked hard for it. Of course, I?m not quite sure that your idea and his about what climate he?ll find at that reward is the same, but thanks anyway. And, Lord, thank you for taking one who was so careful to evenly distribute his bigotry and prejudice and wishes for eternal damnation across the spectrum of those created in Your image?the Gay, the Muslim, the Democrat, well, hell..er, I mean, heck?Lord, just about anyone who wasn?t a white, male, Republican, and Southern Baptist. It will be hard to fill his shoes here, Lord, but there are many waiting in the wings ready to grab his mantle. I don?t think he got the memo about you loving all your creatures, but no man is perfect, so we hope you will forgive him if he left anyone out of his diatribe of intolerance in Your name. Maybe to make amends we can suggest that Disneyland give those gays an ext...
Jerry Falwell
2007-05-16 08:10:00 Jerry Falwell Clergyman Jerry Falwell was the Baptist minister who founded the Thomas Road Bible Church in Lynchburg, Virginia (1956) and gained national prominence through television and radio on the Old Time Gospel Hour. In the late 1970s he became active in politics, founding and leading the Moral Majority, a lobbying group made up of conservative Christians. ...
By: OuteasY
Dr. Rev. Jerry Falwell - God?s Moral Messenger
2007-05-16 07:44:00 “I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped ...
How did Jerry Falwell affect the political landscape?
2007-05-16 07:13:00 Like most on the left, I can't say I will miss Jerry Falwell, the founder of the 'Moral Majority,' who died today at the age of 73. Most of what you will read about him is true. Even people prone to exaggeration probably won't have to go too far to find plenty to write about him. One thing that is undeniably true-- Falwell was an obdurate segregationist most of his life, and only changed when segregation was so far gone that it could no longer be defensible to be in favor of it. They needed a new vehicle and they found it. But it is not true that the 'Moral Majority' coalesced out of nowhere, as it seemed to when Falwell founded it in 1979 and claimed Jimmy Carter as its first victim a year later. I remember talking to a black minister back about 1980, and the topic of the 'Moral Majority' came up, and his observation was simple but powerful-- 'same old segregationists, new packaging.' As recently as the 1980's Falwell preached against interracial marriage and even at t...
By: Coldheartedtruth
Rev. Jerry Falwell Dies at 73
2007-05-16 05:30:00 Let us all remember to keep his family, friends, and church in our prayers during this time… c2253251
By: The Daily Way
Falwell, Flynt and the 'Mamma Shack Scandal'
2007-05-16 05:15:00 Memorable Moments in Video HistoryFlynt and Falwell Face-Off - 1983Nearly a quarter of a century ago, founder of Hustler magazine and one of American celebrity culture's most colorful characters ever, Larry Flynt, turned a courtroom into his own twisted mini-circus as clearly seen in this unusual videotaped deposition.The deposition was ordered by a court after Rev. Jerry Falwell, who died Tuesday, filed a lawsuit against Flynt for libel in 1983.Flynt appears on the video in a hospital bed because of the paralysis he suffered from an assassin’s bullet a few years before.Flynt openly mocks the legal proceedings during the deposition, repeatedly answering "no" to the common swearing in: “do you swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?” Flynt refused to answer "yes". A number of times during the video deposition, Flynt, who appears medicated, stares and smirks at Falwell (who is off-camera). He also claimed to be just about everyone - from Christ...
Jerry Falwell Dies
2007-05-16 04:16:00 Today Jerry Falwell, founder of Moral Majority, died at age 73. I'm not going to publically cheer his death, but I will be frank about my feelings on this. In the 1980's Falwell was the face of the Christian Conservative movement. That mantle has since passed to people like James Dobson, but, in his time, Falwell did more to hurt America's civil liberties than anyone else. With his insistence on mixing fundamental Christianity with politics and his demonization of entire segments of society, Falwell's crusade seriously undermined the Constitution, tried to return our society to the Middle Ages, and helped spread "acceptable" forms of hate through his homophobia and dislike for non-Christians. I don't wish death on anyone. I know this life we have is the only one we've got, so everyone's time on Earth is precious. However, I will certainly not miss Falwell and America is better off without him. Good riddance.Black Sun Journal has more on what Falwell did to harm Americ...
TV Minister Jerry Falwell Dead at 73
2007-05-16 03:23:00 The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the television minister whose 1979 founding of the Moral Majority galvanized American religious conservatives into a political force, died Tuesday at age 73. Falwell was found unconscious and without a pulse in his office at Liberty University, the college he founded in Lynchburg, Virginia, said Ron Godwin, the school’s executive vice president. ... |
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