Reverend Jerry Falwell dead at 73

[Marlboro_Chief]

RIP

[mississippichiefan]

I don't understand the hate that is being shown here for the loss of a fellow human being . I pray that each will come to know The Lord Jesus Christ as their savior . If you have Jesus then you will be full of love and not the hate that is going on here . The one of you that said

Well, like the book the man claimed to preach says...."Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."


you would do well to listen to your own words

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by mississippichiefan

I don't understand the hate that is being shown here for the loss of a fellow human being . I pray that each will come to know The Lord Jesus Christ as their savior . If you have Jesus then you will be full of love and not the hate that is going on here . The one of you that said

Well, like the book the man claimed to preach says...."Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."


you would do well to listen to your own words

Somebody should have talked to Falwell about Jesus and loving his fellow man. On my worst day, I've got nothing on that hypocrit slimeball in the hate department.

[chief husker]

Good riddance you friggin hate monger. BTW, peace on earth.

[pikesome]

Larry Flynt is a bit more forgiving than many in this thread.

LYNCHBURG, Va (May 15, 2007) -- The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the folksy, small-town preacher who used the power of television to found the Moral Majority and turn the Christian right into a mighty force in American politics during the Reagan years, died Tuesday at 73.

One of Falwell's most memorable opponents was Hustler kingpin Larry Flynt, who had a very public legal battle with the Reverend over freedom of speech rights.

At the heart of the case was a satirical ad that ran in Hustler in 1983with the headline "Jerry Falwell Talks About His First Time," in which the magazine described a drunken Falwell having an incestuous encounter with his mother.

Falwell sued Flynt (pictured together on "Larry King Live" in 1997), alleging libel and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

However, the Supreme Court ruled that a public figure could not recover damages over distress based on satire under the umbrella of free speech.

Upon hearing of his death, Flynt released the following statement to Access Hollywood:

"The Reverend Jerry Falwell and I were arch enemies for fifteen years. We became involved in a lawsuit concerning First Amendment rights and Hustler magazine. Without question, this was my most important battle – the l988 Hustler Magazine, Inc., v. Jerry Falwell case, where after millions of dollars and much deliberation, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in my favor.

My mother always told me that no matter how much you dislike a person, when you meet them face to face you will find characteristics about them that you like. Jerry Falwell was a perfect example of that. I hated everything he stood for, but after meeting him in person, years after the trial, Jerry Falwell and I became good friends. He would visit me in

California and we would debate together on college campuses. I always appreciated his sincerity even though I knew what he was selling and he knew what I was selling.

The most important result of our relationship was the landmark decision from the Supreme Court that made parody protected speech, and the fact that much of what we see on television and hear on the radio today is a direct result of my having won that now famous case which Falwell played such an important role in."

Falwell is survived by his wife, Macel, his two sons and a daughter, Jeannie Falwell Savas. Funeral arrangements were not immediately known.

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[the Talking Can]

Originally Posted by Zebedee DuBois

Somehow, I think of it less as him passing on, and more of God finally smiting him.

rep

exactly, he was a coward and a hate monger...the only difference between him and Fred Phelps was a suit and hair spray

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by Laz

"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."
-- Rev Jerry Falwell (attributed: source unknown)

"I had a student ask me, "Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?" Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him, and then he must be executed.
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, cited in Cary McMullen, "Falwell: Now Is the Time for Gospel,"

"God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve."
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, blaming civil libertarians, feminists, homosexuals, and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, to which Rev Pat Robertson agreed, quoted from John F Harris, "God Gave US 'What We Deserve,' Falwell Says," The Washington Post (September 14, 2001)

"The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this."
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, blaming civil libertarians for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, to which Rev Pat Robertson again agreed, quoted from AANEWS #958 by American Atheists (September 14, 2001)


"I put all the blame legally and morally on the actions of the terrorist, [but America's] secular and anti-Christian environment left us open to our Lord's [decision] not to protect. When a nation deserts God and expels God from the culture ... the result is not good."
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, backpedaling amidst criticism of his statement blaming civil libertarians, feminists, homosexuals, and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001

"I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!"
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, America Can Be Saved, 1979 pp. 52-53, from Albert J Menendez and Edd Doerr, The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom

"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."
-- Jerry Falwell (attributed: source unknown)

"The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country."
-- Rev Jerry Falwell, Sermon, July 4, 1976


"There is no separation of church and state. Modern US Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and raped the churches by misinterpreting what the Founders had in mind in the First Amendment to the Constitution."
-- Jerry Falwell (attributed: source unknown)

"Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them."
-- Jerry Falwell, on CNN's Crossfire, May 17, 1997

"Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan."
-- Rev Jerry Falwell (attributed: source unknown)

The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews.
-- Rev Jerry Falwell (attributed: source unknown)

"AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharoah's chariotters."
-- Rev Jerry Falwell (attributed: source unknown)

Wonderful. He will be missed...

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by sedated

I hope Pat Robertson is next

Ouch

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by ChiTown

Anyone who was as outspoken as he was, will have his fair share of vocal detractors. I am one of them for sure.

That said, I won't piss on his grave now that he's gone, just because I didn't share in his religious righteousness.

I pissed on his grave because he is a lunatic fringe. No, he's not active. But, he shares the same ideology.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by SBK

I'm waiting to see where he wished death to homosexuals. Did you post the wrong quote or something?

Only the most strident apologist couldn't connect the dots there.

AIDS is a fatal syndrome.
Falwell says that the occurrence of AIDS w/in the gay population is indicative of God's wrath.
Falwell claimed to be a man of God, which would thereby indicate support of God and his "decisions", which if you believe Falwell is a condition afflicted upon gays for their lifestyle that is always fatal.


Had he not wished death upon them via AIDS, he could have said the following things:

1) Nothing
2) It's an unfortunate occurrence


Instead, he resorted to his usual moral grandstanding, using the deaths of others as a way to promulgate his own hate-ridden message.

Wake up, dude.