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Guernicaa
05-16-2007, 06:38 PM
From the blog of Max Blumenthal:

Jerry Falwell is dead. I’m working on an obit for the Nation. For now, here is a retrospective of the Rev’s greatest hits, courtesy of the Carpetbagger Report:

March 1980: Falwell tells an Anchorage rally about a conversation with President Carter at the White House. Commenting on a January breakfast meeting, Falwell claimed to have asked Carter why he had “practicing homosexuals” on the senior staff at the White House. According to Falwell, Carter replied, “Well, I am president of all the American people, and I believe I should represent everyone.” When others who attended the White House event insisted that the exchange never happened, Falwell responded that his account “was not intended to be a verbatim report,” but rather an “honest portrayal” of Carter’s position.

August 1980: After Southern Baptist Convention President Bailey Smith tells a Dallas Religious Right gathering that “God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew,” Falwell gives a similar view. “I do not believe,” he told reporters, “that God answers the prayer of any unredeemed Gentile or Jew.” After a meeting with an American Jewish Committee rabbi, he changed course, telling an interviewer on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “God hears the prayers of all persons…. God hears everything.”

July 1984: Falwell is forced to pay gay activist Jerry Sloan $5,000 after losing a court battle. During a TV debate in Sacramento, Falwell denied calling the gay-oriented Metropolitan Community Churches “brute beasts” and “a vile and Satanic system” that will “one day be utterly annihilated and there will be a celebration in heaven.” When Sloan insisted he had a tape, Falwell promised $5,000 if he could produce it. Sloan did so, Falwell refused to pay and Sloan successfully sued. Falwell appealed, with his attorney charging that the Jewish judge in the case was prejudiced. He lost again and was forced to pay an additional $2,875 in sanctions and court fees.

October 1987: The Federal Election Commission fines Falwell for transferring $6.7 million in funds intended for his ministry to political committees.

February 1988: The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a $200,000 jury award to Falwell for “emotional distress” he suffered because of a Hustler magazine parody. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, usually a Falwell favorite, wrote the unanimous opinion in Hustler v. Falwell, ruling that the First Amendment protects free speech.

February 1993: The Internal Revenue Service determines that funds from Falwell’s Old Time Gospel Hour program were illegally funneled to a political action committee. The IRS forced Falwell to pay $50,000 and retroactively revoked the Old Time Gospel Hour’s tax-exempt status for 1986-87.

March 1993: Despite his promise to Jewish groups to stop referring to America as a “Christian nation,” Falwell gives a sermon saying, “We must never allow our children to forget that this is a Christian nation. We must take back what is rightfully ours.”

1994-1995: Falwell is criticized for using his “Old Time Gospel Hour” to hawk a scurrilous video called “The Clinton Chronicles” that makes a number of unsubstantiated charges against President Bill Clinton — among them that he is a drug addict and that he arranged the murders of political enemies in Arkansas. Despite claims he had no ties to the project, evidence surfaced that Falwell helped bankroll the venture with $200,000 paid to a group called Citizens for Honest Government (CHG). CHG’s Pat Matrisciana later admitted that Falwell and he staged an infomercial interview promoting the video in which a silhouetted reporter said his life was in danger for investigating Clinton. (Matrisciana himself posed as the reporter.) “That was Jerry’s idea to do that,” Matrisciana recalled. “He thought that would be dramatic.”

November 1997: Falwell accepts $3.5 million from a front group representing controversial Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon to ease Liberty University’s financial woes.

April 1998: Confronted on national television with a controversial quote from America Can Be Saved!, a published collection of his sermons, Falwell denies having written the book or had anything to do with it. In the 1979 work, Falwell wrote, “I hope to 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!” Despite Falwell’s denial, Sword of the Lord Publishing, which produced the book, confirms that Falwell wrote it.

January 1999: Falwell tells a pastors’ conference in Kingsport, Tenn., that the Antichrist prophesied in the Bible is alive today and “of course he’ll be Jewish.”

February 1999: Falwell becomes the object of nationwide ridicule after his National Liberty Journal newspaper issues a “parents alert” warning that Tinky Winky, a character on the popular PBS children’s show “Teletubbies,” might be gay.

September 2001: Falwell blames Americans for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. 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 this happen.’”

November 2005: Falwell spearheads campaign to resist “war on Christmas.”

February 2007: Falwell describes global warming as a conspiracy orchestrated by Satan, liberals, and The Weather Channel.

http://maxblumenthal.com/


It's a good thing hes gone. American is starting to understand that these "religious"-right spokesmen are nothing but lying morons.

stephanie
05-16-2007, 07:42 PM
Little Maxie should look in a mirror...

avatar4321
05-16-2007, 07:46 PM
it disgusts me how many people are celebrating the death of a man.

stephanie
05-16-2007, 07:59 PM
it disgusts me how many people are celebrating the death of a man.

It's a real shocker...watching these people...Pathetic..

Monkeybone
05-16-2007, 08:11 PM
yah, heaven forbid someone be perfect

Guernicaa
05-16-2007, 09:11 PM
His statements were un-excusable. They were degrading, foolish, ignorant, and flat out wrong. The gay community is spreading rapidly. More and more kids are coming out, even youths that define themselves as "conservative" are coming out. It will continue to grow, and ultimately a new era of acceptance will come about.

His statement about why 9/11 occurred is no more foolish than left-wing conspirators saying that the government played a role in the attacks.

Right-wing hypocrisy at its best.

Gunny
05-16-2007, 09:13 PM
It's a real shocker...watching these people...Pathetic..

Definitely.

Trigg
05-16-2007, 09:17 PM
His statements were un-excusable. They were degrading, foolish, ignorant, and flat out wrong. The gay community is spreading rapidly. More and more kids are coming out, even youths that define themselves as "conservative" are coming out. It will continue to grow, and ultimately a new era of acceptance will come about.

His statement about why 9/11 occurred is no more foolish than left-wing conspirators saying that the government played a role in the attacks.

Right-wing hypocrisy at its best.


Even if you do disagree with him, have some respect and wait a few days/weeks before you start slamming him.

stephanie
05-16-2007, 09:17 PM
His statements were un-excusable. They were degrading, foolish, ignorant, and flat out wrong. The gay community is spreading rapidly. More and more kids are coming out, even youths that define themselves as "conservative" are coming out. It will continue to grow, and ultimately a new era of acceptance will come about.

His statement about why 9/11 occurred is no more foolish than left-wing conspirators saying that the government played a role in the attacks.

Right-wing hypocrisy at its best.

:rolleyes:

nevadamedic
05-16-2007, 09:19 PM
Wow, when I saw the article headline I thought it was about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

stephanie
05-16-2007, 09:24 PM
:lame2:
San Franciscans Dance On Jerry Falwell’s Grave
May 16th, 2007
From South Florida’s NBC affiliate WTVJ:
http://www.nbc6.net/news/13330409/detail.html

Protestors Dance On Grave For Anti-Falwell Memorial
May 16, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO — About a dozen people gathered in the Castro District of San Francisco Tuesday evening to mark the death of Jerry Falwell.

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.

Michael Petrelis organized the so-called “anti-memorial” and said gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders said would speak out about Falwell’s past efforts to demonize the gay community.

A makeshift grave was surrounded by an assortment of signs, rainbow flags and teletubbies dolls at Castro and 18th streets.

One signed read, “Falwell dies, but the rainbow lives.”

At least one person danced on the makeshift grave.

Petrelis said he organized the event because Falwell “spent a number of decades working to deny gays full equality.” …

Pictures at the site..
http://sweetness-light.com/