Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Goodbye Falwell.


"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, the university's executive vice president, said Falwell was found unresponsive late Tuesday morning and taken to Lynchburg General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later.

Sen. John McCain, the school commencement speaker last year, said Tuesday that his prayers were with Falwell's family.

"Dr. Falwell was a man of distinguished accomplishment who devoted his life to serving his faith and country," McCain said.

Days after Sept. 11, 2001, Falwell essentially blamed feminists, gays, lesbians and liberal groups for bringing on the terrorist attacks. He later apologized.

In 1999, he told an evangelical conference that the Antichrist was a male Jew who was probably already alive. Falwell later apologized for the remark but not for holding the belief. A month later, his National Liberty Journal warned parents that Tinky Winky, a purple, purse- toting character on television's "Teletubbies" show, was a gay role model and morally damaging to children."

For being someone so many people loved, he surely was pretty whacked out. He blamed the feminists, gays, lebians, and liberal groups for bringing the terrorit attacks for the Sept. 11 attacks. What the heck was he thinking. "Teletubbies" was a gay role model which damges our children? Wow, who actually listens to this guy?

Apparently a lot of people.

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