Jerry Falwell DEAD!

[FORD]

Moral Majority leader Falwell dies
Evangelical leader was found in his university office

BREAKING NEWS
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 10:37 a.m. PT May 15, 2007

LYNCHBURG, Va. - The Rev. Jerry Falwell — founder of the Moral Majority and the face of the religious right in the 1980s — died Tuesday after being found unconscious in his office, a Liberty University executive said.

Ron Godwin, Liberty's executive vice president, said Falwell, 73, 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.”

“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, a television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority in 1979, became the face of the religious right in the 1980s. He later founded the conservative Liberty University and served as its chancellor.

In the 1980s, Falwell saw his political lobbying organization grow to 6.5 million members, raising millions of dollars for conservative politicians and helping to elect Ronald Reagan president.

A biography of Falwell on Liberty University's Web site states that "with the impetus of the newly organized Moral Majority, millions of people of faith voted for the first time in 1980 and helped elect Ronald Reagan and many conservative congressmen and senators."

Falwell survived two serious health scares in early 2005. He was hospitalized in February for two weeks with what was described as a viral infection, then hospitalized again in March with congestive heart failure after being found unconscious. At that time he had to be resuscitated by EMTs at the hospital emergency room.

A native of Lynchburg, Falwell and his wife, Macel, have three children and eight grandchildren.

His Jerry Falwell ministries take in about $200 million a year in revenues, according to Liberty University's Web site.

Liberty University's commencement is scheduled for Saturday, with former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich as the featured speaker.

This report will be updated as information becomes available.
© 2007 MSNBC InteractiveThe Associated Press contributed to this report.

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[FORD]

While I don't rejoice in anybody's death, let's hope he takes the religious reich that he invented with him.

[BITEYOASS]

Fuckin eh! Now how are we gonna be discouraged from voting republican? His crazy morality claims made me turned me into a liberal. He also made the conservative movement really nuts. We lost a great verbal punching bag.

[BITEYOASS]

Well the bright side is that the conservative movement is really gonna be running around like a chicken with it's head cut off.

[BITEYOASS]

But hey, at least the guy was courteous. If it was Cheney or Wolfowitz's death, then I'd be laughing like a hyena.

[BITEYOASS]

damn I forgot Rove, D'oh!

[FORD]

Well, the last Republican debate was all about Reagan's corpse. I wonder if tonight will be all Jerry, all the time?

[ELVIS]

Not even your usual sad smiley, FORD ??

Douchebag...

[ELVIS]

This one's for Mr. Falwell and his family...

May God take his soul to Heaven...

[Seshmeister]

Sounds like it was quick...

[ELVIS]

What...:confused:

[DLR'sCock]

How is this guy a "Moral Majority" leader?



Well the one thing that is for sure is that he will learning a thing or two about where he was and is as a person.

[jhale667]

With him or without him, the Moral Majority was/is neither...

As for pitying him, isn't this the asshole who said (along with Ass-Hat Robertson) 9/11 was gay people's fault?

[FORD]

Originally posted by ELVIS
This one's for Mr. Falwell and his family...

May God take his soul to Heaven...

You really think he's going there?

Let God judge, but I always thought hatemongers went the other direction.

Maybe he can take the big waterslide into the Lake of Fire??

[VanHalener]

http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead..../Falwell+Jerry

The cook did it.

[FORD]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Not even your usual sad smiley, FORD ??

Douchebag...

How does that make me a "douchebag"?? :confused:

[Seshmeister]

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/87/story_8770_1.html

Partial transcript of comments from the Thursday, September 13, 2001 edition of the '700 Club.'

JERRY FALWELL: And I agree totally with you that the Lord has protected us so wonderfully these 225 years. And since 1812, this is the first time that we've been attacked on our soil and by far the worst results. And I fear, as Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense, said yesterday, that this is only the beginning. And with biological warfare available to these monsters - the Husseins, the Bin Ladens, the Arafats--what we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in fact--if, in fact--God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

PAT ROBERTSON: Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror. We haven't even begun to see what they can do to the major population.

JERRY FALWELL: The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.

PAT ROBERTSON: Well, yes.

JERRY FALWELL: And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. 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."

PAT ROBERTSON: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the court system.

JERRY FALWELL: Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU, and all the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress as they went out on the steps and called out on to God in prayer and sang "God Bless America" and said "let the ACLU be hanged"? In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time--calling upon God.

PAT ROBERTSON: Amen

[kentuckyklira]

Bye bye, see you in hell, hope you suffered!

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by kentuckyklira
Bye bye, see you in hell, hope you suffered!

Classy.

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by FORD
You really think he's going there?

Let God judge, but I always thought hatemongers went the other direction.

Maybe he can take the big waterslide into the Lake of Fire??

Hated who? Gays? Abortionists?

Those people are not to be hated, but their sins are.

[kentuckyklira]

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
Classy.

How often have you gloated over dead Iraqis??

[Rikk]

This was a horrible, horrible man. He was one of many that only helped AIDS spread more quickly through America than it needed to.

Frankly, I'm glad he's dead.

[kentuckyklira]

How can any fans of the toastmaster general of the immoral majority have any respect for that asshat??!!

[ULTRAMAN VH]

Originally posted by Rikk
This was a horrible, horrible man. He was one of many that only helped AIDS spread more quickly through America than it needed to.

Frankly, I'm glad he's dead.

I was never a fan of Falwell, but how in the hell did he help in the spread of AIDS. Can you expand on that statement, Major Nelson.

[FORD]

Originally posted by ULTRAMAN VH
I was never a fan of Falwell, but how in the hell did he help in the spread of AIDS. Can you expand on that statement, Major Nelson.

Falwell and the so called "moral majority" spent the first half of the 80's proclaiming AIDS to be "God's punishment against homosexuals".

And since the Reagan administration took everything they said seriously, they refused to do anything about AIDS, believing it was only a gay disease.

Ironically enough, it was only the death of the Reagan administration's own closet fag Terry Dolan who made them wake up to the reality of the disease.

[Rikk]

Originally posted by ULTRAMAN VH
I was never a fan of Falwell, but how in the hell did he help in the spread of AIDS. Can you expand on that statement, Major Nelson.

He was one of the biggest opponents against sex education and clean needle programs influencing government in the States. His anti-gay, anti-education, "let the drug-users die" message only helped the disease spread very quickly in this country (causing the deaths of not only many drug-users and club-going homosexuals but the inevitable millions of parents, children and those not initially seen as in danger). Meanwhile, in Britain, Thatcher latched onto no moral majority and pushed forth programs of sex education (instead of just preaching nonsense abstinence) and passing out clean needles on the streets. This wasn't about helping drug-users and perverts (as Falwell claimed)...this was about pushing back the spread of the 20th-century equivalent of the plague.

Fucking moron is responsible for a lot of death.

[Ellyllions]

Wasn't he a "healer"?

If so, why is he dead?

[PlexiBrown]

Hopefully someday people will let go of the whole "God punishes and judges" crapola. People who believe in a God who is floating out in space or in some realm and a God who punishes and judges are believing in a God that doesn't exist. It is actually a childish belief and a belief that God is separate from us and everything. What would do the world good is a shift away from ego consciousness. Hell, a shift away from ego consciousness would do Van Halen alot of good.

[Rikk]

If God created AIDS to kill homosexuals and drug-users, he could be considered sloppy because he also killed a lot of heterosexuals, non-drug-users and children.

I've always found it amusing that homosexuals are born the way they are (people trying to act like it's a choice are morons...who would choose a more obviously difficult life?...every homosexual I've ever spoken to says they were born exactly as they are), yet God punishes them for being as he created them.

Bunch of fucking nonsense.

[matt19]

Originally posted by Rikk
If God created AIDS to kill homosexuals and drug-users, he could be considered sloppy because he also killed a lot of heterosexuals, non-drug-users and children.

I've always found it amusing that homosexuals are born the way they are (people trying to act like it's a choice are morons...who would choose a more obviously difficult life?...every homosexual I've ever spoken to says they were born exactly as they are), yet God punishes them for being as he created them.

Bunch of fucking nonsense.

Exactly.

[Unchainme]

Originally posted by Rikk
If God created AIDS to kill homosexuals and drug-users, he could be considered sloppy because he also killed a lot of heterosexuals, non-drug-users and children.

I've always found it amusing that homosexuals are born the way they are (people trying to act like it's a choice are morons...who would choose a more obviously difficult life?...every homosexual I've ever spoken to says they were born exactly as they are), yet God punishes them for being as he created them.

Bunch of fucking nonsense.

Nailed it...There was a special on MTV on a big fat gay kid in High School wanting to join a soccer team...They showed pictures of him doing ballet and shit when he was like 5...

I am always curious...In the bible it says Every Sin is equal in the face of God...So isn't Homosexuality on the same level as lying?

[FORD]

Originally posted by Rikk
If God created AIDS to kill homosexuals and drug-users, he could be considered sloppy because he also killed a lot of heterosexuals, non-drug-users and children.

Not only that, but as an old friend and co-worker of mine (who was a Lesbian) once put it.... "If AIDS was God's punishment against gay men, then I guess we (Lesbians) are the Chosen People"

Statistically, Lesbians remain the lowest risk group to this day.

[perilousepete]

Originally posted by Rikk
If God created AIDS to kill homosexuals and drug-users, he could be considered sloppy because he also killed a lot of heterosexuals, non-drug-users and children.

I've always found it amusing that homosexuals are born the way they are (people trying to act like it's a choice are morons...who would choose a more obviously difficult life?...every homosexual I've ever spoken to says they were born exactly as they are), yet God punishes them for being as he created them.

Bunch of fucking nonsense.

I'm not one who doesn't like homosexuals or anything, but i believe homosexuality is a temptation just like any other tempation. everyone is born with different tendencies, it just depends how you deal with it. everyone has the right to make a choice, just like everyone has the right to like a certain sports team. i don't agree with the lifestyle of homosexuals but i'm fine with it and i can still like them for who they are as a person. i don't think being gay defines who you are, it's just one aspect, and it's the road they chose to take. i don't like it when everyone forces homosexuality down my throat like "if you don't think it's great and perfectly normal, then you're retarded." i say just keep it to yourself and don't try to make your entire lifestyle different just because of your sexual preference.

[Nickdfresh]

To me what Falwell said on 9/13/2001 is absolutely unforgivable and traitorous...

"God called him home," well good riddance...

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by perilousepete
I'm not one who doesn't like homosexuals or anything, but i believe homosexuality is a temptation just like any other tempation....

You're "tempted" by homosexuals? Really?

One of the interesting paradoxes of the anti-Gay movement. They cannot admit that Gays are the way they are biologically, and "choice" has little to do with it. So they're all admitting that they're a bit gay to begin with and must have those urges.

So it becomes this great temptation. Like: "I can't have that piece of pie or I'll get fat and I can't let that guy anally fornicate me because it's a sin and I'll go to hell."

What!!??

[Rikk]

I have never in my life considered or been tempted to have a gay experience...ever. But a good friend of mine had gay "temptations" begin in him the minute he hit puberty.

Where was the fucking choice (or temptation) there?

I love how homosexuals are attacked for giving in to temptation when I'd like to see any heterosexual live a full life without having sex with someone of the opposite sex.

[Little Texan]

Fartwell's dead...now only if Pat Robertson, Oral Roberts, and Jimmy Swaggart will join him, the world will be that much better off! Already is without that hypocritical windbag!

[Seshmeister]

I don't really get this word 'temptation' thrown around in here.

Using the word 'temptation' in this way kind of implies some deviancy yet I might say 'I'm tempted to give all my money to the poor'.

Or I'm tempted to have a tomato and cucumber salad.

It was reported on AP and by a number of Iraqi bloggers recently that fundie Islamists in Iraq were handing out leaflets telling the local population that it was a sin against god to have a cucumber and tomato salad because the two should not be on the same plate as it was likely to cause ungodly sexual thoughts.

I fucking kid you not.

Single adults having consensual sex is not an moral issue as it falls within the realm of not harming anyone else. It may however be against the rules set down in some primative writings but then the same writings may say you shouldn't eat bacon or shellfish. They may also say you should hack bits off your genitals because an all knowing god designed them wrongly.

As regards the comment about gays ramming their lifestyles down your throat(maybe a bit unfortunate terminology) I personally find camp bitchy queens a bit fucking irritating so avoid them but I also find the sad middle aged reactionary WASP snobs at my local country club annoying too.

So what?

Cheers!

[Seshmeister]

Originally posted by Little Texan
Fartwell's dead...now only if Pat Robertson, Oral Roberts, and Jimmy Swaggart will join him, the world will be that much better off! Already is without that hypocritical windbag!

Don't forget Fred Phelps, every lecturer at Liberty 'University' and...

Fuck the list is too long.

[Seshmeister]

Originally posted by FORD
Not only that, but as an old friend and co-worker of mine (who was a Lesbian) once put it.... "If AIDS was God's punishment against gay men, then I guess we (Lesbians) are the Chosen People"

Statistically, Lesbians remain the lowest risk group to this day.

Shaving your armpits and being civil to men gives you AIDS?