"Glenn (Christian Mystic)" <christianmystic@ev1.net> wrote

Sounds like the ramblings of someone with a bad case of paranoia

He is really half pathetic figure. I go from feeling sorry for the guy to
being really angry at his ignorance. If any of the "ranters and ravers"
against homosexuality is possibly homosexual himself, Jerry's the guy.

I sent him a letter about 4/5 years ago in which I asked him to take
responsibility for his message of condemnation of homosexuals. I told him
he was free, in my opinion as well as having an American right, to express
his belief that homosexuality was a sin but that he had to come to realize
that many people hear his message and could come away with such negative
feelings that THEY could go out and hurt homosexual people. I told him I
didn't think he was capable of literally hurting a homosexual but that it
was TIME for ALL religious leaders to realize their language (using
abomination, disgusting, evil, depraved, etc.) makes different impressions
on different listeners and that there was a REAL possibility that they could
be the indirect source of violence toward homosexuals, without knowing it.

I also asked the guy to re-evaluate ranting and raving about homosexuals
hurting the traditional family BECAUSE it's only heterosexual men & women
who can hurt the family and are, at this moment, doing a awfully great job
of doing just that. People married or unmarried having unwanted children,
not taking care of themselves, their partners and their children, domestic
battery and violence, divorce at 1 out of 2, etc. etc. ad nauseum. I asked
to really think how ridiculous it sounds that any homosexual could really
influence a heterosexual family to break apart and that it made him sound
ridiculous.

Eventually, when Falwell decided to start saying that he continues to say
that homosexuals were wrong in their "lifestyle" but that he didn't in
anyway want to come across as promoting evil against homosexuals, he started
getting guff from other leaders as well as from that sick "God hates fags"
devil (I can't remember his name right now.)

"Jude" <Jude@aol.com> wrote in message
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"There is no middle ground. For Christians, there can be no peaceful
coexistence with those Sodomites whom God has given over to a reprobate
mind." --Jerry Falwell
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"Homosexuals know they are going to die and they are going to take as

many

people with them as they can." --Jerry Falwell
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"These perverted homosexuals ... absolutely hate everything that you and

I

and most decent, God-fearing citizens stand for .... Make no mistake.

These

deviants seek no less than total control and influence in society,

politics,

our schools and in our exercise of free speech and religious freedom....

If

we do not act now, homosexuals will own America." --Jerry Falwell
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"Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will

not

only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will

also

bring down the wrath of God upon America." --Jerry Falwell
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"I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status.

One's

misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks,
Hispanics, women, etc., are God-ordained minorities who do indeed

deserve

minority status." --Jerry Falwell, USA Today Chat,
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"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's

punishment

for the society that tolerates homosexuals." --Jerry Falwell
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"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 Pharaoh's
charioteers." --Jerry Falwell
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"The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would
prevent teen pregnancy is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as

a

cure to people who are trying to lose weight." --Jerry Falwell, Moral
Majority, Liberty Foundation
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"I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are
failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they

married

some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom.

These

women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the
feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead

them

home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men.
They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem. " --Jerry Falwell
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"I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating

too

much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal
disorder, not a revelation." --Jerry Falwell
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"Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan." --Jerry Falwell
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"There is no separation of church and state. Modern U.S. 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
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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
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"Over the last 35 years, the left-wing elite has been engaged in a

campaign

to purge traditional Judeo-Christian values from public life in America,

and

the deafening silence of America's pulpits and religious leaders has

helped

this unconstitutional effort to enjoy much success. The time has come to
awaken from our slumber and take a bold stand before all our

constitutional

rights are all stripped away. People with deeply-held spiritual values

and

beliefs should not be treated as 'second-class' citizens." --Jerry

Falwell,

promotional on website
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"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!" --Jerry

Falwell, America Can Be Saved, 1979
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Textbooks are Soviet propaganda." --Jerry Falwell, 1980
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"Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions." --Jerry

Falwell,

1981
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"If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we

would

disintegrate."--Jerry Falwell, address to the Religious Newswriters
Association in New Orleans explaining why Moral Majority meetings do not
open with prayer. (People for the American Way says it has yet to find
anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer
Constitutional amendment.) Cal Thomas, director of communications for

Moral

Majority, said his group did not open meetings with prayer because it is

a

political organization that includes Jews, Catholics, Mormons,

Protestants,

and some "non-religious" members. "What kind of prayer would we use?" he
asked. (Quoted from "Falwell Arms the Opposition," San Francisco

Chronicle,

September 19, 1982)
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If we are going to save America and evangelize the world, we cannot
accommodate secular philosophies that are diametrically opposed to

Christian

truth...We need to pull out all the stops to recruit and train 25

million

Americans to become informed pro-moral activists whose voices can be

heard

in the halls of Congress. I am convinced that America can be turned

around

if we will all get serious about the Master's business. It may be late,

but

it is never too late to do what is right. We need an old-fashioned,
God-honoring, Christ-exalting revival to turn American back to God.

America

can be saved! --Jerry Falwell, Moral Majority Report, September, 1984
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Modern U.S. 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 of the Constitution... We must fight
against those radical minorities who are trying to remove God from our
textbooks, Christ from our nation. We must never allow our children to
forget that this is a Christian nation. We must take back what is

rightfully

ours." --Jerry Falwell, sermon, March 1993
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"The public school system is damned. Let me tell you how radical I am.
Christian students should be in Christian schools. If you have to sell

your

car, live in a smaller house, or work a night job, put your child in
Christian schools. If you can't afford it home school." --Jerry

Falwell,

Trends in Christian Higher Education, Regent University, September 22,

1993

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"Just think of the two choices many children in America will face: 1.)

To

either be slaughtered by the abortionist's knife, or 2.) Have his life
spared only to be sentenced to a lifetime of misery, despair and

anguish -

forced to live with homosexuals." --Jerry Falwell, Direct Mail, June 1,

1994

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"Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are

married

to them." --Jerry Falwell, CNN's Crossfire, May 1, 1997
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"Someone must not be afraid to say, 'moral perversion is wrong.' If we

do

not act now, homosexuals will 'own' America!...If you and I do not speak

up

now, this homosexual steamroller will literally crush all decent men,

women,

and children who get in its way...and our nation will pay a terrible
price!" --Jerry Falwell, quoted in People for the American Way's,

"Hostile

Climate," p. 15, 1997
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"Now, further evidence that the creators of the series intend for Tinky
Winky to be a gay role model have surfaced. He is purple -- the

gay-pride

color; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle -- the gay-pride
symbol." --Jerry Falwell, American National Liberty Journal (article

warning

about Teletubby's being a homosexual role model because he wears a

purple

triangle, has the voice of a boy, yet he carries a purses, presumably,

like

a girl.) National Liberty Journal, February 1999
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"Theologically, any Christian has to support Israel.If we fail to

protect

Israel, we will cease to be important to God. " --Jerry Falwell, (Grace
Halsell, Forcing God's Hand, p 100-101, 1999 )
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"I think that they're (gay Log Cabin Republicans) living an immoral
lifestyle, but I'd much rather they vote for George Bush than Al
Gore." --Jerry Falwell, CNN, March 5, 2000
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"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the

feminists,

and the gays and the lesbians...the A.C.L.U., 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.'" --Jerry Falwell, The 700

Club

(about terrorist attacks), September 13, 2001
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"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. --Jerry Falwell, Washington
Post, September 13, 2001
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The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this. --Jerry Falwell,

Washington

Post, September 13, 2001
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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." --Jerry Falwell, September 13, 2001
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"I sincerely regret that comments I made...were taken out of their
context." --Jerry Falwell, September 14, 2001
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"I would never blame any human being except the terrorists, and if I > left
that impression with gays or lesbians or anyone else, I

apologize." --Jerry

Falwell, interview with CNN, 2001
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"Imagine that, Christmas banned in a public school classroom. This
interdiction is actually quite predictable because the word Christmas

and

the concept of a holiday bearing the name of Christ contradicts the
situation ethics that pervades many public school classrooms. If there

is
no

true right and wrong, there must not be a notion of a Savior or the need

of

a Savior." --Jerry Falwell, e-mail letter alleging that teachers had
forbidden the word "Christmas" to be said in school, December, 2002
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"Next month, the network (CBS) will broadcast the controversial

miniseries

"The Reagans," which stars leftist actors James Brolin (husband of the
spelling-challenged singer/activist Barbra Streisand) and Judy Davis in

the

roles of President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan.A script of the two-part movie

has

been revealed on several Internet news sites. It exposes the malicious
sentiment the network (and most of Hollywood, for that matter) has for

Mr.

Reagan.The most controversial element of the script has the dearly loved
president discussing the AIDS crisis. In the film, when Mrs. Reagan
encourages him to help AIDS victims, Mr. Reagan reportedly responds,

'They

that live in sin shall die in sin.'"--Jerry Falwell, Falwell

Confidential

(Smearing Reagan), October 23, 2003
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In 1956, Jerry Falwell broke away from his church and established the

Thomas

Road Baptist Church with only 35 members. He was 23 at the time.

Growing up in the South, Falwell says there were certain negative traits
that he carried with him. "Well, as a Southerner, I grew up as a
segregationalist," he told the neo-Confederate racist rag the Southern
Partisan in 1982. "I think all Southerners did, except those who lie

about

it." Falwell apparently had still been examining that position through

the

60s. His autobiography states that in 1964 he was still a staunch
segregationalist. Some sources even say he spoke at segregationalist
rallies at that time. In the 50s, Falwell used the bible to claim the

1954

Supreme Court integration decision in Brown vs.. Board of Education of
Topeka was a satanic plot and this went on until 1967 when he started a
racially segregated "Christian" school to avoid public school

desegregation.

However, this move brought him a little bit of disapproval from some

local

religious leaders. He later said he changed his segregationalist

viewpoints

after lengthier contemplation on the subject.

1967 was the year Falwell began his "Old-Time Gospel Hour" weekly

television

and radio broadcasts, which still airs today over Canada and America.

In 1971, Falwell established the Lynchburg Baptist College (later

renamed

Liberty Baptist College). The college is still around, but that could

have

been a different story if the Securities and Exchange Commission had its

way

in 1973. The SEC charged Falwell's church that year with "fraud and

deceit"

in the issuance of $6.5 million in unsecured church bonds. Falwell

admitted

that the SEC was "technically" correct when the church's finances are

put
in

the hands of five local businessmen. A biography of Falwell written by

his

staff chose to flat out lie claiming that his church won the suit and

was

cleared of the charges.

In 1979, Jerry Falwell began what has been one of his most known

ventures,

the Moral Majority. The Moral Majority campaigned for public school

reform

(inclusion of creationism in science curricula and state-sanctioned

prayer

in the classroom), SALT treaties and nuclear disarmament in general.

The

hardcore issues, though were always gay rights, feminism and legalized
abortion. Although it is traditionally believed that Falwell was the
driving force behind it, it is probable that he was more of a

figurehead.

Much of the ideological and political muscle came from financial backers
such as Bob Billings, Paul Weyrich, Ed McAteer and Howard Phillips.

The Moral Majority group took a religious/political stance on many

issues,

and were extremely helpful in the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980.

This

move represented a tremendous break from his own previous beliefs when

he

sharply criticized black ministers who participated in the Civil Right's
movement on the basis that Christian ministers should not be politically
active.

Falwell, reminiscent of his segregationalist past, was also one of the
supporters of Apartheid government of South Africa. When Prime Minister

P.W.

Botha was inaugurated in 1984, he said that the white-minority rule of

that

country was" part of God's great design." In the Summer of 1985,

Falwell

visited the country, and in an effort to get Americans to support that
regime urged Christians to purchase Krugerrands, South African gold

coins.

He even went so far as to attack Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond
Tutu. The visit and public comments backfired on him. The Los Angeles

Times

reported that Falwell capped off his visit to South Africa by saying,

"if

Bishop Tutu maintains that he speaks for the black people of South

Africa,

he is a phony." Falwell later apologized for his remarks, and according

to
a

fundraising letter after his trip contributions to his ministry has

dropped

off $500,000 in two weeks. In the end, even his beloved President

Reagan

abandoned him in banning the further importation of the Krugerrand.

The Federal Election Commission fined Falwell $6,000 in 1987 for

illegally

transferring $6.7 million in funds intended for his religious ministry

to

political action committees. By November of that same year, Falwell had
stepped down as head of the Moral Majority and retired from politics

saying

at a news conference, "From now on, my real platform is the pulpit, not
politics."

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against him in 1988, striking down a

$200,000

jury award to him for "emotional distress" he said he suffered because

of
a

Hustler Magazine parody. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, usually a
Falwell favorite, wrote the unanimous opinion in Hustler vs.. Falwell,
ruling
that the First Amendment protected the parody. Looking back on his

failed

lawsuit against Larry Flynt, in December of 1996, Falwell revealed, "If
Larry (Flynt) had been physically able and were not in a wheelchair,

there'd

have been no lawsuit. I'm a Campbell County, Virginia country boy. I'd

just

take him outside the barn and whip him and that'd be the end of it."

When Jim Bakker was forced to resign from the PTL television ministry in
1988, Jerry Falwell took it over upon the request of Bakker to protect

PTL

and defend it against marauders, specifically fellow televangelist Jimmy
Swaggart. Falwell promptly stabbed Bakker in the back by steering PTL
straight into bankruptcy court instead of following through with his

promise

to protect the ministry.

Also in 1988, Falwell launched another failed bid to gain a presidential
pardon, this time for convicted perjurer Oliver North.

In 1989, the Moral Majority was officially closed, but Falwell continues

to

publish and appear in the media to promote his personal view of the
Christian evangelical agenda.

During the Clinton presidency Falwell exhibited an incredible obsession

with

Bill and Hillary Clinton with every single issue of his monthly National
Liberty Journal included denouncements of the Clintons for various
improprieties, and promoted a video "The Clinton Chronicles," full of
unsubstantiated accusations that Clinton was a drug addict and had

arranged

the murders of political enemies in Arkansas as well as the death of his
friend Vincent Foster. Despite claims he had no ties to the project,
evidence was later found that Falwell helped bankroll the venture with
$200,000 paid to a group called Citizens for Honest Government.

Even worse than that, thought, in my opinion, is an infomercial Falwell
promoted to the now largely discredited video in which he interviewed a
silhouetted individual whom he identified only as an "investigative
reporter." Falwell claimed that the reporter's life was in danger from
Clinton forces. After Salon Magazine investigated the story, it was
revealed that the "investigative reporter" was the president of Citizens

for

Honest Government, Patrick Matrisciana. "Obviously, I'm not an
investigative reporter," said Matrisciana, "and I doubt our lives were
actually ever in danger. That was Jerry's idea to do that. He thought

that

would be dramatic." In my opinion, the only reason Falwell wasn't

slapped

with a slander suit is because Clinton, already a proven dirtied

politician,

probably left well enough alone.

The IRS punished Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour in 1993 when funds were
illegally funneled from Falwell's group to a political action committee.
Falwell was forced to pay $50,000 and the Old Time Gospel Hour's

tax-exempt

status was pulled retroactively for 1986-87.

In 1994, Falwell quietly accepted $3.5 million from Korean cult

"messiah"

Sun Myung Moon as part of a larger deal to bail Liberty University out

from

under its huge debt. This donation could have been the reason why

Falwell

publicly urged his friend President Reagan to pardon Moon's for his tax
evasion conviction. Who can say? Falwell was widely criticized in the
Christian community for lending legitimacy to Moon's organization

because

Moon has always claimed that he was Jesus Christ's

successor/reincarnation

and moral superior. It is inconceivable to me that a Christian would

regard

Moon as anything other than a blasphemer. It is one thing to treat

other

religious leaders and adherents respectfully but another to... what can

you

call such a thing?

In January 1999, Falwell predicted to a pastors' conference in

Kingsport.
TN

that the Antichrist was probably alive and "will be a full-grown

counterfeit

of Christ. Of course he'll be Jewish." Falwell later blurted out,

though

that the Antichrist was teaching at Harvard, which prompted some
fundamentalist dittoheads to send hate mail to Harvard Law professor

Alan

Dershowitz, who angrily faced down Falwell on Geraldo.

As bad as accusing a teacher at Harvard of being the Antichrist, that

was

nothing compared to the February 1999 "parents alert" he issued in the
National Liberty Journal newspaper warning that Tinky Winky, a character

on

the popular PBS children's show "Teletubbies," might be a gay character
designed to undermine the morals of American children.

Apparently no publicity is bad publicity to Falwell, because it was only

4

months later in June 1999, when the same paper published another

"parents

alert," this time for the Lilith Fair female concert tour. Apparently,
Falwell saw the word "Lilith" as having alarming associations with a
Eve-type figure from ancient Hebrew folklore that consorted with demons

and

had evil offspring. A musical event under such a name is no place for
children, the alert implied.

By the end of 1999, Falwell was being so ridiculed around America that

when

he called Ellen DeGeneres "Ellen Degenerate" nobody was that surprised

much

less amused. The comment was even laughed at by DeGeneres herself who
simply said she hadn't been called that since grade school.

Yet, on October 23, 1999, Jerry Falwell and 200 of his Baptist friends

and

associates broke bread with the Rev. Mel White's Soulforce delegation of
200 gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people of faith and their
allies. "Breaking bread is better than breaking heads," says Dr. White,

a

gay Christian clergyman who spent the last 7 years pursuing Falwell and
other leaders of the religious right hoping and praying that this day

might

come. "Our war of words has to end," he says sadly. "Too many innocent
people on both sides are being caught in the deadly crossfire." Falwell

has

promised not to "compromise his position on homosexuality," but he

supports

White's primary goal. "Mel sincerely wants to lower the rhetoric on

both

sides," Falwell said. "And that is exactly what we want as well."

Falwell began the drive "People of Faith 2000," and in an interview with

USA

Today published March 23, Falwell clearly explained the purpose of the
drive. "It is my experience that most people of faith in this country

vote

pro-family, pro-life, and that will mean George W. Bush," Falwell said

in

describing the importance of his project. "If I'm right, the

Republicans

are going to feel a very positive result from this from the top to the
bottom of the ticket." The law prohibits tax-exempt institutions from
conducting voter registration drives, or any other political activity,

in
a

PARTISAN manner. Repeatedly, Falwell told reporters that People of Faith
2000 was motivated by partisanship and was created in large part to help
advance Bush's candidacy and the campaigns of other Republicans.

Jerry Falwell, even as pastor and civic leader, had every right to

endorse

George Bush or anyone else for president. However, his efforts corrupts

the

very purpose of tax-exempt religious ministries not to mention breaking

the

law.
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