Jerry Falwell, dead aged 73

So he got his threescore years and ten, then. TANJ, except that he simply won’t get the glorious afterlife he’s been expecting.

The Carpetbagger Report has a timeline of various highlights of his bigoted authoritarian ranting career.

(via Ginmar)



Categories: religion, social justice, Sociology

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3 replies

  1. An exemplar of the hypocrisy that is the foundation of the US Christian right. The trouble is that there are others, just as bad – worse even (given the two books I just read on the rise of the Christian right in the US) that will take his place.

  2. Yep. No cause for celebration here.

  3. Pam Spaulding of Pam’s House Blend has a roundup of amazingly restrained public comment from LGBT-friendly activists on Falwell’s passing.

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