Falwell Dead at 73

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Legacy of this man is not posted. For example, he called Muhammad a terrorist. He suggested that 11 September reflected God's judgment on a nation spiritually weakened by the American Civil Liberties Union, providers of abortion and supporters of gay rights. He openly promoted hate of gay lifestyle and supported Anita Bryant's campaign against gays. He spoke out again Martin Luther King and opposed the civil rights movement. He promoted segregation - claiming that was only because the south was racist. He said he changed when he discovered segregation was wrong in the Bible - as if 400 years of Bible scholars had missed that teaching.

He suggested that Tinky Winky, a character in the "Teletubbies" children's show, could be a hidden homosexual because Tinky Winky was purple, had a triangle on his head, and carried a handbag.

Falwell created (modified) Liberty University and its Law School. The latter's purpose to educate lawyers an exemplary education, from a biblical perspective. IOW to impose God's will on the law ... as if God cannot impose his own will. And of course the Moral Majority where Falwell said to vote only for those how 'stands by the Bible'. Falwell said that religion should not be separated from politics - a reversal of his 1960 opinion.

Underlying Falwell is a belief that morality - his morality - should be imposed upon a nation. He encouraged his followers to impose the will of God. To me - he advocated a Spanish Inquisition upon American civil rights. How can a man so religious at a personal level also be so evil at a national level as to impose his religious beliefs on all others?