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Jerry Falwell
Jerry Falwell is nothing if not controversial. This portal keeps track of the lively news, opinions, debates, discussions about or derived from Falwell and his preachings. Falwell, a Virginia native and Baptist minister, fathered the... [more]
Jerry Falwell is nothing if not controversial. This portal keeps track of the lively news, opinions, debates, discussions about or derived from Falwell and his preachings.
Falwell, a Virginia native and Baptist minister, fathered the "Moral Majority" movement that grew up in the 1980s. Falwell became a public figure through his TV show, the 700 club, with a style that gives us that old time Bible thumping.
Most known for for stances against drugs, promiscuity, Gay Rights and the like, Falwell has also supported the talk by founding organizations to help young pregnant women and men with drug and alcohol related problems.
Jerry Falwell has often been on the block for putting his foot in his mouth, and then trying to extract it. Most famous example, a speech in which he accused "the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians" for helping 9/11 happen. Then came out later the same day and apologized.
Though a health crisis in 2005 has slowed him down some, he's still on the news radar and this portal will pick it up when it happens.
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It was ten years ago that Rev. Jerry Falwell launched his personal fatwa against the evils of the Teletubbies, (especially that colourfully dressed Tinky Winky), who he suggested was a poor role model.The good Reverend (well not in everyone's opinion we guess) managed to make Teletubbie bashing a growth industry, until some of the fall out of some high profile scandals of televangelism took over the headlines, making many of his stands the...
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If you knew the Ed Dobson who lived in Lynchburg — the Bob Jones University graduate who served on the board of Moral Majority, edited the Fundamentalist Journal and helped ghostwrite the Rev. Jerry Falwell’s book, “The Fundamentalist Phenomenon” — you probably wouldn’t recognize him now.
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Liberty University's Chancellor said Monday he was surprised by Del. Shannon Valentine’s narrow defeat at the polls last week
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Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. said Monday he was surprised by Del. Shannon Valentine’s narrow defeat at the polls last week.
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Liberty Unbound: How Jerry Falwell's ambitious sons have led the Lynchburg university to financial success and a burgeoning student body. (John W. Kennedy, 9/10/2009, Christianity Today)
The late Falwell established Liberty in 1971 as a small fundamentalist Baptist Bible college. While students are still required to take Bible, theology, and evangelism courses—and to attend chapel services three times a week—the school aims to reposition...
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From feedburner.com
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LYNCHBURG—Liberty University will cancel classes on Election Day to encourage students to vote. Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. announced the move as Lynchburg registrar Pat Bower reported that more than 1,700 Liberty students on campus completed applications by last week’s deadline. As many as 3,200 Liberty students who live on campus are eligible to vote in Lynchburg. Bower says her office can’t track off-campus registrants.
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From dailyprogress.com
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Jerry Falwell and Larry Flynt
In November 1997, the Reverend Jerry Falwell and publisher Larry Flynt appeared together at the University of Virginia School of Law as part of a conference organized by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. The conference examined the legal and cultural impact of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in which the minister sued the publisher for the unauthorized use of Falwell’s name...
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