On the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks (spoken on Sept. 13, 2001):
“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.'”
On sexual preference:
“AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals.”
On the tolerant-to-Gays Metropolitan Community Churches:
“[They are] brute beasts…[and] a vile and Satanic system [that will] one day be utterly annihilated and there will be a celebration in heaven.”
On Feminism:
“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.”
On the working class:
“Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers.”
On “The Antichrist”:
“Of course, he’ll be Jewish.”
On South African Apartheid:
“…part of God’s great design.”
On Brown vs. Board of Ed.:
“If Chief Justice Warren and his associates had known God’s word and had desired to do the Lord’s will, I am quite confident that the 1954 decision would never have been made…. The facilities should be separate. When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line.”
Frequent (and mature) description of Dr. Marting Luther King and his civil rights movement:
“The Civil Wrongs Movement”
And everyone’s favorite, on the Tele-Tubbies:
“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.”
Can you believe this guy set up his “University” in a place called Lynchburg?!? Chutzpah points, for sure.
All the above quotes were found on the Internet, so that means they are 100% true.
Well, look at the big picture. We’re all going to die one day. If there is any sort of after-life, and we have access to the negative things people say about us, I can guarantee the reaction will be to shrug and say, “Can’t please everyone!”
Your post-mortem isn’t all that bad, but I’ve seen things on the web that are just as offensive as anything Falwell himself said in his life. There must be some kind of cold comfort in pissing on graves that I’m not fully grasping. When someone I didn’t agree with on many issues passes on, I guess my response at one time was to gloat. But, again, we’ll all die one day, and I’m not quite sure what I was gloating over — probably my arrogance and inability to grasp that death isn’t some form of “bad karma” or cosmic justice, but something that happens to all of us, beyond good or evil.
I think the most fitting response to the death of someone you radically disagreed with is silence, unless it’s to express some type of grudging respect for someone who let it all hang out, warts and all. Think I’ll opt for silence!
Some more quotes:
“Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them.”
“AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.”
“I think [Desmond Tutu]’s a phony, period, as far as representing the black people of South Africa.”
“The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America’s free enterprise system and our economic stability.”
So you’re helping his words live on after him? While these things sound outlandish to you, and to most sane people, I think you’ll find plenty of other people agreeing with every word he said. One man’s condemnation is another man’s heartfelt effigy!
Well, the guy lived in the public eye, he sought it out in fact. What he said and what he taught was his legacy, and it’s appropriate to be talking about that once he died. As in, he left the world more full of hate-filled, authority-bowing, narrow-minded people who oppose the basic freedoms that the country was founded on than there were when he entered into it.
As Jesus said somewhere, far better if he had never been born.