NEWS: Moral Majority: Gay People Are Still People

POLITICS: Moral Majority: Gay People Are Still People

Friendly neighbourhood conservative Reverend Jerry Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority, has once again made several shocking comments. Shocking in that he's almost speaking out in support of gay rights.

Let us hope others quickly fall in line. Common sense is not as common as one might think, but surely it is not difficult for a rational person to comprehend the division between your right to dislike someone for no good reason, and their entitlement to the same civil rights as every other citizen.

if marriage is a special right then maybe we should taka that right from people who have a history of violent crime so they won't assault their spouses/children.

But at least he's no longer sharing the same value system as our buddy Fred Phelps. (well, not the entire value system at least.)

aren't they called the christian coalition now, not the moral majority?

Well... that's very interesting. I'm not quite sure what to make of it.

to be honest, it seems rather...

wow...i didn't think i would ever hear anything from that man that didn't make me want to vomit.
this is actually a nice surprise.

This frames Falwell's collection of leather chaps and thongs in clear perspective.

wow...

i wonder who the aliens replaced him with?

Lip service. When Falwell's mouth moves, he lies.

Wonder if that has anything to do with him getting older. It sounds weird, but when my grandfather was getting, as he put it, "closer to meeting God," his formerly hardline views on things softened quite a bit and he made a few surprising statements too.

I secretly think he was trying to impress Jesus and get him to put in a good word with his dad about the whole "heaven" thing.



[Edited on Aug 30, 2005 by Shalome]

Hmm. I'm not sure what i think about this. On the one hand I admire that he would say something like this but on the other, it seems like, as googuse put it, lip service.

I guess we'll have to wait and see if he says anything more on the subject in either direction. But he just went up about half a point in my estimation.

I don't see for a second how this represents a change of conscience - just that he gave a response that doesn't directly reflect his image as the villian of modern morality. He never said gays should be deported, he says they are immoral and an offense to God of a magnitude that allowed 9/11 to happen. This new statement lines up with everything he's ever said.

This only matters for those who wait on Falwell's every word - i.e. southern baptists and liberals.