HunterSMencken said:
Har!

I heard Satan had gotten tired of Saddam and called in Jerry to be his new biatch.

Why? Because Jerry Fallwell had a reputation for giving the best head in Lynchburg.

ROFLMAO!

Fucker.

Rockoval said:
Am I the only one who thinks FTR went a little too far this time? I agree that Falwell was a horrible ignorant person, but he was no Pinochet or Pol Pot. To take this much pleasure in his death seems just a little tasteless.

Fractal said:
Voices of American Sexuality Blogpost

"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals"
"It appears that America's anti-Biblical feminist movement is at last dying, thank God, and is possibly being replaced by a Christ-centered men's movement which may become the foundation for a desperately needed national spiritual awakening."
"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."
After the September 11 attacks Falwell said, "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."
"Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions"
"[Homosexuals are] brute beasts...part of a vile and satanic system [that] will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven."

s5 said:

In the 1980s, Falwell and the Moral Majority worked with President Reagan and the Republican party to shape the federal government's policy on AIDS and AIDS research. As a result, nothing was done.

Had there been a major push by the federal government to stop the spread of AIDS from the beginning through research and education, everything would have been different. No one knew anything about AIDS, and there would have at least been a chance to contain the disease before it spread into a worldwide epidemic.

Instead, Falwell and his gang of crusaders guaranteed their political support of the Republican party, in exchange for various policies. One of these policies was to choke off funds to prevent the spread of AIDS. Falwell and his buddies also spread the message that AIDS is God's punishment, in an effort to delude the public into believing that AIDS is someone else's problem. The goal was to prevent public opinion from swinging the other way, since people tend to get all sympathetic when other people are suffering and dying, though not so much when it's "those bad people over there" suffering and dying.

Anyway, they lost, since obviously AIDS research and education are considered important priorities by nearly everyone sane (even though to this day, the Republicans and Falwell's successors still try to suppress condoms whenever they can).

But how many people had to die before the public woke up? How many lives could have been saved had Falwell been laughed off the public stage, instead of being allowed to influence federal policy?

I don't have a source - just read up on his legacy. None of this is any secret. I lived through the 80s and watched it all happen the first time around. These are deeply evil people who work hard to cause the death and suffering of other people, and I will continue to pop a champagne cork as each of them dies off, taking their wretched ideas and actions with them into a cold pit of dirt.

Rot in hell, Falwell.