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Leo Wyatt
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 Tue May 15, 2007 2:21 pm Rev. Jerry Falwell Dies |
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Source http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18679412/
| Quote: | Moral Majority leader Falwell dies
Evangelical pastor was found in his university office
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Updated: 11 minutes ago
LYNCHBURG, Va. - The Rev. Jerry Falwell � founder of the Moral Majority and the face of the religious right in the 1980s � died Tuesday after being found unconscious in his office, a Liberty University executive said.
Ron Godwin, Liberty's executive vice president, said Falwell, 73, had been found unresponsive around 10:45 a.m. and was taken to Lynchburg General Hospital.
Godwin said he was not sure what caused the collapse, but noted that Falwell had �a history of heart challenges.�
�I had breakfast with him, and he was fine at breakfast,� Godwin said. �He went to his office, I went to mine and they found him unresponsive.�
Falwell, a television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority in 1979, became the face of the religious right in the 1980s. He later founded the conservative Liberty University and served as its chancellor.
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Born on Aug. 11, 1933, Falwell was not particularly religious until his sophomore year of college in 1952, when Falwell said he underwent a religious conversion. Instead of accepting an offer to play professional baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals, he transferred to the Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Mo.
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Four years later, Falwell returned to Lynchburg, where he founded Thomas Road Baptist Church, which started with 35 members. Today, the church has 24,000 members and the annual revenues of all of his ministries total more than $200 million, according to his biography on Liberty Univeristy's Web site.
In the 1980s, Falwell saw his political lobbying organization grow to 6.5 million members, raising millions of dollars for conservative politicians and helping to elect Ronald Reagan president.
Falwell claimed that the Moral Majority galvanized Christians to vote for the first time and helped elect President Reagan and many conservative lawmakers in 1980.
In 1986 Falwell founded the Liberty Foundation as a way to broaden his base. Other victories attributed to his influence include the election of President Bush in 1988, several conservative Supreme Court decisions and influencing the creation of the powerful Christian Coalition
Falwell dissolved the Moral Majority in 1989, saying that its political aims had been achieved.
But he re-entered the political arena by the mid-1990s, selling a video that accused then President Clinton of crimes and calling him an "ungodly liar."
Falwell delivered the benediction at the Republican National Convention in 1996.
Earlier health problems
Falwell survived two serious health scares in early 2005. He was hospitalized in February for two weeks with what was described as a viral infection, then hospitalized again in March with congestive heart failure after being found unconscious. At that time he had to be resuscitated by EMTs at the hospital emergency room.
A native of Lynchburg, Falwell and his wife, Macel, had three children and eight grandchildren |
I didn't like him too much.. but rip.. I hope it was ok to post this.
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Theresa
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| Tue May 15, 2007 2:36 pm |
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I think it's kind of rude of the media to continually comment on the stupid things he did. While he was a bit... different the past 8-9 years, there was more to his life than those mistakes.
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Leo Wyatt
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| Tue May 15, 2007 2:41 pm |
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Yeah true... Even though I didn't like him much I never would said crazy things like the media. It shows media don't have enough respect. Of course it is the media lol.
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| Tue May 15, 2007 4:57 pm |
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| Theresa wrote: | | I think it's kind of rude of the media to continually comment on the stupid things he did. While he was a bit... different the past 8-9 years, there was more to his life than those mistakes. |
Exactly. I was listening to Hannity coming home and he and a caller were talking about that and then the news hit me. This is sad. Yes, he made some mistakes, but he was still a good man who helped a lot of people.
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| Tue May 15, 2007 7:58 pm |
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Hell ... I'm pretty liberal and I think this is sad, and while yes, blaming 9-11 on the feminists and the pagans is a little much, I think he's actually a pretty cool guy. RIP.
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| Tue May 15, 2007 9:09 pm |
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I won't be mourning him.
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Theresa
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| Tue May 15, 2007 10:52 pm |
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Why not? Not even as a fellow human being? I mean, it's not like he committed mass murder, or oppressed a nation of people or anything, he simply had beliefs that counter your own.
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| Tue May 15, 2007 10:57 pm |
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Rest In Peace, although I don't like you.  lol
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| Tue May 15, 2007 11:11 pm |
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I generally make it a point not to rejoice in anyone dying. So, even though I didn't agree with the man, I understand that others mourn his passing. He made an impact somewhere in the world and I think that's what matters.
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| Tue May 15, 2007 11:15 pm |
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| Ziona wrote: | | I generally make it a point not to rejoice in anyone dying. So, even though I didn't agree with the man, I understand that others mourn his passing. He made an impact somewhere in the world and I think that's what matters. |
I'll drink to that. Or atleast take some more medication. Rest in peace, and I hope when clinton goes to hell, that this man gets to be his torture for the rest of eternity.  ... kay. So I can be all apocalyptic on my medication. Fine. 
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