Quotes About Jerry Falwell

Somebody should tell Jerry Falwell that God is an Independent . . . he's not rich enough to be a Republican.

Billy Graham's success in finding a way to move beyond the outmoded racial politics and strained racial theology of the Old South would be a model for the rise of the Religious Right and its leaders, including Jerry Falwell in the 1980s and 90s.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

During my time in the entourages of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, I never saw either of them attack and punish those who disagree, as Dobson does on a regular basis.

I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.

When Democrats kind of cavalierly attack the religious right or go after Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell, our candidates have sent the signal to a lot of religious people, 'Well, I guess they are not interested in me.' And I think this includes a lot of people who would fit very naturally within the Democratic Party.

Dad and I were sitting in Falwell's study just after Dad spoke at Jerry's church. (Later I preached there, too, endorsed Falwell, and also gave a talk to the whole student body at Falwell's college.) Out of the blue, Jerry brought up the gay issue. Dad said something about it being complicated, and Jerry replied: "If I had a dog that did what they do, I'd shoot him!" The

A desire to rescue secular America from fallen grace has driven conservative evangelicals at least since the 1970s, when Jerry Falwell formed the Moral Majority as a vehicle for conservative Christians to muscle their way into national politics.

From the vantage of a mid-1970's consensus that regarded the United States as having entered a post-Protestant era, the rise of a Religious Right dominated not only by Protestants but by fundamentalists was not the way the story was supposed to go. People like Jerry Falwell looked like party crashers who, rather than slikinking from bar to buffet in hopes of going unnoticed, demanded that the vegetarian, alcohol-imbibing hosts serve meat and tell the bartender to go home.

My father was an agnostic.