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“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.”
-- Jerry Falwell speaking about the attacks on September 11, 2001

(Or... umm... something)

Date: 2007-05-16 11:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] la-directora.livejournal.com
I have never seen so much celebration about one person's death in one day on my friends list.

Date: 2007-05-17 12:15 am (UTC)
ext_171739: (Goodbye)
From: [identity profile] dieppe.livejournal.com
Wait until Fred Phelps Sr. kicks it...

Date: 2007-05-17 12:25 am (UTC)

Date: 2007-05-17 01:02 am (UTC)
ext_171739: (They will blow your mind!)
From: [identity profile] dieppe.livejournal.com
Even a lot of the right-wing fundies will be celebrating.. Even if quietly so. Well, that old guy could hang on to 102 years though, so ya never know!

Date: 2007-05-17 05:34 am (UTC)
cos: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cos
... but since he's still alive, he's gonna be picketing this funeral.

Date: 2007-05-16 11:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fengshui.livejournal.com
I think it's important to note that he did apologize for that comment: http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/14/Falwell.apology/

Date: 2007-05-17 12:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] la-directora.livejournal.com
So noted. However, it's also important to note the difference in intent and sincerity between the initial comment and the apology. Some things are unforgiveable. We CAUSED 9/11? I don't think there is an appropriate apology for that. Especially given that the population of NYC fairly well guarantees that many of the people who DIED that day fit into his groupings.

Date: 2007-05-17 01:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emboline.livejournal.com
All I have to say is "Ding dong the dick is dead!"

Date: 2007-05-17 01:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thefoxes.livejournal.com
The irony of your subject is that a truly great person actually did pass on that day.

Yolanda King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, and a staunch civil rights supporter herself, died on the same day as Falwell.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/16/AR2007051600075.html

Date: 2007-05-17 02:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] inflectionpoint.livejournal.com
Did you hear that Fred Phelps is going to picket his funeral (Falwell's, not his own. Altho I'd pay money to see the latter.)?

I couldn't make something that freaky up if I tried.

And now, back to Useful Work. The thing that pisses off the religious right best of all. Gotta get back to my hippie pinko commie pagan yoga doing queer task list. Hmmm... pay bills, take out garbage, scoop cat box, wow.... this is a fun Agenda here.

Date: 2007-05-17 02:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] docstrange.livejournal.com
Excellent use of the word "great" as meaning "significant" as opposed to (the unlikely) "good" or "magnificent." *grin*

Also, thank you for (accidentally or not) taking a day before posting your snark obit on him. I thought he was about as deplorable as they come (well, Pat Buchanan is still writing...), but I also always admire those who manage to keep the moral high ground while sacking those who would dress their spite and hate in the trappings of morality. It makes for, well, moral high ground, something we're otherwise seeming to lack throughout politics in these days of "payback for your payback for our payback."

Anyhow, he's gone. With luck, his legacy will be institutions that, with him gone, will be of less vitriol and more about discourse on the meaning of morality. Fat chance, but at least a better chance without his fickle and acid tongue.

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