Sadly, a truly great man had passed
May. 16th, 2007 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
“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)
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Date: 2007-05-17 01:22 am (UTC)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
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Date: 2007-05-17 02:04 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2007-05-17 02:24 am (UTC)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.