Captain's Quarters -

This dude was a hateful bigoted old fuck. I'm sorry for his family and their loss but the USA is a better place for his ass being 6 feet under ground. He won't be missed IMHO/

Many people have confused his Christian beliefs with hate-speech. This was not the case. While Dr Falwell may have disagreed with their lifestyle, he really cared about each person he met on an individual level.
Hate the sin. Love the sinner

This dude was a hateful bigoted old fuck. I'm sorry for his family and their loss but the USA is a better place for his ass being 6 feet under ground. He won't be missed IMHO/

Captain, it is one thing to speak kindly of someone who recently passed, but to give fawning reverance to this man? As I said in an earlier comment, had he kept his strict lifestyle to himself, he would have been worthy of respect. By creating an organization to force his narrow-minded morality on the rest of us, he became in my eyes a hateful, bigoted old man.

Without too much work, I am sure that you could have found a similar eulogy of how Saddam's devout Islamic beliefs made him a wonderful ruler.

I do not care that Falwell waved the Bible around in his crusade. The monster Phelps in Kansas does as well. This does not make them great men.

I spent 4 years in the ROTC program at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. We frequently had training events with the cadets from Falwell's Liberty Baptist. It made me angry and sad to see how many narrow-minded little bigots Falwell was turning out at his school.

tommy1nut, please go to liberal sites with that BS. Posting it once was bad enough. Posting it twice and NOT in error is beyond the pale.

You only prove the low opinion that many of us have of liberals.

You hurt your cause in ways that YOU will never understand.

A man that many loved has died. Would it hurt you to have some respect.

tommy1nut, please go to liberal sites with that BS. Posting it once was bad enough. Posting it twice and NOT in error is beyond the pale.

You only prove the low opinion that many of us have of liberals.

You hurt your cause in ways that YOU will never understand.

A man that many loved has died. Would it hurt you to have some respect.

Farwell was a disgusting bigot.
If there were a hell he would be in it.

I would like to remind those who insist that Falwell was simply upholding Christian values, that there are many, many Christians out there who disagree with him. He preached a strict, Southern-Baptist brand of Christianity.

The Southern Baptists broke away and founded their own convention in 1845 over slavery. Many a sermon was preached that used the Bible to justify slave holding. In the 1960s the Southern Baptists supported racial segregation and opposed the civil rights movement. It was not until 1995 that the Southern Baptist Convention apologized for supporting slavery.

Of course, a few years later they passed a resolution stating that women should submit to their husbands the same way that the church submits to God.

No, Falwell's brand of Christianity does not look like my Roman Catholocism at all. Nevertheless, I very much support the right of anyone in this country to worship however he or she sees fit. I did not oppose Falwell because he was a Southern Baptist.

When Falwell founded the "Moral Majority" and tried to wed his religious views to a political movement, then I opposed him. Falwell tried to use the force of law to cram his narrow-minded beliefs down my throat. At that point, in my mind, he stopped becoming a religious leader and became, instead, a politician that I oppose. One of the wisest things the founding fathers did was to separate religion and government. They were right then, and they remain right to this day.

VA Gamer, are you so sure his Chrisitanity is that different? I mean, yes, there are serious theological differences. But all really people care about in the political sphere, frankly, is Falwell's statements about homosexuals and abortions. In that regard Falwell would find much sympathy in Pope Benedict's teaching.

tommy1nut & Rationalist:
this is why I stopped looking at liberal positions. You always claim to be open minded & nice (not the "hatefilled right"). Yet your speech defies your supposed values. The left is as hateful as anything they claim on the right. (And I am not defending Falwell's position on various issues, probably most of which I disagree with).

VA Gamer, the Founding Fathers did not separate religion and government. The First Amendment only applied to the federal government -- up until the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 (& subsequently interpreted by the SCOTUS over the years). States were originally free to mingle religion & government (not a good policy, IMO) and indeed even Massachusetts up until the 1840s (IIRC) paid certain ministers with taxpayer dollars.

How wrong can you be gamer. Religion is protected from government not seperated from it. Falwell has every right to make his decisions based on his religion and become politically active in this area. How could he cram it down your throat? Only with your acceptance of his views.

As for your third paragraph why don't you add some context? Of course it says that a wife should obey the husband but that is not all there is to it and the Southern Baptists supported the whole passage. If your going to argue at least get it right.