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person uses this opportunity to trot out the "see liberals are so intolerant! and therefore hypocrites" about this...I'll just have to admit it, I'm not just intolerant of Jerry Falwell and his ilk, but in fact have no tolerance of any kind for the type of bigoted, cretinous drivel that was the signature mark of his "faith". In watching many of the TV obituaries run down many of his greatest hits, including the classics "Gays deserve AIDS", "Pagans and feminists caused 9/11", "Tinky Winky is gay", I'm struck that almost no one has even touched his pre-moral majority role as a radical segregationist and outright racist asshole. This is the man who said in 1958:
"The true Negro does not want integration... He realizes his potential is far better among his own race... It will destroy our race eventually... In one northern city, a pastor friend of mine tells me that a couple of opposite race live next door to his church as man and wife... It boils down to whether we are going to take God's Word as final."
He was also an outspoken advocate of Apartheid South Africa, so I think even you take away his leadership of the "Moral Majority", his life would still be one of unqualified disgrace and infamy for which he spent almost every second making a personal investment in and embrace of everything hateful and stupid about the human race. He should be remembered as the vile slug he truly was, so join me in looking back with derision and scorn. The world is unquestionably a better place without him.
