....in part, for the polarization of America. His Moral Majority started this process despite it's demise in the late 80's. He managed to help start the trend that one must be Republican in order to be Christian. He railed on homosexuals, while poverty increased here and around the world.

I simply do not understand people who claim to follow Jesus while holding priorities that seem totally opposite of what Jesus taught. Hypocrisy should be Fallwell's legacy, for that is what he was.

I am not happy he is dead, but as lesbian who he considered a bad person, I will not shed any tears either.

and I are having a party this weekend: Farewell to Falwell. It'll be champagne, gay friends, members of the ACLU, Jews, athiests, Hindus, and other fellow travelers. And I'm making a good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish donation to the ACLU in his name.

Living well is always the best revenge.

"When will the republican party tell these religious right to take a hike. The GOP can win without them."

-- bernbart

Oh, honey. Without the religious right (which, like the moral majority, is neither), the republican party would be as helpless and irrelevant as it was during FDR's heyday.

And without the republican party, the Xian freaks would be as powerless as they were after their Scopes trial "win" exposed their ridiculousness and forced them to slink back to their caves for a few decades.

They feed off each other, support each other, bring out the worst in each other.

The only question is whether they will destroy this country before they destroy themselves.

ah yes, dear ole' L.U., where school policy forebade blacks and whites from dating each other. How dispicable to try to hold that up as a standard of higher learning. The only learning there is prejudice, enforced by university policy and ole Fallwell hisself.

ps, that figure of 20,000 enrollment includes "online" enrollees. The actual current FTE (full time enrollment) is about 9,000.

as already mentioned, that's not true. Liberty decided to add up all the cumulative points of all their debaters throughout the year, and annouce themselves with the most points and the winners. Problem is the National Debate organizations don't determine the winner that way. They've never taken 1st place, period. They've had a LOT of 5th place winners, though. They give 1st place 5 points, and 5th place one point, so they rationalize that 6 5th place winners add up to 6, which is more than the 1st place winner scored with 5. So they announce themselves the all time super winners of the universe! Problem is, it's a lie. And really steals from the students who actually DID win (from OTHER universities, by the way).

check the National Debate Tournament website. The 2007 national debate tournament season’s top 5 teams are: U. of Georgia, U of Oklahoma, U of Kansas, Dartmouth, Wayne State University. Look at the pictures of the happy students who worked so hard to win. and then tell me why Liberty lies about winning that award, think about those 'christins' stealing these kids' honor.

3/28/2006-EAST LANSING, Mich. – For the second time in three years, a team from Michigan State University has been crowned national debate champions.

the GOP will tell these snake handlers to take a hike when the GOP loses more than they gain from the relationship. We're not there yet, and I doubt we will get there until after the 2008 election. Every seat in the General Assembly in Ol Virginny is up for grabs this year, and even GOP candidates in southwest are worried. If the GOP loses the Virginia General Assembly, it will be a good sign that they are in serious trouble nationally. We can only hope...

one of the two national intercollegiate parliamentary debate organizations in the United States and the largest college debate organization in the United States

·2007: Tim Kamermeyer and Griffith Vertican (Point Loma Nazarene University)

·2006: Josh Anderson and Rachel Safran (University of Puget Sound)

·2005: Paul Bingham & Meredith Price (Lewis & Clark College)

·2004: Ian Samuel & Marie Tenny (Truman State University)

·2003: Michael Owens & Joshua Wilkerson (University of Wyoming)

·2002: Ben Garcia & Chris Richter (University of Alaska Anchorage)

·2001: Danny Barak & Will Trachman (University of California, Berkeley)

·2000: Ryan Kennedy & Jacob Stutzman (Truman State University)

·1999: Geof Brodak & Bill Herman (Colorado State University)

·1998: Heath Curtis & Rebekah Gilbert (Concordia University, Seward)

·1997: Dan Nelson & Marcus Paroske (Regis University)

·1996: Ryan Levy & Scott Ruthfield (Rice University)

·1995: Meredith Marine & Neal Sample (University of Wyoming)

·1994: Marcus Paroske & Tammy Schultz (Regis University)

APDA national champions

2007 Yale: David Denton and Dylan Gadek

2006 Princeton: Dan Greco and Michael Reilly

2005 Harvard: Alex Blenkinsopp and Alex Potapov

2004 Harvard: Marty Roth and Nico Cornell

2003 Yale: Jay Cox and Tim Willenken

2002 Princeton: Edward Parillon and Yoni Schneller

2001 Yale: Brian Fletcher and Scott Luftglass

2000 Princeton: Jeremiah Gordon and Matt Schwartz

1999 Columbia: Carissa Byrne and John Castelly

1998 Harvard: Eric Albert and Justin Osofsky

1997 Johns Hopkins: Rebecca Justice and David Weiner

1996 UPenn: Liz Rogers and Peter Stris

1995 Swarthmore: Jeremy Mallory and Neal Potischman

1994 Swarthmore: Dave Carney and Neal Potischman

1993 Columbia: Thanos Basdekis and Morty Dubin

1992 Harvard: Chris Harris and David Kennedy

1991 Princeton: Robert Ewing and Christopher Ray

1990 Wesleyan: Andrew Borsanyi and Joel Potischman

1989 Harvard: Nick Alpers and Pat Bannon

1988 Brown: Aaron Belkin and Jason Grumet

1987 Swarthmore: Josh Davis and Reid Neureiter

1986 Harvard: Ben Alpers and Mike Dorf

1985 Brown: Martha Hirschfield and Tim Moore

1984 United States Naval Academy: Chuck Fish and Marshall Parsons

1983 Harvard: Neil Buchanan and Doug Curtis

1982 Princeton: Robert Gilbert and Richard Sommer

1981 Amherst: J.J. Gertler and Tom Massaro

Falwell was what I call a "serial apologizer". After acting in an evil, reprehensible manner, this type of person says they are "sorry". It is all the worse when shrouded in his so-called Christian faith. As a human being and as a Christian it offends me completely.

This behavior is in frequent use by abusers and others who have only the goal to belittle, to hurt, to divide for their own psychologically screwed up reasons. I should know, I grew up around it.

And after years of healing I find so much anger in me with the death of this man.

It is very difficult for me to not be more spiritually at peace with his passing... but I am really struggling.

His brand of vitriol and hatred will live on and will act as the justification for repression, division and acts of violence in the name of Jesus. All of which is completely foreign to any Jesus that I have come to know, and to the many Christians who would not take the Falwell low road.

It is so wrong at every level and it will take a lot for me to make peace with this.

It is my personal commitment to not give hate for hate or to return violence with violence. As a progressive Catholic I am deeply attached to peace and non-violence, which is not passive at all. However I have met my match in Falwell's memory.

I have tried to write a nice ending to this letter, but one does not exist for me right now.