Thousands Turn Out for Falwell Funeral

Source: NY Times

Thousands Turn Out for Falwell Funeral


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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 22, 2007

Filed at 1:49 p.m. ET

LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) -- Thousands of mourners attended the funeral Tuesday of the Rev. Jerry Falwell, the folksy evangelist who built the Moral Majority into a conservative Christian empire that influenced national politics.

The funeral returns Falwell to his roots -- the Thomas Road Baptist Church, where he started as a young preacher in 1956 with just 35 parishioners in an old abandoned soda bottling plant.

Today, his son Jonathan Falwell leads Thomas Road Baptist, and the sanctuary seats 6,000.

More than an hour before the service, crowds were being directed to overflow seating in Liberty University's 10,000-seat basketball arena and its football stadium. About 300 police and other personnel were helping manage the crowd, Lynchburg Police Chief Charles W. Bennett Jr. said.

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Shouldn't that read: "Thousands of (morans) turn out for Falwell Funeral."




Cher

"Give the people what they want and they'll come out to see it"

you soooo bad....

rubberneckers on the highway. And then there is no doubt a small minority of Falwell detractors there who just want to make sure he is really dead.

I would enjoy pissing on his grave.

That would account for all the people. It's really hard to find a nice clean porta-potty when you need one.

Buh-bye, Jerry! Rah, rah, rah!

send off. Or do they even exist anymore? I saw them in San Francisco in 1981.

Where the fuckstick started bitching about civil rights back in hate's heyday! Of course he recanted, but only when he realized the cause was lost and found a better target...

just wanted to make sure the bastard was dead! :evilgrin:

just to make sure the old bastard was really dead. x(

own death? He was a fraud but he was not God, even though he may have thought otherwise. He is dead all right.

JEEZ, I'm glad I left the AP...

"Controversial" maybe. But "FOLKSY"?????????????????

:grr:

nt

Gives Al-Quaida too much time.

Hypocrites...

have a huge following.

Then "folksy" now has the new definition of describing someone who is a narrow-minded, self-serving bigot.