Jerry Falwell: a brief timeline

Aug. 11, 1933: Falwell is born in Lynchburg, Va.

June 1956: Falwell becomes pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg.

April 12, 1958: Falwell marries Macel Pate.

1965: Falwell gives a sermon on what he calls the "Civil Wrongs Movement," attacking Martin Luther King, Jr.

1971: Falwell founds Liberty University.

1972: The SEC files charges of "fraud and deceit" against Falwell's church for the issuance of $6.5 million in uninsured bonds. The organization wins its case in 1973, but Liberty University files for bankruptcy and reorganizes, losing millions in church investors' money.

June 1979: Falwell organizes the Moral Majority, a political lobbyist group tasked with bringing fundamentalist values to the forefront of the Republican Party platform.

1980s: Falwell is a strong supporter of the Apartheid regime in South Africa.

1983: Falwell sues Hustler for featuring a parody of him in an advertisement, and eventually loses on appeal.

1984: Falwell calls the San Francisco gay-oriented Metropolitan Community Churches "brute beasts" and "a vile and Satanic system" that will "one day be utterly annihilated and there will be a celebration in heaven." (He later denies making the remark. Gay activist Jerry Sloan says he has it on tape. Falwell says he'll give Sloan $5,000 to produce the tape. Sloan does so. Falwell refuses to pay, and is successfully sued.)

1987: Falwell takes control of PTL Ministry from Jim Bakker, and files bankruptcy a few months later.

1989: Falwell disbands the Moral Majority.

1995: Falwell begins publishing the National Liberty Journal.

September 2001: Following the 9/11 attacks, Falwell states, "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.'"

2003: Falwel defends Roy Moore, the Alabama judge who wanted the Ten Commandments in the courthouse, comparing him to Martin Luther King, Jr.

2004: Falwell founds the Moral Majority Coalition which, like its predecessor, is aimed at spreading intolerance for non-fundamentalist values to public office.

July 31, 2006: In a CNN interview, Falwell states that Christ will return as the premillenialists predict, and that the Antichrist will be a Jewish man.

May 15, 2007, 12:40pm: Falwell dies in Lynchburg, Va.

May 15, 2007, 12:41pm: Falwell receives one hell of a surprise.

:kick:

Haven't you been paying attention?

:evilgrin:

...the "Tinky Winky is gay" story?

Insert that in 1999, I believe it was?

So yeah, just imagine it there. Yeah, that's it.