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Jerry Falwell

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“At the same time, I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ministers and Marches" sermon (1965), Lynchburg, Virginia, quoted in {{cite book
“The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country. If [there is] any place in the world we need Christianity, it's in Washington. And that's why preachers long since need to get over that intimidation forced upon us by liberals, that if we mention anything about politics, we are degrading our ministry.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sermon, Lynchburg, Virginia, (July 4, 1976), quoted in {{cite book
“[S]o-called gay folks would just as soon kill you as look at you.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rally in Miami (1977), quoted in {{cite news
“I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: America Can Be Saved! (1979) Sword of the Lord Publishers, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, p. 52-53, quoted at "The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party
“If one removes the first two letters from this word "spoil" he soon realizes what Russia will really be after — obviously, oil.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interpreting the significance of the English version of Ezekiel 38:12 as evidence of the USSR's belligerence toward Israel, on the Old Time Gospel Hour (1979); as quoted in What Should We Believe? (1987) by Aurelia T. F…
“The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Listen, America! (1981)
“The homosexuals are on the march in this country. Please remember, homosexuals do not reproduce! They recruit! And, many of them are after my children and your children.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: August 1981 direct mail to supporters of his Old Time Gospel Hour show, quoted in {{cite news
“AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh's charioteers. AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1993, quoted in {{cite book
“Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Crossfire (May 17, 1997)
“If the American Atheists Society or Saddam Hussein himself ever sent an unrestricted gift to any of my ministries, be assured I will operate on Billy Sunday's philosophy: The Devil's had it long enough, and quickly cash the check.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Christianity Today (February 9, 1998)
“He [Tinky Winky] is purple—the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle—the gay pride symbol.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Parents Alert: Tinky Winky Comes Out of the Closet" (February 1999), National Liberty Journal, quoted in {{cite news
“God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On responses to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as quoted in AANEWS #958 (14 September 2001) and at Positive Atheism
“Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU, and all the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress as they went out on the steps and called out on to God in prayer and sang "God Bless America" and said "let the ACLU be hanged"? In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time — calling upon God.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On responses to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, as quoted in AANEWS #958 (September 14, 2001)
“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.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "The Nation's Best Bible College Gets Low Grades on Racial Diversity" The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, vol. 31 (2001), pp.43-45
“I think Muhammad was a terrorist. I read enough by both Muslims and non-Muslims, [to decide] that he was a violent man, a man of war.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview (September 30, 2002) on 60 Minutes (October 6, 2002). The following Friday, Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, the spokesman of Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a fatwa for Falwell's death, saying that Falwell w…
“This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since .”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the US Supreme Court's ruling in regarding sodomy laws, as quoted in "Conservatives condemn 'error of biblical proportions'" in The San Francisco Chronicle (June 27, 2003)
“You've got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops and I am for the President—chase them all over the world, if it takes ten years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: CNN Debate with Jesse Jackson (October 24, 2004)
“And the fact that John Kerry would not support a federal marriage amendment [prohibiting gay marriage], it equates in our minds as someone 150 years ago saying I'm personally opposed to slavery, but if my neighbor wants to own one or two that's OK. We don't buy that.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: CNN : Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees (November 3, 2004)
“The fact that Marc Cherry's a gay Republican means he should join the Democratic Party.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meet the Press (November 28, 2004)
“Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It’s an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Situation with Tucker Carlson" on MSNBC (August 5, 2005)
“Regardless of the response from the Jewish person, we remain friends in support of the State of Israel as required by scripture.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hagee, Falwell deny endorsing 'dual covenant'" in The Jerusalem Post (March 2, 2006)
“I have been on record all 54 years of my ministry as being opposed to dual covenant theology... I simply cannot alter my deeply held belief in the exclusivity of salvation through the Gospel of Christ for the sake of political or theological expediency. Like the Apostle Paul, I pray daily for the salvation of everyone, including the Jewish people.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response to a Jerusalem Post (March 1, 2006) article which portrayed him as endorsing a "dual covenant" theology in which Jews are saved with a "special relationship with God and so need not become Christians to get to …
“Today the world has gone sex crazy. Illicit sex has become the downfall of many in the Bible. Movie stars not married to each other, having babies and making headlines all over the world as though they were doing some great thing. Big deal! Just another moral pervert. And for them to become heroes for our kids. My wife and I will be married 49 years the next anniversary.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Televised sermon at the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia (June 25, 2006), as quoted in "Falwell on the "moral pervert[s" in Hollywood: "[Y]ou almost got to be a homosexual to be recognized in the entert…
“You know, you almost got to be a homosexual to be recognized in the entertainment industry anymore. [[Ellen DeGeneres|Ellen [Degeneres]]], and all the rest. I love them, pray for their souls, but they're immoral. And the Hollywood scene — five and eight and 10 marriages — not something to be emulated.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Televised sermon at the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia (June 25, 2006), as quoted in "Falwell on the "moral pervert[s]" in Hollywood: "[Y]ou almost got to be a homosexual to be recognized in the enter…
“Thank God for these gay demonstrators. If I didn't have them, I'd have to invent them. They give me all the publicity I need.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Falwell's ghostwriter in "Religion, Politics a Potent Mix for Jerry Falwell" by Steve Inskeep in Morning Edition on NPR (June 30, 2006)
“Since Jesus came to the earth the first time 2,000 years ago as a Jewish male, many evangelicals believe the Antichrist will, by necessity, be a Jewish male. This belief is 2,000 years old and has no anti-Semitic roots. This is simply historic and prophetic orthodox Christian doctrine that many theologians, Christian and non-Christian, have understood for two millennia.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Religion, Politics a Potent Mix for Jerry Falwell" by Steve Inskeep in Morning Edition on NPR (June 30, 2006)
“You'll be riding along in an automobile. You'll be the driver perhaps. You're a Christian. There'll be several people in the automobile with you, maybe someone who is not a Christian. When the trumpet sounds you and the other born-again believers in that automobile will be instantly caught away - you will disappear, leaving behind only your clothes and physical things that cannot inherit eternal life. That unsaved person or persons in the automobile will suddenly be startled to find the car suddenly somewhere crashes... Other cars on the highway driven by believers will suddenly be out of control and stark pandemonium will occur on … every highway in the world where Christians are caught away from the drivers wheel.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nuclear War and the Second Coming of Christ (1983) as quoted in "Does Reagan Expect a Nuclear Armageddon?" by Ronnie Dugger in Washington Post Outlook (April 8, 1984)
“And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. 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.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks to Pat Robertson on The 700 Club (September 13, 2001) after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks (audio recording); more at "Falwell and Above" at Snopes.com Falwell later told CNN:
“I believe in the premillenial, pre-tribulational coming of Christ for all of his church, and to summarize that, your first poll, do you believe Jesus coming the second time will be in the future, I would vote yes with the 59 percent and with Billy Graham and most evangelicals. The second question, you asked, "Do you think he is coming in your lifetime?" I would vote neither yes nor no. I would vote I do not know, because Jesus said, "No man knows the day or the hour." So the bottom line is, I believe that we ought to be living every day as though this is the crowning day. But we should also be planning and working with the next generation in mind, because we do not know.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paula Zahn Now (July 31, 2006), as quoted in "CNN still fixated on Apocalypse predictors, still ignoring alleged invitation to White House, Capitol Hill" at Media Matters for America (August 1, 2006)