Jerry Falwell
Jerry Falwell
Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. was an American evangelical Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative political commentator. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academyin 1967 and Liberty University in 1971 and co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth11 August 1933
CityLynchburg, VA
CountryUnited States of America
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.'
Can you imagine the insolence of these protesters? ... They have the audacity to disparage and demean these courageous soldiers who are enduring great physical and emotional trauma because they believed in the effort to bring freedom to Iraq.
The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.
If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.
I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.
I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.
I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.
I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.
The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews.
God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.
I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.
I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.
I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.
A belief in God and a belief in astrology cannot be reconciled.