When Rev. Jerry Falwell met wh a group of gay Christians recently, he found himself the unual posn of beg on the receivg end of anti-gay protts. One protter — the Rev. Fred Phelps of Topeka — went so far as to say that Falwell would burn hell for vg gays to attend Sunday servic his church.
Contents:
- BEG GAY AT JERRY FALWELL'S UNIVERSY
- YEP, THE PURPLE TELETUBBY WAS GAY
- FALWELL SUGGTS GAYS TO BLAME FOR ATTACKS
- GAY HISTORY- JUNE 19, 1983: FOUNR OF THE MORAL MAJORY JERRY FALWELL: “AIDS IS GOD’S PUNISHMENT FOR HOMOSEXUALS.”
BEG GAY AT JERRY FALWELL'S UNIVERSY
For such a vilently anti-gay, Christian nservative, props to Jerry Falwell Jr.
Ntend, “AIDS is not jt God’s punishment for homosexuals; is God’s punishment for the society that tolerat homosexuals. ” LGBTQ people, and pro-choice advot, he said, were rponsible for the September 11 attacks: “I really believe that the pagans, and the abortnists, and the femists, and the gays and the lbians who are actively tryg to make that an alternative liftyle, the ACLU, People for the Amerin Way—all of them who have tried to secularize Ameri—I pot the fger their face and say, ‘You helped this happen.
YEP, THE PURPLE TELETUBBY WAS GAY
And his supporters argued that gays preyed on kids, and that LGBTQ acceptance would lead to nothg ls than the stctn of Ameri. If sounds wildly absurd to a lennial generatn there was nothg funny or absurd about at a time when gays were dyg, alone and stigmatized, of AIDS thanks to a Reagan admistratn that red more about the evangelils Falwell spouted his poison for than did for dyg gay Amerins.
FALWELL SUGGTS GAYS TO BLAME FOR ATTACKS
Back then, there were no posive imag of anythg gay pop culture.
GAY HISTORY- JUNE 19, 1983: FOUNR OF THE MORAL MAJORY JERRY FALWELL: “AIDS IS GOD’S PUNISHMENT FOR HOMOSEXUALS.”
A gay kiss on TV led to advertisg boytts.