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. 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. Back then, there were no posive imag of anythg gay pop culture. A gay kiss on TV led to advertisg boytts.
YEP, THE PURPLE TELETUBBY WAS GAY
Fac qutns of who he is attracted to and his own sexual moraly, he may do so the hypocrisy-streaked light of the lany of anti-gay remarks he has ma the past. Talked about the “gay liftyle, ” and of homosexualy as a s.
Has kept the fay tradn gog—for example, by offerg the anti-gay “Miss California” Carrie Prejean a Liberty Universy scholarship 2009.
Also gave a supportive promotnal quote for a book about a man who supposedly “gave up homosexualy for God” by sayg: “If ever a story need to be told, this one do. “I don’t believe anyone begs a homosexual, ” Falwell Sr. If they choose to be bisexual or transgenred [his word] or homosexual, they’re human begs, and they have the abily to do .
FALWELL SUGGTS GAYS TO BLAME FOR ATTACKS
” He judged his iend Mel Whe for leavg his wife to “go off to the homosexual liftyle. God n five him, of urse…“But when you leave and go off to the homosexual liftyle, you have said, ‘My sexual gratifitn is more important than those children, that woman, those grandchildren. When the terviewer the 2000 terview said homosexualy was found every civilizatn and relign the world, Falwell Sr.
Fds himself the same posn as his father saw his gay iend Whe, who was, said Falwell Sr.
Liberty was found by the late Jerry Falwell, a Southern Baptist mister often known for homophobia, bigotry, and the Moral Majory.
GAY HISTORY- JUNE 19, 1983: FOUNR OF THE MORAL MAJORY JERRY FALWELL: “AIDS IS GOD’S PUNISHMENT FOR HOMOSEXUALS.”
My New York iends know that Falwell's the guy who blamed 9/11 on the gays. " and they do this gture wh their hands which, I thk, means "gay. "No, I'm talkg about beg gay.
" They exaggerate that word as if, maybe, I am gay-af, or gay-slow. But really, I'm jt gay-annoyed. "Well, you know, I'm not a very gay person, " I say, which their se to grow even bigger.
I know this se bee 's the one my iend Mary gave me when I told her I was gay. "I mean, I'm not a para-and-polics type of gay, " I ntue.