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* Jerry Falwell ( 1933 – 2007 ), senior pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church and founder of the Moral Majority
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American ), has resulted in the political disposition that has been labeled the Christian right, whose most visible spokesmen have been figures like Jerry Falwell and the television evangelist Pat Robertson.
Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. ( August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007 ) was an American evangelical fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative political commentator.
The couple had two sons and a daughter ( Jerry Falwell, Jr., a lawyer ; Jonathan Falwell, a pastor ; Jeannie, a surgeon ).
The Church went on to become a megachurch, and is now run by Jerry Falwell's son Jonathan Falwell, who serves in the same capacity as his father.
In 1971, Jerry Falwell founded Liberty University, a Christian liberal arts university in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Jerry Falwell wrote in America Can Be Saved that " I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools.
I would not want to put any of the Jerry Falwell Ministries in a position where we might be subservient to a future Bill Clinton, God forbid ....
Funding for the film was provided by " Citizens for Honest Government ," to which Jerry Falwell paid $ 200, 000 in 1994 and 1995.
" Jerry Falwell said about the first book in the series: " In terms of its impact on Christianity, it's probably greater than that of any other book in modern times, outside the Bible.
* 1987 – Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal ; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
The programme was also at the centre of a controversy when American cleric and conservative pundit Jerry Falwell claimed in 1999 that Tinky Winky, one of the Teletubbies, was a homosexual role model for children.
He aroused the interest of Jerry Falwell in 1999 when Falwell alleged that the character was a " gay role model ".
* In The Simpsons episode " Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder ," Homer dresses up like a Teletubby to entertain Maggie, remarking "... and I'm all man, in case you heard otherwise " in reference to claims by Jerry Falwell.
Among the American Christian leaders who spoke out in Moon's defense were conservative Jerry Falwell, head of Moral Majority, and liberal Joseph Lowery, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
* February 24 – Hustler Magazine v. Falwell: The Supreme Court of the United States sides with Hustler magazine by overturning a lower court decision to award Jerry Falwell $ 200, 000 for defamation.
Evangelical scholars and pastoral leaders critical of inclusive language translations include John F. MacArthur, J. I. Packer, Jack T. Chick, Gail Riplinger, James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, Texe Marrs, Wayne Grudem, Peter Ruckman, D. James Kennedy, Josh McDowell, R. Albert Mohler, Jr., John Piper, Pat Robertson, R. C.
The week of September 11, 2001, Robertson discussed the terror attacks with Jerry Falwell, who said that " the ACLU has to take a lot of blame for this " in addition to " the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays, and the lesbians have helped terror attacks of September 11th happen.
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Famously, the first version of Superman ( a bald-headed villain ) appeared in the third issue of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's 1933 fanzine Science Fiction.
The current ( 2009 ) Bibb sheriff is Jerry Modena. On July 31, 2012, voters in Macon ( 57. 8 percent approval ) and Bibb County ( 56. 7 percent approval ) passed a referendum to merge the governments of the city of Macon and most of unincorporated Bibb County, based on the authorization of House Bill 1171, passed by the Georgia General Assembly earlier in the year ; four previous consolidation attempts ( in 1933, 1960, 1972, and 1976 ) had failed.
* Jerry Casale ( born 1933 ), former Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Angels and Detroit Tigers.
Jerome " Jerry " Leiber ( April 25, 1933 – August 22, 2011 ) and Mike Stoller ( born March 13, 1933 ) were American songwriting and record producing partners.
A total of seven storms formed in August — Felix, Gabrielle, Humberto, Iris, Jerry, Karen, and Luis — tying the 1933 record for most in the month ; this record was broken in the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season when eight named storms formed during August.
It was in this context that American Jewish comic book creator Jerry Siegel encountered the term and conceived the 1933 story " The Reign of the Super-Man ", in which the Super-man ( not to be confused with DC Comic's Superman ) is " an evil mastermind with advanced mental powers ".
Gerald " Jerry " Sheindlin ( born November 19, 1933 ) is an American author and television personality, he was also a judge on the television show The People's Court from 1999 to 2001.
Tom and Jerry, however, did not obtain popularity of the type Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop, and Bosko had, and the series was cancelled in 1933.
Gerald Marvin ( Jerry ) Weinberg ( 27 October 1933 ) is an American computer scientist, author and teacher of the psychology and anthropology of computer software development.
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* 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage ) ( d. 1995 )
* 1959 – Jerry Only, American singer and musician ( The Misfits, Osaka Popstar, and Kryst The Conqueror )
In 2009, the Panthers finished with an 8 – 8 record, before finishing 2010 with a record of 2 – 14 ; following the 2010 season, Jerry Richardson decided not to re-sign John Fox, whose contract had expired.
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