These rallies were an extension of Falwell ’ s decision to go against the traditional Baptist principle of separating religion and politics, a change of heart Falwell says he had when he perceived the decay of the nation ’ s morality.

The variety of resources available to the Moral Majority at its founding facilitated this rapid expansion, which included Falwell ’ s “ Old Time Gospel Hour ” mailing list.

The Moral Majority ’ s headquarters were in Lynchburg, Virginia, the same city where Falwell was the presiding minister of the nation ’ s largest independent Baptist church, Thomas Road Baptist Church.

Falwell was at the head of the Moral Majority and maintained an advisory board, constituting the organization ’ s primary leadership.

This leadership was drawn heavily from Falwell ’ s fellow members of the Baptist Bible Fellowship.

Falwell, though, gave a more optimistic public opinion about the Moral Majority ’ s dissolution.

The Moral Majority was a relatively early supporter of Reagan, with Falwell announcing the organization ’ s endorsement of Reagan before the Republican convention.

After Reagan ’ s victory, Falwell announced Reagan ’ s success was directly due to the Moral Majority and others registering and encouraging church-goers to vote who had never before been politically active.

Empirical evidence suggests that Falwell ’ s claim about the role of Christian Right organizations in Reagan ’ s victory has some truth, though difficult to determine definitively.

Although Robertson ’ s political platforms were extremely similar to the ones the Moral Majority supported, Falwell gave his organization ’ s endorsement to contender George H. W. Bush instead.

* 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.

In 1988, Flynt won an important Supreme Court decision, Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, after being sued by Reverend Jerry Falwell in 1983, over an offensive ad parody in Hustler that suggested that Falwell's first sexual encounter was with his mother in an out-house.

Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell,, was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held, in a unanimous 8 – 0 decision ( Justice Anthony Kennedy took no part in the consideration or decision of the case ), that the First Amendment's free-speech guarantee prohibits awarding damages to public figures to compensate for emotional distress intentionally inflicted upon them.

" Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. said the decision was spurred by the interest shown by current School of Communication students and is inline with Liberty ’ s commitment to future expansion of academic offerings and academic facilities.

One unusual link between Falwell and Conservative rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, a Navy chaplain, was created when President Ronald Reagan surprised the participants at Falwell's " Baptist Fundamentalism ' 84 " convention in Washington, D. C., by choosing to read Resnicoff's on-site report of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing as his keynote address.

The tension between Falwell and Pat Robertson also affected the Moral Majority, as noted in the presidential elections section of this article.

In 2007 Liberty was between $ 20 and $ 25 million in debt, but when Falwell died in May 2007, he had a $ 34 million insurance policy, which was used to pay off the debt.

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.

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.

Soon, Moral Majority became a general term for the conservative political activism of evangelists and fundamentalists such as Pat Robertson, James Robinson, and Jerry Falwell.

* Several televangelists are very active in the national or international political arena ( e. g., Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggart, John Hagee ), and often espouse conservative politics on their programs.

Among them are Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, Focus on the Family's James Dobson, the 700 Club's Pat Robertson, Prison Fellowship's Charles Colson, columnist Cal Thomas, preacher and author Tim LaHaye, former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, and Liberty University and Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell.

Many Christian denominations and a number of Christian fundamentalists ( e. g., Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell ) cite Biblical texts to advocate that same-sex sexual intercourse is sinful.

The Passion of the Christ received support and endorsement from most known evangelical leaders and representatives of USA's conservative church organizations: Billy Graham, James Dobson, Mission America Coalition, Salvation Army, Promise Keepers, National Association of Evangelicals, Campus Crusade for Christ, Focus on the Family, Pat Robertson, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Trinity Broadcasting Network, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention, Jerry Falwell, Max Lucado, Young Life, Tim LaHaye, Chuck Colson, Lee Strobel, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Mothers of Pre-Schoolers ( MOPS ), Seventh-day Adventist Church.

In 1978, he left the Roman Catholic Church and became a minister in the California-based evangelical / pentecostal Church of the Word ; since then Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson have been personal friends.

Also in the 2000 campaign for the Republican nomination, Arizona Senator John McCain stated, “ Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right .” This was similarly seen as a repudiation of the religious right ; columnist Jacob Weisberg called it " a pungent Sister Souljah moment.

Examples of Christian leaders combining political conservatism with Christian Zionism are Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, leading figures of the Christian Right in the 1980s and 1990s.

He threatened to sue PFLAG and any television station that aired the project's ads, which showed clips of anti-LGBT quotes from several people, including Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and United States Sen. Jesse Helms.

) in 1981 specifically in response to what it felt was the divisive rhetoric of such increasingly influential televangelists as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.

White's father is the Reverend Dr. Mel White, a former speechwriter and ghostwriter for Religious Right figures such as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.

Pat Robertson of the Christian Broadcasting Network, Jerry Falwell, Senator Trent Lott, Southern Baptist Convention activists and retired Texas Court of Appeals Judge Paul Pressler, and the Rev.

While the Republican Party began to pursue a strategy of wooing born-again Christians as a voting bloc after 1980, led by activists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, in 1976, 56 % of the evangelical Christian vote went to Carter.

* Other September 11 prophecies, particularly by van Praagh, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson

The program would eventually expand to 382 US television stations, and 36 television outlets internationally, dwarfing televangelists Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggart, Oral Roberts, and Jim Bakker.

White was a behind-the-scenes member of the Evangelical Protestant movement through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, writing speeches and ghostwriting books for televangelists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham.

Weekends consisted of televangelists such as Oral Roberts, Kathryn Kuhlman, Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell, and Billy Graham, local church services.

Falwell also regularly linked the AIDS pandemic to LGBT issues and stated, " AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals, it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

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.

Flynt himself made a cameo appearance as an Ohio judge and also a jury member in the court scene of the Jerry Falwell case.

Through hosting these rallies, Falwell was able to gauge national support for a formal organization and also raise his profile as a leader.

Falwell insisted the Moral Majority leadership also include Catholics and Jews, although not all members of the leadership approved of this inclusion.

Jerry Falwell was affiliated with the Baptist Bible Fellowship International since his graduation from Baptist Bible College in Springfield Missouri in 1956, and later also affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.

It was founded as Lynchburg Baptist College in 1971 by Jerry Falwell, who was also Senior Pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church.

Joshi is also the author of God's Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong ( 2003 ), an anti-religious polemic against various writers including C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, William F. Buckley, Jr., William James, Stephen L. Carter, Annie Dillard, Reynolds Price, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Guenter Lewy, Neale Donald Walsch and Jerry Falwell, which is dedicated to theologian and fellow Lovecraft critic Robert M. Price.

The show has also included children from households around the globe that oppose equal rights for lesbian families, as well as conservative commentator Jerry Falwell.

The episode also mocks the hatred and misunderstandings about homosexuality often expressed by zealots and right-wing extremists who regularly attack LGBT people and culture, including Christian ministers Jerry Falwell and Fred Phelps.

WTJC aired religious programming during most of its daytime and weekend schedule ( including The 700 Club, PTL, and Jerry Falwell ) although it also aired lifestyle programming such as The Joy of Gardening, cartoons, and children's programming in late weekday afternoon slots ( including The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Porky Pig, Great Space Coaster, and New Zoo Revue ).

Twenty-nine air traffic controllers work the Roanoke tower, and its radar also provides air-traffic services for Lynchburg, Dublin, Blacksburg, Smith Mountain Lake, New London, Brookneal and the Falwell Airport in Lynchburg.