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Falwell strongly advocated beliefs and practices he believed were taught by the Bible.
Falwell told MSNBC's Tucker Carlson that if he were a lawyer, he too would argue for civil rights for LGBT people.
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.
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 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.
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.
By 1988 there were serious cash flow problems and Falwell dismantled the organization in 1989.
The Hustler parody featured a picture of Falwell, and a fictional " interview " in which " Falwell " describes his first sexual experience as occurring " with Mom " in an outhouse while both were " drunk off our God-fearing asses on Campari.
Even if Nast's cartoons were not particularly offensive, Falwell argued that the Hustler parody advertisement in this case was so " outrageous " as to take it outside the scope of First Amendment protection.
In November 1971, Bob Jones, Jr. and Bob Jones III were dropped from the cooperating board of the The Sword to be replaced by Jerry Falwell and Curtis Hutson.
Later Jones criticized other fundamentalists who were insufficiently separatistic, such as evangelist John R. Rice and Jerry Falwell, whose Moral Majority had embraced Catholics and Mormons.
Though Schaeffer's interests were primarily cultural and philosophical, his doctrine of engagement with the public sphere influenced a diverse spectrum of theological conservatives, including Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye, John W. Whitehead, and others.
The films were credited with inspiring a number of leaders of the American conservative evangelical movement, including Jerry Falwell.

Falwell and born
On March 2, 1957, the Camden attorney Maud Robinson Crawford ( born 1891 ) disappeared from the house that she shared with her husband, Clyde Falwell Crawford ( 1894 – 1969 ).
* Jerry Falwell ( born 1933-2007 ), American televangelist
* Jerry Falwell, Jr ( born 1962 ), American academic administrator
* Jonathan Falwell ( born 1966 ), American pastor

Falwell and Lynchburg
In 1956, at age 22, Falwell founded the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, where he served as pastor.
In 1971, Jerry Falwell founded Liberty University, a Christian liberal arts university in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Jerry Falwell started Lynchburg Baptist College by selling bonds to a small group of private investors.
* Lynchburg, Virginia, home to Liberty University, the largest evangelical Christian university in the world, founded by Jerry Falwell in 1971.
PTL went bankrupt after being taken over by controversial Lynchburg, Virginia-based Baptist televangelist Jerry Falwell, who offered to step in following the scandals in 1988.
Falwell retained his affiliation with the Baptist Bible Fellowship, and the church he founded in 1956, Thomas Road Baptist Church of Lynchburg, Virginia, is listed in the current BBFI directory.
Liberty Baptist Fellowship is a fellowship of independent Baptist churches that grew up around Jerry Falwell, Thomas Road Baptist Church of Lynchburg, Virginia, and Liberty University.
A third was Jerry Falwell, pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia.
It was founded as Lynchburg Baptist College in 1971 by Jerry Falwell, who was also Senior Pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church.
Dale Ficken and Lorrie Scarangella wed on this date and are married by Jerry Falwell while he sat in his office in Lynchburg VA. and they stood in a church in Pennsylvania.
* Lynchburg, Virginia, gravesite of Jerry Falwell at Liberty University
Jerry Falwell of Lynchburg, Virginia.
In 2004, Liberty Counsel became affiliated with Liberty University / Falwell Ministries and Liberty Counsel opened an office at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Calvin Falwell Field, located in Lynchburg, Virginia, was originally constructed in 1939 to be used as a complex for professional baseball teams.
In August 2004, the field was dedicated to Calvin F. Falwell, President of the Lynchburg Baseball Corporation since its inception in 1966.
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.

Falwell and Virginia
Falwell sued Larry Flynt, Hustler magazine, and Flynt's distribution company in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia for libel, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Falwell and son
Bakker's son, Jay, wrote in 2001 that the Bakkers felt betrayed by Falwell, whom they thought, at the time of Bakker's resignation, intended to help in Bakker's eventual restoration as head of the PTL ministry organization.
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.

Falwell and .
* 1933 – Jerry Falwell, American pastor and evangelist ( d. 2007 )
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.
Following Bakker's resignation as PTL head, he was succeeded in late March, 1987, by Jerry Falwell.
Later that summer, as donations sharply declined in the wake of Bakker's resignation and the end of the Bakkers ' popular PTL Club TV show, Falwell raised $ 20 million to help keep the Heritage USA Theme Park solvent, including a well-publicized waterslide plunge there.
Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. ( August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007 ) was an American evangelical fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative political commentator.
Jerry Falwell married the former Macel Pate on April 12, 1958.
In 1979, Falwell founded the Moral Majority, which became one of the largest political lobby groups for evangelical Christians in the United States during the 1980s.
During his time as head of the Moral Majority, Falwell consistently pushed for Republican candidates and for conservative politics.
The church, Falwell asserted, was the cornerstone of a successful family.
On his evangelist program The Old-Time Gospel Hour in the mid 1960s, Falwell regularly featured segregationist politicians like Lester Maddox and George Wallace.
In 1977, Falwell supported Anita Bryant's campaign, which was called by its proponents " Save Our Children ", to overturn an ordinance in Dade County, Florida prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, and he supported a similar movement in California.
But 28 years later, in an appearance on MSNBC television, Falwell said he was not troubled by reports that the nominee for Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John G. Roberts ( whose appointment was confirmed by the U. S. Senate ) had done volunteer legal work for homosexual rights activists on the case of Romer v. Evans.

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