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.

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 sued Flynt, alleging libel and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Falwell sued Hustler Magazine and its publisher Larry Flynt for invasion of privacy, libel and emotional distress.

After Falwell's death, Flynt stated that despite their differences, he and Falwell had become friends over the years, adding, " I always appreciated his sincerity even though I knew what he was selling and he knew what I was selling.

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

A jury found in favor of Flynt on the libel claim, but found in favor of Falwell on the intentional infliction of emotional distress charge, and awarded Falwell $ 150, 000 in damages.

Because the district court found in favor of Flynt on the libel charge, there was no dispute as to whether the parody could be understood as describing facts about Falwell or events in which he participated.

* Jerry Falwell vs. Larry Flynt

The Court narrowed the definition of libel with the case of Hustler Magazine v. Falwell made famous in the movie The People vs. Larry Flynt.

Falwell issued an attack in his National Liberty Journal, citing a Washington Post " In / Out " column which stated that lesbian comedian Ellen DeGeneres was " out " as the chief national gay representative, while trendy Tinky Winky was " in.

Hustler Magazine v. Falwell,, extended the " actual malice " standard to intentional infliction of emotional distress in a ruling which protected a parody.

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.

The Fourth Circuit affirmed, rejecting Flynt's argument that the actual-malice standard of New York Times Company v. Sullivan, applied in cases of intentional infliction of emotional distress where the plaintiff was a public figure, as Falwell concededly was.

* Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, 485 U. S. 46 ( 1988 ): Extending standard to intentional infliction of emotional distress

The jury found for the magazine on the issue of libel ( the fictional advertisement clearly indicated it was a parody ), but awarded Mr. Falwell $ 350, 000 in damages for the emotional distress and invasion of privacy claims.

The Supreme Court ruled that, since the advertisement was so obviously a parody that no reasonable person could have believed it, Falwell was not libelled and thus is not entitled to damages for emotional distress, and he was not entitled to damages for invasion of privacy because he is a well-known public figure.

Following Bakker's resignation as PTL head, he was succeeded in late March, 1987, by Jerry Falwell.

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 strongly advocated beliefs and practices he believed were taught by the Bible.

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.

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.

Funding for the film was provided by " Citizens for Honest Government ," to which Jerry Falwell paid $ 200, 000 in 1994 and 1995.

Falwell condemned homosexuality as forbidden by the Bible.

* 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.

* 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.

While Norman was denounced by television evangelists like Bob Larson ; Jimmy Swaggart, who called rock music " the new pornography "; and Jerry Falwell ; and others within the conservative religious establishment, who considered the development of Christian rock-and-roll, " a sinful compromise with worldliness and immoral sensuality ", his music gained a large following in the emerging counter cultural movements.

During a 1979 meeting, they urged televangelist Jerry Falwell to found Moral Majority ( a phrase coined by Weyrich ).

Jerry Falwell blamed homosexuals ( among others ) for indirectly causing the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D. C. on September 11, 2001, by provoking the aggression of Islamic fundamentalists.

Begun in 1956 by a group of thirty-five, including Jerry Falwell, Thomas Road now claims more than 24, 200 members.

In a special business meeting called by the board of deacons on June 3, 2007, Jonathan Falwell was unanimously elected by the congregation to assume his father's duties as senior pastor of the church.

Jerry Falwell started Lynchburg Baptist College by selling bonds to a small group of private investors.

Thus, Hustler magazine's parody of Jerry Falwell was deemed to be within the law, because the Court found that reasonable people would not have interpreted the parody to contain factual claims, leading to a reversal of the jury verdict in favor of Falwell, who had previously been awarded $ 150, 000 in damages by a lower court.

While Hustler magazine has always been known for its explicit pictures of nude women and for what many consider crude humor, the prominent fundamentalist Protestant minister Jerry Falwell objected to the parody ad the magazine printed in 1983 targeted at him, in which Falwell related having an incestuous encounter with his mother in an outhouse.

The U. S. Supreme Court case Hustler v. Falwell involved an IIED claim brought by the evangelist Jerry Falwell against the publisher of Hustler Magazine for a parody ad that described Falwell as having lost his virginity to his mother in an outhouse.

* 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.

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.

Falwell and twin brother Gene were born in the Farview Heights region of Lynchburg, Virginia, the son of Helen and Carey Hezekiah Falwell.

Jerry Falwell married the former Macel Pate on April 12, 1958.

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.

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.

Falwell told MSNBC's Tucker Carlson that if he were a lawyer, he too would argue for civil rights for LGBT people.