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.

Resnicoff reported that Falwell supported the idea of using the Biblical verse that teaches that " God hears the words of our mouths and the meditations of our heart " as a basis for allowing Christian chaplains to offer " inclusive " prayers, because they could offer denominational words, such as " In Jesus's name ," silently, as a " meditation of the heart.

Falwell supported Anita Bryant's 1977 " Save Our Children " campaign to overturn a Florida ordinance prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and a similar movement in California.

A number of prominent members of the Christian right, including Jerry Falwell and Rousas John Rushdoony, have in the past supported segregation, with Falwell arguing in a 1958 sermon that integration will lead to the destruction of the white race.

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.

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.

In an interview for the 2005 documentary The Hunting of the President, Falwell admitted, " to this day I do not know the accuracy of the claims made in The Clinton Chronicles.

" Both evangelists came under attack from President George W. Bush for their statements, for which Falwell later issued an apology.

In May 2012, Liberty University Chancellor and President Jerry Falwell Jr announced the school's intention to pursue NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ) conference affiliation for all 20 varsity sports.

In May 2012, Liberty University Chancellor and President Jerry Falwell Jr announced that the school's net assets are worth $ 1 billion, in part from the success of its online learning program and from accelerated facility expansion.

Liberty University President and Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr., subsequently stated that the university had not banned Democrats from campus nor had the club been banned from meeting and that neither the university nor its officials said that a person cannot be both a Christian and a Democrat.

President Falwell said the previously suspended College Democrats " wouldn ’ t have to do anything " to be recognized under the new policy.

In August 2004, the field was dedicated to Calvin F. Falwell, President of the Lynchburg Baseball Corporation since its inception in 1966.

On his evangelist program The Old-Time Gospel Hour in the mid 1960s, Falwell regularly featured segregationist politicians like Lester Maddox and George Wallace.

The site was created by Chris Harper, who obtained his Master's Degree in English Literature from George Mason University in 1993 after being expelled from Liberty University ( founded by Jerry Falwell ) in 1989 for producing a satirical radio show which Liberty's administration found offensive.

Larry Kenney, an impersonator who ( along with Bartlett ) served as a celebrity impersonator ( some of the voices Kenney impersonated Richard Nixon, George Patton, Ted Kennedy, Andy Rooney, Jack Nicholson, and Jerry Falwell ), but was bumped from the program when it returned on WABC and RFD in favor of Foster and Powell.

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.

Schaeffer's views influenced conservatives like Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye, John W. Whitehead, and although they represent different theological and political ideas, dominionists believe they have a Christian duty to take " control of a sinful secular society ", either by putting fundamentalist Christians in office, or by introducing biblical law into the secular sphere.

* 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The church, Falwell asserted, was the cornerstone of a successful family.

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.

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

In 1988, Falwell said that the Bakker scandal had " strengthened broadcast evangelism and made Christianity stronger, more mature and more committed ".

The couple had two sons and a daughter ( Jerry Falwell, Jr., a lawyer ; Jonathan Falwell, a pastor ; Jeannie, a surgeon ).

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.

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.

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.

Jonathan Falwell had previously served as the church's executive pastor since 1994.

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.

" In the spoof interview, " Falwell " goes on to say that he was so intoxicated that " Mom looked better than a Baptist whore with a $ 100 donation ," that he decided to have sex with his mother since she had " showed all the other guys in town such a good time ", and that they had intercourse regularly afterwards.

Finally, when asked if he had tried Campari since, " Falwell " answered, " I always get sloshed before I go out to the pulpit.

In the Bakkers ' fraud trial, Messner testified for Bakker's defense saying that Falwell had sent Messner to the Bakker home in Palm Springs, California, to make an offer to " keep quiet.

In the Bakkers ' fraud trial, Messner testified for Bakker's defense, saying that Jerry Falwell had attempted to take over PTL and its associated cable television network by dispatching Messner to the Bakker home in Palm Springs, California, to make an offer to " keep quiet ".

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.

" Liberty University founder Jerry Falwell stated that the source of the funds does not influence his ministry: " If the American Atheists Society or Saddam Hussein himself ever sent an unrestricted gift to any of my ministries, be assured I will operate on Billy Sunday's philosophy: The Devil's had it long enough, and quickly cash the check.

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.

In the parody advertisement in Hustler, the Reverend Jerry Falwell is supposedly quoted describing the first time he had sexual intercourse with his mother in an outhouse while intoxicated.