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Following Bakker's resignation as PTL head, he was succeeded in late March, 1987, by Jerry Falwell.
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 church, Falwell asserted, was the cornerstone of a successful family.
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.
In the 1980s Jerry Falwell was critical of sanctions against the apartheid regime of South Africa.
Funding for the film was provided by " Citizens for Honest Government ," to which Jerry Falwell paid $ 200, 000 in 1994 and 1995.
" When the LGBT-friendly Metropolitan Community Church was almost accepted into the World Council of Churches, Falwell called them " brute beasts " and stated, " this vile and satanic system will one day be utterly annihilated and there'll be a celebration in heaven.
In February 1999, an unsigned article that media outlets attributed to Falwell was published in the National Liberty Journal – a promotional publication of the university he founded – claimed that the Teletubby named Tinky Winky was intended as a gay role model.
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 ".
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.
Jerry Falwell, whose founding of the Moral Majority was a key step in the formation of the " New Christian Right "
The birth of the New Christian right, however, is usually traced to a 1979 meeting where televangelist Jerry Falwell was urged to create a " Moral Majority " organization.
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.
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.

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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.

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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.
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.
* In 2005, Jerry Falwell, chancellor of Liberty University, awarded Hannity an honorary degree.
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.

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Falwell based this conclusion on the character's purple colour and triangular antenna ; both the colour purple and the triangle are sometimes used as symbols of the Gay Pride movement.
Prominent evangelical leaders, such as Rick Warren, Ben Witherington III, and Jerry Falwell, have harshly criticized the movement, sometimes denouncing it as heretical.

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John C. Green of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life states that Jerry Falwell used the label religious right to describe himself.
Hustler's parody, depicted above, includes the unauthorized use of a publicity photograph of Falwell and a near-exact duplicate of the typesetting used in a concurrent Campari advertising campaign.
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.
Calvin Falwell Field, located in Lynchburg, Virginia, was originally constructed in 1939 to be used as a complex for professional baseball teams.

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Falwell called Bakker a liar, an embezzler, a sexual deviant, and " the greatest scab and cancer on the face of Christianity in 2, 000 years of church history ".
In 1988, Falwell said that the Bakker scandal had " strengthened broadcast evangelism and made Christianity stronger, more mature and more committed ".
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 ".
Falwell on the water slide. The September 21, 1987 issue of Time magazine noted that Jerry Falwell " plunged " down a " hellish " water slide called the " Typhoon " with his suit on, fulfilling " a promise made during a fund-raising drive that netted $ 20 million for the debt-ridden PTL ".
Jerry Falwell referred to Phelps as " a first-class nut ".
In 2007, the conservative think tank Capital Research Center accused the UCS of waging a " jihad against climate skeptics ", and televangelist Jerry Falwell even cautioned Evangelical Christians against " falling for ... global warming hocus-pocus " propagated in the mass media, with the UCS " leading the charge ".

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Riding trains, hitching hikes on trucks across Germany, slipping through guarded frontiers with the help of secret guides, he eventually reached Vichy France, and, by the winter of 1943, was back in Virginia.
`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.
Katherine was staying at a convent, and her mother felt that, as Thompson himself seems to have suggested, she might eventually stay there.
Without further inquiry, Pike jumped to the conclusion that Robinson was guilty, and, following the honorable route that would eventually lead to the dueling ground, sent a message to Robinson through his friends, demanding that he either confirm or deny his complicity.
Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.
Service running through Barnumville and to Bennington County towns east of the mountains was in the hands of the `` Gleason Telephone Company '' in 1925, but major supervision of telephone lines in Manchester was with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, which eventually gained all control.
But because it was a suspense gangster story of the Capone era, many of us felt that it might catch on for a run in Chicago, continue as a road company, and eventually become a movie.
Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.
Although the economy was booming in the region, the business struggled and Lincoln eventually sold his share.
Gershwin was on hand to " supervise " the recording ; however, Shilkret was reported to be in charge and eventually asked the composer to leave the recording studio.
He also performed the song on Red Sox opening day at Fenway Park in 2003, though the game was eventually rained out.
The Phrygian expansion into south east Anatolia was eventually halted by the Assyrians, who controlled that region.
Although he was committed to maintaining what the church had defined at Nicaea, Constantine was also bent on pacifying the situation and eventually became more lenient toward those condemned and exiled at the council.
The Triumvirate was eventually torn apart under the competing ambitions of its members: Lepidus was driven into exile and stripped of his position, and Antony committed suicide following his defeat at the Battle of Actium by Augustus in 31 BC.
The original ABC was eventually dismantled, when the University converted the basement to classrooms, and all of its pieces except for one memory drum were discarded.
In 392, after the death of Valentinian II and the acclamation of Eugenius, Ambrose supplicated the emperor for the pardon of those who had supported Eugenius after Theodosius was eventually victorious.
Originally referred to as Baby for several months, she was eventually named Abby May after her mother.
Absalom eventually rebelled against his father and was killed during the Battle of Ephraim Wood.
While the Mercury capsule could only support one astronaut on a limited Earth orbital mission, the Apollo spacecraft was to be able to carry three astronauts on a circumlunar flight and eventually to a lunar landing.
The meaning was eventually further generalized in its modern English usage to apply to any outrageous act or exhibition of pride or disregard for basic moral laws.

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