Jerry Falwell is dead.
May. 15th, 2007 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changeyourstars8And I type that title with dry eyes.
It is weird, though. He was the first example I had of the Religious Right, what with reading Bloom County cartoons and Harlan Ellison essays about the Moral Majority as a kid. So it's strange to know that he's gone.
But this is the guy who blamed 9/11 on pagans, homosexuals, and feminists, so it's not exactly a bad kind of strange. My sympathies to his family, but I can't work up any for him.
It is weird, though. He was the first example I had of the Religious Right, what with reading Bloom County cartoons and Harlan Ellison essays about the Moral Majority as a kid. So it's strange to know that he's gone.
But this is the guy who blamed 9/11 on pagans, homosexuals, and feminists, so it's not exactly a bad kind of strange. My sympathies to his family, but I can't work up any for him.
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