Falwell, He Fared Well

Sharpton & Falwell, A Clash of Reverends,

A Clash of Leftist Wrong & Conservative Right

Jerry Falwell was a key player in the development of the Christian conservative movement in the 1980s. Jerry Falwell was far from perfect, yet the good he did for Jesus Christ and for conservative causes such as fighting issues such as abortion, homosexual activism and pornography set the tone and drew a line in the sand in the war for the heart and soul of the American culture. Sue Lindsey wrote in an AOL news story written in the wake of Falwell's death this morning saying that he was “(d)riven into politics by the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that established (more like a manufactured, made-up misjudgment - gregjaye) the right to an abortion, Falwell founded the Moral Majority in 1979. One of the conservative lobbying group's greatest triumphs came just a year later, when Ronald Reagan was elected president.”

Falwell credited the Moral Majority with getting millions of conservative voters registered, aiding in Reagan's victory and giving Republicans control of the Senate. The Moral Majority served as a model for many conservative political action groups that followed. Lindsey quoted Falwell as having said at the time he stepped down as president of the Moral Majority in 1987, "I shudder to think where the country would be right now if the religious right had not evolved." He definitely made primarily positive impact on America. He grew tired of being a lighting rod of continuous aversion and ridicule of the mainstream media and their radical leftist comrades espousing abortion rights, homosexual rights and pornography.

CNN news anchor Candy Crowley reported that Jerry Falwell was the “Father of a movement to restore America as God’s country.” She said that he was considered to be a Visionary to conservatives and a Lucifer to liberals. President Jimmy Carter (considered to be probably one of the weakest and worst Presidents in American history) said of Falwell in 1986, “. . . in a very Christian way, as far as I am concerned he can go to hell.” Coming from the ultra-liberal President Carter this is a high endorsement, indeed.

Fellow AGC blogger Sam appreciated very much Falwell’s strong and straightforward preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ as the only way of salvation for one and all. However, he was disappointed when Falwell apologized for his correct, principled biblically-accurate comments and afterwards backing away from his words apparently because they “offended” the proponents of those evil behaviors seemingly caving to "politically correctiness".