Evangelist Jerry Falwell has died. Liberty University colleagues found the Moral Majority leader and all-around homo-hater “unresponsive” in his office earlier today. Paramedics rushed the reverend to a local hospital, but apparently God had other plans for the man who used His name to build the formidable Christian right.
San Francisco Chronicle reports:
Ron Godwin, the university’s executive vice president, said Falwell, 73, was found unresponsive around 10:45 a.m. and taken to Lynchburg General Hospital. Godwin said he was not sure what caused the collapse, but he said Falwell “has a history of heart challenges.”
“I had breakfast with him, and he was fine at breakfast,” Godwin said. “He went to his office, I went to mine, and they found him unresponsive.”
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Falwell, a television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority, became the face of the religious right in the 1980s. He later founded the conservative Liberty University and serve[d] as its president.
While our gay hearts certainly go out to Falwell’s family, we can’t say we’re going to miss the man who started the gay Tele-Tubby scandal, nor the man who once said that gays are unworthy of God’s love. We won’t even miss the man who described AIDS as God’s anti-gay punishment.
Hopefully the G-Man will have some mercy on Falwell’s misguided soul. That is, of course, if God exists. Hey, Jerry, what’s the word?
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Mike
I have no sympathy upon his death, not for his family or anyone. Nothing for a man who said “AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals.” Not for the man who blamed 9/11 on feminists, the guy who opposed racial integration, who slandered Martin Luther King, and pushed for the abolition of public schools and education in America.
If God is in fact just, he’ll be in trouble.
Ben
God once told me that Jerry Farwell is my punishment for cutting off that car on the highway.
Sometimes God is an over-zealous queen.
Matt Achine
Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead!
Which ol’ witch?
The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong The Wicked Witch is Dead!
iamgod
Tom
It’s a shame that I don’t believe in heaven or hell because right now if I did, I’d be happy knowing he’s burning in the deepest depths of the nether region. So I guess I’ll just have to be content knowing the worms will soon be sick of him too.
A thought. Will his grave site be declared a toxic waste dump?
Now of Robertson would just follow his lead…
Steve M
Good Riddance!
NyRican
Unresponsive? Was it the vibrator in his arse that made him look like he was still alive ? dumb fucks, did’nt know the fat bastard was dead? Good !!!
Paul Raposo
Right now he’s sitting on the right hand of Satan, giving him a handjob. I see nothing wrong in rejoicing at this man’s death.
john
I hope the pope is next!
Dave
Ahh…can’t blame us for this one Jerry
Doesn’t the air feel lighter today….coincidence?
nystudman
I’m just waiting for the crystal meth dealer and the hustler escort to come forward …
adamblast
I can’t help but be glad. This is the man who revelled in our despair throughout the 80s. (Those who believe AIDS was god’s wrath on gays first got their message from Falwell.) He is the godfather of the modern Christian ultra-right, founder of the original so-called “Moral Majority.” Fred Phelps-lite, but with infinitely more political clout. His influence over the American political scene is everywhere, sadly. I wonder which republican candidates will go to his funeral. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if Bush went.
dark alley
http://www.darkalleydirt.com/?p=115
Mike Deupree
In his honor, let’s all think of some way to exploit this sad event to advance our causes and line our pockets.
jack jett
keg party at my house.
do you think that all the fires we have been having was a welcome sign for shithole falwell for his burning in hell?
i hope they find 20 huge dildos up his fat fucking dead ass. i am thrilled that this piece of dog shit died alone.
i have no smpathy for his family for they are just as evil.
i know that all our friends that have died of aids are having a special t dance tonight.
i will sleep so much better tonight knowing that falwell
is a crispy critter.
jack jett
adamblast
I’ll honor his legacy using his own tactics:
Jerry Falwell, wherever you are, I love you and wish you well. Really. I just hate everything about you and everything you are and what you stand for, and I’m positive God feels the same way as me and that you’re roasting in hell, which you deserve.
gary
As a homo of long standing I am ashamed of the comments here. You are the reason we are dispised (dont think we are not) by most of the world. I hope each of you that celibrates a death get the same compasion when your time comes…the sickness of your souls is just what he was fighting against.
Sleep well if you can or just go out and suck another cock or fuck…pass on the AIDS boyz
adamblast
Gary, I suggest you look to yourself before you start calling other people hateful. Your neat little paragraph there holds gallons of the same bile you blanketly accuse everyone else of having.
Dawster
i certainly don’t want to dance on anyone’s grave….
oops, gotta go…. margaritas are ready.
nystudman
“As a homo of long standing I am ashamed of the comments here. You are the reason we are dispised (dont think we are not) by most of the world. I hope each of you that celibrates a death get the same compasion when your time comes…the sickness of your souls is just what he was fighting against.
Sleep well if you can or just go out and suck another cock or fuck…pass on the AIDS boyz”
Dude, you’re not a card-carrying gay and you know it. If I live my life with as much hate and doing as much harm as that asshole, I hope everyone pisses on my grave!
jack e. jett
gary…honey
i doubt your gayness. if you have lost friends to aids and then had to listen to this low life turd sucking asshole falwell demean them, you would understand the rage that we have. so my message for you and your venom spewing is to go fuck yourself with a dildo as fat as your buddy jerry.
the only sad thing about the death of falwell was that it wasn’t slow or painful enough. he got by really easy considering the negative karma he spread around the world.
jack jett
patty jacobs
DING DONG THE JERK IS DEAD..a vector for hate, and against everything that is really good about humans..I remember him saying: “God does not hear the prayers of Jews” … “F” OFF..you are burnin’ now…patty in maine rejoice now all brothers and sisters
Dave
I have no joy in my heart for Jerry’s passing. I feel sorry for him,and hope he gets the compassionfrom God he never showed to the many marganilized people throughout his life.
buzzkill
I am going to place this date in my calendar to celebrate it every year. My heart skipped a beat when I heard the news. Thank God he is gone.
tim
say hello to beelzebub you phoney
Greg
Hallelujah. Free at last.
rot in hell, you hateful bastard!
🙂
Remm
I’m with buzzkill. This is a day to celebrate, as it is when any hatemonger dies. (It’s not like someone murdered him for chrissakes.) When they interrupted Rosie on The View to say Falwell bit the dust, I shot up to clap and cheer. It feels like Xmas in Spring. What a pleasure the hateful pud is dead!
blitzvvolf
This is definitely an early Xmas present.
PUH-RAISE THE LORD!!! Worms gonna eat well off his fat carcass for the next 10+ months.
Justin Tanner
When I heard the news I laughed out loud and felt such bliss, no kidding. The patron saint of haters was dead, that divisive voice silenced for ever. Anyone who claims to know the will of God is a lunatic. Good riddance to a most un-Christ-like person. He is so lucky there’s no hell.
JERRY
ONE LESS CRUSADER OF HATRED IN THE WORLD – REJOICE!
Sean Hayes
Funny how people like Jerry think the are absolutley getting into ” heaven”, if there were a god and he or she or whatever entity were just, then this man would pay for evey life he affected in any negative way. People like jerry make any rational peaceful person sick to their stomach.
I really hope when he died he went right straight to the most sleazy gay orgy so he can suffer while normal people laugh at him, while they love each other, like human beings, real GOOD people. And that goes for anyone who this man made sick.
He doesnt even deserve to be called a man, he isnt.
Your all good people!
Kim
Thank the good Lord. He made us Christians look horrible. Like we can’t be Christians and good people, too.
I have a feeling Satan is raping him right now. For once I will say: GO SATAN.
Lisa
Jerry Falwell was a piece of shit…..and even that’s being mean to shit. Ooops….am I being irreverent towards the dead? No. Only if they are in heaven.
Susan
How sad, reading all these hateful comments….
No one should judge, we should all love one another as Jesus did…then we could all live together in peace…
I am a born again Christian and have had many gay and straight friends I love equally…..don’t rejoice in mean spirited comments….we all have to walk through that death experience someday alone and “What is, is….no one knows for sure what that is..just or faith individually felt through each passage in life through all those God brings together…..God said not for us to judge, lest we be judged….forgive and get on with your lives trying to make someone feel better each day, whether it be just a smile or a monitary jesture to make their life better even for a moment….we can all be Angels if we want….
Greg
Good stuff. But Jerry Falwell was to you (ok, and jews, and muslims, and Larry Flynt, and anyone else who actually *recognizes* their “transgressions) what the NRA is to gun controllers — easy bait. Just forget the bastard.
Now, Ann Coulter caught up in a scandal that involves Deborah Palfrey? HELL YES! Where’s the camera?
Deathbyinches
I’m 100% straight, if there is such a thing and I what a wonderful today was…..knowing that the air I breath will never pass thru the lungs of Jerry Falwell ever again. Rejoice! Falwell is dead! If I believed in hell I’d bet the farm he’s burning right this minute. I walk around lines of ants, I stop and move turtles out of the road….I can’t listen to He Stopped Loving Her Today without crying….but by god the only good Jerry Falwell is a dead Jerry Falwell…..yippy! What a great day for the world! Rejoice!
G0Y VeH
The evidence – based on his own Bible – strongly suggests that “hell hath enlarged itself”. Seriously… want to read the reasoning?
http://g0ys.org/gotohell.htm
Some advice: Now that he’s departed from HERE, – who’d want to live in such a way as to JOIN HIM THERE!?
dan thomas and jack demson
Good Riddance!!!!!!Jerkoff!…
Ed
ALL religion is fantasy-land stupidity. Celebrating the death of a moron like Jerry Falwell is the right thing to do. No guilt. Just utter joy! That fat fuck deserved to die 30 years ago. That’s one down and hundreds more to go: Dick Cheney, George Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Pat Robertson, Mitt Romney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz,…..
awarakomski
What ever happen to queer compassion?
tsk tsk
dfrw
One should not have to pretend to mourn someone one strongly dislikes. That would be disingenuous. The fact is that Falwell was a hateful human being in word and deed. Good riddance. Frankly, I rejoiced at the news.
jackie
compassion???? if jerry falwell had had some, Id have some.
today the world is a better place.
Im a straight woman. and he was an evil bastard.
Jamie
David and Andrew:
Thanks for taking the high road and not making it look like all of us are such petty queens. While I despised the man myself and have been highly critical of the tripe he spouted, I can be glad to not have to hear his bullshit again without dancing on his grave like the petulant children commenting here.
Bigger Than Jesus
Gary says, “As a homo of long standing I am ashamed of the comments here. You are the reason we are dispised (dont think we are not) by most of the world. I hope each of you that celibrates a death get the same compasion when your time comes…the sickness of your souls is just what he was fighting against.
Sleep well if you can or just go out and suck another cock or fuck…pass on the AIDS boyz”
Fuck you Gary. And fuck any of you who look down on us who rejoice at this great moment. We are just continuing the work that Mr. Falwell started. If he and all his apologists and motivators had not started this ball of hatred rolling we wouldn’t be feeling this way at all. Will you blame the child who rejoices when her abusive, rapist murdering father finally gets his come-uppance?
Carry on with the celebrations, boyz and grrlz! And if Gary wants to go on hating himself, you go too ya big homo of long standing! I bet you are really used to feeling nothing but shame and you can thank the likes of rev. Foulsmell for that.
By the way, when I die, I don’t give a flying fuck whether people celebrate or not. I’ll be dead and I won’t care. But it won’t happen because I ain’t no hatemonger nor a sname-filled homo like Gary.
Peggy
Gary,
You’re awesome!
Bigger Than Jesus
Peggy,
What the hell???
Ktorch
It’s about time this man, leader of idiots, has gotten out of the way of true science and reason!
Fitz
My mother always said, “If you can’t say anything good about someone, don’t say anything at all.” JERRY FALWELL IS DEAD! GOOD!!!
Lucid1
I’m an Erisian, so other than being straight, i embody a huge portion of what he was against. I seem to see lots of venom flying towards this man, since that’s all he was, a sad misguided little man. What about all those good times you remember with uncle Jerry? Like when he grabbed up on Gary’s ass. Just think if it wasn’t for that encounter we wouldn’t be graced by such a moral upstanding “homo”. And there has to be at least one lesbian on here willing to admit that a brief lapse into a mental picture of Mr. Falwell naked is what turned her off men.
My only question is who is Pat Robinson going to have gay sex with now after the rapture?
gary
OOOOO, i seem to have hit some sissy nerves!
Keep up the hate boyz, it makes you better homosapians,the rest of us will have to be content with our homoerectus-ness and tolerance for others views.
Thank for the (few) brave thoughts.
ta-ta
Paul Raposo
“OOOOO, i seem to have hit some sissy nerves!”
So that makes you squel like a little girl?
“Keep up the hate boyz”
We’re just following your lead, Gary.
“it makes you better homosapians,”
Or people, if you want to be less pretencious.
“the rest of us will have to be content with our homoerectus-ness”
I don’t think that word exists and if it did, I doubt it means what you think it means.
“and tolerance for others views.”
We tolerate your views, we just don’t accept them.
“ta-ta”
You love to cut and run, don’t ya? I’d suggest you go back to Matt Sanchez’s site, where your foolish comments will be appreciated
Jason
Die Pig Die
As I Clutch My Hands Around Your Throat
Die Pig Die
As I Watch Your Eyes Begin to Bloat
Die Pig Die
You Will Taste My Defecation Soon
Die Pig Die
Now I Stab Your Stomach, Face is Blue
Die Pig Die
Putrid Pile of Fucking Human Waste
Die Pig Die
Let My Anger Flow, Won’t Hesitate
Die Pig Die
Bloody Vengence Guts Are Spilled, Blood Flows
Die Pig Die
With My Finger Jammed up Your Split Nose
Die Because I Tell You So
I’ll Look You in the Eye As I Strike The Mortal Blow
You Gasp and Bleed and Wheeze and Piss
I’ll Bless Your Throat with my Razor’s Kiss
Die like a Pig Cause That’s All you are to Me
You’re Only Shit Underneath My Shoe
Die like a Pig Let me Hear you Squeal
You’ll Suffer and Beg Before I’m Through
Peggy
Where’s all that homosexual love I’m always hearing about? I’ve never read such diabolical vitriol in all my life. Keep talking – the blogosphere is watching.
Shyasia
I do feel sorry for his family….because like many gays and lesbians, you can’t choose the family you’re born into….however, as a black lesbian, I can’t say the world isn’t a better place without the man who coined the term “civil wrongs”. The unfortunate quandry is that Dr. King’s oldest daughter died (moment of respectful rememberance) on the same day as him. Maybe she’s whooping his ass as I type.
Peggy
Shyasia,
If MLKjr’s daughter is whooping Falwell’s ass, as you hope, that would mean – according to predictions of other commenters here – that she, too, is in Hell. And we KNOW that can’t be!
Let’s suspend the victim status for just a moment: nobody chooses the family into which they’re born.
Shyasia
Peggy:
According to Falwell’s belief (and most Christians, frankly)…after death you stand before judgement before being sent to where you will spend eternity, so while he’s waiting to be sent to eternal damnation, I hope she’s whooping his ass….before she hears “Well done, my good and faithful servant”.
Peggy
Christians also believe that our physical bodies won’t be united with our eternals souls until the end of the world so your theory’s not possible anyway. Thanks for telling the Christians how to be Christians, though.
MardyJo
I want to say to everyone out there that has wrote all these hate letter. You feel that Jerry Farwell hated homo’s well maybe he did and God said the Greats command is to love one another as I have love you. Jesus when he walked this earth he walk, talk, and eat with the drunkers, whores,whoremongers, the theavies, and all kinds of unGodly people. The Bible says for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God Roman 3:23
MardyJo
I want to send my sincere condolence to the family and friends of Pastor Jerry Farwell.
May God be with you all in this time of sorry, but may you be rejoicing knowing that he’s
With his maker. Amen.
Sorry For all these cruel things people are saying
Ash
It’s easy to rejoice at his death and think that because of it decades of right-wing hatred will be ended. But it won’t. We still have people like James Dobson. Sure, Falwell’s dead, but his ideas and views are going to live on no matter what. I want to be happy that he’s dead but really I’m indifferent. My own personal life is no different whether he is breathing or not. I certainly didn’t celebrate his life, but I refuse to celebrate his death.
Bigger Than Jesus
gary says:
OOOOO, i seem to have hit some sissy nerves!
Keep up the hate boyz, it makes you better homosapians,the rest of us will have to be content with our homoerectus-ness and tolerance for others views.
Thank for the (few) brave thoughts.
ta-ta
Gary, I know who you are and I’m here to tell the truth: you are a sorry self-hating excuse for a human being; A waste of your father’s long-ago orgasm. Enough about you. Anybody who has real, authenic human feelings, unencumbered by christian or other disgusting religious guilt and bile, you know the value of these few moments when we get to appreciate the fact that there is a little less hate in the world today with Jerry Foulsmell dead! Dead! Yes! Rejoice! It’s important to our psyches not to be distracted by the guilt-ridden hystrionics of superstitious assholes like this gary critter. This orgasm we are having over the death of a despicable force does not define who we are. This is a moment in which to bask in the dream that there may really be justice in the world. Falwell dead. Let’s just hope he suffered. We still have living demons to face. Gary is one of them. Fred Phelps is another. I hope he pickets Falwell’s funeral.
Bigger Than Jesus
MardyJo, you are wasting your compassion on the Foulsmell family. If they had tried to disuaede Jerry from detonating his hate-bomb on the planet for his own personal gain maybe they would deserve compassion. He should have been aborted.
Marchmain
Many years ago I thought faggots were glib and interesting.
What a remarkable glimpse into your squalid little world.
bujudude
The weepy declarations of Falwell’s “greatness” are again indicitave of how divorced from reality so many conservatives are in this country. Falwell had a long history of racism, anti-semitism and misogyny long before he became more generally known as one of the worst anti-gay bigots in the country. Yet some chose to interpret these comments as a proof of his patriotism and love for Christ. Just because he disguised himself as a Christian minister does not make him a true Christian any more than his incredibily long history of hate-filled diatribes made him a true American or patriot.
Marchmain , one does not have to be gay to understand the filth this man spread or the harm his hateful comments caused. If the gay community and those on the left chose to celebrate his passing, it is merely a dynamic that he himself worked very hard to create.
Ray
I for one am happy that hate monger is dead. I hope for his sake that there is no afterlife.